GOODS: Celebrate Your Mom On Mother’s Day With Brunch At Yew In The Four Seasons

YEW Restaurant is located in the Four Seasons Vancouver at 791 West Georgia St | 604.692.4939 | YewRestaurant.com

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Vancouver, BC | She gave you the gift of life for starters. She’s kissed countless booboos, mended your socks, and that broken heart, and cheered for you at the crack of dawn too many times to count. Quite simply, moms are awesome and irreplaceable. They deserve to treated, loved and celebrated every day, and especially on Mother’s Day. So on Sunday, May 13th, give your mom something to brag about by treating her to YEW’s fabulous Mother’s Day Brunch featuring a “Celebration of Seafood Raw Bar.” In addition to everyone’s favourite brunch items, we’re also offering a delicious chilled seafood experience. Click here to see the complete menu and learn more after the jump… Read more

GOODS: “Yew” In The Four Seasons Offering New Dining Package For Making A Night Of It

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Vancouver, BC | Whether locals are gearing up for a tasty ‘staycation’ or visiting one of North America’s great culinary destinations from out of town, YEW is a must do for any food lover.  An outstanding review by Mia Stainsby’s in the Vancouver Sun sings the praises the oustanding seafood quality, culinary talent and service, as does Alexandra Gill’s recent Globe & Mail review, which crowned YEW as “the city’s new premier seafood restaurant.” Read more

GOODS: Chef Ned Bell To Prep Full Weekend Of Valentine Feasts At The Four Seasons

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Vancouver, BC | Executive Chef Ned Bell has created five inspired Valentine’s menus that build from First Date Saturday and Second Date Sunday, to No Pressure Weekend Brunch, Going Steady Monday and True Romance Tuesday. Each menu offers a little something different and range from a three-course brunch menu for $45, a four-course dinner menu for $59, to a five-course dinner menu for $79. Get all the details after the jump… Read more

GOODS: Four Seasons Vancouver Taps Local Boy Ned Bell As New Executive Chef

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Vancouver, BC | One of Canada’s foremost culinary talents and homegrown chefs is ready to take over the burners at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver. With the departure of Oliver Beckert to the new Four Seasons in Baltimore, the Four Seasons’ team looks forward to welcoming its newest addition, Executive Chef Ned Bell, effective August 15th. Read more

“Yew” Tables Seasonal Menus For December & New Year’s Eve

YEW restaurant + bar is located in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver at 791 West Georgia St | 604.692.4939

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Vancouver, BC | Diners in British Columbia are blessed with an impressive variety of fresh local produce grown and raised across the Province throughout the year. Feel good about enjoying sustainably sourced seafood and flavourful meats, fish and poultry that are thoughtfully raised and prepared.

It is with this ultra-fresh, local and seasonal mentality are offering a three-course, prix-fixe menu focusing on in-season ingredients sourced close to home. Each month the menu will feature a starring ingredient with supporting roles played by complementary in-season produce.

This month Chef Grant Macdonald has selected Sidney Island Venison and a variety of seasonal apples. Take a look at the menu the New Years Eve Menu after the jump… Read more

Actor & Vodka Fan Dan Aykroyd On The Bar At “Yew” This Friday

YEW restaurant + bar is located in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver at 791 West Georgia St | 604.692.4939

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Vancouver, BC | On Friday, September 24, Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd will be behind the bar at YEW in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver to mix Crystal Head Vodka cocktails. Aykroyd, spokesperson for the brand, is making a stop at YEW on a “bottle-signing” tour of Western Canada and the US to share his passion for the designer spirit.

Crystal Head Vodka is quadruple-distilled and triple-filtered through Herkimer diamond crystals. It is manufactured by the government of Newfoundland, the last government owned still in all of North America. The vodka is sold in a clear glass bottle in the shape of a human skull. Read more

“Fresh From…” Celebrates Corn & Crab at Four Seasons’ “YEW”

YEW restaurant + bar is located in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver at 791 West Georgia St | 604.692.4939

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Vancouver, BC | Fresh From British Columbia’s oceans, rivers, fields and farms Diners in British Columbia are blessed with an impressive variety of fresh local produce grown and raised across the Province throughout the year. Feel good about enjoying sustainably sourced seafood and flavourful meats, fish and poultry that are thoughtfully raised and prepared. We hope you’ve been making the most of summer – indulging in BC’s juicy cherries, sun-warmed peaches and impossibly flavourful heirloom tomatoes at home, on the road or here at YEW. This September, enjoy our ultra-fresh, local and seasonal dinner concept for dinner nightly at YEW restaurant + bar. Known as “Fresh From…” this three-course, prix-fixe menu focuses on in-season ingredients sourced close to home. Each month the menu will feature a starring ingredient with supporting roles played by complementary in-season produce. This month Executive Chef Oliver Beckert is featuring two much loved ingredients, crab and corn. View the menu after the jump… Read more

