Our weekly distillation of who wrote what about food and drink in this week’s city print…

In the Georgia Straight, we learn that restaurant closures in Richmond have doubled (due to health infractions) and are on the rise in Vancouver. Who needs a bad economy to screw you over when you can’t run a clean ship? Also in the Straight, Matthew Burrows taps the old reliable – cheap breakfast joints – while Jurgen Gothe drinks Hungarian Tokaji.

Tim Pawsey loves Rielsing in the North Shore News, and Deana Lancaster breaks down the North Shore Dine Out options.

Malcolm Parry spares a paragraph for the first Chinese Restaurant Awards in the Vancouver Sun, and Joanne Sasvari reviews So.cial at Le Magasin.

Anya Levykh reviews DB Bistro Moderne for Metro, and Alexandra Gill writes up one of their drinks in the Globe and Mail.

Whistler’s Pique on the genius of James Barber.

Another Salt Tasting Room clone opens in Calgary. It’s called FARM.

In my Westender column, I gave six Dine Out recommendations broken down by price point. They were Wild Rice, Darby’s Pub, Cobre, Brau Latino, The William Tell, and Cru.

If you dig down deep in this story, you’ll find a new version of DineHere.ca is in the works.

And with that, I’m pretty confident that the end is almost upon us…

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Andrew Morrison is a west coast boy who studied history and classics at the Universities of Cape Town and Toronto after an adolescence spent riding skateboards and working in restaurants. He is the editor of Scout Magazine, the weekly food and restaurant columnist for the Westender newspaper, a contributor to Vancouver and Western Living magazines, and a proud board member of the Chef’s Table Society of BC. He lives and works by the beach in Vancouver.

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