

Foodie Experiences
South Surrey's tiny, fiercely good open-kitchen bistro: Chef Veen's French technique, BC farm sourcing, and a 4.7 that politely destroys every chain nearby.
Tap is the restaurant that exists to quietly embarrass everything in a fifteen-kilometre radius of Morgan Crossing. Chef Alistair Veen runs an open kitchen built on French technique and genuine BC farm-to-table sourcing (it's a FarmFolk CityFolk partner, which is the serious designation), so the menu changes with what's actually good that week rather than what's on a spreadsheet somewhere. The room is intimate and the plating is sharp, and you can watch the line cook your dinner, which turns out to be a surprisingly good date activity when you've both stopped pretending to read the menu. A 4.7 from hundreds of reviewers would be impressive anywhere. In South Surrey, it borders on miraculous. It is small and it fills up, so reserve ahead. This is the spot you name-drop later to make it clear you know things.