While Portland keeps getting recognized as a great food city by the national press, Vancouver is quietly building up an impressive food scene of its own. Some of that growth is homegrown and some it has come as operations in Portland have found their way across the river where, lo and behold, they’ve found there’s also an appreciation for good food and drink.
To celebrate this emerging scene, Visit Vancouver USA is back with its second year of “Dine the Couve,” teaming up with 27 local businesses to offer three items for $23 for the month of October. The menus are determined by the restaurant so some places offer a drink for a course, many offer more than one choice per course. Bars (and some of the restaurants) also offer some $3 drink specials.
“This year we expanded to include more than just downtown restaurants,” said Jacob Schmidt of Visit Vancouver USA. “We still have a lot of downtown restaurants, but we want to show the diversity and variety of Vancouver. So, we’ve gone to east Vancouver, we have Rally’s, Smokehouse (Provisions), and Ben’s Bottleshop. And, we went north with 6th Avenue Bistro in Hazel Dell and Farrar’s and Mt. Tabor Brewing in Felida.”
Other newcomers who signed up this year include Little Conejo, Nom Nom Restaurant and Grill and Final Draft Taphouse.
