VanEats

Tiffanie Sia, head honcho and Bishop's alumnus, sent word of her new gelato place (they also have bubble tea with Choobees instead of tapioca pearls and panini).

It's called Vivo Gelato (130-11331 Coppersmith Way, Richmond, 604 204-0021). Check it out. And let us know what you think!

As noted in our comments to our last post about TheVancouverView, the site appears to have disappeared from Blogger's free Blog hosting service, BlogSpot.

It looks like Casa Dolce in Kerrisdale is out of business or has moved. Too bad; I was looking forward to eating there again. As always, please leave a comment if you know the scoop.

If you like spicy food, we highly recommend the Hot Capicollo and Spicy Mushroom Pizza at Nat's New York Pizzeria. At $16 for the large pizza, this is a great tasty and spicy treat; spicy but not overly so and very flavourful. We tried this for the first time on Thursday and it is definitely going to become one of our regularly ordered pizzas.

[ROLAND's NOTE:- Thanks, Dave! I look forward to trying this place out someday but I'll pass on the Liver Cleanser!]

Replacing the former Roti bistro on 4th ave. in Kits, Se-Juiced is a new vegetarian cafe and juice bar. The juice bar takes the focus, and with one of the more creative juice menus in town, rightly so. There's no line between vegetable and fruit juice here, since a good deal of the drinks combine both.

We ordered a pair of veggie burgers and a 'Liver Cleanser'. The former were large, loaded with extras, and satisfying.

TheVancouverView sounds great, welcome!

From Welcome to The Vancouver View:

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we believe you should be aware of these things when you read their work.

we believe you should know which chefs are legendary for throwing knives at their staff.

we believe in our industry having a voice.

we believe in big media being accountable.

we believe we'd never work in this town again if unmasked.

I was in Vienna recently for BlogTalk 2.0 and tried out the fabled Sachertorte (check out my Sachertorte photo over on Flickr) at Hotel Sacher. It was OK (expensive at 4.5 Euros) but I like Barb's cakes and the cakes at places like True Confections better.

If you don't care about search engine optimization and high Google rankings, please feel free to ignore this post!

Like Richard, I don't have a high opinion of the search engine optimization industry (SEO). I think blogs are a much better way to get a higher search engine rank! If you blog constantly about something and your writing is accurate, useful and timely, why shouldn't you have a high Google rank like a lot of blogs (including VanEats) do?

We're back from a 2 week visit to Holland to spend time with Roland's sister's family.  Of course we sampled dutch specialities such as Indonesian rijstaffel, pannekoeken, cheeses galore, dutch coffee, and of course, herring!

We'll be reporting on some of our Dutch food adventures in upcoming days.