Know Your Local Designer: On A Cedar Log With Brent Comber…

Something spectacular happens where nature meets the urban, and Brent Comber knows all about that. Growing up on Vancouver’s North Shore, the designer’s childhood world was both city living and forest dwelling. Inspired by his surroundings, he began his career in landscaping, working with the raw materials that surrounded him. He acquired his knowledge of landscaping the same way he later acquired his woodworking skills: through his hands. Yet it was through his heart that his work began to transform. When Brent first introduced his work at an outdoor garden show in Vancouver, a woman approached his booth and sat on one of his benches. The woman closed her eyes and ran her hand across the smooth wood. When Brent approached her, she revealed that the fragrance of the cedar transported her back to her childhood, when she and her grandfather would spend hours walking on the the logs that had washed up on the shore. In that moment, Brent discovered the capacity of the wood to tell stories in its own rich and expressive language, and he resolved to continue to craft his pieces with a story in mind. From the 18 foot, one-piece communal table at Salt Tasting Room to the soaring western maple wall sculpture at Yew in the Four Seasons, his artistry can be found in many iconic Vancouver locations.

Indie Profile

Three things about your neighbourhood that make you want to live there: My home is in the Hollyburn area of West Vancouver. I love being able to walk to the beach, to great restaurants and to my children’s schools.

When you finish a piece of furniture intended for a specific space, what do you hope to feel? I feel proud when our work compliments the designer’s vision and excited to see it in context.

What inspires your choice of wood for a given project? It really depends on the particular feel or story I wish to convey. Each wood species can engage people differently, depending on the texture and the finish. For example, our Shattered collection is about the physical energy and thought required to organize the split timber into cubes. It is about the process – the choice of material is secondary.

If wood can tell a story, which one of your pieces carries your favourite story? The Alder Cube. It’s an evocative piece constructed from very simple materials. It also conveys a beautiful story of how a forest can change you as you pass through it. People are fascinated to discover that the piece is constructed from vertical stacked branches and it appears that air is the only thing holding the sticks together. For a moment, you find yourself inside the cube trying to unravel this mystery much like your state of mind when you are in the deep woods. There are other stories hidden within each piece – it all depends on where you look. Read more

YEW Wins “Where” Magazine Nod For Best Hotel Dining & Bar

YEW restaurant + bar is located in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver at 791 West Georgia St | 604.692.4939

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Vancouver, BC | YEW restaurant + bar takes top prize in the Best Hotel Dining & Bar category at the recent Where Vancouver Magazine’s Annual Dining Awards. Voters credit the “gorgeous wood-trimmed room [that] lures the power crowd and celebrities, who come for inspired Pacific Northwest plates, served with flair in a dramatic setting.” Read more

YEW Pays Tribute to Earth Hour as Part of Global Celebration

YEW restaurant + bar is located in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver at 791 West Georgia St | 604.692.4939

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Vancouver, BC | YEW restaurant + bar at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver will join 46 Four Seasons sister properties to create a chain of candlelight dinners that will circumnavigate the globe in celebration of Earth Hour. On Saturday, March 27th, a sequence of candlelight dinners will begin at Four Seasons Hotel Sydney at 8:30pm local time and move westward across the planet. Read more

Four Seasons’ Yew Restaurant + Bar Joins The Scout Community

The good folks at YEW restaurant + bar in the Four Seasons Hotel are now proud member supporters 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 restaurants. Click ahead or jump to their Scout page here. Read more

Yew And Four Seasons Gets A New Chef

With chef Raphael Gonzales gone to the USA I was wondering who would be taking over at Yew in the Four Seasons. It’s a German chef named Oliver Beckert, fresh from a Four Seasons property in Hawaii. Full press release below:

“Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver welcomes a new edition to Vancouver’s culinary scene with the arrival of Executive Chef Oliver Beckert. Landing in Vancouver from Four Seasons Resorts Lana’i in Hawaii, Chef Oliver Beckert will oversee all the Hotel’s culinary operations; from the city’s premier catering events to the gastronomic hotspot, YEW restaurant + bar. Beckert, whose accomplished skills began from a young age, was born, raised and educated in Nuremberg, Germany. As soon as his feet touched the ground, Chef Beckert found his calling. Learning the tricks of the trade since the young age of four, he has fond memories of cooking with his grandmother in the family kitchen.

Chef Beckert’s skills and creativity are a perfect fit for one of the world’s hottest dining destinations. He apprenticed at the exclusive one-Michelin star-rated restaurant “Bammes” prior to joining the venerable five-star Bellevue Palace in Berne, Switzerland – renowned for over a century of setting the standards in Swiss hospitality. Prior to his arrival in Vancouver, Chef Beckert honed his talents at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Lana’i, Miami, Washington D.C., London and New York City.

“I have had the pleasure of working with Oliver while in Hawaii,” says general manager Simon Pettigrew. “He has such a passion for great food and with Vancouver’s dynamic restaurant scene we look forward to spicing up the city.” “I simply love to cook,” says Beckert. “I enjoy being an integral part of someone’s culinary experience, from taste, aroma, and texture to presentation, mood and environment…I thrive on the intensity of the creative challenge.”

