Metro Vancouver Restaurant News thread - Page 148

NewfBC · #**2941** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 4:23 AM**

Jollibee on Granville actually looks like they've done something with it now... though still opening 'soon'.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/joll...reet-vancouver

Ron.

PeterAKer · #**2942** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 8:34 AM**

Granville Street needs to be cleaned up and SRO's don't help the area. I'm worried that Jollibee will be a frequent target of glass smashing, homeless and sleepers in the restaurant.

Granville Street needs to just be Hotels (Boutique), Restaurants (Fast and Fine Dine), Concert Halls, Arcade Rooms, Bars and Nightclubs. No Residential Buildings along Robson to Drake Street.

GeeCee · #**2943** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 9:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by PeterAKer

Granville Street needs to be cleaned up and SRO's don't help the area. I'm worried that Jollibee will be a frequent target of glass smashing, homeless and sleepers in the restaurant.

Granville Street needs to just be Hotels (Boutique), Restaurants (Fast and Fine Dine), Concert Halls, Arcade Rooms, Bars and Nightclubs. No Residential Buildings along Robson to Drake Street.

Outside of pandemic conditions, Granville Street is a disaster every weekend, and would continue to be a disaster even if there were no SROs or any homeless people for miles around.

dreambrother808 · #**2944** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 3:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by PeterAKer

Granville Street needs to be cleaned up and SRO's don't help the area. I'm worried that Jollibee will be a frequent target of glass smashing, homeless and sleepers in the restaurant.

Granville Street needs to just be Hotels (Boutique), Restaurants (Fast and Fine Dine), Concert Halls, Arcade Rooms, Bars and Nightclubs. No Residential Buildings along Robson to Drake Street.

Worried? Haha.

It will have many struggles guaranteed. Just look at the McDs there.

There’s nothing to smash and grab though. Smashing the glass will be from a drunken bar fight most likely.

dreambrother808 · #**2945** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 3:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeeCee

Outside of pandemic conditions, Granville Street is a disaster every weekend, and would continue to be a disaster even if there were no SROs or any homeless people for miles around.

Yeah you’d have to eliminate the bars and the SROs.

ecbin · #**2946** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 3:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by NewfBC

Jollibee on Granville actually looks like they've done something with it now... though still opening 'soon'.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/joll...reet-vancouver

Ron.

FFS, they better open up soon. I'm tired of their ads on Doordash which keep teasing me that they're available.

SpongeG · #**2947** Posted **Feb 11, 2022, 1:25 AM**

Granville street is lame compared to many cities, just look at a typical Saturday night in London's SOHO.

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dreambrother808 · #**2948** Posted **Feb 13, 2022, 11:03 PM**

A sign that things might be returning back to normal: I have heard from a reliable source that Starbucks will be opening a new location downtown.

Changing City · #**2949** Posted **Feb 18, 2022, 3:15 AM**

Apparently the Cactus Club on Robson will close at the end of March.

Denscity · #**2950** Posted **Feb 18, 2022, 3:19 AM**

The old dollar store at the downtown library has been leased sounds like.

officedweller · #**2951** Posted **Feb 18, 2022, 4:18 AM**

Yeah, there's a "leased" sign in the window, but no sign as to who/what is moving in.
I think the former Salad Loop next to the barber shop is also empty.

hollywoodnorth · #**2952** Posted **Feb 18, 2022, 5:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Yeah, there's a "leased" sign in the window, but no sign as to who/what is moving in.
I think the former Salad Loop next to the barber shop is also empty.

would be a Prime site for a Dave's Chicken or Popeye's Chicken

*kneels down and prays*

SpongeG · #**2953** Posted **Feb 18, 2022, 8:11 AM**

Burnaby is getting 2 bb.q chickens! One on hastings in north Burnaby and one in Metrotown area on Beresford. (BBQ = better best quality not Barbeque)

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whatnext · #**2954** Posted **Feb 21, 2022, 1:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Granville street is lame compared to many cities, just look at a typical Saturday night in London's SOHO.

No thanks. I’m a super predictable scenario Granville Street turned back into a cesspool with bars reopening.

Vancouver police report downtown conflicts after capacity limits at bars, clubs lift
THE CANADIAN PRESS
PUBLISHED YESTERDAY

Police in Vancouver say they are investigating a stabbing in the city’s entertainment district.

The police department says in a news release that additional officers were deployed to the downtown core after capacity limits were lifted at bars and restaurants as part of a relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions across B.C…

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...ity-limits-at/

SpongeG · #**2955** Posted **Feb 21, 2022, 5:21 AM**

yes but all city's bar strips are the same, fights, drunken idiots etc. Vancouver is really no different from the rest of the world in that regard.
Maybe the convoyers are right and Canada is becoming a police state.

officedweller · #**2956** Posted **Feb 21, 2022, 5:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Burnaby is getting 2 bb.q chickens! One on hastings in north Burnaby and one in Metrotown area on Beresford. (BBQ = better best quality not Barbeque)

That's confusing.

Klazu · #**2957** Posted **Feb 22, 2022, 3:33 AM**

Great to see Beresford livening up with more food establishments.

FarmerHaight · #**2958** Posted **Feb 22, 2022, 4:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Great to see Beresford livening up with more food establishments.

You love to see it.

There is another restaurant being constructed at 4386 Beresford, but there are no signs as to what type of restaurant it will be.

whatnext · #**2959** Posted **Feb 23, 2022, 7:51 PM**

Looks like Wendy's is getting back into the breakfast business after decades away. Interesting choice given what I assume are challenges in getting workers:

Wendy's takes on Tim Hortons at breakfast
Burger chain to launch coffee and breakfast menu across Canada for the first time in more than four decades
Author of the article: Jake Edmiston
Publishing date: Feb 23, 2022

The company behind the Wendy’s burger chain is launching a coffee and breakfast menu at its restaurants across Canada for the first time in more than four decades, aiming to steal market share from Tim Hortons and other fast-food incumbents as commuters reform their morning routines post-pandemic...

...Pringle wouldn’t share the new menu, which will launch this spring, but said the research made clear that good coffee would be “critically important” to Canadian consumers. By comparison, American breakfast customers are more interested in pop. “It is far higher than you would ever expect,” Pringle said of the number of Americans who like to wash down their bacon and eggs with carbonated sugary drinks. “In Canada, no one drinks soda for breakfast. It’s very rare.”...

https://financialpost.com/news/retai...s-at-breakfast

Sheba · #**2960** Posted **Feb 25, 2022, 3:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by NewfBC

Jollibee on Granville actually looks like they've done something with it now... though still opening 'soon'.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/joll...reet-vancouver

Ron.

Jollibee in downtown Vancouver is officially opening this week

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Jollibee has now confirmed to Dished Vancouver that the Granville Street restaurant is finally opening on Friday, February 25.

The 833 Granville Street restaurant will be open daily from 9 am to 10 pm, serving all the top signature eats like Spicy Jollibee Chicken Sandwiches and Peach Mango Pies.

Upon opening, the Granville Street store will only be accepting takeout orders. Dine-in, online ordering, and delivery are slated to launch in the coming weeks.

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The brand plans to open two more locations in BC this year: Cambie and West Broadway in Vancouver and Strawberry Hill Shopping Centre complex in Surrey.