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If you are over 60 you can subtract $1. from the full buffet and if you have the full buffet you will find many pizzas, grilled veggies, an excellent selection of fresh veggies and fruits as well as a nice frozen ice cream for dessert. Their vegetarian artichoke pizza is truly gourmet! The “grill to order” items always taste like burnt wood so we pass on those but go back for doubles on salad. A nice dinner and the county sanitation rating shows they keep everything clean and at the proper temperatures.

Except for the ice cream their desserts are not too great but that is probably a good thing. We don’t want to be tempted.
The fresh pineapple and other fruits are great.

We live in the neighborhood and decided to try out the restaurant despite the unappealing name. They probably do have a fat guy in the kitchen because everything was prepared in the least healthy manner – fried, butter on top, lots of salt. Yum. This is comfort food but not a place I would eat at again. Would you like butter on your french fries? Maybe when I was 12 but not at 62. There is a place for a restaurant like this, an indulgence you might say, in the world of taste. It isn’t healthy to eat like that often.

We do not have many “special” restaurants up near the Felida part of Vancouver and were eager to like Farrar’s. The decor is unspecial, the place is noisy and the tables are crowded too close together. What really disappointed us was the lack of choices on the menu. We do not eat mammals and almost every dish had pork or beef even if it could have been vegetarian. Soup? Pork. Salad? Bacon, almost everything had a little red meat in the creation of the dish. In the end there was perhaps one thing on the menu to order and the cooking and presentation was very ordinary.

We found a review of Muchas Gracias shortly after moving to Vancouver from Illinois. We hoped – based on the review – to find a replacement for our favorite restaurant in our old city but this was just standard fast food nondescript Mexican, a half step up from Taco Bell. We each had something that could be described as a “wrap” – probably labeled a burrito. It was mostly rice and beans with little flavor. We never went back although we drive by the place almost every day.

We have eaten at all the “best” downtown restaurants and only one is worthy of repeating again and again. . . Cafe Al Dente serves chef prepared food in a pleasant space, gentle ambience, calm wait persons, excellent food and SURPRISE! the prices are about the same as a so-so Portland spot. We have enjoyed the pasta, the fish, the duck – we do not eat red meat so cannot comment on the meat eaters menu but cannot imagine it would be less well prepared. Care in preparation and quality food makes al Dente the only Italian restaurant in the Portland/Vancouver area we have recommended to friends.

We have eaten at this small, friendly place with the sign on the wall stating “BE NICE OR LEAVE” about a half dozen times in the past year. The food is cooked to order, imaginative, fresh and delicious. Unpretentious decor but has a table with view of parking lot for the blind and sensory deadened. We eat inside. Not a traditional south of the border place. The food really is wonderfully put together with delicate flavors, careful production of a delicious looking as well as tasting meal. I hate my food to look like leftovers scraped off others plates – as it at so many other s-o-t-b places. Nothing like that here. It looks like a CHEF prepared!! Even with carefully chopped herbs and finely diced tomatoes on top. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

We prefer not to eat friend food so we did not eat off the buffet. Instead we ordered off the menu and had 2 incredibly good shrimp dishes cooked to order. So so decor but very fast service and excellent meal.

We have eaten Indian meals in NYC, San Francisco, across Canada and England and used to live pretty near to Devon Ave. in Chicago so we feel like we can say the food served at Namaste is very tasty and nicely made. If you want pretty decor and a crummy meal — go to Portland and pay a lot of money for it. We prefer a plain dining experience with exceptional taste.

I have eaten here twice but will never eat at El Tapatio again. Why? Because I like “Mexican” or Tex-Mex cooking too much to eat anything this bad. I ordered vegetarian combination plates and I couldn’t tell the difference between the refried beans and the tacos – everything was buried under a sloppy mess of a sauce that covered everything equally. The shell of the taco – and in another case the burrito – dissolved in the liquid. No crunch. No flavor.

We have eaten at Tommy O, Thai Orchid, Dok Koon — to name a few Asian influenced restaurants in Vancouver — and Bamboo Hut is a gem in a sea of ho hum. Nicely prepared — freshly prepared — noodle dishes are what I crave and after eating here twice I’ve been very happy. Nice spice, reasonably size portion and very low price. I don’t understand why it has never been overflowing with customers when we have eaten there because it is the best restaurant in the Salmon Creek area. Nothing else comes close.