Wine & Spirits - February 2018 - 18

Mak N Ming

You'll find the city's sole all-natural
wine program at Burdock & Co., a little Mount Pleasant restaurant run by
Andrea Carlson, one of the pioneers
of foraged cuisine in Vancouver. Last
autumn, dishes like elk bavette with
tomatillo-epazote chimichurri and
chanterelle mushrooms competed for
attention with Carlson's legendary buttermilk fried chicken, which she serves
with pickle mayo and a dusting of dill
powder. Wine director Matt Sherlock's
tight wine descriptions make it easy to
navigate the list, where Okanagan indie
heroes like Lock & Worth shoulder
up to icons like Movia from Slovenia;
Cornelissen's Susucaru, for instance, is
translated into "hibiscus flowers, balsamic, raspberries, iron-cool-kid juice
grown on an active volcano."
Burdock & Co., 2702 Main St.;
604-879-0077, burdockandco.com

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WINE & SPIRITS

FEBRUARY 2018

Café Medina

It's open only breakfast through lunch,
but Café Medina is a must. Slide into a
banquette along the wall of windows,
facing the open kitchen and the bustling barista station, and take in the
scent of merguez lamb sausage and
espresso. Ingredients are local, down
to the Canadian heritage grains, but
the menu is as global as your mind can
wander. Double that for the cocktails.
I recommend starting with a Samanyolu, a savory blend of gin, Fernet
Branca, Odd Society crème de cassis,
juniper-and-black-tea syrup that will
spoil you for iced tea for life. Don't
forget to save room for house-infused
crème de cacao-spiked coffee with your
Liège waffles with salted caramel. Café
Medina reinforces that breakfast is the
most important meal of the day, and
breakfast cocktails are the best idea in
the universe.
Café Medina, 780 Richards St.;
604-879-3114, medinacafe.com

photo of Burdock & Co. by Allison Kuhl; Mak N Ming and St. Lawrence
by Glasfurd & Walker; Cafe Medina by Lili Watson

Burdock & Co.

The list isn't large at this new Kitsilano
restaurant, but wine lovers will want to
make a visit to sommelier Roger Maniwa,
one of the most thoughtful somms in
the city. With a stint at a sake brewery in
Japan and years working at local favorite Hawksworth, where his work garnered
him Vancouver Magazine's Sommelier of
the Year award in 2016, his knowledge is
as deep as his tastes are far-ranging. That's
an advantage when it comes to the complex French-Japanese-inspired tasting
menus put out by chef Makoto Ono (Mak)
and partner-pastry chef Amanda Cheng
(Ming), and it also keeps things surprising.
One recent night, fresh-caught Humboldt
squid met its Pacific match in the silky
Amamiduki Junmai Ginjo Sake while the
scents of the seaweed oil and spruce tips in
the poached-lobster course were picked up
by Punica's Samas, a Sicilian white. As with
the food, you'll never know what comes
next-only that it will be esoteric and
eye-opening.
Mak N Ming, 1629 Yew St.; 604-737-1155,
maknming.com


http://www.maknming.com http://www.burdockandco.com http://www.medinacafe.com

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