The city rooms that hold up especially well once the table gets larger.
Fast answers for diners searching for group dinner restaurants in Vancouver. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
Climb to the second-floor cantina above Denman Street and you land in a room that knows exactly what it is: an open kitchen on one side, a colorful mural of cactus against a pink-maroon sky on another, sombreros pinned up like the place…
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There's a small ceremony to eating here that most Vancouver hot pot rooms skip: the cloisonné copper pots, the charcoal glowing underneath, the sense that dinner is an event rather than a transaction.
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Chinatown keeps revealing itself in small rooms with real conviction, and Los Sapos Tacos on Keefer Street is exactly that kind of place.
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Puerto Mexico is one of those rare places where the premise does all the work: walk into what looks like a Mexican grocery on West 4th, navigate past the hot sauces, tortillas, frozen tamales, and candy displays, and you'll find a counte…
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Haidilao is the hot pot chain that treats a Tuesday dinner like an occasion, and the Richmond outpost on No.
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Haidilao on West Broadway is a group-dining machine, and I mean that with affection — this is where a twelve-top actually works, and the round tables and private booths were built for exactly that kind of chaos.
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Let's settle the geography first: it's marketed as Brentwood "Vancouver," but you're heading to the 2nd floor of The Amazing Brentwood in Burnaby — and it's worth the SkyTrain.
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Skewers Souvlaki Pita Bar operates on a philosophy Vancouver's Greek restaurant scene has largely forgotten: that souvlaki is street food, not a sit-down occasion, and that keeping things honest and fast doesn't mean sacrificing flavour.
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Jess' Sky is doing something quietly radical in Vancouver's dining scene: running a genuinely global kitchen at price point one, which means the ambition-to-dollar ratio is almost offensive in the best way.
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Shanghai Lao Wei Dao is a sensible chinese call in Richmond in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Birdies took over the old Earl's on Lougheed Hwy, and the lineage shows — this is a Cactus Club/Joey/Earl's family project, with a menu designed by Chef David Wong and a California-by-way-of-Burnaby attitude.
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Blue Water Cafe is the restaurant Vancouver's culinary reputation leans on when the city wants to show off its relationship with the Pacific, and from everything on record, the room holds up its end of the bargain.
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Liuyishou Hotpot Burnaby is an easy hot pot option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Liuyishou Hotpot Richmond is a hot pot restaurant in Richmond in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Trattoria by Italian Kitchen has outlasted its own network.
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First things first: don't go looking for Santo Taco in Coal Harbour.
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Kozak Ukrainian Restaurant suits a night out in Gastown when you want ukrainian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Tenen Restaurant is a sensible global call in Burnaby in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Tucked onto the second floor of Aberdeen Centre, Osmanthus makes a case for Jiangnan cuisine as a dress-up affair — Shanghai cooking with a fusion gloss, served in a room that earned a spot on the Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 Elite 30…
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Sooda Korean BBQ is an easy korean option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Big Way Hot Pot in Vancouver's West End has built a reputation as the Downtown room that takes broth seriously — not the kind of place that leans on novelty over depth, but a kitchen that has put together a lineup reflecting how genuinel…
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Mnimes is doing something quietly radical on the Vancouver Greek dining scene: treating the cuisine as a living thing rather than a relic, and doing it at a price point that should make its neighbours blush.
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Nonna's Cucina Coquitlam is a sensible italian call in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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RAY'S opened in Yaletown in April 2026 with an unusually clear sense of what it wants to be — and the 270-seat room backs that up before the menu even arrives.
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La Querida is a women-owned Mexican counter inside Burnaby's Crystal Mall food court — which sounds like a setup for lowered expectations, until you start reading what people who eat here regularly have to say about it.
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Mount Pleasant has always attracted kitchens that take a point of view, and Jeju fits the neighbourhood's disposition exactly.
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JEON is an easy korean option in West End in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Coast is a dependable seafood option in Richmond that a lot of diners already know and return to.
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Dae Bak Bon Ga keeps showing up in the right conversations in Downtown when people want a reliable korean plan.
