XIII: Refueling and Indulging

Last month, Vancouver's edition of the Metro newspaper released their top ten new restaurants of 2009. Being a food lover myself, and, let's face it, someone who lives each day of her life looking forward to her next meal, I was adamant on trying some of the restaurants out. One that stood out was Refuel, a re-imagining of its predecessor Fuel, which had closed down. It's also a sister restaurant to Campagnolo (see the night I ate Bambi), so I had high hopes.

I went with my friends Oli and Mylo and we ordered the cure's charcuterie (a selection of salumi), buttermilk fried polderside chicken, and hand rolled potato gnocchi. On the whole, everything was delicious, but I prefer Campagnolo or Nook for overall menu selection and flavour. Maybe I'm a bit biased because I love Italian food.

The three of us had great conversation as always and, having to end the night on a sweet note, we decided to go to True Confections for dessert. This required two short bus rides. While waiting for the #5 Robson bus, we were privy to the actions of a couple of traffic cops. One of them stopped a driver for having her high beams on. We watched the story unfold: she did not even know how to turn her high beams off, her two backseat passengers were not wearing seatbelts (this was unnoticed), and she left her car idle for about ten minutes. So many violations! And yet, we were glad to have some entertainment during the wait at the bus stop.

Let me just say that I love the black and white cake at True Confections. I shared half a piece with Mylo and also tried a rooibos honey tea latte and was thoroughly content with the evening's proceedings. It is Mylo and my last evening of indulgence before our two-week yoga extravaganza. I have to be at the studio by 6:45am on Monday! I hope I remember to sleep early on Sunday night...