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GOODS: Fat Dragon & The Two Campagnolos Are Primed For Walk-Ins This Mother’s Day

Scout Magazine — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:11:59 +0000

Campagnolo Roma is located at 2297 East Hastings Street in Vancouver, BC | 604-569-0456 | www.campagnoloroma.com

The GOODS from Fat Dragon, Campagnolo, and Campagnolo Roma

Vancouver, BC | Mother’s Day is upon us and we want to help you show your mom some appreciation. Join us at Campagnolo & Campagnolo ROMA for brunch or Fat Dragon Bar-B-Q for lunch, Sunday, May 13. Mom will receive a single stem flower while supplies last and our bar team has designed some beautiful spring time cocktails with her in mind. Reservations aren’t available, so just come on in! Get all the details on the special cocktails after the jump…

Fat Dragon Bar-B-Q – Barman Matt Martin

Gam Gam Fizz, vanilla bean infused vodka, passion fruit, lemon, peach bitters, egg white, club soda
Siam Sling, white rum, coconut, fresh mint, kaffir lime, orange blossom water

Campagnolo – Barman Giovanni Giardino

Mom-ossa, prosecco, fresh orange juice, house-made ginger syrup
Mamminagroni, aperol, strega liqueur, gin

Campagnolo ROMA – Barman Eryn Dorman

Bello Spritz, aperol, prosecco, soda
Nonna’s Allegro, amaretto, montenegro, limonata

We can’t wait to serve you and your mama.

Details

566 Powell St. Vancouver BC
Telephone: 604-558-0880
Website: www.fatdragonbbq.com | Twitter | Facebook

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The People

Executive Chef & Proprietor: Ted Anderson
Chef de Cuisine: Adam Johnson
Restaurant Manager: Sarah Wheeler
Bar Manager: Matt Martin

About Fat Dragon Bar-B-Q

The award-winning team behind Campagnolo and Campagnolo ROMA restaurants brings you Fat Dragon, where Far East Asian flavours collide with American Southern barbecue methods. Chef de Cuisine Adam Johnson leads the kitchen team in serving unique dishes, first seasoned with Asian spices and herbs, then slow smoked over local fruit woods. The bar, manned by Matt Martin, houses a variety of local craft and imported Asian beers, a small selection of wines by the glass, and an assortment of cocktails derived from classic recipes rejuvenated with smoke and Asian flavours. The space is open and stripped down with exposed brick and wooden beams, complemented by a silk entry way. Dine-in or take-out. Open from 11:00 am — late, seven days a week.

About Campagnolo

Campagnolo is open for lunch Monday – Friday from 11:30am – 2:30pm, brunch on Saturday & Sunday from 11:30am – 2:30pm, and dinner nightly from 5pm. Seating is available on a first come first serve basis, and reservations are available only for parties of eight or more. Campagnolo is located at 1020 Main Street, Vancouver BC. For more information please call 604.484.6018 or visit: www.campagnolorestaurant.ca

Details

2297 East Hastings Street | Vancouver, BC
Tel: 604-569-0456
Email: info@campagnoloroma.com
Web: www.campagnoloroma.com
Twitter: @camproma
Facebook: www.facebook.com/campagnoloroma
Roma is a walk-in only restaurant serving dinner seven days a week from 5pm – 10pm and lunch Wednesday to Sunday from 11:30am – 2:30pm, with brunch offerings on the weekend.

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Key People

Chef de Cuisine | Ted Anderson
Owner | Robert Belcham
Owner | Tom Doughty

About Campagnolo ROMA

Campagnolo ROMA is located in the former Italian district of Hastings Sunrise, serving rustic Italian dishes inspired by the classics of Rome. Chef de Cuisine, Ted Anderson has created a condensed menu of antipasti, pasta and pizza complimented by an ever changing features board, showcasing local and seasonal ingredients. Quality, value and flavour drive the cocktail and wine program. Owner, Tom Doughty has chosen three classic Italian cocktails and a small, yet comprehensive Italian wine list with by the glass, ½ litre and bottle options to compliment Chef Ted’s menu. The room is an intimate 1200 square feet and is adorned with the familiar & eclectic, including damask wallpaper, a touch of lace, wood paneling and a few of Nona’s lampshades.

Reviews

“The Hired Belly is always impressed when a restaurant hits the ground running. That’s the case with Campagnolo Roma.” – Tim Pawsey, The Vancouver Courier.

“Campagnolo Roma cuts to the chase: the food.” – Mia Stainsby, The Vancouver Sun.