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What Chef Ana Cecilia Dander and Claudia Romo understood when they opened this 45-seat Granville Street room in 2011 is the thing most Mexican restaurants in Vancouver still miss: the city didn't need another Tex-Mex approximation.
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Happy Lamb Hot Pot is doing something specific and unapologetic in Vancouver's increasingly crowded hot pot landscape: this is a Mongolian-style house built around the lamb, and the menu makes no apologies for it.
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Richmond Shoo Loong Kan Hotpot is a sensible hot pot call in Richmond in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Kook Korean BBQ Restaurant is a korean restaurant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The Greek Gastown isn't performing Santorini for you — no Aegean murals, no forced Mediterranean romance, no design budget spent on whitewashed nostalgia.
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Alchemy Bar and Kitchen on Hamilton Street is Yaletown's answer to a specific craving: Italian-inflected contemporary cooking delivered inside a room that takes the bar side of its name seriously.
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Seoul Bowl is an easy korean option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation. Mayak Eggs and Mandu Dumplings (Pork) also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Local Public Eatery in Gastown has built a reputation for something Gastown's more concept-heavy openings often fumble: a room that holds together whether you're booking a twelve-top of coworkers or settling in for a two-person weeknight…
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Katsuya - Coquitlam is an easy asian option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation. Supreme Karaage Thigh and Cheese Balls also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Chancho Tortilleria is not trying to be a full-service Mexican restaurant, and that restraint is precisely what the Drive has been missing.
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L'Abattoir occupies a restored heritage building on the edge of Gastown — reportedly the site of Vancouver's first jail — and the room has been one of the city's most referenced French-leaning dining spaces since it opened.
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Tap & Barrel Brentwood has built a reputation in Burnaby's dining scene not by chasing precision or minimalism, but by leaning hard into the logic of abundance — specifically, seafood-forward abundance at a price point that genuinely acc…
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Momo Factory is a sensible chinese call in West End in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Maria's Taverna has been holding down a Kitsilano block long enough to watch several trendy tenants come and go, and the reason it stays is not complicated: it does unapologetic, abundant Greek food at a price point that feels increasing…
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Andonis sits at 1193 Granville St in a space that has lived multiple lives — Cold Tea Lounge before it, Tsui Hang Village before that — and the current incarnation is the most deliberately theatrical of the three.
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Zoomak Korean Tavern arrived in Gastown in the fall of 2020 with a clear, unhurried argument: that Korean drinking-food culture — the anju tradition of dishes built to accompany soju and makgeolli — deserves a proper home in Vancouver, n…
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Four Olives restaurant- best Greek restaurant is a greek restaurant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Apollonia Greek Restaurant is an easy greek option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Nostos Taverna is a greek restaurant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Nom Nom is a korean restaurant in Downtown in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The Corner Hotpot is an easy hot pot option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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La Casita - Gastown is a sensible mexican call in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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The Coquitlam Grill is doing something that Vancouver's relentlessly trend-chasing dining scene rarely rewards: holding the line on a clear, unpretentious identity.
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Sura Korean Royal Cuisine occupies a deliberate corner of Downtown Vancouver's dining landscape, one that resists the fusion shortcuts and trend-chasing that define much of the neighbourhood.
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Provence Marinaside has held its position on the Yaletown seawall long enough to become something of a neighbourhood fixture — a French-Mediterranean room that faces False Creek directly and makes no apology for leaning on that view.
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Brix and Mortar is a contemporary pick in Yaletown in Vancouver when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Pourhouse Restaurant suits a night out in Gastown when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Hydra Estiatorio makes a clear argument that Greek coastal cooking belongs in the same conversation as Vancouver's best seafood rooms — not below it.
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So Hyang Korean Cuisine is an easy korean option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Hart House in Burnaby is doing something most Vancouver-area restaurants are too cautious to attempt: running a genuinely global menu inside a heritage property with real architectural weight, at a price level that doesn't demand a speci…
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Coal Harbour is not a neighbourhood that typically rewards wandering in hungry — it's glass towers, marina views, and restaurants engineered for expense accounts.
