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DINING Frommer
The Five Sails
999 Canada Place Way
(In the Pan-Pacific Hotel)
tel.: 604/891-2892
Location: In the Pan-Pacific Hotel
Cuisine: Canadian
Price Category: Very Expensive
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The Five Sails's view of Coal Harbour, Stanley Park, and the Coast Mountains is utterly magic, a vision of the rugged nirvana that is Vancouver. Even more enchanting, the Five Sails's food is a match for the view. Indeed, there are times when you'll forget where you are simply because you are concentrating so much on what you're eating. Seafood is where the menu really shines. Those dining in twosomes and feeling flush should not pass up on the Voyage of Discovery, a spectacular fresh seafood platter featuring tuna crab roll, freshly shucked oysters with red wine mignonette, smoked wild sockeye, scallop ceviche, and other delicacies too numerous to list. Other inventive appetizers include an albacore tuna hot pot, and Dungeness crab ravioli. Soups include inventive offerings such as a chilled fresh Dungeness crab and green pea soup, as well as the traditional lobster bisque. Mains feature pan-seared halibut, oven-roasted lobster, crispy sea bass, and a slow-roasted B.C. sockeye. Ingredients are excellent here, and preparation is inventive without being too clever. The non-piscivorous are catered to with a trio of duck, beef, and lamb mains, and though they are excellent, well prepared dishes, this is not really where the menu's heart lies. Go fish or don't go, would really be my advice. The cellar offers a substantial list of wines from B.C. and around the world. Service is knowledgeable, friendly, and faultless.

Main courses C$25-C$38 (US$19-US$29); tasting menu C$55-C$65 (US$41-US$49).Open: Daily 6-10pm.Reservations recommended.Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V.SkyTrain: Waterfront.


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