The Bon Vivant Blog

Mid-week dinner on Denman, looking for some place new, without a wait, and with good food – we found Zakkushi, which fit all three perfectly.
Normally, you’d have to wait at any of the Izakaya restaurants in the Denman/Robson area as Guu with Garlic, Gyoza King, [...]

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Sunday night dinner with the in-laws. The FIL has a penchant for Japanese food (as do I) and so we wanted to try out Hapa and see what they had to offer. Vancouver has quite a few good Izakaya places – we’ve tried Gyoza King, [...]

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Huge fans of Guu with Garlic (I’ll abbreviate it GwG to save me some typing) – been there 3 times (at least). Great, super-fun, raucous atmosphere at GwG – one of the best places in the city that I’ve been to for after-work relaxing with beer and [...]

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We owed it to this place to come back together. I had been back once since our last trip – and through the Asahi-induced haze of that evening, I remember the next morning thinking that I liked this place and its racous, noisy, [...]

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Small, busy, noisy with a definite vibe. Felt is was more a place for snacks and drinks (alcoholic) with friends rather than our party of 5 with 2 babies. They yell all your orders to the kitchen which is literally steps away – [...]

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Saturday night dinner with mom and dad. We hit this place up earlier in the week with some people our own age and it was such a hit that we had to come back.
You’d find this place just as easily in Tokyo as you’d find it in [...]

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