News from Bistrot Bistro

So what’s happening with the Olympics?

On the Bistrot Bistro front not much. We are not raising our price (the prix fixe is staying), we are not sold out, we are not putting auto gratuity for every table (due to higher percentage of tourists), and not changing to a limited menu.

You will find us the way we have been for three years and hopefully for another few years – the local bistro you have come to know: reliable, reasonable and friendly.

We will not retire or sell to a multinational conglomerate either when it’s all done! Not to worry, we will be there for you. 

Karma Tuesday new Charity for February and March.

We are happy to be supporting The Little Green Lunch at the Sunset day Care helping transform an area into a productive and educational Kitchen Garden.

Valentine’s weekend Saturday 13rd and Sunday 14^th of February.

This is going to be a fun one with the combination of a few new people in town for a local event, also being a week-end. Some of you have read the newsletter from last month, viewed the menu under “latest news” on our web-site and booked.

For the rest of you who must make a decision or influence it, here are the details. We know where we will be. Do you? …..

Seared albacore tuna salad
Or
Warm goat cheese, fig and smoked duck breast tart

Filet mignon, lavender butter
Or
Duck Magret with hazelnut and amaretto sauce
Or
Shrimp Scallop Provencal

All dishes will be accompanied by our famous mashed potatoes

Chocolate and passion fruit cake from Plaisir Sucre, served with a glass of bubbly

$ 55 per person
15 % gratuity will be added to bill
(Credit card required. “No show” – $25 fee per person)

Pastis – Recession Remedy Menu – $29 for three courses

THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE FOR MID WINTER BLUES
At the beginning of the year most of us are recovering from the excesses of the holiday season – both gastronomic and financial. The experts claim that the economic situation is still ‘fragile’ and tax time is just around the corner. It’s raining like crazy and you don’t really want to go for a run or work out at the gym. You just want to cocoon. How do you dispel such mid winter blues?

Enter John Blakeley and Bistro Pastis with a special Recession Remedy Menu aimed to tread lightly on your pocket book while paying big satisfaction dividends. The French know a thing or two about how to dine well on a little. They are experts at the art of stretching resources (be they Euros or ingredients) to maximize the pleasure quotient.  This is the very principal at work in Bistro Pastis’ Recession Remedy Menu. Value priced at $24 for any two courses or $29 for all three, the menu gives patrons the greatest amount of flexibility, allowing you to custom design the size and content of your dinner. Don’t like dessert? Then opt for a starter and a main. Mains look too large? Then go for a starter and dessert.

The Menu features some of Bistro Pastis’ favourite bistro classics – Leek and Potato Soup, Coq au Vin, Steak Frites, Cod Normande, Crêpes Suzette to name a few. You can’t go wrong with choices such as these.

Pair them with John’s value-priced wines specials ($6.50 by the glass, $22 for a half litre and $32.50 for the whole bottle) selected from his cellar add Bistro Pastis’ crackling fireplace and … voila, your gloomy mood disappears as if by magic.

This month, give yourself a treat and book a table at Bistro Pastis. Cosy fireplace, impeccable service, value-priced wines and recession-proof menu. What more could you ask for?

The Recession Remedy Menu runs from January 14 through February 10, 2010.

 

Recession Remedy Menu

January 14 – February 10, 2010

Dinner: Any two courses $24; All three courses $29

Wine Specials: Glass: $6.50  ½ L: $22  Bottle: $32.50
First Course

Leek and Potato Soup
Bacon Froth
Chardonnay Un-Oaked Calona Vineyards
- or -
Mushroom and Fennel Salad
Pinot Gris Calona Vineyards
- or -
Calamari à la Provençale
Pinot Blanc Red Rooster

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Second Course

Grilled Flank Steak
Pommes Frites, Peppercorn Sauce
Cabernet Merlot Red Rooster
- or -
Coq au Vin
Mushrooms and Bacon, Fettuccini
Merlot Peller Family Series
- or -
Cod Normande
Shrimps, Mussels and Clams, Riz Pilaf, White Wine Sauce
Chardonnay Peller Family Series

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Third Course

Mousse au Chocolat
- or -
Crêpes Suzette
- or -
Tarte aux Pommes
Vanilla Ice Cream

 

Bistro Pastis
2153 W 4^th Ave. Vancouver, BC V6K 1N7 | Tel: (604) 731.5020 | Fax: (604) 731.5039
www.bistropastis.com

Refuel Burger and Beer

Come early or come late and experience one of Vancouver’s best burgers. Available seven days a week from 3pm-6pm and again from 9pm-midnight, refuel is serving a tasty special – burger and a beer for just $15.50.

A juicy hand-ground dry aged Alberta beef patty with the Cure’s bacon, cheddar cheese & house-made mayonnaise served on a buttered, toasted Scottish bap bun. The triple cooked Kennebec french fries are served on the side, to be washed down with a draught beer from the award winning R + B Brewery.

