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Category: American (New) [Edit]
1144 Homer StVancouver, BC V6B 2X6
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Yaletown
(604) 609-0901
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
14 reviews for Shakin' Not Stirred
All Reviews
Shakin' Not Stirred
8/9/2010
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GROUPON.
Without a groupon, I probably would never have noticed or cared about this spot.
It's essentially a hole in the wall (which made it hard to find) and was pretty vacant on a Sunday evening.
We got big booth and started off quickly with some cocktails (I rolled my ankle and I have found that it hurts less with more cocktails in me).
Drinks were fast, food was fairly quick.
We split the chicken penne and a ceaser. Ok, so on the ceaser, it was just a few leaves of romaine with some dressing sprayed on it. Compeltely deconstructed. So confusing.
The chicken was good, black pepper gave it a good spice.
Food was confusing, but good. But groupon this, its a bit pricey.
Shakin' Not Stirred
8/24/2010
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Nice try, but no cigar
SNS is just O.K, nothing innovative here.
Jessica O is right, the service was great, but they lack in a lot of areas. The decor doesn't make sense. The servers dress as though they are going to work as a go go dancers after work and the cheesy TV's on the wall playing much music were too much. Bizzarre style. Wouldn't say it's anything i'd choose in designing a restaurant.
A year back a friend and I had dinner at this location under another name. Can't remember what it was called, but we had an atocious time. I really sincerely hope that this new restaurant isn't the same owners doing a second try at the restaurant game, becuase if that is the case, then you have majorly failed!
The food was tasty, nothing to call home about. I liked it. Nice presentation on the Duck Sliders that came with fresh hand cut fries. The desert was good, but the crust on the cheesecake was burnt! so we ate around it.
Wont be returning. I had great conversation with my buddy Fiona, but we'll go somewhere else next time.
Shakin' Not Stirred
8/13/2010
The BF and I visited SNS last night with a Groupon, and expected it to be a cocktail bar with elegant snackies. Uh uh.
The menu looked like it belonged in a sports bar, with very basic attempts at West Coast Fusion-y fare. A few pastas, a few mains and a lot of schizophrenic appies. I really don't understand when a chef can't seem to nail down a concept for their restaurant!
Our server was spectacular, and for her service alone I was tempted to give four stars. The drink menu, however, really threw us for a loop - there were very few choices. For a placed named after James Bond's martini preference I was expecting a list a mile long. Where are all the innovative drinks? I had the bartender make me a Lemon Drop, which is not on the menu, and it was decent.
The food arrived, and it was....ok.
Roasted beet salad with goat cheese was decent - the pine nuts were a nice touch, and the dressing was just acidic enough. We added prawns to the salad for only 4 bucks, and they were probably the best part of the meal - 6 big guys cooked really well with a nice grilled flavour. The goat cheese, however, tasted pretty cheap, kind of Costco-ish.
The crab cakes topped with quail eggs had nice flavour, but were so dry I actually started choking as I swallowed! The two cakes were really tall and cylindrical, which gave them a whimsical appearance, but that one tiny (slightly overcooked) quail egg on top was not enough to moisten the whole thing. Perhaps they could serve the same quantity as 4 cakes instead? We asked for lemon wedges and that really improved the dryness.
One more thing: the chipotle aioli thing is kind of played out - how about a new and interesting take on a dip to back away from the cliched Vancouver bar food standard? Flavoured bernaise or something original would have been really yummy!
That said, I don't think we'll be back, unless I see the yelp reviews get a lot better. I am giving three stars (when it kind of deserves two) because of the great service (she had reallllllly long brown hair.)
Shakin' Not Stirred
7/22/2010
As with many restaurants downtown and in Yaletown this place was pretty overrated and average. There are much better places that you can go for around the same amount of money in this area.
We ordered the chicken burger and the SNS burger. The chicken and lettuce in the first were clearly from Costco as I'm pretty sure I have it in my fridge at home, and the blue cheese on it was cheap quality. The SNS burger was good, but nothing that would stand out amongst the hundreds of other restaurant burgers in Vancouver.