GOODS: “Just Like Dinner At Nonna’s” Series Returning To Campagnolo On Main St. In May

Scout Magazine — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:59:55 +0000

The GOODS from Campagnolo

Vancouver, BC | Just like Dinner at Nonna’s, a series of home-style Italian meals offered Tuesday nights at 6:00pm for $19, returns to Campagnolo Restaurant for the month of May. Starting May 8 and ending May 29, every Tuesday night, Main Street diners can look forward to a hearty meal made from quality seasonal ingredients sourced from local farmers and purveyors, paired with a draught beer from R&B Brewing Co., for an incredibly affordable price. Check out the menus after the jump…

Just Like Dinner at Nonna’s Menu:

May 8
Mushroom Ravioli
spinach, porcini cream

May 15
Roasted Chicken on Focaccia
fresh herbs, roasted garlic

May 22
Whole Roasted Bass
charred lemon, parsley risotto

May 29
Puttanesca Style Rigatoni
tripe, olives, chiles

Event Details

4 Consecutive Tuesday’s May 8 – May 29
Advance Reservations are available for this event only by calling 604 484 6018
Dinner is prepaid at the time of booking with a credit card
24 seats available in the back lounge
$19.00 plus tax, excludes gratuity
Substitutions and modifications to the menu are politely declined
Dinner served at 6pm sharp

About Campagnolo

DINER: A Look Inside The Highly Anticipated Fat Dragon Chinese BBQ Joint On The DTES

Scout Magazine — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:53:21 +0000

by Andrew Morrison | A weekend of dry runs with friends and family have owners Tom Doughty, Robert Belcham, and Ted Anderson all set to open their much anticipated Fat Dragon at 566 Powell St. on the DTES this week. The new restaurant will specialize in Chinese BBQ in a way that we haven’t seen before, as nearly all the items will enjoy a lick of southern spice with a proper bar lending a pairing hand with five original cocktails or 4×4 wines by the glass (plus a reserve list). I took a look yesterday afternoon and there was much to like, including a kaffir lime soft serve ice cream that’ll be making it onto their opening menu this Thursday (so good). Here’s the PR and all of our photos from yesterday afternoon:

Accomplished restaurateurs, Tom Doughty & Robert Belcham of Campagnolo and Campagnolo ROMA, are excited to partner with longtime employee and first time restaurant owner, Ted Anderson, to proudly announce the opening of Fat Dragon Bar-B-Q on Thursday April 5, 2012. Fat Dragon, where Far East Asian flavours collide with American Southern barbecue methods, is the most casual restaurant this team has so far created. Open seven days a week, from 11am – late, Fat Dragon offers both dine-in and take-out options with street parking available at 566 Powell Street. “We have always wanted to open a barbeque joint.” says Anderson, ”We want guests to be able to enjoy a few cocktails and snacks without getting fatigued on heavy barbeque, so we incorporated Asian flavours and techniques to lighten the load.”
The Fat Dragon kitchen team will be led by Chef de Cuisine Adam Johnson in serving delicious food, first seasoned with Asian spices and herbs, then slow smoked over local fruit woods. These techniques will be applied to the best local cuts of pork, beef, lamb, fresh seafood, vegetables, and tofu. “We have a great love for different types of food from all over Asia,” says Ted Anderson. “This is our homage to the many, great, late-night dinners of noodles, barbequed pork and stir fried crab that we have enjoyed in our travels.”
The team at Bricault Design has created a stripped down, open space reminiscent of a 1920’s opium den. Exposed brick and wooden beams are complemented by a silk entry way, resembling the interior of a Chinese lantern, and a dragon-skin inspired ceiling installation made of wooden scales. The focal point of the room is an 18 ft bar housing a variety of local craft brews and imported Asian beers, a small selection of wines by the glass, and an assortment of cocktails derived from classic recipes rejuvenated with smoke and Asian flavours.

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GOODS: “Just Like Dinner At Nonna’s” Series Set To Return To Campagnolo On Main Street

Scout Magazine — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:27:34 +0000

The GOODS from Campagnolo

Vancouver, BC | Just like Dinner at Nonna’s, a series of home-style Italian meals offered Tuesday nights at 6:00pm for $19, returns to Campagnolo Restaurant. Starting March 13 and ending April 3, every Tuesday night Main Street diners can look forward to a hearty meal made from quality seasonal ingredients sourced from local farmers and purveyors, paired with a draught beer from R&B Brewing Co., for an affordable price. Take a look at the menus after the jump…

Just Like Dinner at Nonna’s Menu

March 13
Sausage & Peppers
roasted fennel sausage, pepadews, polenta

March 20
Baked Cannelloni
ricotta & spinach, smoked garlic & tomato

March 27
Porketta
roasted pork belly wrapped around loin, lentils, crackling

April 3
Spaghetti & Meat balls
pecorino, basil

Event Details
Advance Reservations are available for this event only by calling 604 484 6018
Dinner is prepaid at the time of booking with a credit card
24 seats available in the back lounge
$19.00 plus tax, excludes gratuity
Substitutions and modifications to the menu are politely declined
Dinner served at 6pm sharp

For more information please call 604.484.6018 or visit: www.campagnolorestaurant.ca.

