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Summer BBQ Series: Butter chicken sausage
Granville Island was the destination of my photo walk. I walked past a sausage vendor while taking photos inside the market. Then I remember watching a food show by Discovery interviewing Vij’s. Vij’s is a husband and wife restaurant owned by Vikram and Meeru. I vividly remember Vikram introduced a butter chicken sausage made by Oyama Sausage.
Oyama Sausage Company is a small family run business providing sausages and cheese. The staff is friendly and welcoming. You can pretty much sample anything cooked. My favorite is the prosciutto. Prosciutto can get pretty pricey at Oyama. You might be able to finder it cheaper from an Italian store on Commerial Dr. Most items are fractionally more expensive than the supermarkets.
Greek Summer Fest 2009’s menu and food
We dropped by the Greek Summer Fest on a Sunday evening at 7pm. It was pretty busy because it was dinner time. The food taste very homey Greek cooking and the food stand are not individually owned. The food stand is divided into stations depending on what food you ordered.
L’Altro Buca in Downtown Vancouver
Since hearing about L’Altro Buca replacing Parkside, I wanted to go check them out. Their sister restaurant, La Buca, has always been one of my favourite places to go. They have great food, at a very reasonable price (for fine dining, or course).
L’Altro Buca has a unique location, being just outside of the main downtown streets. You probably won’t just stumble accross the place, unless you live in the area. I guess L’Altro Buca doesn’t exactly need a prime location though, because you would have had to make a reso anyways, it’s not quite the type of place that you stumble into after a day on the beach.
On the day of our reso, Jeremy told me that L’Altro Buca, since they just opened, would be using the exact same menu as La Buca for a while, then eventually changing it up so that they do their own stuff.
When we arrived, we noticed that the interior of the restaurant hadn’t changed at all from the Parkside days; it’s fairly dark, but provides a nice, possibly romantic, atmosphere, perfect for fine dining. The staff was friendly, and we were seated promptly at our reso time. Upon sitting down and taking a look at the menu, we weren’t too surprised to see that it was the exactly same as La Buca. And when I say exactly, I mean, literally, they are the exact same menus. The title at the top even said ‘La Buca’ instead of ‘L’Altro Buca’.
***A note about the pictures from Jeremy: I’m sorry!!! They are awful pictures! I didn’t want to use my flash, since it’s a little distracting in a fine dining restaurant. I also didn’t want to embrass Vanessa too much in the name of having good blogging pictures.
June 19, 2009 | Vanessa | Comments 3