The drinks were good and the service was kind but again, nothing above average.
Overall it wasn't horrible, but there are much better options in this area. I won't be going back.
Shakin' Not Stirred
8/18/2010
Went with groupon, otherwise I probably would not have found nor tried this place as its a bit hard to notice.
Service was pretty good. The server might have been new, but he tried really hard to do a good job. Spilt water on me, but very apologetic. No worries, it was hot anyways...
Drinks were good. Made me a great Mojito (which isn't on the menu).
Ceviche was good, a bit too acidic, but still very much edible.
Tacos were really good as was the burger.
I will be back, I only wish a bought another groupon!! ;)
Shakin' Not Stirred
7/18/2010
There are times. When I eat somewhere. And all I'm thinking about. Is going home and yelping about it.
There are times when I eat somewhere. And all I want to do immediately afterwards. Is find the nearest tall building. Get to the roof. And shout. "THAT WAS SO! FUCKING! HORRIBLE!!"
Look misters and misses, it's nothing personal. I'm sure you're all fine people off the job and in your private lives, but I gotta say, that was the absolute worst dining experience I've had in years
years
Years.
Let me count the ways:
1) When ordering, I asked the server if the bartender could make drinks as doubles, and how much that would cost. She cheerfully said she'd find out for me. Never got an answer.
2) When the cocktails came, they both tasted pretty crappy (Dark & Stormy, Vesper). Well, no, the Dark & Stormy just tasted like watered down ginger beer, the Vesper tasted like crap. I asked her if the bartender might mind breathing just a touch more Lillet blanc on the Vesper. She said she'd bring me a half shot right away. Never got that half shot.
3) We ordered a beet salad, a Mexican coconut milk ceviche, and duck sliders. The beet salad took about 25 minutes to make. We watched it sit on the window ledge between the kitchen and the dining room, languishing, for about 10 minutes. It looked like their system was to have one chick take all the orders and two other staffers delivering food and bussing tables. Nobody was around. Our server chick was sitting at a table near the entrance, chatting it up with a coupla other patrons with whom, I guess, she was quite friendly. Of the other two, one was MIA entirely, and the other was taking 2 minutes to deliver each plate coming out of the kitchen (he had to figure out what he was looking at, which order slip it corresponded with, which table to take it to, then which diner it belonged to. And he had to do it all in John Fucking Woo slo mo). Finally my girl got so pissed off that she just walked right up to the window, asked the cook if that was our salad, and grabbed it herself. None of the waitstaff even noticed.
4) The beet salad was supposed to have pine nuts and a balsamic vinaigrette. It came with untoasted walnut halves and an unidentifiable, unemulsified, white vinegar and oil mixture.
5) It took fully 50 minutes for them to finally finish making our remaining two plates from the time at which we ordered. No, they were not remotely operating at capacity. At this point we'd made known that we brought out the salad ourselves, so it only took them 5 minutes to bring us those two plates. An improvement over impossibly bad, well done. [Golf claps].
6) I'd ordered yam fries instead of regular fries with my sliders. I got regular fries.
7) In time, they replaced my regular fries with yam fries. The yam fries were limp, limp, limp, a coupla chunks were badly burnt, but otherwise they were ok. Well seasoned if a bit salty.
8) My duck sliders were... kinda ok. Unremarkable in every way. The "baby greens" turned out to be watercress sprouts. A bad substitution, but hey, at least it was *edible*.
9) The coconut milk ceviche was just an absolute clusterfuck of bad. All I could taste was a LOT of chopped tomatoes, a LOT of lime, a large dose of red peppers, some vaguely chewy unidentifiable seafood, and some green onions. It wasn't underseasoned: there was quite literally no salt, no seasoning at all. It was supposed to be accented with coconut milk... yes there was some white-ish liquid at the bottom of the cup, but it didn't taste like coconut milk, it tasted like lime juice and tomato water. An absolute. Clusterfuck. Of bad.
10) Server nicely asked about and listened to our grievances, but nothing was comped, no apologies, no excuses. We had a groupon, true, but we still ended up paying $20 on top of the groupon. Not a single cent. Not a single cent. Not a single cent of it was worth it.
