If you live on South Main it's a good time to be a vegetarian. While most of the restaurants in the area cater well to their foliage friendly patrons, there are those that make it their specialization, like the superb Chinese, vegetarian Bo Kong at East Fourteenth Avenue on Main St. And then there is the Foundation, which serves food late, and ventures to educate its eaters with informative quotes plastered on all the walls.
Now just around the corner from the Foundation, on East Eighth Avenue, is a new exclusively vegetarian enterprise named Wink. The building housing the restaurant is a quaint heritage style house, which the new proprietors have restored with all its charm intact.
The ground floor space restaurant is clean and bright. The walls have funky geometric patterns that embellish with typical Main St. cool. And there were little glass votives, each holding a single, purple flower as a table garnish. The obvious attention to detail bodes well for the kitchen fare.
The menu is mostly lunch stuffs: sandwiches, soups and salads. For my visit I had the coleslaw first, which was delicious. Instead of the usual mayonnaise onslaught drowning the cabbage and carrot slivers, they used a refreshing, citrus vinaigrette. They also added jicama, which lent a crisp summer layer. The Moroccan chickpea stew was lighter than it suggested, and after gulping that back, I finished off every crumb of a feta and tomato panini. I walked out into the summer afternoon feeling nourished and content, rather than sluggish and stuffed.
There is also a breakfast and dinner menu. And there's beer and wine in case you get thirsty.
151 East 8th Avenue (at Main) P: 604-264-1095
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Ya, Budgies Burritos is great - messy, but good. The soups at Wink sound very tasty.
Posted by: Jason Landry at August 29, 2005 09:08 PM
Further north on Main, there has been advance in the total freeze at the Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurant on Pender at Main -- crippled by water damage from a neighbouring fire, they've been closed for months figuring out what the next step is going to be, or if they're just going to fly off with their sack of lucre.
But the woeful sign on the front door has been updated, and now speaks of re-opening, with the original cooks, with a not-exclusively-Buddhist-Vegetarian menu... meaning, I assume, meat etc. on the agenda for those who are up to it.
As long as their chickenless Lemon Chicken becomes available once more I don't care what else goes on in that kitchen!
Posted by: Rowan at August 30, 2005 09:07 AM
on wink:
their business cards are pretty...though I was confused when I first picked one up.
The front reads:
wink
vegetarian - fast - casual
or some such.
I thought it was a personal ad for a pixie girl.
Posted by: Lisa at August 30, 2005 05:08 PM
Thx for the review on this restaurant i've bn wanting to chk out.
But please list the price range also, next time. Thx!
Posted by: wil at August 30, 2005 06:24 PM
I have yet to visit wink, but I remember the old man who ran the fudge shop there. He was so cute, but when it closed down I knew he was gone and I was sad.
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