Soho Road Naan Kebab – Vancouver, BC

Georgia St & Granville St.
Downtown Vancouver, BC

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Situated at W Georgia St & Granville St, Soho Naan is enthusiastically shoveling out Traditional UK Tandoori to some hungry, hungry hippos.

*** Note: For more info, please click HERE.

  I was greeted by a swirling line-up which was a good sign and shortly after, by delightful owner Sarb (this guy is always smiling, seriously. Google Soho Naan => images) who recommended the butter chicken for me. The great thing about their menu is half orders (Half – $6 – $7, Full – $10 – $12) are available as well as a vegetarian option. The cart is a bit plain looking, from one side there is no signage, but you’d never know they have a magical tandoor (clay oven) hidden away in there! Now I’ll admit, the wait was a bit long and I started counting pigeons at some point, but then again it was the middle of the lunch hour on a weekday afternoon, what can you do? Once I got my order, first thing I noticed was the hot and fresh naan. Can I get a “Hell Yeah!”? The chicken was tender, and the flavor of the sauce was good but the portion was a bit small for my liking. Healthy portion yes, but when I’m at a food cart, I want to be FULL, not “good full” as so many of us gals put it. Would I come back? Yes, service was great, location is awesome and the food has been praised by Canada Top Chef Dale Mackay and recently visited by James Cunningham and the Eat St. crew.

Please click HERE to see what’s around – Sorry, it’s just oh so close to the ‘The Kaboom Box’ food truck, we didn’t want to repeat ourselves.. *giggles*

The Kaboom Box – Vancouver, BC

Granville St & Robson St.
Downtown Vancouver, BC

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Honestly, who needs Nightmarket when we have these delicious food trucks sweeping the city? This week we decided to hit up a meals on wheels joint and stopped by Kaboom Box in all of its bright-and-red-as-a-fire-truck glory.

*** NOTE: Visit their website @ www.thekaboombox.com

Hot Smoked Salmon Burger

World Famous Hot Smoked Salmon Salmwich

Tasty, yes, but ‘world famous’? Ehhhhh. Smoked salmon with their maple-mustard coleslaw between a toasted whole wheat bun sounds like a winning combination, but the flavours left something to be desired. I do have to give them props for doing an awesome job on the smoked salmon (I wonder if they’ll sell those individually…), but I definitely think much of the flavour was overpowered by mayo. Someone may have gotten a little too sauce happy with the mayonnaise because all I could taste was mayonnaise and by the end of the sandwich, I felt like I had been eating mayonnaise all of my life.

It was a very good salmon sandwich, but that’s all it was; just a salmon sandwich.

I do want to go back to try their Oyster Po’Boy though, since I’ve watched enough Triple Ds to pretend to know what it is. Hopefully our second visit will be.

  You got me at Smoke salmon, really. Mmmm… These guys means business when it comes to serving only Oceanwise seafood and sustainable produced meat, and what’s even better is that they are committed to using local and organic vegetable whenever possible. Providing the streets of Vancouver with fresh, healthy, sustainable, and local food. Thumbs up in my books! Ohh, for those extra brownie points: biodegradable and compostable packaging.

The Re-Up BBQ
Another food cart in Vancouver serving up some delicious Southern BBQ with a side of attitude a couple blocks down at W Georgia St & Hornby St. These guys got BRISKET (yum), BACON (oh man), PULLED PORK (drool), and did I say BACON? You in the Fraser Valley and can’t make it out to the cart? Well you are in luck, Re-Up has just opened a brick-and-mortar location in beautiful New Westminster at Quayside Drive. There, they also have retail items and lots of other goodies.
www.reupbbq.com

Yew Restaurant + Bar, Four Seasons Hotel
This stunning environment, fashioned after Mother Nature herself delivers excellent seafood, cocktails and EVERY bottle of wine is available by the glass, which makes it a BBP Favourite! Stop by for Wine Down Sundays where every bottle is 50% off. See you
there!
www.yewrestaurant.com

Hy’s Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar
My personal favourite place for Prime Rib and Ribeye and the setting is just gorgeous. Leather, marble, wood, suede, embroidered napkins, romantic lighting, everything is perfect right down to the very last detail. The service is among the best in the city in my
opinion. Love it? Go check out their Whistler location as well. MUST: Get the cheese toast!
www.hyssteakhouse.com