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Tasting Menu at Botanist
Foodie Experiences
Chalkboard Tasting at The Mackenzie Room
A tiny Railtown chalkboard room doing nose-to-tail, seed-to-fork cooking that changes with whatever's actually good right now.
Foodie Experiences
A tiny Railtown chalkboard room doing nose-to-tail, seed-to-fork cooking that changes with whatever's actually good right now.
The Mackenzie Room is the kind of date that makes you feel slightly smug, because you made a reservation at a tiny, character-packed Railtown room with a chalkboard menu that has never had the same thing on it twice. The cooking follows a genuine nose-to-tail, seed-to-fork ethic, which means what's at seasonal peak becomes the menu, not the other way around. The kitchen is visibly having a good time, the light is low, the space is buzzy and intimate, and one weird-good dish you didn't expect is essentially guaranteed. Hand the night over entirely and do the tasting menu. A 4.6 across more than 1,000 reviews and a perennial spot on Vancouver's best-of lists confirm the room is no secret, so book ahead because small and fills are the only two operating conditions here.
