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Another restaurant that we checked out for Dine Out Vancouver was the Watermark at Kits beach.
The food was exceptionally good and the service pleasant even though they messed up on our order twice. However, they were very apologetic and graciously comp'ed our wine. I started with the West Coast chowder and my dining partner has the Minted Smashed Chick peas. The chowder was great.. not too heavy and a great way to start the meal. For my main, I ordered the Pacific Northwest Bouillabaisse and they were very accommodating to my food allergy and replaced the shrimp. My partner had the salmon on lobster risotto.. nicely cooked.. and the risotto was cooked perfectly.
The desserts were ok, nothing spectacular but very good. The best thing about the restaurant is definitely the view of Kits beach, the main seafood dishes and the great service. We'll definitely have to go back again.
One of the few notable restaurants we've visited lately...
Anyways, enough of the commentary... back to the food. SALT is an interesting small plates restaurant that focuses on cheese, wine and chatucherie goods. We were here for Dine Out Vancouver so had a great tasting menu of a 3 course meal for $25. We had the Roast Tomato & Smoked Paprika Soup, the Artisan Cheese plate and I had the Dark Chocolate Mousse w/ Caramel & Raspberry Jam for dessert while my partner had the Trifle with Seasonal Fruit & Sherry-Soaked Sponge Cake. YUM. The cheese we had were a P.E.I Avonlea Cheddar with a side of Cornichons, a UK Stichelton Blue with a balsamic reduction, and a Quebec Chevre (goat cheese) with olives. My favourite, and I was surprised that it was a favourite, was the blue cheese... since I've always found blue cheese to be very overpowering. But this blue cheese was delicious. We paired our meal with a flight of BC wines.. a Quail's gate Chemin Blanc to start with the soup.. a Cedar Creek Pinot Noir with the cheese, and a Quail's gate Late Harvest optima with our dessert. My tastebuds were quite deliriously happy by the end of the night :)
More exciting restaurants later..
