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Ranking B.C.’s Top 15 Restaurants, with James Iranzad and James Langford-Smith

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Photo of guest, James Iranzad (Gooseneck Hospitality) – local industry vet, frequent collaborator and good friend of the Track & Food podcast.

Welcome to the Track & Food podcast. Host Jamie Mah is a writer, bartender and sommelier in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Join him as he takes a deep dive into everything food and culture happening in the city and around the globe.

With the year-end comes a fun-filled year-end list! Who better to join in ranking B.C.’s top 15 restaurants than my good friends, local industry vets, and frequent collaborative cohorts, James Iranzad (Gooseneck Hospitality) and James Langford-Smith (Pamplemousse Jus). In addition to comparing this year’s top experiences from some of our favourite restaurants, in this final episode of 2024 we also riff off of two hot topics recently featured in Eater and Food & Wine magazines: the great sparkling water debate (“We Deserve Free Sparkling Water“) and restaurant reservation time limits (“Should a Restaurant Be Able to Tell Me When I Have to Leave My Table?“), yielding some of our best discussions to date. Enjoy!

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