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Tasting Menu at Botanist
Foodie Experiences
Tasting Menu at AnnaLena
Michelin-starred Kitsilano fine dining with vintage toys on the shelves, steps from the beach, and zero sense of its own importance.
Foodie Experiences
Michelin-starred Kitsilano fine dining with vintage toys on the shelves, steps from the beach, and zero sense of its own importance.
AnnaLena has a Michelin star and vintage toys on its shelves, and it treats both facts with equal seriousness. The West Coast tasting menu in this Kitsilano room is inventive and beautifully plated, the kind of cooking that earns the label creative without making you brace for it. The restaurant has been named Vancouver's Restaurant of the Year more than once, and sitting steps from Kits Beach puts it at the geographic sweet spot between special occasion and somewhere you'd actually want to go. The room doesn't do stuffy. The food doesn't play it safe. Those two things together are rarer than the star suggests. Do the full menu, walk along Kits Beach after, and let the ocean air decide how the rest of the night develops.
