Empire Garden Chinese Restaurant
#100 20378 88th Avenue
Langley, B.C.
604-882-1111
www.empiregarden.ca
Author: AFB Society
Rating: 6.9/10
One late summer evening, my colleague and I were wandering the streets of Walnut Grove searching for some good eats. We decided to try our luck at Empire Garden. We had heard good things about this Chinese Restaurant that serves classic dim sum every day. There was no abligurition to be had this night as we immeidately noticed the food was very moderately priced. We ordered 4 Egg Rolls, Breaded Almond Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein, Sweet and Sour Pork, Special Chop Suey and Barbeque pork fried rice, all for $40.95 (there were 3 of us...we aren't that chub); we also ordered the duck lettuce wrap which turned out to be an excellent decision. In fact, the duck lettuce wraps were the tastiest, most succulent dish we ate that night. Everyone around us ordered it as well. The rest of the meal was also quite pleasant, accented by the egg rolls and the sweet and sour pork.
The service was timely and the atmosphere was inviting. The servers were friendly and obviously knew a thing or two about aristology.
We do recommend this well established, authentic dim sum restaurant and we hope that you will enjoy it as much as we did.
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Friday 28 September 2012
Saturday 1 September 2012
Dunn's famous Diner
Dunn's Famous
827 Seymour Street, Vancouver
604-682-8938
Author: AFB Society
Rating: 7/10
Dunn's famous Diner is an iconic Montreal Smoked meat restaurant in the heart of Vancouver; however, its name is somewhat of a misnomer. I was on Granville street with a friend looking for a quick bite to eat so I pulled out my iPhone and quickly found Dunn's on Urbanspoon. It had good reviews so we made our way over and upon arrival discovered a completely desolate, barren, empty diner. Slightly nervous about the lack of customers at 6:30pm on a busy Friday night in Vancity, we decided to risk it anyway. Our server was extremely eager to serve us(she almost seemed shocked at having customers) but she was kind and very helpful in choosing a Menu item. She recommended the Reuben and gave me the choice of lean, medium or fatty cut. The service was impigrous to say the least and the sandwich I received was ludicrously large. As soon as I took a bite I knew I had made a good choice (with a little help from my server). Even better than the sandwich were the French fries. One of the restaurants specialties is poutine and the fries served with my sandwich convinced me it would be a top notch poutine. My friend ordered the burger and complimented the barbecue sauce and although he was not overly impressed, had only good things to say.
Although serving decent quality food, the restaurant was a little on the expensive side ($20 for my Reuben and a cherry soda) but with top notch sandwiches being served, it's a wonder Dunn's famous isn't as famous as the name suggests.
827 Seymour Street, Vancouver
604-682-8938
Author: AFB Society
Rating: 7/10
Dunn's famous Diner is an iconic Montreal Smoked meat restaurant in the heart of Vancouver; however, its name is somewhat of a misnomer. I was on Granville street with a friend looking for a quick bite to eat so I pulled out my iPhone and quickly found Dunn's on Urbanspoon. It had good reviews so we made our way over and upon arrival discovered a completely desolate, barren, empty diner. Slightly nervous about the lack of customers at 6:30pm on a busy Friday night in Vancity, we decided to risk it anyway. Our server was extremely eager to serve us(she almost seemed shocked at having customers) but she was kind and very helpful in choosing a Menu item. She recommended the Reuben and gave me the choice of lean, medium or fatty cut. The service was impigrous to say the least and the sandwich I received was ludicrously large. As soon as I took a bite I knew I had made a good choice (with a little help from my server). Even better than the sandwich were the French fries. One of the restaurants specialties is poutine and the fries served with my sandwich convinced me it would be a top notch poutine. My friend ordered the burger and complimented the barbecue sauce and although he was not overly impressed, had only good things to say.
Although serving decent quality food, the restaurant was a little on the expensive side ($20 for my Reuben and a cherry soda) but with top notch sandwiches being served, it's a wonder Dunn's famous isn't as famous as the name suggests.
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