White Tower
1359 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC
If you are looking for Greek food in Vancouver, you can pretty much go anywhere. Probably you might have favourites but, if you go around town, there will be one every dozen or so blocks. In the case of Downtown Vancouver, for most people, there is even a “default”: Stepho’s, a restaurant that, in a way, has mastered the art of generating enough volume of customers to make it possible for them to lower there prices to an almost ridiculous level – to an extent that people are willing to queue up just for a plate of Greek food. But, then again, there is Takis Taverna a couple of doors from Stepho’s. If you move to Denman, there is Olympia Pizza and Pasta and Maria’s Taverna. After walking so many times in Robson, I thought there might not be any… That was until a day, PO and I were looking for something quick in the area and we ended up going to a place I believe has been there forever: White Tower.
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Chicken,
Downtown,
Greek,
Italian,
Lunch,
Pasta,
Vancouver,
West End
Luca’s Ristorante
1 Walter East Foran Boulevard
2019 State Route 27 (Location visited)
Somerset, NJ
Back in my old days of computer gaming (early 1990s), there was a magazine called Computer Gaming World (CGW). Gaming in the old days… 256 colours in 640 x 480. I am digressing here… So, what that (now defunct) magazine has to do with food? It just happens that until the later days of the magazine, it never gave a rating. It gave the games highs, lows and a general thought of the game and the writers opinion, leaving up to the reader to then decide whether he/she should get the game or not. You can say that my writing style is heavily influenced by this magazine. OK, what that has to do with food, some of you might still ask. Again, one thing I tried to do on this trip was to try different cuisines. Short of East Asian (other than Ichi Umi) and African, I have bounced back and forth. Today, it is about Luca’s Ristorante. The reason I came here? Because of all the high marks given by people, which led up to it being the number 2 restaurant in New Jersey, according to Urbanspoon…
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Italian,
New Jersey,
Pasta
Joey’s
507 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on Joey’s Burrard and Robson location (you can check it here). In it, I said you can safely guess if I will NOT be back (unless dragged by my friends)!. Guess what? I was “dragged” there by some friends! (When your friends says their food is “soooooo gooooood” ad nauseum…). However, thisime, it was not the same location but the Burrard and Pender location.
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Tagged as:
Burgers,
Chain Restaurant,
Pasta,
Sandwich,
Seafood,
Vancouver
The Wine Bar
Calle Eusebio A. Morales, El Cangrejo
Panama City, Panama
In life, there are friends and there are FRIENDS. When I moved to Canada, I did not tell to almost any of my friends. Before anybody jumps into any conclusion, you must understand that moving into a new country on your own is not necessarily easy and emotional attachments to your previous country might detract you from your new home. However, even then, there were FRIENDS who, despite I severed almost all contact, had faith in me (how they found out, I don’t know). One of these FRIENDS is GN, whom I met way back from high school. So, when went to Panama a couple of weeks ago, I knew I had to treat GN for lunch/dinner. Of course, it would be GN’s choice. And the place we ended up was The Wine Bar.
Sure, there were tables outside but, down there, being so hot, almost nobody uses them!
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Italian,
Panama City,
Pasta,
Seafood
Tony’s Deli
1046 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, BC
A friend of mine, who is married and has a grown-up daughter, complains once in a while that, because of the family, he no longer can just wake-up and go where ever he wants. While I could do that, of course, I don’t gloat about it; instead, he just tells me I should do that while I can. In an odd way, in one of the many instances he told me that, the following morning, I woke up and said to myself: “After hitting the gym, I should go The Drive…” And being in that area by noon means having lunch there. However, there is a big problem: With so many restaurants, cafes, pizza parlours in the area, which one should one go? So many options… So little time! After walking I realized: so far, I have not blogged here about an Italian place! That sort of made the decision making easy process, doesn’t it? 
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Tagged as:
Italian,
Pasta,
Vancouver
