Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts Bistro 101

Restaurant: Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts Bistro 101

Area: Vancouver, BC

Address: 1505 West 2nd Ave, Vancouver BC

1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent

Food: 4.5

Service: 5

Price: Fair

So for some reason I couldn't find these photos in my computer until now! Apparently I put them in the wrong folder >.<

So my mom really wanted to come here when she came to visit us from Taiwan, she kept going on and on about this place and since Faith and I also really wanted to come here for a long time, our dad decided to take us! This post would be slightly different because I'm not going to discuss much about the food because every day they change their menu, which I personally really like because then you'll never get bored of the food they serve there!

water

Tea

On the table:

complementary

This was a cucumber wrapped with BBQ duck with cherry tomatoes and green onion. It was really nice and refreshing to eat.

This was also complementary, there was a mini baguette, cheese stick with rosemary, goat cheese and green onion scone and bacon bread. The breads was all flavorful and we liked how they had a lot of different flavors and they were all nicely presented.

 

This was the butter that came with the bread. There was herbs, curry, smoked paprika and salted butter. We liked the curry one the best (it tasted the best) and they all complimented the different varieties of bread.

Asian Mixed in Radicchio Cup, this had (from the description) pan fried scallops, bacon bits and honey Dijon vinaigrette. Faith didn't like the salad, it had too much vinaigrette and overwhelm the whole salad.

Grilled Lamb Chop on Baby Potato Salad. The grilled lamp chop was soft and tender, medium rare, smoky and was simply nice to eat.

Pork Tenderloin, this had (other than the pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon) blueberry gastrique ( a thick sauce), mashed sour cream yam, bok choy and cherry tomatoes. The yams were really good but Faith didn't like the blueberry sauce tasted kind of weird and out of place (her opinion might not be yours), she said it was like eating meat with a sweet jam...

Oven Roasted Cornish Game Hen, had a tomato basil Veloute and Purple Potato. The chicken was really soft/tender but a little dry, the yam was steamed and were also really soft but nice to eat, the tomatoes when you bite into it gave you a burst of juice.

Pan Fried Mahi Mahi Cubes, had mint sweet pea pilaf. (I don't remember how this one tasted)

Chocolate Ice Cream on Biscotti Crumble.This was the most simplest desert that they had but I liked this one the most.

Summer Fruit Shortcake. I found the shortcake way too dry but it had a nice lemon flavor to it and crunch on top.

Pistachio Cake. This had goat milk ice cream, fresh figs and a piece of crystallize sugar with pistachio. Faith found the goat milk too strong (but it was mainly because she wasn't use to the flavor)  


The service was excellent, they answered all our questions and explained/ talked about the food and what it was. They were polite and always checked up on us (but not to the point that it was annoying) and asked if we needed anything else. The food was good, everything was flavorful! They help find the answers to the questions I had on their classes and teen camps! We would definitely come back to try out their new menu!