(via) Montreal’s beer-centric Brasserie Harricana turns one this month. We’ve had our eyes on it ever since it was under construction, and wished it were part of Vancouver’s own restaurant scene since the day it opened. The 5,000 sqft, Alain Carle Architecte-designed looker is part restaurant, part bar, and part craft brewery with handsome Douglas Fir ceilings and gleaming white Carrara marble throughout. Located in sprawling corner digs between the Park Ex and Little Italy, it’s at once casual and refined with modern takes of comfort foods like beer can chicken, blue cheese-stuffed celery, club sandwiches, monkfish burgers, and so on. There are also some 41 beers on tap, plus ciders and a few cocktails. Wines are scarce. Where would we want to see it in Vancouver? On a main thoroughfare of a residential neighbourhood, either Kerrisdale or Hastings-Sunrise, or in Olympic Village as an alternative to the big box beer behemoths.