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[nutsinmay]

Did something change with Felicita's? It's still there, but first on your list here.

 

Ah interesting, thanks for totally setting me straight - last time I set foot in there was maybe '89, and I thought I heard in the ensuing decade that it got decommissioned when the the SUB building got significantly expanded on.

Great that it wasn't!

[Nparker]

Anyone remember Henry-O's, in the bank building at Broad and Yates? Gourmet burgers. I like to think its soul lives on at Pink Bike...

Not anymore, I believe the Pink Bicycle is now permanently closed. 

[Mike K.]

What!? No!

[Nparker]

I heard a rumour about PB about 10 days ago, and now it seems as though it is true. 

[Mike K.]

Yeah, looks like it. What a shame, it was a hidden gem.

[Matt R.]

Hidden? Wasn’t it insanely popular and busy? Used to be when I lived in vic.

[Mike K.]

Busy yes, but it was off the beaten path. 9/10 people would have gone to Bin 4 before thinking of PB, I’d imagine. And I guess it ended up that way, ultimately.

[Nparker]

PB had rather limited dining space. It could also get very warm inside.

I also have to wonder if it was another victim of staffing shortages.

[DJP64]

La Ville D’is - Fine French dining tucked away in Bastion Square with Yates Street parkade behind it. Owner later opened Triskele in Parksville, BC.

 

Camilles on Fort Street… Camille retired and at some point the restaurant, under new ownership, relocated into Bastion Square near corner of Langley.

 

Loved Metropolitan diner… remember trout stuffed with banana (true story).

 

San Remo @ Quadra & Hillside was very good in the mid ‘80’s but went downhill a bit if I recall correctly.

 

Cory’s - Bastion Square @ Wharf St. (North side) - fine dining, lunch & dinner, good memories

 

I was a cook/aspiring chef at Cory’s and La Ville D’s and met original Camille before he retired as I worked with his son at a different restarant.

 

 

 

 

[Rujiroj]

Floyd and Floyd's Flying Rhino Diner? Loved that place, especially Friday nights for daal.
Also miss Herald St. Cafe. And the Old Towne Cafe. And La Boheme.

Does anyone know anyone who used to work in the kitchen of the Flying Rhino?

[Niblos48]

I remember Grinders and Chillies. One in View Royal. One in Esquimalt. Dinos next to tillicum mall.

[nutsinmay]

I have asked before but there was a restaurant somehwere around the tourist zone when I was a teenager. They had a burger called the Super Cow it had like a 2 lb patty and was meant to be shared. I think it may have been exec house but but am not sure. this was before I lived here and we used to bug the parents to take us there when in Vic.

That would be the Cultured Cow, at Blanshard and Fort. (or was it Quadra and Fort?) Funny, eccentric, mustachioed proprietor - "One glasas o'moo comin up" - drove around in the first small hybrid I saw in this city, painted white, with black patches, like a cow. Yeah, my buddies and I would have to fast before having one of those glorious Super Cows - The Greatest Hamburger of All Time. Period.

Could be mistaken, but didn't the Longhorn Steakhouse have health violations?

Sure, not a restaurant, but if you're old enouugh to remember the Bacchanalia (even worse - actually patronizing it), then, well, my condolences.

Hopefully the Vic. Curling Club cafetetria will still hold on, just yet.

Speaking of cafeterias, I miss KMart's somewhat bleak Fiesta Grill. Trying to remeber the name of the reasturant, there, that was replaced by a bank, and opened up into a small mall that had a Radio Shack just before you entered KMart.

Heh - the old Racquet Club cafeteria?

I'm sure good ole Humpty's on Bay has been mentioned.

Was there something about the El Rancho being a meeting place for gangster types?

 

 

In the late 70s it seemed that every restaurant or club had some kind of dark, window-less underground cave theme--knights of old (Ivanhoes, Olde England Inn etc.); rich, meaty ethnic German or Hungarian food with dimly-lit, rock-walled grottoes. Industrial themes were popular (The Old Forge, Spaghetti Foundry).

 

 

Heh, did someone say The Medieval Inn?

Edited by nutsinmay, 16 November 2023 - 12:37 PM.

[Nparker]

That would be the Cultured Cow, at Blanshard and Fort. (or was it Quadra and Fort?) Funny, eccentric, mustachioed proprietor - "One glass o'moo comin up" - drove around in the first small hybrid I saw in this city, painted white, with black patches, like a cow. Yeah, my buddies and I would have to fast before having one of those glorious Super Cows - The Greatest Hamburger of All Time. Period...

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[nutsinmay]

Interesting! Thanks! Wonder if he's still at the gum removal.

[Nparker]

He's at least 79 now. His best gum removal days may well be behind him.