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Originally Posted by RYANBLAN
There's some great restaurants but a lot of the mid-range restaurants are Sysco re-heated garbage.
Wine is a complete ripoff in restaurants. Expect a 150% markup on liquor store prices which are already marked up about 100%.
This, Vancouver has some solid upper end restaurants, but on my budget im not eating at Tojo's, Bishop's or Cardero's every night (some of the very solid upper end places), additionally im from NYC, so food anywhere else is already at a disadvantage in my eyes, but Vancouver food is especially bad for a city.
Ryan is right about middle range food, speaking from experience in the industry most of those middle-budget restraunts/pubs are just sysco crap and all the Gyro/Shwarma/Mediterranean food is crappy compared to any other big city in North America...but for some reason Vancouverites think they're good.
Lastly there are NO good low end food joints anywhere farther West than Cambie.
EDIT: Although working in the industry its hard to complain about liquor markups, thats the only profit margin most restaurants have in this city and liquor laws are such that a huge markup is necessary.