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Tasting Menu at Botanist
Foodie Experiences
Modern Indian Tasting Menu at Kavita
Named for chef Tushar Tondvalkar's mother and the Marathi word for poetry, Kavita's Ammakase tasting earns both meanings course by course.
Foodie Experiences
Named for chef Tushar Tondvalkar's mother and the Marathi word for poetry, Kavita's Ammakase tasting earns both meanings course by course.
Kavita is what happens when a chef who worked at Bangkok's Michelin-starred Gaggan and Gaa comes home to cook a love letter. Chef Tushar Tondvalkar named the restaurant for his mother (and for the Marathi word for "poetry"), then designed an Ammakase tasting menu that opens with four bold little snacks and moves through five courses of regional Indian cooking anchored in Fraser Valley ingredients: buttery lamb with smoked honey, a dry-aged duck curry that regulars describe as pure Kerala, cocktails that keep getting called mind-blowing. In its first months open, it landed at number 96 on Canada's 100 Best and took Gold for Best Indian Restaurant at the 2026 Vancouver Magazine awards. It's an open-kitchen room, it's tiny, and it has nowhere to hide the ambition. Come hungry, book well ahead, and try not to be intimidated by how much the person across from you is enjoying themselves.