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DINER: Campagnolo Crew To Open New “Fat Dragon”, A Chinese BBQ Joint On The DTES

Scout Magazine — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:52:59 +0000

by Andrew Morrison | Robert Belcham and Tom Doughty, the owner/sommelier duo behind the two Campagnolo restaurants, are opening a Chinese BBQ restaurant called Fat Dragon in the heart of the Downtown Eastside (566 Powell).

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Joining them as a first time owner is Ted Anderson, long the chef at Refuel and now at Campagnolo Roma out on East Hastings (always nice to see that happen). The concept is interesting – Chinese food with a Southern US “lick of smoke” – and I’m sure they’ll nail it (the menu reads fantastic, and we’ll get to that soon), but let’s be honest; the thing that will define The Fat Dragon won’t be its food, but rather its location, at least in its first couple of years.

If you thought Salt Tasting Room in Blood Alley was daring back in the day, or really any location remotely worthy of the word in recent years, dinner at Fat Dragon will be – for some – like going to the moon. It’s this section of the DTES around Oppenheimer Park that has been (and still is) considered a bridge too far by restaurateurs, even hungry first-timers with very few funds. There is a community here, and a strong one at that, but it has to face a daily gnarliness that no other neighbourhood in the city has to contend with. I think for most Vancouverites, the idea of dining out hereabouts is repellent, and yet the restaurant, due in under two months, will probably do very well indeed.

A year or two ago I posited in a magazine article that new restaurant development in these parts was on its way. I likened the advance to that of an invading force employing a pincer movement around the most seemingly prohibitive blocks of the DTES. The concentration of the attack was building up eastward pressure from Cambie through to Carrall in Gastown, where dozens of new establishments had opened since 2006. The left pincer was heading down Powell, Alexander, and Cordova (Big Lou’s, Nicli Antica, Cadeaux, etc), while the right pincer was pushing up Keefer through Chinatown to hit Main around Strathcona (The Union, The Keefer, Brixton, etc). The two hooking flanks, I wrote, had already connected on East Hastings at Au Petit Chavignol (2009) and The Waldorf Hotel (2010), effectively enveloping the whole of the DTES with a ring of new eateries (for the military historians out there, remember the Battles of Marathon, Cannae, and The Falaise Gap).

Thus surrounded, the main concentration, what the eminent strategist Von Clauswitz would call the “schwerpunkt”, has been getting ready to burst eastward on Hastings proper for the past year (witness the comings of Wildebeest, Save On Meats, Bitter, Acme Cafe, etc). All that remains to be conquered – to put it indelicately – are the blocks within the ring, at the center of which lies Fat Dragon, with its 12 SROs above.

Fat Dragon owners Robert Belcham, Tom Doughty, and Ted Anderson at Campagnolo Roma on East Hastings

But why assume it will do well? For starters, the folks behind Campagnolo are no slouches. They’ve opened four small businesses in the past five years, with all but one of them opening where (mostly) others were afraid to. 566 Powell may be where angels still fear to tread, but no matter if the West Side is too shit scared to make the trip at first, others will come (I live within the ring, and suspect many of my neighbours are drooling as they read this). Those restaurants that make up the pincers and the schwerpunkt have revealed that much to be true, as not a single one of them has flopped.

Secondly, it’s a solid food concept. I’ve seen the menu, and it has everything from smoked I-San style pork hot links with cucumber and coriander relish to marinated and smoked crispy tofu Bao buns with bean sprout kimchi and holy basil (I won’t reveal anything else just yet, save to say we’ll also see whole fish and pig’s head). Chef Adam Johnson (ex-Pourhouse, Campagnolo) will have a smoker in house, and I imagine he’ll take good advantage of all the markets that are just around the corner (and let’s not forget that the kitchen tag-team of Anderson/Belcham snared Robert the 2009 Chef of the Year title).

In the end, however, it’s all about supply and demand. There are shockingly few restaurants in Vancouver that hybridize Chinese cuisine, pairing it successfully with booze and leaning large on aesthetics, and I think demand for more is considerably high (just try and get a table at Bao Bei during the dinner rush).

Third, the design is going to be pretty awesome. Marc Bricault is on the case (think Vij’s, the recent West redux, Thierry, Campagnolo, Refuel), and he’s making it look like a 1920′s style opium den with a lot of reclaimed fir, grass cloth, and design motifs that gel with the food concept. The old space (previously “The Bakery”, where one could freely buy weed) is long and wide, and will seat some 50 people, with an additional 13 seats at a central bar that is some 18ft wide. The tables are butcher block-style and over-sized to accommodate many dishes (everything is served family style), while the adjoining chairs are wooden and not a little rickety, which again dovetails nicely with the theme. The building dates from just prior to the First World War, and so has solid, fantastic-looking brick bones. Its high, beautifully decrepit ceilings will be criss-crossed with string, from which bulbs will hang, market-style. The clincher? A neon sign – in the form of a fat dragon, natch – will brighten the gloomy frontage. Take a look at what I saw last night…