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Where to Eat in Vancouver: Tasting Plates

Where to Eat in Vancouver: Tasting Plates

Tasting Plates YVR: Trees Organic cheesecake

There’s something fun about walking into restaurant after restaurant, clutching a piece of paper, and having a smiling person hand you a plate of something good. No fuss, no muss, no agonizing over where to eat in Vancouver.

Tasting Plates is the creation of food blogger Richard Wolak. Each tour takes in a neighbourhood, with 10-12 restaurants handing out small plates of their finest to people with a Tasting Plates passport.

Where to Eat in Vancouver Tasting Plates YVR: Trees Organic cheesecake

Where to Eat in Vancouver for the Ultimate Desserts

I took part in the Ultimate Desserts version, which took us further afield than a single neighbourhood. We managed six of the eight locations on this tour of where to eat in Vancouver, eating everything from cheesecake to gelato to chocolate pizza. If you like the sweet stuff, Tasting Plates is for you.

One of the locations is designated as the registration check-in, where you pick up your Tasting Plates passport. You then have a few hours to make it round all the restaurants and cafes. The queue snaked around Rocanini Coffee Roasters, and unfortunately wasn’t staffed up enough to handle all the people. We picked up our passports eventually, but there was only one person making coffee and it backed everything else up. We decided to give it a miss and check out Beta 5 and Vancouver Pie Hole near by.

So. Much. Sugar.

Everywhere we visited handed out very generous portions – we were groaning with sugar overload by our third stop. So much so we picked up some takeaway containers to stash our leftovers as we went.

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Bella Gelateria, winner of two awards at the Florence Gelato Festival – as well as our own Best of Vancouver Ice Cream search – was a standout. Scoops of chocolate scotch (as in whisky), limoncello cheesecake and caramel pecan with sea salt left no doubt as to how they won a prestigious Italian gelato competition. Trees Organic Coffee on Arbutus proudly proclaims ‘Vancouver’s Best Cheesecake’ on their patio umbrellas, and the not-so-little squares of intense creaminess illustrated their point. The surprise standout was Bob Likes Thai Food’s Tub-Tim-Krob, a refreshing and clean-tasting cup filled with coconut milk, shards of fresh coconut, water chestnuts, jackfruit, syrup, crushed ice, crystal lime candy and bright pink pomegranate seeds. It was just what our palates needed after the onslaught of chocolate and heavy cream.

Driving from location to location meant we could hit more places, but it would have been more enjoyable had we been able to walk. Not to mention work through some of that dessert! The savoury neighbourhood version of Tasting Plates would be a fun, different kind of date night. If you’re wondering where to eat in Vancouver, this is a great opportunity to sample a number of new-to-you eateries in one evening.

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