Vancouver Restaurants Own The Gold For Culinary Class

Barely after catching its collective breath from the Olympics, Take One, Olympics Take Two, the Paralympics, are upon the city of Vancouver and its residents. Lucky for all the people traveling here to participate or observe, the world’s food and restaurant critics seem to have agreed on one thing…that Vancouver is second to none when it comes to dining out in Olympic cities. High, low, North, south, Local, ethnic, Fast or slow, Vancouver has the food that you crave right now.

We won’t, however, even attempt to say it better than NY Times food critic, Sam Sifton, did at the beginning of the games. We just urge you to click on over>>>

“The most ravenous visitors to this marvelous, temperate city will begin their culinary touring almost from the moment they land at Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island in suburban Richmond, where a vast Asian enclave is growing.” The complete article can be found at http://nytimes.com/2010/02/03/dining/03note.html?ref=dining.

Market at Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver

For  a New York take on Vancouver Restaurants, be sure to click HERE. It will take you to a sort of cheat-sheet of excellent Vancouver Restaurants. Such as Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Market at the Shangri-La Hotel…

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How To Get On A Restaurant’s Hit List

By Anne Kingston

[re-posted with permission]

The owner of a popular Toronto gastropub who asks to remain nameless is showing off what he calls his ‘nightly journal,’ dull details of restaurant life – nightly sales, tables turned, supplier snafus. Where reading turns interesting, even salacious, is in its dutiful recording of customer misbehaviour collected via staff and fellow customer complaints. Names are used when they’re known. Otherwise, physical descriptions suffice.

READ MORE HERE>>>>> on MacLeans.ca

Anne Kingston is a staffwriter for MacLean’s

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Gismondi And Emad Talk Vancouver’s Food And Wine Scene – Radio Interview

Anthony Gismondi interviews Glowbal Group’s CEO Emad Yacoub about what it was like for a successful restaurateur to have the Olympics in town.  They are joined by co-host of the radio show Kasey Wilson on AM 650 Vancouver and Jack Lamont, Glowbal Group’s Head of Corporate Operations.

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Radio Interview Gismondi On Glowbal

Discussion gives great insight into what it was like to deal with an extra 5,000 patrons per restaurant – per day! – and why Vancouver restaurants saw the need to add a gratuity onto group bills.

Gismondi and Emad are always worth listening to!

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