AWARDS
Restaurant of the Year
Vancouver Magazine, 2008
(fourth consecutive)
Best Service, Gold
Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, 2008
(inaugural winner, second consecutive)
Bartender of the Year, David Wolowidnyk
Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, 2008
Best Last Course, Honourable Mention
Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, 2008
Best Overall
Georgia Straight Golden Plate Awards
Readers’ Choice, 2008
Best Service
Georgia Straight Golden Plate Awards
Readers’ Choice, 2008
Wine List Award, Platinum (Best Overall)
Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, 2008
Restaurant of the Year (among only five properties worldwide)
Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report, 2008
Best Service
Westender, 2008
Best Service
Urban Diner Restaurant Awards, 2008
Best Formal Restaurant
Urban Diner Restaurant Awards, 2008
Bartender of the Year, David Wolowidnyk
Urban Diner Restaurant Awards, 2008
‘Four Star Award’
Mobil Travel Guide, 2008
'Best of' Award of Excellence
Wine Spectator, 2008
Best Dessert
Readers' Choice, Vancouver View magazine, 2007
Best Overall, Gold
Georgia Straight Golden Plate Awards,
Readers' Choice, 2007
Best Fine Dining, Gold
Georgia Straight Golden Plate Awards,
Readers' Choice, 2007
Best West Side Dining, Gold
Georgia Straight Golden Plate Awards,
Critics' Choice, 2007
Best Last Course, Silver
Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, 2006
Birks Silver Spoon Award
Voted by the Concierge and Clefs d'Or as the best restaurant overall for cuisine, service and ambiance, 2006
Ranked No. 1 in BC for Food & Service
Vancouver Zagat Survey, 2006 & 2007
West named as one of the "world’s hottest restaurants"
Food & Wine magazine ‘To Go List’, 2006
West restaurant named in “ten of the best, worldwide”
UK Sunday Independent, 2006
Best BC Cuisine
Where Magazine Memorable Meal Awards, 2006
REVIEWS
“Dining at West is a culinary adventure that never fails to surprise and satisfy. Chef Warren Geraghty honors the beauty of fresh local foods with creativity, balance and sophistication. With one of Vancouver’s best wine cellars and an excellent staff, West delivers an unforgettable dining experience.”
Donald Olson, Frommer’s Vancouver & Victoria
“There definitely were a lot of Wow! moments and some ‘best yets’...I have never tasted better octopus in a restaurant.”
Vancouver Sun, 2008
“A leader and an inspiration to the area’s restaurant scene, as well as a consistent gauge of how far BC’s local cuisine has come.”
EAT magazine, 2008
“West (Gold) under Brian Hopkins, gets highest praise: ‘So smoothly executed,’ one judge remarked, ‘you don’t even know how they did it until you realize you’re not walking out of the restaurant – you’re floating’.”
Vancouver magazine, 2008
“It’s not just that his knowledge of booze is encyclopedic. His palate borders on the extra-sensory; his sixth sense for what his guests are looking for, extraordinary.”
Vancouver magazine on Bar Manager David Wolowidnyk, 2008
“All eyes are turned towards West”
The Globe & Mail, 2008
“The meal itself started with handmade Yukon-Gold-potato gnocchi, roasted tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and basil. If they don’t have this on the menu in heaven, I’m not going.”
Vancouver magazine, 2008
“Currently the best restaurant in the city, delivering flawless food...”
Oasis magazine, 2008
“The entire front-of-house crew at this South Granville institution runs it with an admirable level of professionalism and attention to detail, lifting it just enough above the rest to remind other restaurants what to strive for without going to far.”
Westender, 2008
“An ideal choice for gourmets in search of an inventive, eclectic meal, as well as those who crave local flavor and seasonal ingredients.”
Mobil Travel Guide, 2008
“West epitomizes the best of the West Coast food experience…The service is welcoming and the food makes you want to stay a while. A long while.”
Vancouver magazine, 2007
“Rhonda Viani delivers with her chocolate semolina cake with calvados cream, or her chocolate tasting plate with luxe chocolate ice cream—but don’t overlook her excellent fruit-based desserts that change with the seasons.”
Vancouver magazine, 2007
“One of the great meals of our lives.”
KiaOra magazine, New Zealand, 2007
"West, meanwhile, is a soigné white linen rendezvous"
The National Post, Canada's Best Restaurants, October 2006
“The jewel in the city’s culinary crown exquisite in every way…extraordinary Pacific Northwest dishes with divine flavours that are paired with superb wines graciously served by an exemplary staff in a stunning West Side room”
Zagat Survey 2006
“exquisite versions of classically based dishes.”
Food & Wine, 2006
“This is modern, West Coast dining incarnate: accessible, intimate, and lively"
Epicurious, 2006
“At West – repeat winner for Restaurant of the Year – our critics found the ideal confluence of relaxed confidence, good taste and divine food”
Vancouver magazine, 2006
“I had one of the best meals of my life at West….This is a restaurant where details matter, high standards rein, and cooking is a fine art.”
Frommer’s Travel Guide, 2006
“One of the city’s most skilled chefs [creates] food that’s a west coast spin on the traditional.”
Delicious magazine, Australia, 2006
“The very emblem of Vancouver cuisine.”
Toronto Life Magazine, August, 2005
“For amazingly fine dining that utilizes absolutely fresh local seasonal ingredients, you can’t go wrong with West… a culinary highpoint of the city”
Frommer’s Travel Guide, Best of Vancouver 2005
“Innovative, considered plates based on the freshest ingredients.”
Where magazine, 2005