The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe Kindly Asks You To Take A Seat

News from Scout supporter The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe

Vancouver, BC | The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe would like you to take a seat. Literally. For the next few weeks, our guests will receive a ballot at the end of their experience to be entered into a draw for one of our custom-made blue Louis chairs. Please visit thecornersuite.com for further details or email us at info@thecornersuite.com. Read more

Andre McGillivray Done At The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe…

The following release from CSBDL will be making the media rounds shortly…

The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe would like to announce the amicable departure of André Mcgillivray from the day-to-day operations and directorship of the company. We will forever be in his debt and would like to take this opportunity to wish him all the best as he focuses on the joys of family, fatherhood and a new direction. Steve Da Cruz, chef Jason Liezert and everyone on the team at The Corner Suite look forward to serving you soon.

Farewell, André. Good luck to you and Steve both.

The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe Joins The Scout Community…

The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe is now a proud member supporter of Scout. We will be publishing their news and press releases on our front page and hosting a page for them in our list of recommended places 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. Read more

“Boneta” Moving Into Cool New Gastown Digs This February…

As announced last night at Boneta’s birthday party, the popular Gastown eatery’s time at 1 West Cordova is coming to a close. That might have caused some furrowed brows and maybe even a tear, but fret not, as owners Jeremie, Mark and Neil aren’t finished just yet. As a wise old man once said, now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning…

Here’s the exclusive skinny.

In February of next year, Boneta will close and reopen in a new location just a lob wedge away in a new Gastown development known as The Garage. You know that mysterious courtyard spot (prone to a dozen rumours since completed last year) behind L’Abattoir and the original Shebeen, the one that’s all glassed in and brand spanking new? That’s it: 2,222 sqft of prime virgin space with entrances through Gaoler’s Mews, Water St., and Blood Alley.

I checked it out as a temporary “pop-up” gallery in the Spring and hoped against hope that it would be turned into a restaurant once it was finished. It’s one of those unique, totally killer spots that is set back from the street, away from the drifting weekend Red Bull yahoos and Old Spaghetti Factory tourists. If anyone could make it work, it’s these guys (kudos to Robert Fung of The Salient Group for getting that).

What does it give Boneta that it didn’t have before? An 800 sqft solarium equipped with five sliding doors; floor to ceiling glass and a roof that’s over 30% glass; a U-shaped bar with 12 seats; a year round heated and covered courtyard patio  for 12 (think Brix); and brand new everything from electric to A/C.

They’re downsizing the seating capacity a little, from 100+ to 65-75, but I’ll be the last to complain about that as I think intimate is better for the concept than spread out. The artwork – something Boneta is known for – will be making the move, too, as will much of the original room’s motifs (they’re hoping to recycle/reclaim plenty).

As regular readers and diners might remember, they were only supposed to be in the Cordova location for one year, but one year turned to two, and now three is enough. They had a countdown clock on their website when they first opened back in 2007 (now long gone), and they hope to get it back up soon to let diner’s know how much time they have left to enjoy the original, which will be sorely missed.

For my part, I’ve had a lot of good times and made many friends in that room. I’m sure that’s the case with many of you as well. Join us in digging it while it lasts… Read more

Granville’s “Twisted Fork Bistro” Now Open For Friday Brunch

News from Scout supporter Twisted Fork Bistro

Vancouver, BC | | Due to popular demand, beginning this week, Twisted Fork will be open on for brunch on Fridays. Every Friday throughout the summer, Twisted Fork will be open 11 am to 3 pm, with their full brunch menu available. Check it after the jump… Read more

“The Diamond” Now Accepting Students Of Proper Cocktailery

News from Scout supporter The Diamond

Vancouver, BC | The Diamond in Gastown has launched its long anticipated spring program for their Preparatory School For All Things Drink. Designed for rookies and pros alike, the next course begins on May 31st. Details above.

Celebrate BC Craft Beer at Homegrown Heroes Cask Dinner

News from Scout supporter R&B Brewing Co.

Vancouver BC | On Wednesday May 12th at 7:30pm, The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe and R&B Brewing Co. present the Homegrown Heroes Cask Dinner. Five local BC Craft Breweries, including R&B Brewing Co, Crannog Ales, Steamworks Brewing Co., Vancouver Island Brewery and Spinnakers Brew Pub, will each present a cask beer to pair with one of five courses prepared by Chef Jason Leizert of The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe. Homegrown Heroes diners will indulge in five courses including R&B Saison poached Foie Gras Terrine with pickled prune paired with R&B Psycho Saison Belgian Ale, Boudin Blanc with pomme puree & grainy mustard sauce paired with Crannog Gael’s Blood Potato Ale, Sablefish Collars, rhubarb galette, stinging nettle beurre blanc paired with Steamworks NXNW Pale Ale, braised Oxtail Pot Pie, flowering brussel sprouts, poached organic egg yolk, bacon jam paired with Vancouver Island ALT and Cocoa Nib chocolate truffles & 5 year aged cheddar from Quebec paired with Spinnaker’s Oatmeal Stout. Tickets for the dinner are $80 and will include a commemorative tee shirt exclusive to the Homegrown Heroes Cask Dinner. Full details after the jump… Read more

Comfort Food “Acme Cafe” Opens Its Doors At 51 West Hastings

The Acme Cafe has opened at 51 West Hastings. Gonna get me some pie. Full press release announcing as much after the jump… Read more

Corner Suite Named “Best New Vancouver Bar” By Food & Wine

The Corner Suite Bistro De Luxe has been named the “Best New Bar In Vancouver” by Food & Wine magazine assistant research editor Kelly Snowden.

