Warm little winner packs big flavor punch with far-reaching service. Browse the strong wine list over complimentary amuse-bouches and a retrolicious copper-mugged Moscow Mule while admiring vintage cookbooks collected by Chef Butler. Gallery gadflies and Granville Island's weary shoppers thrill to his ebullient presentation of dramatic mains like salmon under a smoke-filled globe, and... more

A dining room unlike any other in the city, built upon the palpable enthusiasm of the eponymous young owner and chef. Where else will you be expansively served produce grown in a tiny guerrilla garden a few blocks away, plated on Versace china, with Frank Sinatra crooning away in the background? West Coast staples get unexpected treatment, with mixed results (the astringency of pickled... more