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One of Vancouver's delicious little secrets. Tucked unassumingly on Commercial St (not Commercial Drive) is Casa Verde, a family run Portuguese restaurant. If you're lucky enough to order the Piri BBQ Chicken (it's often sold out) do it. The sauce was lightly spiced and chicken tender. The salad and fries were average, but I didn't order this dish for the sides - the chicken was the main attraction here.

Drive past that Bellis Fair mess and get some decent food in the town of Bellingham. Two authentic enchiladas stuffed with chicken, accompanied by the usual suspects - beans, rice and salad. My wife raved, so it gets four stars.

Shrimps grilled in butter and the house special sauce. Although the menu promised HOT, it could have used some more kick. Delicious all the same.

We ducked into this place mostly to get out of the rain. What a find! Relaxed atmosphere and great food. This is like a Benny, but taken apart. Two dungeness crab cakes, topped with two poached eggs and hollandaise sauce, with the English muffins served on the side. Great combination of flavours.

Don't come here if you're put off by tattoos, piercings, ironic t-shirts and hats, but that's the only reason you shouldn't come. Yes the Doug Fir is hipster run, and attracts a mostly hipster crowd, but the service is excellent, prices reasonable and food is fantastic. Three pork loins stuffed with cherries, apples, hazelnuts and goat cheese. The pork was tender, perfectly season and not too "goaty", as many goat-cheese dishes can be. My wife dove in and didn't stop until the plate was clean. I'd consider that a five-star meal.

Pan-fried trout, coated with an almond breading and drizzled with sweet mango sauce and topped with a chunky salsa. Trout was nicely prepared and the mango sauce was a great counter-punch to the spicy coating. I'd eat this again. Delicious.

We started off our meal with cedar plank topped with smoked salmon, trout, pickled onions and cucumbers, herb cream cheese and crackers. Simple, but delicious, perfect start to our meal. Nice presentation too.

The Doug Fir is a hipster bar, and hipsters usually piss me off. But it's happy hour at the 'Fir, and I need to get happy. $4 drinks and $2.50 appetizers equals "I don't care what you wear, start pouring and don't stop." A surprisingly tasty sandwich with Black Forest ham, bechamel and melted gruyere cheese. I say surprisingly because, well, I didn't think hipsters could cook.

Five lightly breaded chicken strips with a Ranch dipping sauce. Fresh, well seasoned and not too greasy.

I love eating at diners, so when I spotted this one I had to stop in. It's 8:00 on a Sunday morning and already there's a line-up, a promising sign. Not exactly sure why they pay homage to a Seattle landmark 400km to the north; for the veggie sausage maybe? Whatever the reason this scramble was awesome. Eggs were fluffy, cheese nicely melted and spinach not too soggy - great combination of flavours. I question just how veggie the sausage really was (it sure tasted like meat) but other than that I dug into this dish with gusto.