Chinatown’s Award-Winning “Bao Bei” Seeking Experienced Cook

Bai Bei Chinese Brasserie is located at 163 Keefer St. in Vancouver, BC | 604-688-0876 | www.bao-bei.ca

Job posting from Scout supporter Bao Bei

Vancouver, BC | Bao Bei is looking for an organised, hard working cook to run the garde manger station full-time at our busy, award-winning modern Chinese restaurant. 5 years cooking experience desired (Chinese food knowledge a plus but not necessary). Must also be adept on saute section. Committed professionals without attitude need only apply to joelwatanabe2000 [at] yahoo [dot ca]. Find out more about the restaurant after the jump… Read more

“Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie” Has Joined The Scout Community…

Chinatown’s award-winning Bao Bei is now a proud member supporter of Scout. We will be publishing their news on our front page and hosting a page for them in our list of recommended restaurants to check out. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support of our little website. Click ahead to read on or jump directly to their Scout page here… Read more

enRoute Names “Bao Bei” The #2 Best New Restaurant In Canada

by Andrew Morrison | As one of several enRoute magazine’s regional advisors for their annual Top 10 Best New Restaurants in Canada issue, I was not a little stoked this morning to find that one of my favourites for 2010 had cracked the top three (they don’t tell us in advance). Our sincerest congratulations to Tannis Ling and her staff at Chinatown’s Bao Bei. Just making it onto this list is an honour, and being named #2 is huge. Comment on whether or not there were other Vancouver restaurants that should have been recognised and find out which other joints made the grade after the jump… Read more

Chinatown’s Hotly Anticipated “Bao Bei” Looking Marvellous…

It’s possibly only a matter of a day or two (again, crossing my fingers and knocking on wood) before Vancouver gets treated to Bao Bei. I checked it out again last night in its final construction phase, and I can say without any reservation that’s really looking beautiful (see for yourself below). For those of our newer readers who’ve never heard of the place before, the Chinatown restaurant is widely acknowledged in trade circles to be the city’s most highly anticipated room. Here’s what we wrote about it when we first broke the news of its coming last May… Read more

PHOTOS: Chinatown’s “Bao Bei” Coming Along Nicely On Keefer

Returned to Bao Bei in Chinatown tonight for another glance. It’s come along plenty in just the last few days. I’m loving the details that have popped up so far: lots of recycled stuff like unique lamp shades in the bar and stools so grand-maternally homey that they couldn’t not have come from your grandma’s house. All the little design choices that have been made to date have been great, and it is hoped that chef Joel Watanabe should start testing in the kitchen soon. Mmm…soupy dumplings, soupy dumplings, soupy dumplings. I am ready for you. Read more

Random Photo #607: Say Hello To “Wilson”, Chinatown Protector

On assignment for Van Mag last night I interviewed the good folks of Bao Bei again at their Chinatown construction site. While we were walking out of the space I spied this t-shirted character standing guard. They’ve taken to calling him “Wilson”, presumably after Tom Hanks’ volleyball in Castaway. I don’t know…he rather reminds me of Treebeard, the leader of Tolkien’s anthropomorphic tree creatures in the Two Towers (aka “Ents”). Either way, he keeps them company as they toil, is celebrated as their “first customer”, and is about as random as it gets. The restaurant, by the way, is coming along nicely. I’m particularly excited about Joel Watanabe’s menu (which sounds freakin’ awesome), and hope to sup from it before the New Year. Mmm, dumplings…

ALL ANTICIPATED OPENINGS

Paul Grunberg Done At Market To Launch Chinatown’s Bao Bei

Paul Grunberg, once upon a time the Chambar general manager who moved on to midwife the successful launch of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Market restaurant in the Shangri-La, is heading for a new challenge: consulting front of house for Tannis Ling and the highly anticipated launch of her new Chinatown restaurant, Bao Bei. An official press release should start making the rounds in the next couple of days. We’ve seen a draft copy (subject to change), and have it excerpted below: Read more

Poll: Which Are You Pining For Most, “The Keefer” Or “Bao Bei”?

This has already been described as a Sophie’s Choice of sorts by someone following Scout on twitter. I totally agree. Still, it’s fun to throw down with your opinion every once in a while, and anonymity makes it so much easier.

THE CHINATOWN CHOICE…

Bao Bei, the much anticipated 2200 sq ft, 50 seat modern Chinese restaurant on Chinatown’s Keefer St (owned/run by Tannis Ling, lately of Chambar), is still on for the end of November. Aside from killer cocktails, Ling says we can expect “lots of noodles, dumplings, drunken chicken – stuff like that”.

The Keefer also sounds awesome: “…guests mingle with adventurous locals and graze on Asian street tapas, while well versed bartenders spin classic cocktails using fresh ingredients from local Chinatown markets.” Two Chefs And A Table are doing the food, and word is bar manager Dani Tatarin is leaving db Bistro to run the show (confirmed – thanks SB).

I’ll be drinking at both, making my conscience clear. So…

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9½ Minutes With Bao Bei Owner & Trapeze Star, Tannis Ling…

As regular Scout readers and restaurant watchers are keenly aware, bartender Tannis Ling, who was at Chambar from 2005 until just over a month ago, is working on opening a modern, cocktail-forward Shanghainese/Taiwanese restaurant called “Bao Bei” at 163 Keefer Street in Chinatown proper. After getting to know Tannis a little by watching the interview above, read all about her plans here.

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Chinatown’s Highly Anticipated “Bao Bei” Starts Taking Shape…

Saturday was Tannis Ling’s last day bartending at Chambar, which means things are going to be accelerating at the Chinatown construction site (163 Keefer St.) that will eventually become her first restaurant, Bao Bei (Mandarin for “darling”). Scout broke the news of its coming back on May 16th, the day after Ling took possession. Take a look at the photos below, keeping in mind that it’s still a shell and that the horrific burnt orange colour (what a friend calls “seven shades of Tuscan regret”) is from the old tenant, and is in the process of being primed over  to eventually become a soft white. Read more

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