This newly relocated seafood restaurant is the latest offering from the Glowbal corporation and sits on Alberni street across from its sibling the Italian Kitchen. Rumoured to cost more than 3 million to build, The Coast is flashy, huge, and bustling busy. It is a restaurant to see and be seen in, and features a [...]
After enjoying some diver scallops at Chambar, I started thinking: what are diver scallops anyway? (other than delicious) Could they really be hand-collected? A little searching led me to an interview on ChefTalk.com with Maine’s Tim Hunt, a 20-year veteran scallop diver.
Tim explains that diver scallops really are collected by hand, in contrast to normal [...]
Etta’s Seafood is a good fail safe place to indulge in a massive feast of a lunch if you’re hanging around Pike Place Market and you need a break.
The service is good. The food is hearty. The cokes come with lots of ice and refills are free. And it’s restive, in that I’ve-just-stuffed-myself-and-have-induced-a-food-coma-on-my-person kinda way.
Handily [...]
The logo of the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site (at left) is that of a sea otter with a prickly sea urchin on its belly. But we all know from basic food-chain science that if you extirpate the sea otter, then the sea urchins upon which they feed will boom. Which [...]