as far as I recall, there are no 'true' bbq joints in the Lower Mainland, just lots of places that grill meat and baste it with barbecue sauce. Poutine, also, doesn't quite have the following or ubiquity that it does in the East.
for bbq, i had high hopes for this place, which is the joint mentioned in this entry. though i have to say the lack of mac n cheese on the menu should have been an indicator of what was to come.
i did hit another place, dix - near GM place - which was surprisingly more authentic, the discovery of which was certainly contrary to my expectations since it semmed more like a manufactured grill-house/sports bar meant for the game-day crowd.
and i didnt expect a lot of attention to be paid for poutine, but the amount of neglect was a little surprising. oh well, c'est la vie!
mmm, cool ... yeah, the entire neighborhood that's built up around the stadium and south of Yaletown is still a bit of a mystery to me. Most of what I'm familiar with is downtown, West End, Granville and Kits; but it's good to see the old Expo grounds finally getting the revival that's been coming to it.
there's precious little French influence in Vancouver, so that's probably why poutine never really made it over. It's largely settled by Scotsmen who built the railroads and successive waves of migrants from Hong Kong, India and Vietnam. So you're more likely to find good izakaya or dim sum places than shops touting their cheese curds.
that stuff was amazing. i'm not a huge jack daniels fan (for the price i'd rather opt for better whiskeys,) but i love making jack infusions. i've had great luck with various fruit stuffs (berries, grape, pineapple, kiwi- whatever is leftover from my daily fruit cup snack at whole foods, really) but obviously now i need to try vanilla beans. that shit would make one hell of a jack and coke.
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i did hit another place, dix - near GM place - which was surprisingly more authentic, the discovery of which was certainly contrary to my expectations since it semmed more like a manufactured grill-house/sports bar meant for the game-day crowd.
and i didnt expect a lot of attention to be paid for poutine, but the amount of neglect was a little surprising. oh well, c'est la vie!
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there's precious little French influence in Vancouver, so that's probably why poutine never really made it over. It's largely settled by Scotsmen who built the railroads and successive waves of migrants from Hong Kong, India and Vietnam. So you're more likely to find good izakaya or dim sum places than shops touting their cheese curds.
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this post made me hungry.
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also the vanilla jack sounds *awesome*.
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