A restaurant in Vancouver, which recently topped the list of the best restaurants in Canada, says it has booked hundreds of bookings in just one day.
Published in the Main, it took first place after the list was unveiled at an event in Toronto on Monday night. The list, determined by a team of 100 judges, is the focus of the biennial edition, Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants.
This is the first time a restaurant in Vancouver has claimed a seat № 1.
Since the list came out, restaurant officials say they have seen a “crazy influx of attention” by booking more than 700 reservations online on Tuesday alone.
As of Wednesday morning, standard reservations for two people had been booked almost three weeks in advance. Friday and Saturday, however, were booked even more.
“It hasn’t really hit us yet,” restaurant director Jayton Paul told CTV News Vancouver. “We know what we’re doing here and we really believe in our program. So the best is yet to come.”
Paul said all staff members have worked hard since the restaurant opened in 2019, just months before restaurants were forced to close or renovate due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published describes its dining room as “modern with a focus on the local and sustainable” with seasonal and feed ingredients.
“Not only does our chef do much of the food search for us, but we have a team of people we work with all year long to get certain things like, right now, morels and violins,” Paul said.
“During the seasons, you see a lot of chanterelle mushrooms, meadows, grapefruit spruces, all these things that we can use, preserve, pickle or treat so we can work later in the year.
Despite the pandemic’s failures, Paul said restaurant staff continued to “insist on the level of nutrition (they wanted) to see in Vancouver.”
“Obviously we are in this situation because we really believe in ourselves, because we really believe in what we do,” he said.
A total of 22 BC restaurants were included in the list, and 11 BC bars were recognized in a list of the 50 best bars in Canada.
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