Mr. Sub versus Mr. Sushi

Mr. Sub
(604) 683-6152
Address: 781 Davie Street (map)

Mr. Sushi
(604) 683-6750 – free delivery in 2km radius
Address: 775 Davie Street (map)

Mr. Sub versus Mr. Sushi
a Showdown

By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver writer

The time has come to answer the question that has burned in the souls and minds of Vancouverites for ages: What is better, Mr. Sub or Mr. Sushi? This question, nay, this conundrum has bothered me for nearly three years now, since the day I first wandered across the intersection of Howe and Davie and witnessed this bewildering confluence of prefixes. So many questions raced through my head…Had fate merely waved her ugly wand and placed these two independent yet formidable culinary giants right next to each other? Or were these two restaurants run by some sort of shadow organization (like the Pentavirate), banking on the notion that anyone happening by this intersection would certainly want either a sandwich or sushi?

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Fishman the Grape

Fishman the Grape - Bordeaux Futures?
a wine blog

By Daniel Fishman
Eat Vancouver writer
August 24, 2007

If, like me, you are just starting to collect wine, you are probably used to buying a bottle and drinking it that very night, or within a couple days. It takes some self-control to get used to the idea of buying wine to drink further in the future. An even more difficult concept for those of us just starting out is buying wine futures.

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Stepho’s Souvlaki Greek Taverna
(604) 683-2555
Address: 1124 Davie Street (map)

False Idol
a Quick Bite

By Michael Chin
a Special to Eat Vancouver

As an outsider to Vancouver it’s hard for me to gauge the popularity of certain restaurants. Often times I’ll see a place relatively dead only to hear that it’s an anomaly, and that the joint is usually packed. Luckily, in terms of Stepho’s, I didn’t have to climb such a hurdle. In the three times I’ve been to Stepho’s the place has been packed, and in the first instance (a weekday, around 6pm) a line had formed about 20-30 people deep outside the door. I ended up flaking that day because the line was moving about as fast as a 300 pound woman in quicksand and because the long line just so happened to place me right in front of one of Davie’s many sex shops.

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Vintropolis Closes

Vin Fin
a news feature

By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver writer
Saturday, August 11th, 2007

I was walking to the gym the other day when I saw the above sign on the door of what was the wine bistro Vintropolis. I never really saw many people in there, and it was situated on a hotly contested block that also homes The Smoking Dog and Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company, so I can’t say I’m too surprised. The new residents sound like they are playing it pretty safe, but we shall see.

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Tour de France

Fishman the Grape - Tour de France
a wine blog

By Daniel Fishman
Eat Vancouver writer
Tuesday, August 7, 2007

In honor of Team Discovery Channel and Alberto Contador’s victory in what was a very exciting, if somewhat controversy riddled Tour de France, I decided to host my own Tour de French Wine

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