On the plus side, the servers were nice, if abominably incompetent. The décor's... ok. Everything else was abysmally abysmally abysmuh-fucking-ohlly horrible.
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Shakin' Not Stirred
3/20/2010
Don't let some of the bad reviews fool you.
This place was overrun during the olympics and it seemed like they just couldn't meet the demand.
I've been several times and get great service, AMAZING food, and the best damned Ceaser(drink) in the city.
Shakin' Not Stirred
2/28/2010
I went there for supper with coworkers after getting beers, during the Olympics.
I was meaning to try it out because of the theme. I have to admit to have been heavily disappointed. The theme was not prevalent, the food was meh.
And there was a 18% auto-gratuity applied to the bill. You know, because it was the Olympic gouging. That itself make me put ONE star over a rating that was already low to start with.
Shakin' Not Stirred
4/10/2010
One of the best restaurants I have been to in a long while!
Went to SNS for the first time tonight. Didn't have any expectations as I had never heard of it before, but upon entering in, the atmosphere was great! Elegant and sleek, with a DJ blasting music on the speakers. The servers were very attentive, offered suggestions and my male friends agreed that they are attractive. I guess that's a bonus in their books!
When we initially received the menu, I was a little wary. I had not eaten the whole day and was very hungry. For the prices listed, I was worried that their servings would be teeny tiny. Anyways, my friends and I ordered the baked seafood, yam fries, wings and the ribs to share. I was very surprised when our order came and the portions were actually a good decent size!
The baked seafood was amazing. Soft, light and delicious. The yam fries are the best! Didn't have plenty of the wings/ribs as they aren't my type, but my friends said they were delicious!
Great experience, will definitely be coming back with more of my friends!
Shakin' Not Stirred
11/17/2009
Unfortunately, SNS has de-bondified nearly their entire restaurant except for the martini names, and prices on the menu. So if you're looking to get a full James Bond type experience, it's not going to happen.
However, the food here was excellent. The Yam fries came in a huge portion and the roast chicken I had was delicious. The staff was also very friendly and welcoming. Also, the bartender looks like a young Tina Fey. Which I didn't say because she probably hears it 20 times a day and gets tired of it.
Shakin' Not Stirred
7/13/2009
A "Bond-esque" restaurant in Yaletown with a thematic drink menu that will rock your martini world! The prices are awesome with $5 Chilean wine ($20/bottle) that tastes nice. The food is delicious. The Flamethrower Pasta was not spicy enough for me but was a savoury dish. I definitely will visit again to taste more of the menu as their tapas look scrumptious!
The decor is modern with plasma televisions on every wall, funky background music and with just the right touch of classic photos, posters and memorabilia of the distinguished gentleman, Bond, James Bond.
If you don't like it shaken, get it stirred. You'll enjoy it.
Shakin' Not Stirred
5/29/2009
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Smoked salmon stuffed inside an organic chicken leg... Double O Hell Ya!
I have got to give them some major credit for experimenting with such a wide range of flavours. They pull it off as smooth as Bond himself and mix up a mean Dirty Vodka Martini too. Pay the extra buck or two and get it with Ketel One or another tastier Vodka.
There's loads of flat screens about with sports or James Bond movies playing silently in the background.
Quite the view into the alley behind. It is a lot better than you would think.
I need to go back soon to test out the bartenders skills, and try another random menu item. This place is such a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of Yaletown next door.
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Shakin' Not Stirred
3/16/2010
Great restaurant and prices, especially for Yaletown! Unique and tasty dishes with friendly, attractive and attentive servers, what else could you ask for? Oh great ambiance and plasma tv's? They have several! We'll certainly come back!
Shakin' Not Stirred
2/28/2010
We waited for almost two hours to get in for the gold medal game after confirming yesterday that the seating was first-come-first-serve.
Not only did we not get a seat, we and the others in the line-up were treated horribly, staff told us the place was full as all of the tables were reserved!
Myself & the 7 people we were with were really dissapointed & won't be headed back there anytime soon!!!