Refuel Restaurant & Bar
Refuel Restaurant & Bar serves affordable, casual Northwest cuisine in a comfortable neighbourhood atmosphere. This welcome addition to Kitsilano encourages diners to relax, have fun and enjoy simple, honest food. Gather around a table with friends in the dining room or sit at the bar and watch the kitchen brigade while sipping a classic cocktail and enjoy music styled by the experts at Zulu Records.

Refuel is open daily from 11:30am – 12am and is located at 1944 West 4th Avenue (at Cypress), Vancouver BC. Fore more information please call 604.288.7905, or visit:

www.refuelrestaurant.com

Bishops for New Year’s Eve

You dread the obligatory buffet at Aunt Vera’s with its perennially over-cooked roast and boiled-to-death carrots – it’s a family tradition after all and it would hurt her feelings to try to change things. Next is the neighbourhood get-together where Mrs. G. will expect you to eat generous helpings of her ‘famed’ bean dip, Ms. S will be insulted if you don’t take a heaping portion of her inedible cheese ball and Mr. F will ply you with his hangover-inducing home-made wine. Then there are all the little expected things that you’ve been forced to eat every Christmas since you can remember – Grandmother’s prized recipe for mashed Swedes for instance. Can’t take the ‘have to’ any longer? Flee to Bishop’s – a haven of choice and good taste for nearly 25 years.

Set aside the ‘shoulds of the season’ and for one evening, New Year’s Eve, treat yourself to the luxury of choice. Let John Bishop, Chef Andrea Carlson and Maitre d’ Abel Jacinto spoil you with so many choices you’ll feel like a kid in a candy store. Chef Carlson has designed a tour de force menu with which to herald the New Year – three courses and 10 dishes from which to choose. For starters how does one pick between Crab Leg Salad, Berkshire Pork Terrine, Pheasant Orecchiette or Pacific Octopus Terrine? That’s when the bargaining begins: “If you have the pork, I’ll order the Crab and we can share?”

Mains present you with Fraser Canyon Rabbit, Sidney Island Venison Chop, Fraser Valley Duck or Bishop’s signature Qualicum Bay Scallops. The accompaniments don’t make the choosing any easier – for instance the Rabbit comes with shaved black truffle, pomme purée, Savoy cabbage, porcini and rabbit liver profiterole in rabbit jus. The accompaniment is temptation in and of itself! The scallops are equally decadent sharing the plate with pine mushroom and quail confit crepe, sunroot purée, arugula and horseradish butter. Or, what about the red kuri squash tart and quince gelee that sidles up to the duck? You get the idea – wonderful, glorious flavours and fresh, local ingredients that sway you this way and that. Oh my… what to choose? How to choose?

Then comes dessert, by now you are grateful that there are only two. Do you luxuriate with a Maralumi Chocolate Bar with vanilla mousse, sour cherries and champagne sorbet or over-dose on palate refreshing Lemon Trio with lemon meringue cupcake, macaroon and tart with pomegranate seeds? Chocolate or lemon? Lemon or chocolate? Should all your decisions in 2010 be so straightforward.

A glass of champagne is included in the very reasonable price of $120 per person. If one glass of bubbly is not enough, Maitre D’ Abel Jacinto will be happy to recommend a suitable bottle from Bishop’s cellar.

Bishop’s offers four seatings on New Year’s Eve. For people wanting to dine and then head off to a party or event, reservations are available for 6 and 6:30 p.m.. For those wishing to dine late, there are seatings at 9 and 9:30p.m.

No matter what awaits you in 2010, you can rely on proprietor John Bishop, Maitre D’ Abel Jacinto and Executive Chef Andrea Carlson to pamper you with warm service, fine food and spoil you with choice on this, and every, evening.

Reservations are a must and can be made on-line or by calling the restaurant at 604.738.2025.

Bishop’s 2183 West 4^th Avenue, Vancouver

604.738.2025 www.bishopsonline.com

Maenam Now Open Seven Days a Week

Beginning Sunday, December 13, Maenam will open for dinner seven days a week (Maenam is currently closed on Sunday and Monday). Maenam’s new hours will be Monday to Saturday, 5 pm to 2 am (with last call for food at 1 am and last call for drinks at 1:30 am), and 5 pm to midnight on Sunday.

Lunch service at Maenam will remain five days a week; Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 2:30 pm.

Chef Angus An is currently in Thailand to search out authentic new dishes and ingredients. Also, beginning on December 13, guests at Maenam will be able to sample daily specials of new dishes from Chef An’s travels, in preparation for an exciting new menu launch in January.

Reservations for the new opening dates are now available on Open Table.

For more information, visit www.maenam.ca.

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