Target 2.1: Vong Gac - Now Closed
Address: 663 East 15th Ave. (map)
Phone: 604-872-6650
Menu: Page 1; Page 2; Page 3; Page 4
Price: $5.25 small; $5.75 large
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Fishtank Photo

Visit date: January 24th, 2008
Visit time: 7:20 PM

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Chilo’s Taqueria is closed

Chilo’s Yaletown
Address: 1351 Richards, Yaletown (map)

Hours:
Current posted hours
Menu

Chilo’s 2.0

By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver editor

Following a lead from egullet, the Fishman and I decided to try out Chilo’s new location in Yaletown. We were both a bit skeptical because Chilo seemed like an unlikely guy to expand his operation to swanky Yaletown. Part of the charm of the original Chilo’s, we thought, was that it was out of the beaten path, and a bit of a hole in the wall operation. That’s not to say that weren’t excited about idea of great tacos at a more central location.

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Triggiano’s Caffe

Now Closed

Address: 402 Davie Street (map)

Quickbite: Triggiano’s Cafe

By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver editor

I just thought I’d share a great little tip I’ve been sitting on for a while now. Triggiano’s Caffe in Yaletown happens to serve an excellent cup of tea. Specifically, it’s heck of a lot of quality tea steeped in a conical filter totaling up to a mere $1.54 including tax. In fact, you’ll often find your own Eat Vancouver editor sitting in front of one of these cups, laptop in the proximity, making history with another brilliant post. All joking aside, I love the deep flavor of the green tea here, especially if it has been steeping for a good while - bonus points for the huge antioxidant and caffeine boosts it provides.

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Target 11: Pho 66 is now closed
Address: 3663 East Hastings St (map)
Phone: 604-229-3860
Menu: Page 1; Page 2; Page 3
Price: $6.95 – 7.75 large
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Visit date: February 25th, 2007
Visit time: 5:25 PM

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Diner [Now Closed, see Lucky Diner]
Address: 1269 Hamilton St
Tel: 604-444-4855

Diner Stands Alone

By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Editor
Friday, September 8th, 2006

** (of four stars)

Diner probably does not serve the best food in town, nor does it necessarily have the best atmosphere, but I would wager that it is one of the most important restaurants in Vancouver.

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Chianti’s (now closed)
Address: 1850 West 4th Avenue
Phone: 604-738-8411
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Quickbite: Chianti’s

By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver editor

Seeing as Chianti’s is only a short jaunt from my apartment, it is somewhat surprising that it took me this long to give it a try. Add in the fact that I’m a huge pasta nut - I was in New York a few weeks ago where I enjoyed some superb pasta in that city’s little Italy - and you’d think I’d be all over this restaurant. Well, it turns out that I should have postponed this visit indefinitely, because if my first and only visit is indicative of the food and service at this place, Chianti’s sucks.

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Hu Nan Chinese Restaurant (Xiang cai wang) [Now Closed]
Address: 8166 Main Street (just off Marine Drive, on the banks of the North Arm of the Fraser River)
Tel: 604-323-8093

Hours:
Mon-Sun 11:30am-10:30pm

South of the Lake, North of the River

By Desmond Cheung
Eat Vancouver Columnist
Friday, January 6th, 2006

** (of four stars)

Enter Hu Nan Chinese Restaurant and you’ll feel as if you’ve walked through a hole-in-the-wall into someone’s house or into a typical restaurant in China. Or both. Despite the bright red-and-yellow awning of the exterior, the inside is shabbily familiar. Some ten tables, conveniently multi-layered with disposable table covers, fill the near-square dining area. Japanese fortune-beckoning cats mix with woven strings of chilli peppers, adding colour to the room. Several non-descript flower pots mask the sterility of the closed blinds, and traditional Chinese painting reprints (the kind you find marking the year on a freebie wall calendar) cover part of the faded-paint wall panels disturbed by heavyweight, tired-looking air conditioners. But through the pig-patterned door drape you might glimpse the chef (and head of this family-style operation) at work in the kitchen. It’s not the décor that most concerns us after all.

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