Smoke Break #922: A Beautiful Love Story About Working In The Restaurant Business
February 1, 2012
by Andrew Morrison | This is for all the restaurant industry folks coming off shift tonight. Dine Out Vancouver and Feast Van are both nearing their respective ends (Feb. 5th), and having worked the former for many years, I know you must be dog tired and dreaming of a trip far, far away in order to recharge your batteries and blow some of the cash that you’ve toiled so long and hard for. Might I suggest Midtown Manhattan? There, you can pay a visit to Prime Burger, where some of the staff have been on hand for 50 years, and where you just might find the inspiration to look forward to your first night back, whether it be at Hapa or Hawksworth. Of course, if you’d sooner go to Maui, knock yourself out. Maybe just enjoy the film above on the flight between well-earned beers.
For many of the guys that work here, the restaurant is like a second home – some of them have been slinging burgers, making shakes, and waiting on customers at this location for decades. Opened in 1938, the place hasn’t been altered since the early ’60s, and it looks all the better for it.
TAKE ANOTHER BREAK
GOODS: “Dine Over” Evening At The Waldorf To Celebrate End Of Dine Out And Feast Van
January 31, 2012
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings in beautiful Vancouver, BC | 604.253.7141 | WaldorfHotel.com
The GOODS from The Waldorf Hotel
Vancouver, BC | Join us on Monday, February 6th for a special, multi-room edition of the Ice Cream Social. We’re calling this event “Dine Over” because it’s the first night after Dine Out and Feast Van. So come on down if you’re a waitress who got yelled at because something from the set menu had been 86′d or a waiter who got stiffed because a customer thought the gratuity was included. To show our appreciation to all the brave souls who toughed it out during for the two week dining festivals, we’re offering 2 for 1 admission to service industry employees so they can blow off some steam, enjoy cheap drinks and dance to the best rock and pop from the 50′s and 60′s… Read more
GOODS: Cozy On Up To “The Oakwood” In Kits During The Last Four Days Of Dine Out
January 31, 2012
The Oakwood Canadian Bistro is located at 2741 West 4th in Vancouver, BC | 604.558.1965 www.theoakwood.ca
The GOODS from Oakwood Canadian Bistro
Vancouver, BC | Only four days remain of Tourism Vancouver’s 2012 Dine Out (the celebrated festival comes to a close this Sunday, February 5th). Take your Dine Out adventures this week to Kitsilano’s latest room – The Oakwood Canadian Bistro – and try their tasty $28, 3-course menu while sipping premiere BC craft beers and hand crafted cocktails. Menu after the jump… Read more
Seen In Vancouver #337: On Enduring The Rain & Loving The Chow At Street Food City
January 24, 2012
by Andrew Morrison | Today was the first day of Street Food City, the three day food truck smorgasbord component of Dine Out Vancouver. Located right in front of the VAG, the laager-cloister of trucks made for a scene that sucker-punched our gullets and amped up our appetites, even in the rain (hooray for the covered tents with tables and chairs). While it would be nice to see the City arrange for something like this on every night of the summer, I’m grateful for any sort of baby step, and this looked and felt rather like a leap. The good chow was hot and flowing, so much so that some among the sellers had already sold out by the time we upped and left. Moral: whether the weather rules or sucks tomorrow (Wednesday) or the next day (Thursday), this is where you should be getting your bites on between 11am and 3pm.
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EVERYTHING SEEN IN VANCOUVER
GOODS: Dockside Paired Up With Live Performances During “Dine Out Vancouver”
January 12, 2012
Dockside Restaurant is located at 1253 Johnston St. in Vancouver BC | 604-685-7070 | docksidebrewing.com
The GOODS from Dockside
Vancouver, BC | Perhaps it’s just post-holiday blahs but there’s sometimes a tendency for Vancouver restaurant staff to turn a jaundiced eye toward Dine Out, the now 10-year old celebration of Vancouver’s vibrant dining scene. Not so, here at Dockside Restaurant and Brewing Company! The 10th edition of Dine Out Vancouver is set to be the biggest yet and we’re proudly jumping with both feet by participating in two Dine Out Special events while also offering a three-course set menu throughout the festival. Read more
DINER: New “Dine Out” Ad Shows How A Real Professional Deals With Tea For 15
September 12, 2011
Frustrated with server complaints about parties of 15 booking for Dine Out and only ordering tea or hot water with lemon to drink, Tourism Vancouver commissioned this ad depicting an Iranian server making short work of the same. See? It isn’t such a big deal…
UPDATE: No they didn’t.
“DB Bistro Moderne” Enters Fall With Six Deals On Six Nights…
October 6, 2010
db bistro moderne is located at 2551 West Broadway in Vancouver, BC | 604-739-7115 | www.dbbistro.ca
News from Scout supporter db bistro moderne
Vancouver, BC | West Broadway’s db bistro moderne is entering Autumn with a unique deal for each night of the week save Monday. These include specials on each of chef Nathan Guggenheimer’s gourmet burgers (paired with a beer), cocktail deals, tableside apple tarte tatins, 45-day dry-aged Kettle Ridge Cote de Boeuf, and more. Take a look at all the details after the jump… Read more
Nathan Guggenheimer Up To Old Tricks With New Oyster Comp…
September 15, 2010
DB Bistro chef de cuisine Nathan Guggenheimer is a fun-loving shit disturber. His kitchen talents aside, it was he who dreamed up last year’s memorable Guggenheimer Dog Gobble (a truly terrifying hot dog eating contest for debaucherous restaurant industry staff). Now he’s got it in his head to host an oyster shucking showdown. A $10 entrance fee gets you in, a pint of Tree Brewing Co. beer, plus the loan of a chef’s towel and shucking knife. First place wins a wine-soaked dinner for two at sister restaurant Lumière. Second gets lunch for two at DB Bistro. Third scores winner a DB Bistro gift card. I presume fourth place receives only scorn and ridicule. They’re probably going to be sending out a press release with all the skinny, but we already have some of the awesome details – like the rules and what’s in store for spectators – after the leap. Read on, mothershuckers… Read more
Db Bistro Moderne To Continue “DINE OUT” Menus All Summer
May 6, 2010
db bistro moderne is located at 2551 West Broadway in Vancouver, BC | 604-739-7115 | www.dbbistro.ca
News from Scout supporter db bistro moderne
Vancouver, BC | db Bistro Moderne Vancouver is pleased to announce the continuation of special Dine Out Vancouver prix-fixe pricing, all summer long. “It was an easy decision for us,” comments General Manager Chris González. “Our loyal clientele asked, and we answered with an enthusiastic commitment to continue the $38 and $28, three-course, prix-fixe menus we originally created during the popular Dine Out promotion.” Read more
2010 Olympic Games Pushes Back “Dine Out Vancouver” To Spring
October 2, 2009
With the Olympics arriving around the same time as Tourism Vancouver’s annual Dine Out Vancouver promotion, it was plain that some rescheduling was in order. The whole point of Dine Out is to help put bums in seats during what is traditionally the slowest period on the restaurant calendar (end of January and the beginning of February), so with reservations in scarce supply during the Games it would be wise to find another time of the year in need of a steroidal shot in the arm. The following note – just arrived from TV – makes total sense:
The official Dine Out Vancouver promotion dates for next year are April 26 to May 6.
That’s a pre-patio, rainy, shitty, not-yet-nice-out time here in Vancouver, when I assume everyone will be piss poor and spiritually broken from all the revelry of the months previous. It’s sort of refreshing to imagine a life after the Olympics, no?
