Falafel King
1110 Denman St
Vancouver, BC V6G
Despite Panama is a cultural melting pot, I barely managed to scratch several of the cuisines available there. Among the reasons, back then, was the lack of a friend or volunteer to visit a specific restaurant and try the cuisine. I mean, I was more than willing to give it a try; however, I did not really want to go alone.
When I moved to Vancouver, at first, I had no options – after all, I did not know almost anybody. This is, in a way, really funny, specially considering I was living in the West End and there are a lot of restaurants there. So, after a couple of nights having dinner in a nearby Subway (to the point the people was starting to know me almost by name), I finally broke down and started to venture in the nearby restaurants. One of the first places I went was a restaurant near English Bay – Falafel King. Now, it was not something particularly fancy about this place, in fact, it is totally the opposite, this place was anything but fancy. What attracted me to this place was a particular smell, something you could smell from a block away. And that is the smell of meat being roasted in a spit.
Just like with Subway, I started to frequent this place so much the people there started to know me and, whenever they saw me in the queue, they were already starting to set up my order (now, it was not that I was not adventurous, rather, it was because of their limited menu). When I moved out of the West End, I tried to look for alternatives for this cuisine but, alas, despite I knew they were better than this place, I somehow still wanted to go back.
