This month and year's first restaurant for your 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Tourism and Restaurant consideration is Kitanoya Guu, a "fun and authentic Japanese tapas, Izakaya."
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I don't know what that means either! But they say it about their restaurant. Guu is located on Thurlow Street, and I suggest you take a taxicab or have your mom drop you off because trying to find parking in Vancouver's red-hot gay district can be a "Thurlowly" frustrating experience! At first, you will definitely be turned off by how cold and overbearing the facade of this Japan restaurant is. However that feeling will stay because when you go inside it's just as bad. The interior of Guu is modern decor done wrong like picture if they used the back of an iPhone to dress up everything in the restaurant like the walls and the bar and stuff. It's pretty bad.
My hostess was white but maybe she grew up in Japan like the tom cruise movie Top Samurai. She showed me to my table and asked if I had ever eaten Guu before. I was lke "goo?" and she was like yeah. She explained that the concept of the restaurant (bad sign) was a fusion (bad sign) of spanish tapas (tacos nachos etc) and traditional Japan cuisine. She handed me a menu and took my drink order (one beer and one martini side by side). The menu was one of those things where they write the thing in Japan characters first and then have the English underneath which is dumb. Instead of trying to teach myself a new language I just looked around for a little bit. I could immediately understand why they called this part of Vancouver the gay district. It was all dudes. I don't know if they were gay dudes but it was like dude city. Maybe everyone was having business meetings and stuff though. I bet there will be a wider range of people when you guys come here for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics next winter because there will just be more people in the city in general.
After my two drinks showed up a waitress came by and asked if I was ready to order. I glanced apprehensively at my menu and ordered Kari-Kari Okonomi Yaki, Jumbo Siu Mai and Sho Lon Bo because whatever I wasn't going to find anything good on this menu even if I was a Japan native. She also gave me a pair of chopsticks but just by my body language I think she got the hint and came back seconds later with several forks of varying sizes. I am glad that somebody in Vancouver understands me.
So it turns out that Kari-Kari Okonomi Yaki is a deep fried Japan cabbage pancake served with mayonnaise sauce, and the other two things were like cooked sushi. I asked for the chef to come out and explain himself but they explained the chef was busy cooking
I've never been so offended and disgusted in my life. Make sure to check out Kitanoya Guu when you are visiting Vancouver in 2010 for the Winter 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
Kitanoya Guu
Address:838 Thurlow St. Vancouver, BC
Phone: 604-685-8817
The place was wheelchair accessible fyi but it might feel sad to go to the Olympics and watch people do incredible athletic stuff if you're crippled.
The food looks like this have fun.
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