“Ten years ago, I knew nothing about the right way to make cocktails—I’d even use my teeth to open a beer,” says mixologist Steve Da Cruz. Today, Da Cruz is a star of Vancouver’s phenomenal cocktail scene.

For the drinks at the new Corner Suite Bistro de Luxe, he resurrects cocktails from 19th-century books, though some of his best drinks have a slightly more modern provenance. One is the Vancouver, a combination of gin, sweet vermouth and Benedictine created at the city’s Sylvia Hotel in the 1950s. “I learned how to make it from a customer with a thick Scottish brogue, who came in dressed like he was one of The Dirty Dozen,” Da Cruz says.

Da Cruz became obsessed with cocktails while hanging out in seminal Manhattan bars like Milk & Honey, but he’s happier in Vancouver. “In New York, you had to twist someone’s arm to lend you an unusual spirit,” he says. “Here, we share what we can.”

The snippet doesn’t say why it’s the “best”, but what’s glossy journalism without those declarative, wholly subjective and hyperbolic headlines? It goes without saying that barman/co-owner Steve Da Cruz can make a drink with the best of them (boy, does he ever), but is CSBDL really the Best New Bar in Vancouver? Maybe, but if we think of all the other places that have opened in the past year (if a year is what Snowden allowed), it’s a pretty tight field. Tannis and her crew at Bao Bei are solid. Jay Jones at Pourhouse is no slouch. And what about the The Diamond, which has amassed enough raw bartending talent to slay all for blocks around?

Your thoughts after the jump… Read more

Food Media Omnibus #539: The Everybody Eat Cupcakes Edition

Once again we present our weekly Food Media Omnibus, a collection of all our local food writer’s most recent works in print. Get clicking…

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The Georgia Strait dished its annual Golden Plate nods in this thick issue, with Angus An of Maenam getting his props on the cover. Quote of the century comes from Tyson Reimer, co-owner of Cobre and big cheese at Deacon’s Corner, on delivering pancakes (pancakes!) to Snoop Dogg’s hotel room:

“When we got in the elevator you could already smell the dope, and by the time we got to their floor it just reeked…the room looked like my basement in high school, it was so thick full of pot smoke….He [Snoop Dogg] had this big fucking canon joint in his hand, and he handed it to me. And I hadn’t smoked in like, 15 years, but it’s like if Keith Richards hands you a bottle, you take a pull—it doesn’t matter, it’s just something you have to do. So we took it and we stood there for a little bit looking a bit awkward and very, very white.”

There’s also a good article on the Chambar alumni by the one and only Tara Lee.

In the Westender, I recall some recent Cactus Club eats and make a short argument for the company’s 2011 invasion of the beach at English Bay. I also slurp pig testicles (so plump and juicy).

In the Vancouver Sun, Mia Stainsby reports that Vikram and Meeru are moving Vij’s to Cambie and opening a new concept in the original space. This quote gave me pause: “Yes, rumours that the much-celebrated Vij’s restaurant is moving are true.” If by “rumours” she refers to our reporting of this truth two weeks beforehand, we must have been unconvincing. Either that or she doesn’t read Scout. She does a better job, anyway. She’s more thorough and provides more info. In other news, Mia is apparently rumoured to have made a trip to the Four Seasons in Whistler to sample some infra-red cow fleiss, and supposedly dishes on the exits of West chef Warren Geraghty and Market chef David Foot. There were also some unconfirmed reports that she ate a couple of cupcakes. We could find no witnesses to corroborate her side of the story, so we ate cupcakes as well. Sadly, they proved nothing.

In Maclean’s, we learn that the Japanese fishing lobby sucks very, very hard, and probably slept with the most irregular of Tiger Woods’ mistresses.

In the Globe and Mail, Alexandra Gill reviews Corner Suite and uses the word Lilliputian to describe the soup (and now I love her more than ever).

Tim Pawsey drinks sustainably for The Province and weighs in on the future of blended BC wines in the North Shore News. Also in the NSN, Deana Lancaster drinks Hester Creek at La Regalade (and is momentarily lost for words).

Last but not least, Metro’s Anya Levykh reviews The Poor Italian, journeyman chef Gianni Picci’s new digs on East 1st.

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