Street food review: Wakwak Burger

This food cart started as a nameless truck trailer serving really inexpensive burgers in the downtown area. For the first half-year or so, it was only known as 2.85 Burger, because that was basically their menu. Since then, the trailer has earned some graphics and a name. Now known as Wakwak Burger, their prices have…

Take out review: Cafe Loyal

Cafe Loyal is a small hong kong style cafe in a small strip mall on the corner of Bridgeport road and Number 5 road in East Richmond. Cafe Loyal is a cross a hong kong cafe and a shopping center food court establishment.   This place serves the kind of cuisine that is typical of…

Restaurant review: Cafe Gloucester

Cafe Gloucester is a Hong Kong style cafe in the Cambie Village. As standard with most such cafes, there’s a pretty expansive menu of dishes that cross over between cantonese noodle house food, and a north american type diner.  We stopped in late in the evening, after catching a show down the street. It was…

Restaurant review: Corduroy Restaurant

tAs is typical with me, on a Friday evening, I have no fresh food in my refrigerator, with which to prepare dinner, and on a warm summer night, I wouldn’t want to cook anyways, so I took this opportunity to try out a local place. I’d heard good things about Corduroy, a small establishment on…

Restaurant review: Windjammer Restaurant

While visiting the Commercial Drive neighborhood, we happened upon the Windjammer Restaurant. I remembered this establishment from its previous locals on Main street in the 2000s, and even when it was on Oak Street in the 1980s. I walked past it many times, and glanced at the menu, but never patronized it. This would be…