Dae Bak Bon Ga

Jerusalem Shawarma opened its downtown Vancouver location on Robson Street as the BC outpost of an established Alberta chain, and the reception has been notable: close to seven thousand reviews at a near-perfect aggregate rating suggests…

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…

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.

Let's clear up the obvious first: Mr.

On Robson Street, where foot traffic rarely slows to a walk, Bahar makes the case for stopping.