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p2b Bistro & Bar

Posted in Bistro, Group Lunch, Joyce, Lunch, Meat, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Steak, Vancouver, tagged bocconcini, business lunch, express lunch, grilled steak, p2b Bistro, purse hook, Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside on October 19, 2012| 1 Comment »

For a team lunch, KB, AM, MP (yes a new member!) and I headed over to the p2b Bistro at Renaissance to grab a bite. It was one of my suggestions for lunch because I remembered the nice environment when we attended the Blue Ribbon Classics Menu launch last year, and the food was decent for a hotel restaurant.

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Turns out at lunch p2b offers a “In 30 under $20” menu, targeting business professionals with very little time to eat. It’s a two-course prix-fixe lunch menu (including coffee or tea) for $19, with a promise that you will be out the door within 30 minutes. Although we weren’t really in a hurry to finish lunch in 30 minutes, $19 is too good of a deal to resist. And yes, in the end, we all ordered from this menu.

Each table receives some Cheese Herb Bread. It looks really good, nice and puffy. We were wondering if it’s baked or fried, and as soon as we bit into it (or tried to rip it apart), we immediately knew that it’s fried. You can never go wrong with fried dough, but it did get a bit heavy after a few bites. The tomato chutney was a bit tart and helped cut through the grease in the fried bread.

Cheese Herb Bread

For appetizers, I chose the Tender Baby Spinach Salad. It’s a standard affair with spinach, tomatoes and bocconcini cheese. The cheese is really soft, lacking the spongy texture that I usually taste in bocconcini, so I was slightly taken aback. (more…)

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Grub

Posted in Cheese, Dinner, Italian, Joyce, Restaurants, Vancouver, tagged beef tenderloin, bocconcini, duck breast, Grub, Main Street, Sous vide on April 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Double date with WK and MS again. This time we ventured out to the Main Street area to eat at Grub. While driving along Main, I noticed the increasing number of restaurants in the area – or I just never paid attention until now – note to self that I should go eat there more often.

The menu at Grab is relatively small. The appy, salad, pizza and dessert sections are always on the regular menu, whereas the entrees are featured daily, with the fresh sheet written on a chalk board. This way it allows flexibility in what to offer depends on seasonality and availability of certain ingredients.

Daily Fresh Sheet on the Wall

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To start WK ordered a bottle of Red Stripe. I just had to take a picture because the bottle is really cute.

Red Stripe

We only ordered entrees here, and it so happens that both couples ordered the same combo of dishes: Beef & Duck. Mr. ordered the AAA Beef Tenderloin. (more…)