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Glowbal To Become Steakhouse As Yaletown Annexed By Alberta

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This just landed in my inbox. Looks like Yaletown’s Glowbal is going for the switcheroo. The restaurant of yesteryore aims to change from a cougary satay hotspot for singles, hockey players, and assorted hangers-on to a steakhouse by the middle of the month – because if there’s anything that that neighbourhood needs more of right now, it’s steakhouses (satays were so 90’s anyway). Exciting stuff. It’ll be interesting to see if the Kobe will come from the Nguyen family of Vietnam…

UPDATE: A few readers have asked if that’s a real steak. Nope. It’s a painted block of wood. Looks good, though, doesn’t it?

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  2. Yaletown lost its soul when Earls, Cactus Club and the Keg came in. With the exception of Brix, Blue Water and Cioppino’s, it’s now a plastic mess of bottle service, drug dealers, and Surrey-Burquitlamites.

  4. Is he gonna begin his PR with:
    “The Vancouver steakhouse scene needs new life. The time has come for something more. Something different. Something better.”

    and end with

    “We need a place like this.
    Vancouver deserves a place like this.”

  5. When all you are selling is the buzz, you need to rebrand every five years.

  6. “It’ll be interesting to see if the Kobe will come from the Nguyen family of Vietnam…”

    That has to be the funniest line on the internet today.

  7. @haileybergerac
    Huh? I think it’s a stretch to harken back to some Yaletown of yore when all was happy and full of “soul”. I’ve been here nigh on 10 years and I don’t remember much of that. The new chains tooks over spaces which weren’t restaurants before, investing millions of dollars into making Yaletown a destination for the tourist and suburban dollars which, in part, helps the independents to survive.
    We might have lost Circolo along the way, but the original institutions of Yaletown: Hamilton St. Grill, Yaletown Brewing Co, Cioppinos, Amarcord, Section (3), Capones, Blue Water are all still here and, to the naked eye, making a go of it. Given the high turnover rate in the Vancouver restaurant biz, it’s actually an anomaly that such a high percentage of places have survived 10 years plus in the same location, and in most cases, under the same ownership.
    Your line about “bottle service” and “drug dealers” makes me wonder if you ever actually *come* to Yaletown. I can’t think of a single bottle service establishment in Yaletown and the drug dealers, if they are here, operate quietly enough not to get rousted by the large gentlemen and women of Bar/Restaurant Watch who visit here regularly.
    It’s one thing to be ignorant, but quite another to be insulting, inaccurate and wildly slanderous on top of it. You’re a fool.

  8. @PaulD, well said. I agree with you 94% (the other 6% I keep in contrarian reserve).

  9. Another Steakhouse in Yaletown!!

    What we need is some really good Indian and a few regional Chinese restaurants to round the place out but another steakhouse, we do not need.

    I had a 13 year run of being the only steakhouse in Yaletown and this year came the Keg and now the new incarnation of Glowbal………oh, and Pinkys’ came and went and no one noticed.

    Oh, well.

    I saw a drug dealer a few years ago in Yaletown, but he left after one day….so I agree, that one is a little inaccurate.

    The CFD’s have arrived in Yaletown over the past few years but the independents are still the colour and flavour that make the place hum.

    IMHO

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