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Vancouverite Quick Restaurant Reviews: Chill Winston, Sanafir

Restaurant reviews are often just as good shorter. So here you go with two mini-reviews for our more attention deficit disordered readers. Sent to us by our new "secret restaurant review team". Kind of like silent shoppers but, well how do put this without getting in crap from the lawyers, more drunk. And go:

Chill Winston (3 Alexander Street):

One of vancouver's great patios. Great design. Great scenery, Great food. And an absolutley amazing, side salad that cost $6 dollars Isn't that usually included, and I wish they had told me that, seeing as it cost almost as much as my main. Killer roast beef/horseradish sangwich too. Plus, the waitresses are "delightful", and more "real" than Cactus Club too. Read not, er, common sense-ily challenged.

Sanafir (1026 Granville Street):

Any restaurant with a freaking bouncer is a place I don't want to be in. I didn't eat there, but seemed to be full of total douch-bags. Too trendy, and completely smug. Don't get me wrong, I like their other hotsot, Glowbal, it's got good service and good food. You feel comfortable there. And Glowal isn't as smug.

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Posted by: Susan Natalie

August 14, 2006 09:31 PM

You so called in on Sanafir! I went their with my girlfriends a few weeks ago, and the service was terrible! The host was nice enough to get us a good table, but then we had this beyotch of a waitress who seemed to think her table of MEN needed SO much more doting on than her table of WOMEN. My girlfriend wanted to order food, and the waitress took so bloody long, didn't get her drink, basically was a total space cadet...the hot bartender was picking up her slack all night!

We looked around the restaurant and observed that it was hella busy, and there were 2, maybe 3 servers on hand....not enough. Just because your stupid restaurnt is full of smug douchebags and you have fancy high ceilings, doesn't mean you can pull off that "we'll serve you when we feel like it attitude". Nuh uh.

And to top it all off, my girlfriend finally did get her food, only to get food poisioning the next day.