C Restaurant

A GuestLife Vancouver
Great Restaurant

Set on picturesque False Creek, C Restaurant sets the standard in Vancouver for innovation in fresh seafood cuisine. Savour the aroma as sweet, delicate scallops from the Queen Charlotte Islands are steamed right at your table. Choose from the best of the sea and rest assured your selections are selected based on the freshest, quality seafood available in today’s market.

Chef de Cuisine Robert Belcham stays ahead of the culinary curve with his edgy and imaginative ideas. C’s menus are contemporary and always changing, always on the move — like the joggers, roller bladers and casual strollers on the wide seawall beyond the patio. You can while away a leisurely afternoon on the large patio, watching sailboats as you sip on champagne and enjoy Skeena Wild salmon. “I draw on techniques from every type of cuisine,” says Belcham. “We represent what is truly Canadian Cuisine, utilizing influences from the world over, but focusing on the great seafood we have available to us in Vancouver.”

The award-winning C is also an innovator with its seafood program, Ocean Wise. The founding restaurant partner with the Vancouver Aquarium, C follows a sustainability plan to ensure that every fish on the menu is harvested wisely. “Making sustainable seafood choices is the key to ensuring that a wide variety of seafood is around for generations to come,” says Executive Chef Robert Clark. Try the indigenous spot prawns, slow poached for exquisite flavouring; or the pan-roasted trout, crispy skinned and butter finished.

The attention to detail does not stop with the food. Owner Harry Kambolis and General Manager Leonard Nakonechny believe that an evening at a restaurant reflects complete entertainment, and with this in mind, consulted with Ballet BC to improve on the service presentations at C. Ballet BC spent evenings at C observing the overall movement of staff, from their time spent in the kitchen to the front of the house. The outcome is obvious, from the first greeting to the final farewell: grace and style is an integral part of the evening.

C’s décor, like its name, is minimalist. Huge windows look out to the sailboat-studded False Creek, cityscape, ocean and mountains beyond. Simply, C reflects Vancouver itself: outwardlooking, individual, unconventional. Wine Spectator repeatedly awards Sommelier Tom Doughty for his splendid cellar: toast our city with a glass of his best.

Menu Highlights

pictured: Virtual smoked salmon, hibiscus essence, Braised Beef Shortrib, foie gras

Appetizers

C’s Signature Smoked Skeena River Salmon
with cucumber jelly, crème fraîche, lemon, salmon candy vinaigrette

Double Smoked Bacon-Wrapped Pacific Sardines
with rye berries, maple syrup and grainy mustard vinaigrette

Octopus Bacon-Wrapped Kagan Bay Scallop
with foie gras croquette, spinach, cognac and dark veal stock reduction

Entrées

Seared Wild Nisga’a Coho Salmon
with organic asparagus, hazelnuts, thyme, porcini mushroom purée

Pan Seared Queen Charlotte Halibut
with crisp Oyama chorizo rice, braised savoy cabbage, savory clams, spicy red pepper almond emulsion

Crisp Sun Valley Trout
with Dungeness crab, green beans, almonds, Helmer’s organic potatoes, crème fraîche

Grilled Nicola Valley Beef Strip Steak
with confit Yukon gold potato, Swiss chard, braised short rib, smoked spice, rib jus

Desserts

“Le Petit Déjeuner”:
café au lait and bittersweet chocolate mousse, huckleberry jam, pain-au-chocolat

Apricot & Pistachio Ice Cream Cake
with roasted kumquat, cardamom caramel

Pink Lady Apple Shortbread Galette:
goat’s milk brown sugar ice cream, apple pie salad

Best of the Cellar

White Wines

1947 Roland Thevenin Montrachet Grand Cru

2002 Blue Mountain “Striped Label” Reserve Chardonnay

1999 ZindHumbrecht Gewurztraminer “Heimbourg”

1978 Schloss Johannisberger Riesling Auslese

1971 Dom Perignon Rose Champagne

Red Wines

1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Dalle Valle Cabernet Sauvignon

1982 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild in Magnum

1969 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, La Tache

2002 Burrowing Owl Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

2001 Williams-Selyem Mendocino County Pinot Noir