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Miso Taco on Cambie is doing something most fusion concepts only gesture at.
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Tequila Cocina | Mexican Restaurant, Cantina & Brunch. is a sensible mexican call in Downtown in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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mumu kitchen is a korean restaurant in West End in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Horin Ramen Metrotown is a japanese restaurant in Burnaby in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Kam Wai Dim Sum 金威點心 is an easy chinese option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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JINMI is a korean restaurant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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El Comal Downtown takes its name from the ancient griddle that sits at the center of Mexican cooking tradition, and by most accounts that philosophy shapes everything on offer here.
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Western Lake Chinese Seafood Restaurant is an easy chinese option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The Vancouver Fish Company is a sensible seafood call in Richmond in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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The Flying Pig Yaletown has built a reputation on exactly the kind of contemporary Canadian cooking that doesn't require a glossary to navigate.
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Patron Tacos & Cantina is doing something genuinely uncommon in Downtown Vancouver: a Mexican room priced accessibly enough that the whole table orders without the mental gymnastics, and yet the kitchen is clearly cooking with regional i…
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Jang Mo Jib Korean Restaurant is an easy korean option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐 is a sensible chinese call in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Lucha Libre Barra & Mexican Restaurant is a mexican restaurant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Six Acres is the kind of contemporary room in Gastown you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Damso Modern Korean Restaurant is a korean restaurant in Downtown in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Metrotown Food Court is a global restaurant in Burnaby in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The Parlour is a italian pick in Yaletown in Vancouver when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Dynasty Seafood Restaurant operates the way the best Cantonese rooms in Vancouver tend to — without a rebrand or a fusion pivot to explain itself, simply relying on a kitchen that reportedly understands the architecture of proper dim sum…
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Pink Pearl is a chinese restaurant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Jade Dynasty on East Pender has been part of Chinatown's dining landscape long enough that regulars reportedly don't bother with the menu — they pull up a chair and let the carts do the talking.
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WestOak occupies a particular lane in Yaletown that most contemporary rooms fumble — genuinely grown-up without tipping into stiff formality.
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On & Off Kitchen + Bar is an easy global option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The Wild Fig Restaurant + Bar is a sensible global call in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Marble House Eatery is a sensible chinese call in Burnaby in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Mott 32 Vancouver is an easy chinese option in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Sun Sui Wah Seafood Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Mount Pleasant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Continental Seafood Restaurant is an easy chinese option in Richmond in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Kirin Seafood in Richmond operates in one of the most demanding dim sum corridors in North America, where multigenerational Cantonese families set the standard and casual experimentation gets weeded out fast.
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Shanghai River Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in Richmond in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Yue Restaurant is an easy chinese option in Richmond in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Gigi’s is a sensible italian call in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Best Dim Sum Company is a sensible chinese call in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Empire Seafood Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in Richmond in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Richmond's dim sum scene is one of the most competitive dining ecosystems in North America — locals say so with pride, and visitors learn the hard way when underprepared.
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Banter Room has been a Yaletown fixture, and its longevity makes a clear argument: the room was built around conversation first, food second, and it has found a reliable audience for exactly that proposition.
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Time & Place Kitchen | Bar is a sensible global call in Burnaby in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Richmond in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Jade Seafood Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Richmond in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Fortune Terrace Chinese Cuisine is a chinese restaurant in Richmond in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Lanxuan Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Richmond in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Kam Tou Seafood Restaurant is an easy chinese option in Richmond in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Sea Fortune Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in Richmond in Vancouver when you want something that usually lands well.
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The Deluxe Chinese Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Richmond in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The top restaurants for group dinner in Vancouver include Taqueria Jalisco Mexican Restaurant, Beijing Hot Pot Restaurant, Los Sapos Tacos. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Taqueria Jalisco Mexican Restaurant is among the top-rated options for group dinner in Vancouver, with a 9.8 Google rating and 3,822 reviews.
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