Okay, this is NOT a cheap eat, but it is sure delicious and I think a “must try”. I know I go “ga ga” over food and I know that I seem to praise the flavours of a lot of different restaurants, but this restaurant really is absolutely delicious.
This restaurant specializes in West Coast cuisine (yummmm..I love West Coast food).
It’s called the Daily Kitchen. I’ll explain the origins of the name later.
I think I had the mushroom garlic butter risotto the time I went and it was so delicious… it was so good that I think I was eyeing my friends’ plates to see if they were finishing theirs and if they didn’t seem like they were going to finish, I was sitting there, devising some way to ask them politely if I could eat off their plate.
That’s how good it was.
Though it can’t be replicated (unless I go there like every day and beg to have that dish again) because you know what??
The novel concept of this restaurant is that nothing is repeated and the menu is updated DAILY. You can also follow the Chef on twitter @ChefFowke to find out the daily menu.
It’s a new menu every. single. day. Something different every day, based on what is fresh, organic, and available in season.
How delicious is that?
I wish I was able to take a picture for you guys but I didn’t 
Now I promise I don’t go to these places all the time. If I did, I would probably be in serious debt. I went for a friend’s party, it was great. Great friends, FANTASTIC food, and good wine. What more could a girl ask for?
Daily Kitchen is relatively new (I think they’ve been around for only a few years) and they are located in the heart of Kitsilano. Which means that after dinner you can stroll along for a romantic evening at Kits Beach and look at the skyline of Vancouver at night.
They are open daily (har har) after 5pm.
They even have daily wines.
I think ordering everything separately is expensive there, so what we did was order a sampler menu.
I recall it being a 5-7 course sampler menu and it cost $45 or so. Wine was extra, of course.
It was really good even though it was pricey for my usual cheap taste. I sometimes still think about that dinner it was that good. I hope I get to go sometime again, maybe when I’m no longer a starving student hah. 
Readers, do you have something like this in your city? (I would assume this is a city thing since it would probably be very ridiculously expensive and nonprofitable to operate something like this in a town).
guess Im lucky, every night is west coast food here
@Jeff- Yum! Lucky you
PS Nice domain name you got there!!!
I don’t think we have something like this but it does sound neat. I like how there is so much variety to choose from. Next time I am BC I will have to check it out.
@Miss T- Perhaps it’s another business idea for you?
Yeah you definitely should. I really liked the food and ambiance there.
I don’t think there is a place that change their menu daily like that here. We have farmer markets on Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I’ve seen chefs shop there and many restaurants try to use as many local products as possible.
Hilarious Portlandia clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LBICPEK6w
@retirebyforty- HAHAHAH OH MY GOODNESS that is hilarious. Thank you so much for sharing that clip. This is such a west coast/organic movement thing. I’ve never heard of Portlandia and it looks hilarious. Going to check out the series now.
I like the idea of a daily menu based on what’s local and in season. It’s part of the growing locavore trend. Even here in flyover country we’ve had a similar restaurant open up, although I don’t think they do the daily change thing.
@101 Centavos- Definitely. Have you read that book “100 Mile Diet”? I haven’t read it myself but I have heard great things about it.
Wow! This sounds amazing.
It’s funny, BF told me if he had a restaurant, he’d want to change it up every night and just cook whatever he felt like. Seems like this was a great idea
@fabulouslyfrugirl- sounds like your BF is amazing!
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