YEW restaurant + bar opened in December 2007 and has received numerous awards and accolades throughout the year. Chef Beckert looks forward to continuing the success and working in a city that offers endless fresh local ingredients. With the diversity of cultures within Vancouver, Chef Beckert is eager to experiment with the variety of ingredients and flavors available to him and his team.

He arrives with his wife, Yvonne, and son, Rafe. When not in the kitchen, he is keen on hitting the slopes, joining the soccer league and exploring the city with his family.”

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Details

YEW restaurant + bar is located in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver
791 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 2T4
Phone: 604.692.4939 for reservations or use Open Table.
Web: www.yewrestaurant.com

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Hours

Coffee To Go | Every day 7:00 am – 10:30 am
Breakfast | Every day 7:00 am – 11:30 am
Brunch | Saturday and Sunday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Lunch | Monday to Friday 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Dinner | Every day 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm

People

Executive Chef – Ned Bell
General Manager – Jeff Hanson

About YEW restaurant + bar

YEW restaurant + bar is set to become the city’s premier seafood restaurant, delivering exceptionally delicious cuisine, great wines, innovative cocktails and a fun, welcoming environment for guests — all wrapped in legendary Four Seasons service.

With nearly 70 percent of customers ordering seafood the change just makes sense.  YEW has answered the call with an exciting move to a concept that delivers simple, local, ultra fresh, and sustainable seafood infused with our own sense of whimsy and fun.

Guests will be welcomed by a gorgeous new RAW bar, seafood-inspired menu, a few nips and tucks in the restaurant and brand new Executive Chef Ned Bell to anchor the shift. Bell brings his culinary philosophy of ‘Globally Inspired, Locally Created’ to the mix creating both classic and innovative plates.

The clean and focused menu features a variety of seafood, simply and expertly prepared.  Freshly shucked oysters are a natural start to the meal, paired with a glass of bubbles from a new selection of Grower’s Champagnes.  The ‘Day Boat Fish’ presents diners with the freshest ‘catch of the day’ and the new ‘Share the Fish’ platters will have all hands reaching across the table for Alaskan King Crab, Ahi tuna, scallop crudo, wild salmon and more.

YEW’s savvy sommeliers, Emily Walker and Adam Ashukian have done their homework and they, along with the new Vinotech machine, will offer guests a great selection of seafood-fabulous wines by the glass and bottle.  Both pros are up for any challenge!  Whether it be pairing wines for YEW’s new selection of ‘Turf & Fish’ dishes such as the unlikely, yet totally tasty, Pork + Octopus entrée.

Vancouver’s cocktail scene is exploding and YEW’s Bartender extraordinaire, Justin Taylor, is leading the pack. The elevated bar menu features original handcrafted, last century classics and house punches to ‘knock the socks off’ everyone sitting on a stool.

Fans of the restaurant’s much loved 16oz Rib Eye and Carbonara Gnocchi can rest easy – a few favourites will remain and those not feeling fishy can enjoy multiple beef, chicken and vegetarian options.  Dessert lovers are also in for a treat with Pastry Chef Bruno Feldeisen taking on rustic desserts featuring seasonal ingredients.

The restaurant’s new tagline, Modern. Coastal. Social., speaks to the atmosphere and experience the team is striving to create.  The concept shift is a holistic one; key players from every area of the restaurant have been involved in ensuring the cocktails, wines, desserts, side dishes, interior design and even a more relaxed uniform work together to give guests a wonderful and welcoming dining experience.

Coffee Culture Bar

Single or double, long or short, your signature bean awaits at YEW Coffee Culture Bar in Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver. Personalise your morning where every cup is tailored for the above-average Joe.

YEW bar

In YEW bar, the menu of over 300 wines includes more than 150 by the glass – a temptation to sample the best of the best. YEW’s bartenders continually renew the cocktail menu with fresh inventions. Hours: Sunday to Wednesday – 11am to midnight | Thursday to Saturday – 11am to 1am

Foxy Fridays
Join us every Friday from 2:30 pm until 10:00 pm for special bites and cocktails. Divas wearing pink clothing or accessories receive a complimentary appetiser. You may view the menu from the sample menus below.

Wine Down Sundays
Every bottle is 50% off on Sundays all day/evening.

YEW catering

Bring home the tantalising tastes of YEW restaurant + bar. Whether you are hosting an intimate gathering, a large dinner party for up to 45 guests or a reception for up to 65, YEW offers the perfect choice for an elegant, flavourful evening. YEW’s catering menu features dishes from the Pacific region, including seared prawns and jalapeño scallop ceviche, as well as the restaurant’s signature mango lobster roll.

For additional information or to book your event with our catering team, please call 1 (604) 689-9333.

Awards

Vancouver’s Top Hotel Dining – YEW restaurant + bar
~ WHERE Magazine 2008 ~

World’s Best Places to Eat – YEW restaurant + bar
~ Food & Wine GO List 2008 ~

Best Restaurant Design – YEW restaurant + bar – Silver
~ Vancouver Magazine 2008 ~

Best Hotel Dining – YEW restaurant + bar – Bronze
~ Vancouver Magazine 2008~

Award for Excellence in Design of Architectural Woodwork – YEW restaurant + bar
~ Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada 2008 ~

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