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High Boat Cafe
Category: Restaurants Diners Diners [Edit]
415 Esplanade WNorth Vancouver, BC V7M 1A7
(604) 904-3832
One review for High Boat Cafe
1 review in English
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Review from Michael A.
North Vancouver, BC
9/2/2011
Being taken to places like this makes me want to start reviewing my friends, and by reviewing i mean, rethinking.
I hope that when you approach and enter this establishment that there is only ONE thing that makes you have to adapt your thinking, and not EIGHT! Like going to an R2-D2 themed cafe for instance. You would have to adapt your expectations to be interested in, or amused by the atmosphere as it would be terribly distracting and staggeringly annoying if you didn't (sorry nerds, but i'm right).
Hopefully when you arrive, the cranky, bald, idiot wearing a wife-beater, pyjama bottoms and crocs, yelling from the front door stoop at a nice old couple, who may be inadvertently parking in one of the diner's unmarked parking spaces, doesn't prove later to be your chef and chief entertainer, but if it happens to you, i hope you can adapt to that. I hope too that when you enter the converted office trailer that there is at least one other person in there with a set of car keys, just to help you justify the chef's dilemma regarding parking spaces for his many patrons. We saw not a soul... for an hour... Sunday morning... Poor old people.
The food is not terrible, but unimpressive for people who like good food and thankfully priced accordingly. It's a shame that the atmosphere isn't quirky enough to make it delightfully distracting from the food. The view from the narrow patio is really nice though... It will make my long list of nice places to sit with no food. I hate to come down so hard on such an underdog (everyone has to start somewhere) but chef jamacrocs really set the tone by being an unapologetic dick. Also, it's 2011, in Canada, get a debit machine... and clean up the place... and dress for work... Ugh. There's more, but i feel bad just thinking about it all.
