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Students - Vancouver Restaurants
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)
19,137 views - Posted Friday, December 7th, 2007
Posted in Bar, Barbecue, BBQ, Burgers, Cafe, Cajun, Casual, Chain Restaurants, Chicken, Creative Dishes, Entertainment, Favorites, Food Photos, Fun atmosphere, Fusion, Hamburgers, Healthy Food, Jazz, Live Music, Lively, Lunch, Modern Decor, Open Late, Pasta, Patio, People Watching, Restaurant, Seafood, Steakhouse, Steaks, Students, Take Out, Trendy, Upscale, Vancouver, Vancouver Restaurants, West Vancouver | No Comments »
Stephos Greek Restaurant (visitor reviews, 1124 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 604-683-2555) is so popular that most nights of the week you’ll find people lining up outside the door, waiting to get in. And the wait is worth it, for the portions are huge, prices reasonable, service attentive, and food really tasty. Christine G. Louie writes:
“The kalamari entree was even more enormous than the other dishes and so large that whenever one of us forked a morsel, five or six little kalamari pieces fell to the table ($9.99).”
Pictured below is the roast lamb, which is a steal at $8.99 and is served with rice, potatoes, Greek salad, and a very tasty tomato ratatouille (something that you don’t usually find at Greek restaurants). Everything on the menu is under $10, and the wine is also reasonably priced.
27,154 views - Posted Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Posted in Affordable, Budget, Casual, Chicken, Comfort food, Davie Street, Downtown, European, Family, Favorites, Food Photos, Fun atmosphere, Greek, Healthy Food, Home Cooked Style, Large Portions, Lively, Lunch, Lunch Specials, Mediterranean, People Watching, Reasonably Priced, Restaurant, Roast Lamb, Students, Take Out, Tourist Attraction, Vancouver, Vancouver Restaurants, Very low prices, West End | 1 Comment »
Simon Fraser University (web site, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada) has a student-run pub (the “Highland Pub”) in the centre of campus, that serves a good selection of food as well as the usual drinks. The pub’s web site (click here) is the place to go to check out the upcoming events, which include live music nights, promotional fund-raisers, and televised sports events. The menu has been recently revamped to compete with trendy spots such as Cactus Club, and the prices have been lowered as well. I enjoyed my prawn curry rice bowl (around $8.00, pictured below) which was quite tasty!
Prawn curry rice bowl at the SFU Pub
The SFU Jazz band performing at the SFU Highland Pub.
16,009 views - Posted Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Posted in Affordable, Burgers, Burnaby, Casual, Pub, Students | 1 Comment »
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