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Casa Verde Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Portuguese Portuguese [Edit]
3532 Commercial StVancouver, BC V5N 4E9
Neighbourhood: Kensington-Cedar Cottage
(604) 876-7647
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Caters:
- Yes
4 reviews for Casa Verde Restaurant
4 reviews in English
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Review from Louise G.
Delicious Peri-Peri Prawns
(Pic: http://www.yelp.ca/biz... )
I would suggest saving the bread that you get at the start of the meal, to use it to soak up the delicious sauce. Or bring a straw. There is no way you will be able to leave even a drop of this. In fact, failing to consume, devour, and delight in this sauce should be illegal.Listed in: 365-Day Challenge - Review A…, FTRs, Healthier Choices, Food Porn, There and Back Again
2 Previous Reviews: Show all »
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4/10/2010
A revisit of Casa Verde with friends. In sum, we had a giant slice of their cuisine: steak with a… Read more »
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Review from Marc D.
Vancouver, BC
10/28/2011 2 photos
* Portuguese petri dish *
Positives:
- Real Portuguese feel to the staff. Everything from the Portuguese language TV station playing on the large TV to the Portuguese being spoken between servers and kitchen.
- The piri piri chicken was well seasoned, and very moist. Photo: http://www.yelp.ca/biz...
Negatives:
- Service SUCKED. It took 15 minutes from walking in until I was acknowledged and told, "Sit wherever." Ok. I did. Then it was another 15 minutes until a menu was brought over. The restaurant was not crowded - they had maybe 4 tables of customers. So 30 minutes in I've got my menu and quickly make my choice. I then wait, and wait, and wait, for about 10 minutes until the waitress comes and I thought she was ready to take my order. Nope. She just took the plant on my table away and didn't take my order. Another 10 minutes and finally she took my order. So it was close to an hour before I had my order taken. Yikes. Amazingly the food came about 3 minutes after I ordered it. That was a bit frightening and just made me wonder how that happened?!?!?!
- The complimentary roll was served cold and with only packaged margarine. No butter available apparently. Meh. Photo: http://www.yelp.ca/biz...
- The salad was rather plain. It had iceberg lettuce and some very under ripe tomatoes.
- The fries were undercooked and could have used another minute or two in the fryer.
- Loud coughing and wheezing sound from the waitress who clearly had some type of cold/flu. It was a bit disturbing that I didn't see her wash her hands at all after coughing and wheezing into them before handling plates. Ugh.
- The place could use a good cleaning. It has accumulated a lot of dust over the years. I'm perfectly comfortable with hole in the walls, but this one was a bit past that in terms of basic dusting, etc. Combine that with the coughing waitress and it just felt like this place was a petri dish of nasty things.
So while the chicken was tasty I will not be back. -
Review from Cyndi H.
Vancouver, BC
11/22/2010
Down a random, seemingly abandoned Commercial (in name as well as function) street lies Casa Verde. Being the only restaurant on the ghost town strip, I was intrigued and surprised that a resto could survive for what I would assume to be a long time (it looks like an older restaurant). The two previous Yelp reviews gave me hope that this could be Vancouver's greatest secret, the hole in the wall to roundhouse kick all other hole in the walls. In actuality, it was super tasty, but not quite the mecca I had imagined.
To my sheepish embarrassment, I recommended that a group of vendors meet here after Make It (craft fair at the Croatian Cultural Centre) because it was uber close and supposedly awesome. We came and on first entering, I could sense disapproval throughout the group. Ok, maybe they don't share my love of hole-in-the-walls, that's ok, everything else will wow. It didn't...at first. The service was slow, we didn't receive our waters for a long time and had to ask for refills. I'm guessing that they're not used to getting 'big' groups (10 ppl) in at once. The food, with the exception of my friends veggie sandwich (the menu is meat centric and she wasn't digging the options) was pretty dang great and unique from other restos. I had pork and mussels over a bed of white wine sauce and fries. So tasty! For $16 my bowl of goodness was a fair price. The rest of the group seemed pretty pleased with their options. It's worth the wait if you don't mind the lack of atmosphere. No music, sports channel on, linoleum floors, fake plants.
Good... but not good for testing out on a big group!
Uniqueness of the food 4/5
Atmosphere 2/5
Service 2/5
Taste 4/5 -
Review from Rich N.
Vancouver, BC
6/20/2010
Love it!!!
They make you feel like part of the family. The sardines, chorizo and the chicken (on the weekends only) are all amazing.
Can't wait till the World Cup is over so they can get some rest!!!
