Restaurant Review!
La Buca l Vancouver l 4025 MacDonald St. / 604.730.6988
San Francisco has this amazing ability to generate stellar neighborhood restaurants. Competent yet unpretentious, there is something wholly democratic about the way that they bring a philosophy of simple cooking, excellent ingredients, and a warm room together. You’ll find old couples who have lived in the neighborhood forever and adventurous eaters from the other side of the city seated elbow to elbow in a convivial atmosphere.
Imagine my surprise when I came back to the city to find a picturesque storefront on a quiet little shopping area on Macdonald Street. I’ve had the fortune to dine at La Buca twice and I’ve found that they do a lot of things well. The wine list is very reasonable. A starter of a poached egg on grilled asparagus and Parma ham was wonderful but not as absolutely outstanding as a Caesar salad with whole leaves of romaine hearts and a deep fried anchovy filet. The garlic bread consisted of garlic paste with loads of olive oil on poppy seed bread. The crowd favorite is the veal Osso Buco with fall off the bone tenderness and a little spoon for you to dig out the marrow. My friend’s sausage and green pepper pasta was also well executed with a generous sprinkling of herbed bread crumbs to give the dish some extra crunch. The blood orange panna cotta was excellent and the chocolate truffles we ordered was a good foil as we went back and forth between the two.
I am charmed to find that Vancouver finally has that neighborhood restaurant which doesn’t sacrifice stellar cooking for a sense of Civitas. That pang of longing that I sometimes feel for the Bay Area has diminished of late.
La Buca l Vancouver l 4025 MacDonald St. / 604.730.6988
San Francisco has this amazing ability to generate stellar neighborhood restaurants. Competent yet unpretentious, there is something wholly democratic about the way that they bring a philosophy of simple cooking, excellent ingredients, and a warm room together. You’ll find old couples who have lived in the neighborhood forever and adventurous eaters from the other side of the city seated elbow to elbow in a convivial atmosphere.
Imagine my surprise when I came back to the city to find a picturesque storefront on a quiet little shopping area on Macdonald Street. I’ve had the fortune to dine at La Buca twice and I’ve found that they do a lot of things well. The wine list is very reasonable. A starter of a poached egg on grilled asparagus and Parma ham was wonderful but not as absolutely outstanding as a Caesar salad with whole leaves of romaine hearts and a deep fried anchovy filet. The garlic bread consisted of garlic paste with loads of olive oil on poppy seed bread. The crowd favorite is the veal Osso Buco with fall off the bone tenderness and a little spoon for you to dig out the marrow. My friend’s sausage and green pepper pasta was also well executed with a generous sprinkling of herbed bread crumbs to give the dish some extra crunch. The blood orange panna cotta was excellent and the chocolate truffles we ordered was a good foil as we went back and forth between the two.
I am charmed to find that Vancouver finally has that neighborhood restaurant which doesn’t sacrifice stellar cooking for a sense of Civitas. That pang of longing that I sometimes feel for the Bay Area has diminished of late.
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