Cozy & Intimate
Minimal-intervention BC wine, lamb tartare, and a Gastown alley that does half the romantic heavy lifting.
Blood Alley Square, Gastown
More infoBlood Alley sounds like somewhere a date ends, not begins, but Is That French has rebranded the whole cobblestoned corner. The candlelit room runs a hand-picked list of minimal-intervention BC bottles, and the kitchen sends out Pacific-Northwest-meets-French tapas made for sharing, like the lamb tartare that turns 'try this' into a full conversational loop. Book ahead; the Gastown alley does half the romantic work for you.
Reserve if you can, the cobblestoned Blood Alley setting does half the romantic work before you sit down. Take a candlelit table by the exposed brick, let the staff pick a minimal-intervention BC bottle, and order a spread of the PNW-meets-French tapas, the cured scallop aguachile, the lamb tartare, the oysters, built for two forks and a lot of 'try this.' It's intimate without being precious, so let one bottle become the whole evening over a couple of unhurried hours.
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