Metro Vancouver Restaurant News thread

[Tetsuo]

Blaze Pizza coming in hot with four Metro Vancouver locations, including Tsawwassen Commons

U.S.-based Blaze Pizza has been planning a Canadian expansion for a couple of years, and now the chain has secured four Metro Vancouver locations to set up shop.

Blaze hit the pizza scene in Southern California about five years ago, and over the years their celebrity backers have made as many headlines as their food–most notably basketball star LeBron James, who got in the game in 2012.

The four locations planned for the Vancouver area include:

-Vancouver – 929 Granville Street

-West Vancouver – 701 Park Royal N

-South Surrey – 24th Avenue and 160th Street (Grandview Corners)

-Delta (Tsawwassen) – 5141 Canoe Pass Way (Tsawwassen Commons)

http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/blaze...-including-tsawwassen-commons-1.23155134

[officedweller]

CafeCrepe to open at 574 Granville directly across the street from Holt Renfrew
https://twitter.com/GranvilleStreet

[Vin]

That would make Cafe Crepe having 3 stores along a relatively short stretch of street downtown. We really need more variety here.

[officedweller]

I'm thinking that Bonnis owns that building too and couldn't find a tenant so decided to open another Café Crepe.

[LeftCoaster]

Well it took over a pretty active Cafe Artegiano so I don't know what the whole story is there.

[officedweller]

The Tim Hortons on Robson in L'Hermitage is no longer 24 hours.

[Conrad Yablonski]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The Tim Hortons on Robson in L'Hermitage is no longer 24 hours.

Ditto the one at Broadway & Fir St.

[logan5]

Cambie Village regressing. This pisses me off.

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2018/02/06/pronto-and-prontino-renovicted-from-cambie-village/

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by logan5

Cambie Village regressing. This pisses me off.

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2018/02/06/pronto-and-prontino-renovicted-from-cambie-village/

How long will they last on Denman before that thing gets torn down?

[djh]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

How long will they last on Denman before that thing gets torn down?

Wait, what? Are they moving from Cambie Street to Denman Street? The article doesn't mention moving to Denman, so where are you getting that info from?

Will be a real shame to see them gone. I walked by the location today, and talked to the staff at the clothing store next door, which is also being renovicted. There's a Development Application sign up now, which shows a 3-4 storey redevelopment going in there. So I'm guessing Pronto, Prontino, Romeo & Juliet, and probably Black Dog Video will all be demolished and replaced with the new building.

A sad loss for a healthly local neighbourhood, and by the sounds of the article, all of those retailers are going to replaced by a...Dental office?! That sounds like a terrible fit for the area. Surely that could go one floor above grade, and actual retailers could/should go in at ground level?

[theKB]

Originally Posted by logan5

Cambie Village regressing. This pisses me off.

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2018/02/06/pronto-and-prontino-renovicted-from-cambie-village/

I can assume they must of made ok money at the restaurant. Food was ok, service was ok. Not outstanding but not bad. Definitely an easy choice on a random weeknight! Any time a decent independent spot closes it's always a bad thing.

63000/yr in property tax on that spot, probably had sizeable overhead on that space all things considered.

Was it not the goal of the city after the canadaline finished to sort of market that area as "restaurant row"? Seems that this strategy is not turning out to well considering crazy high property valuations (resulting in overpriced NNN rents).

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by djh

Wait, what? Are they moving from Cambie Street to Denman Street? The article doesn't mention moving to Denman, so where are you getting that info from?

Will be a real shame to see them gone. I walked by the location today, and talked to the staff at the clothing store next door, which is also being renovicted. There's a Development Application sign up now, which shows a 3-4 storey redevelopment going in there. So I'm guessing Pronto, Prontino, Romeo & Juliet, and probably Black Dog Video will all be demolished and replaced with the new building.

A sad loss for a healthly local neighbourhood, and by the sounds of the article, all of those retailers are going to replaced by a...Dental office?! That sounds like a terrible fit for the area. Surely that could go one floor above grade, and actual retailers could/should go in at ground level?

Some article said they already have posession of Hub on Denman to make the same menu but in the West End.

A lot of those retailers probably can't afford new retail units even if they were available and not to mention all the competition... Cambie Village is minutes away from restaurants up and down Main/Broadway.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by djh

Wait, what? Are they moving from Cambie Street to Denman Street? The article doesn't mention moving to Denman, so where are you getting that info from?

