good restaurants around commercial drive/kingsway?
 

Any recommendation around these two areas? Any type of food should be fine.

Marcellos on Commercial, if you like Italian food.
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On Commercial drive, Havanas was good when I tried it a while ago. Falconetti's was visited by Diners, Drive inns, and dives.

Just off the top of my head:

Kingsway: Les Faux Bourgeois, Pink Peppercorn

Commercial: Carthage Cafe

If you're up for some Japanese, check out Kishimoto on the drive.

They do aburri salmon nigiri really well. And they have this unagi stone bowl rice dish. So damn good :ahwow:

Lombardos pizza on commercial and 1st.


Lombardo's Pizzeria & Ristorante

Superb pizzas and pastas
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Happy Family Restaurant on Kingsway & Gladstone (Beside the KFC.) The food and service is pretty good and doesn't break the bank. Family owned and operated.

Specifically on The Drive, I would say Biercraft is still pretty decent. Good selection of beer and tasty mussels..

I personally like Chili Pepper House by Rupert, comfort food for me, Green Lettuce is similar stuff closer to Commercial on Kingsway by Victoria Dr.

Truong Thanh on kingsway/victoria is a really good pho place

I was walking downwards to Clark to get some Japanese food from Fuijiya and came across Truck Stop Cafe. Pretty good food all day breakfast and burgers. Quick and friendly service too.
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Oh god. That place is awful. Famoso across the street has substantially better pizza, and even that isn't great. Falconettis on the drive is pretty good for bar style food.

+1 for Kishimoto, also check out BierCraft.

It's funny b/c it is a little greasy spoon diner that most ppl wouldn't even look twice at. I spoke to a few ppl and they all said the food is good there.

If you like craptacular service come here. Good thing there's tons of choices for pizza now.

Craptacular service doesn't even begin to describe the horror of this place. :fuckthatshit:

Fail-conetti's. Had horrible experiences last 2 times I was there (food sucks. service sucks). Much worse than Marcello's but even that was marginal at best (food was the redeeming factor).

I'm liking The Charlatan on the drive for food and drinks lately.

Pho Duy on kingsway/Vic.
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+1 for Charlatan.

Les Faux Bourgeois French
Alpen club German
Kishamoto, kimura Japanese
Western lake Chinese dim sum also dai tung dim sum
Bkh beef jerkey snacks
Donna cata Mexican tacos
Famoso good for chain pizza, but would drive 5 mins more to farina
Some decent pho around kingsway, like tat place near midland liquidators
For desert casa Gelato or Portuguese egg tarts at union

No mention of Hoi An? lol
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I liked Havanas.

oh yah best iced coffee and pho in east van! :) there are more that i missed from my bad memory :) I also really like Aree Thai, Im hungry I think im going to order the pad thai original, green curry and masuman now lol

Dona Cata no longer exists. :(

It's been replaced by I believe some shitty hipster take on what we would like to think is Mexican cuisine.

I thought so too but I checked out the website and found this:

If you're in that neck of the woods, check out El Caracol. Pupusas!

Interesting. :suspicious:

I saw only dirty hipsters working in there.