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Golden Plates 2011: Restaurant Winners
Golden Plates 2011 Winners
These choices were made by readers in an on-line survey earlier this year.
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Is the customer always right? Vancouver's restaurant-industry professionals have their say
Restaurant-industry professionals share their customer-relations tales and reveal how you can get the best out of your dining experience.
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Where Vancouver's chefs, managers, and owners dine
The restaurant industry chose L’Abattoir as best new restaurant of the year, while the other categories featured some oldies but goodies.
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Vancouver restaurant industry experts sound off on social media, food bloggers, online reviews
When Straight staffers called up over 100 restaurateurs, chefs, and floor managers and asked them for their customer-relations stories, some had a lot to say on bloggers and...
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Uncovering fine dining’s gender divide in Vancouver
There’s a kind of Bermuda Triangle for female chefs between culinary school and the top of the industry. But why?
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Young chef Andrea Potter opts out of the kitchen
Chef Andrea Potter is just 26 and has already dropped out of the race to the top of the fine-dining world.
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Vancouver's standout sandwiches are beauties to behold
Vancouver’s sandwich scene is booming if the daily lineups at two of the city’s newest shops are any indication.
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Kingsway's king for late-night Chinese food in Vancouver
A CBC news report advises that for a good night's sleep, one should go to bed with neither a full stomach nor an empty one. To the Chinese, this gastronomic Goldilocks principle...
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Restaurant playlists in Vancouver get just the right vibe
When he was a teen, Nicolas Bragg worked at a restaurant for two years where the same boring music playlist blared over every dinner service.
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Where restaurant-industry workers go for cheap meals in Vancouver
Most people appreciate a good, inexpensive meal.
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Georgia Straight readers pick the best restaurant trends in Vancouver
The Georgia Straight asked what was the best trend to hit Vancouver restaurants in the last year on the ballot for the 14th annual Golden Plates, and you responded with clarity—...
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Readers recall year’s best meals at Vancouver restaurants: Mis Trucos, Chambar, Bistrot Bistro
Amazing food is often thought of as the hallmark of a great meal, but what about top-notch service, a memorable atmosphere, or an unexpected encounter?

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