New, closing and changing Vancouver restaurants

Another Chinese restaurant on fire in Vancouver on November 15

Tony Parsons CTV Vancouver TV anchor has a a new restaurant called The Poor Italian (Map only no website yet) .. looks like he spent alot of money on the kitchen

Incendio restaurant has reopened but the  website is not firing on all cylinders yet the gallery is down but the reviews are up.  The urban diner page has good information

New Spanish restaurant opening on Granville in December called Cafe Barcelona

Indian restaurant – Rasoee chain restaurant on UBC campus.. will have to try despite some reviews

Glowbal to close for 2 weeks after Christmas for reno’s – reopening 1st week of January;  smart time to close … but what about New Years Eve parties

Owner of Slickity Jim’s restaurant stunned at loss of beloved restaurant due to big fire at Main and Broadway – a few businesses bit the dust always unfortunate

Fuel restaurant to close and reopen as Kits local with Northwest casual cuisine - look for the new restaurant in December

The Pourhouse – replaced the empty Faux restaurant  and has garnered a lot of press for its bar staff’s pedigree – must try

A new pub opening on the edge of Gastown called, well, On The Edge Pub – detailed prelaunch review by Martiniboys;  opens this week Nov 16th

Characters on West Broadway closed.. odd menu Indian and Greek but still wanted to try their Indian.  It got good reviews on Urbanspooon, will have to check out sister restaurant on Davie.

Dunsmuir near Richards – Frenchies Diner to open – Montreal Smoked meat and Poutine  in an old building near Postal sorting office.. still not open looks close though

Glowbals new restaurant Society opened on October 29, 2009 – big kick off party sounded great

Simply French on near Alma and 10th opened about 2 weeks ago must walk in and try

New pita and soulvaki place opens on West Broadway – near bayswater.. Pita Basket Cafe people like it on Urbanspoon

Monbella restaurant in Kitsilano abruptly closes

D’place for Cakes on West Broadway.. open and shut .. short life .. too bad a new sign just went up

The Pho house on 536 Seymour near Pender Ben z Noodle house restaurant is down and under construction and up for lease.. ouch that was quick

Morton’s restaurant closed a bit of a surprise

Lucy Mae Brown restaurant went by.. absolutely boarded up.. relocating maybe .. anyone know

Bogarts is still closed and does not have a website.  Err are they really coming back?

Thanks vanfoodster, Stephanie S, Glowbal_Group, 24hoursvan, urbandiner, martiniboys, scoutmagazine for the news