Restaurants
Cravings Restaurant and Lounge
Cravings Restaurant and Lounge is my personal welcome back to Marpole and its foodie delights. Cravings does its best to hide behind the Coast Hotel on South West Marine Drive at 8808 Osler Street but it will surprise with its classy ambiance and outstanding food. The restaurant has very recently undergone some renovations to both the dining room and lounge side that have changed the look of the establishment drastically - and certainly for the better. It has increased the asthetic quality of the restaurant without compromising its friendly and inviting feeling which is exactly in keeping with the food that they serve here. Restaurants
Bert's Restaurant
Bert's Restaurant has been in its current location on Main Street at East 13th Ave. since 1948. In fact, when I was there, I'm pretty sure I saw some people that have been customers since it first opened. Bert's is a hot spot for the elderly, and it's also the home of hipsters still flush with the alcohol they consumed the previous night. No wonder, with a $3.99 Breakfast Special and English Bay Pale Ale going for $2.75/glass, $3.75/pint, and $11.95/pitcher, what better place to nurse a hangover or pinch the pennies of an old age pension? Restaurants
Angel Cake Cafe
Angel Cake Café, located at 5995 Fraser Street (44th and Fraser), is probably my favorite Hong Kong breakfast spot in the city. Sure, there are amazing dim sum places in Vancouver, but I'm talking about a Chinese take on western style breakfast. I'll start by admitting that I was sucked in by the meal deals: 2 dishes and a milk tea for $5.50. Restaurants
Choppers Diner
Choppers Diner was this awesome little place I found a year or two ago. The diner, which was located at East 1st Avenue and Rupert Street, had really yummy breakfasts for cheap. No, it wasn't as cheap as the $2.95 Breakfast Special at the greasiest of greasy spoons, Bon's Off Broadway, but it had much better food. Like many places, it closed down sometime around when this damn recession hit. I was left to look for the next great diner. Restaurants
Ouisi Bistro
The Ouisi Bistro is tucked in neatly beside Meinhardt Fine Foods on Granville and 14th; and I know that, at least geographically, this is a departure from my usual South Vancouver culinary theme but ladies and gentlemen, I had to talk about this place. Who knew there would be a Louisiana fare restaurant, with all the Blues grit and Jazz sway to make me feel like our Vancouver had borrowed a bit of New Orleans. Jazz isn't for everyone, but, as sure as oxygen, it's for me. Jazz, Cajun food and a Bourban Street laissez-faire, in all of its glory, is the Ouisi Bistro. Restaurants
Nimby Burger
Nimby Burger is Vancouver's newest (and possibly most cleverly named) burger joint. Nimby Burger isn't a full service restaurant: it's a take-out burger stand located directly across the road from Kits Beach and steps from Kits Pool. With signage that promises shakes, burgers and fries, Nimby Burger seems like the ideal place to stop for a bite to eat outside on an almost-warm, almost-summer-like Saturday afternoon.Location is location, and it doesn't get much better than this. Since the quest for the perfect hamburger is the biggest obstacle between me and vegetarianism, I was more than willing to give a new contender a try.
