Lunch - Vancouver Restaurants

 

Cactus Club Cafe (West Vancouver)

Cactus Club is a trendy, fun restaurant chain with outstanding service, cool decor, and great food. I made another visit to Cactus Club in West Vancouver (web site, Park Royal Village, 855 Main Street, West Vancouver, BC, phone, 604-922-1707) and I enjoyed the “Hawaiian tuna poke” (pictured below, $11.50), which their menu describes as, “sashimi grade ahi tuna, prawns, tropical fruit salsa, fresh avocado, macadamia nuts, sesame ginger vinaigrette & crispy wonton chips”. This dish was a refreshing combination of flavors and quite delicious. Cactus Club is also famous for their steaks, seafood, and specialty drinks.

Cactus Club’s West Vancouver location features a live jazz band, the Geoff Peters Trio, playing on selected Tuesday nights. Please call the restaurant to confirm about the live music. (More info: view part 1)

Tuna poke at Cactus Club

18,948 views - Posted Friday, December 7th, 2007

 

Kitto Japanese House (Granville, Downtown)

Kitto Japanese House (833 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone 604-687-6622) is a popular downtown Japanese restaurant in the heart of the Granville strip, that serves sushi, teriyaki, tempura, noodles, and other Japanese items. Prices are reasonable but not cheap: a lunch combination goes for around $9.00. Pictured below are the miso soup, the chopped scallop roll, the California roll, and the lunch box (with Chicken Teriyaki, tempura, green salad, and Japanese spinach). Yum!!

Japanese Miso soup
Miso soup

Chopped scallop Maki sushi
Chopped scallop maki sushi with a garnish of wasabi and pickled ginger.

Japanese California Roll sushi
Japanese California Roll sushi

Japanese Chicken Teriyaki, Prawn Tempura, and Green Salad
Japanese Chicken Teriyaki, Prawn Tempura, and Green Salad

21,522 views - Posted Saturday, December 1st, 2007

 

Wing Kee Chinese Restaurant

Wing Kee Seafood Restaurant (web site, 120-8260 Granville Avenue, Richmond, BC, Canada, phone 604-270-1825) specializes in Hong Kong Style Fried Crab (pictured below) as well as other seafood, barbecue pork, and wonton soup. They offer Chinese food delivery to the Richmond area until 3am. We had a large group and we ordered one dish each plus three crabs, and the price came out to approximately $25 per person including tax and tip. There are many Chinese restaurants in the Richmond area, but Wing Kee is where my family usually ends up going. We agreed after our latest meal that everything on the table was delicious!!

Salt and pepper spicy fried crab
Salt and pepper spicy fried crab

Steamed crab with ginger and green onion sauce
Steamed crab with ginger and green onion sauce

Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

33,155 views - Posted Sunday, November 25th, 2007