Will be a real shame to see them gone. I walked by the location today, and talked to the staff at the clothing store next door, which is also being renovicted. There's a Development Application sign up now, which shows a 3-4 storey redevelopment going in there. So I'm guessing Pronto, Prontino, Romeo & Juliet, and probably Black Dog Video will all be demolished and replaced with the new building.

A sad loss for a healthly local neighbourhood, and by the sounds of the article, all of those retailers are going to replaced by a...Dental office?! That sounds like a terrible fit for the area. Surely that could go one floor above grade, and actual retailers could/should go in at ground level?

The Courier had an article about them opening on Denman (as Centro) around the same time as closing on Cambie.

The dentist's office is a permitted use in a retail area, and the developer is the dentist, so it's their choice to buy up the existing single storey retail, redevelop as a 4 storey building, and then occupy the main floor. The second floor will be worth much more as a residential unit than if it was used as a dentist's. There will only be residential 5 units (one with a lock-off suite), it doesn't include any of the adjacent retail uses. Check the development permit for details.

[theKB]

Originally Posted by Changing City

The Courier had an article about them opening on Denman (as Centro) around the same time as closing on Cambie.

The dentist's office is a permitted use in a retail area, and the developer is the dentist, so it's their choice to buy up the existing single storey retail, redevelop as a 4 storey building, and then occupy the main floor. The second floor will be worth much more as a residential unit than if it was used as a dentist's. There will only be residential 5 units (one with a lock-off suite), it doesn't include any of the adjacent retail uses. Check the development permit for details.

assumption that this will happen to all of property between 19th and 16th.

Development looks decent but i can't expect many restaurants would swallow the rent of the new location.

Must be a matter of time before Pattison shutters the choices there.

[s211]

Originally Posted by djh

Wait, what? Are they moving from Cambie Street to Denman Street? The article doesn't mention moving to Denman, so where are you getting that info from?

Will be a real shame to see them gone. I walked by the location today, and talked to the staff at the clothing store next door, which is also being renovicted. There's a Development Application sign up now, which shows a 3-4 storey redevelopment going in there. So I'm guessing Pronto, Prontino, Romeo & Juliet, and probably Black Dog Video will all be demolished and replaced with the new building.

A sad loss for a healthly local neighbourhood, and by the sounds of the article, all of those retailers are going to replaced by a...Dental office?! That sounds like a terrible fit for the area. Surely that could go one floor above grade, and actual retailers could/should go in at ground level?

Redevelopment of a site now constitutes renoviction?

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Changing City

The Courier had an article about them opening on Denman (as Centro) around the same time as closing on Cambie.

The dentist's office is a permitted use in a retail area, and the developer is the dentist, so it's their choice to buy up the existing single storey retail, redevelop as a 4 storey building, and then occupy the main floor. The second floor will be worth much more as a residential unit than if it was used as a dentist's. There will only be residential 5 units (one with a lock-off suite), it doesn't include any of the adjacent retail uses. Check the development permit for details.

Nothing livens up a streetscape like a dental office.

Greed is killing this city. Cambie Village used to have a lot of active residents, but now it's becoming $2+ million homes for the offshore crowd.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by logan5

Cambie Village regressing. This pisses me off.

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2018/02/06/pronto-and-prontino-renovicted-from-cambie-village/

Yuck. Another dentist office, another demolished art deco/art moderne retail building. Another lost neighbourhood restaurant.

The replacement building looks as bland as expected.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by theKB

assumption that this will happen to all of property between 19th and 16th.

Development looks decent but i can't expect many restaurants would swallow the rent of the new location.

Must be a matter of time before Pattison shutters the choices there.

The only interesting section of all of Cambie St outside of Gastown. Hurray!

[oy1234]

Expect more and more of this to come. Operating independent (and even chain) restaurants is hard enough, but with soaring property taxes and other rising costs the window for success is getting significantly smaller.

[s211]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Nothing livens up a streetscape like a dental office.

Greed is killing this city. Cambie Village used to have a lot of active residents, but now it's becoming $2+ million homes for the offshore crowd.

And for the off-shore redevelopment crowd. Case in point: the majority of the new-name "developers" building product along the Cambie Corridor.