From High Fashion to Fine Dining…
Posted by Stephen on
March 24, 2006
After a night of high couture at the BMW Fashion Gala, it was time to experience some fine dining. I joined John at West Resaturant to sample the best of the best. Voted as the Best Restaurant in Vancouver in 2005, my first REAL fine dining experience was truly awesome. The experience, as recapped by John on his blog was truly worth every penny…a lot of pennies. If my parents found out, I know that they would want to lecture me non stop about spending that kind of money as this is the Chinese Way.
There were truffles, foie gras, KOBE style beef: All the things that you would see used on the Food Network! The wine pairings were bang on, and the service was par excellent. The thing that confused me was the “Petit Four” dessert at the end. If it is called petit four, then how come they only gave us each one petit morsel each? Would I not have received the same amount if I had gone solo? I guess we’ll have to ask that question next time!
I will be back again someday, but I think our next stop will be Lumiere, the 2nd best restaurant in Vancouver and home of Rob Feenie, who beat Iron Chef Morimoto in the famous CRAB battle.
My gut feeling tells me that Lumiere will take back Restauratnt of the year this year. Otherwise that $1 million Rob Feenie spent to re-do Lumiere would have been wasted.
He’ll need a vacation to some exotic cooking location for some inspiration too! LOL!
Any why was I not invited?
Well, in order to join the Dot Com Mogul Diner’s Club you need to answer yes to the following question in the charter:
Question 1: Do you live in Vancouver? If you don’t, then please do not proceed further.
If you flew up and spent 400 dollars on dinner, then flew back, then you’d be a true mogul! LOL!
wow i hope the food was worth it
i have to think twice about spending a 10th of that