Blue Water Cafe - Yaletown

Cuisine: Seafood

The Down Low: this place fancyyy, huh? (some of you just read that with a Swizz Beatz voice in your head. Nail done, hair done, everything did)

Favorite Dish: the item that is cheapest, and "a glass of their finest water" (but make sure they realize you are joking because they may come back with triple filtered mountain lake water, bottled in Japan)

Music Pairing: When you are going to shell out more than a couple sand dollars, you should be treating your ears with the finest trance chefs in the Anjuna kitchen, Above & Beyond! Their new album Common Ground is out, and as my friends can imagine, I've listened to it more than a couple of times.

Now I don't consider myself a fine dining type of person. It's weird having people other than your mom call you "sir." So instead of dressing to impress, I remained true to style and went to Blue Water Cafe in my sweatpants. Somehow I pulled it off. They actually gave me a seat at the raw bar (not to be mistaken as a sushi bar, I suppose) and I was able to 'blend in' among Vancouver's elite.

They strategically removed me from the heat of the dining room floor

They also gave me the LOTR triology to keep me quiet

Warned me they have a sushi arsenal if I stain my napkin

They even gave me a cook book to remind me where I was

Since I knew the sweatpants were giving me away, I had to improvise the fanciness. I would read a couple pages (looking at the pictures), and pensively point and nod at a couple recipes. A waitor approached mid-point and asked if I was a chef (if only he knew how far from the truth that actually is). Instead I told him I was a wanna food blogger. Only a little more truthful, but I was desperate for fine dining cred. In that moment he realized this guy was here for bizzness, and he apologized for my wait at the start.

The baked scallops (delicious and affordable)

Blue Water Cafe gave me a dessert, compliments of the chef!
(free for everyone, or just the wannabe food bloggers?)

At the end, the waitor asked for my food blog business card.
I have to show you this large fish decoration because I don't have a food blog business card. What a rookie!

my next job

Tasty dreams,

JB

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