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Pictorial Review of Knight and Day Restaurant at Lougheed and Boundary in East Vancouver
AHA MEDIA decided to go for breakfast at Knight and Day Restaurant in East Vancouver
3684 Lougheed Hwy
Vancouver, BC
Tel: 604-299-7701
Fax: 604-299-1922
This is a restaurant that is open 24 hours except on Sundays when they close early.
Well worth the drive out to this East Van location, AHA MEDIA walked in hungry for a quick breakfast and were immediately greeted by friendly staff who sat us down to our table.
We didn’t even have time to look at the two enormous aquariums stocked with giant sized fish which is a nice calming and welcoming focal point upon Knight and Day’s entrance way. It was peaceful atmosphere with other couples enjoying their meals, judging by the smiles on their faces
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Our waitress was a very sweet, lovely and vivacious young woman named “Shane” (her nickname ) who was of Iranian and Kurdish descent. She was prompt and was very nurturing in her service, always there at the right time to refill our drinks and make light conversation with us. 🙂
Since we were on a time budget, she responded by quickly bringing out our dishes and cooked to perfection!
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My dining companion ordered Steak and Eggs which were smothered in Grilled Mushrooms.
He was surprised at the amount of food! “Wow!”
While eating his steak, he exclaimed that it was so tender, he could cut it with a fork! 🙂 ” How’s that for a breakfast steak? , he announced as he happily ate his breakfast with great gusto!
I ordered a Cheese Omelette :
I was really amazed at the amount of cheese in the omelette! I was very happy! 🙂
We were lucky to sit by the two gigantic aquariums which provided us some visual entertainment while we had a nice conversation. It was a very relaxing time to eat at Knight and Day Restaurant despite our tightly packed schedule. 🙂
Our bill with drinks came to only $25.50. For the quality of food and service, we expected to see a higher amount, so we tipped our waitress some more 🙂
Our experience at Knight and Day was exceptional! 🙂 Lovely and attentive waitress, Very Good Food, and Great value! We were very happy with our East Vancouver food choice compared to a more recent Downtown Vancouver restaurant review of ours which was more expensive coupled with bouts of inattentive service to our table.
As we were leaving, our wonderful waitress called out ” Please come back soon !” – When was the last time, a waitress wanted you to come back and truely meant what she said? 🙂
Just that one final comment alone from her was a nice finishing touch to our breakfast and a great start to our busy day!
AHA MEDIA will definitely be coming back to Knight and Day at Lougheed and Boundary! 🙂
Pictorial review of La Casita Mexican Restaurant in Gastown, Vancouver
Nice and quiet during this early evening 🙂 We chose our own seat by the window, and our server was a friendly guy, who was very patient as we looked over the menu. After we had ordered our two entrees, we were brought fresh homemade chips and salsa. 🙂
A welcoming atmosphere awaited a whole crowd of post-game Happy Canuck fans. We were glad we decided to dine early to avoid the big rush of hungry folks.
Here is a dining special. And considering the HUGE portion of food with a beer, $11 is a great deal!
I had a small flauta meal, made with potato and feta cheese, topped with green salsa – DELICIOUS and very filling! Very reasonably priced also
My dinner companion had a burito on its own. It came drenched in cheese! Supremely filling and tasty – he remarked! 🙂
Our bill was very reasonable, and our waiter was always very attentive throughout our dinner.
The surprising finish of our meal, was the chalkboard sign encouraging everyone to stop and have lunch tomorrow, after shopping at the Army and Navy Legendary Shoe Sale which begins at 8 A.M. – It’s nice to see the neighborly feel of our area 🙂
All in all, it was a great meal for a reasonable price on a beautiful spring evening in Vancouver’s Gastown area 🙂
101 West Cordova St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 1E1, Canada
(604) 646-2444
AHA MEDIA dines at Uncle Henry Cafe in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Having passed by Uncle Henry Cafe many times, AHA MEDIA decided to have lunch today while on our way to a few events 🙂 In speaking with the owner, we found out that it has been at its present location for over 15 years! This worthwhile rare gem of a diner is still dishing up REAL home cooked meals and taste with a smile! 🙂
Uncle Henry Cafe
547 Hastings Street East
Vancouver, BC V6A 1P9,
(604) 254-3629
Upon entering, there’s two dining rooms that one can sit in and on today’s hot sunny day, this was the first restaurant we found, that was cool in temperature – like it had already turned on its air conditioning. Very considerate to think of customer’s comfort and well being in the today’s summer-like temperatures 🙂
Reasonably priced, and serving the Vancouver DTES community well, the food comes quickly with an almost forgotten care and taste of a great home cooked meal! 🙂
The place was clean and the atmosphere was fresh inside with no cloying heavy food cooking odours – one would normally expect to feel and smell in a cafe.There is something very nostalgic to see plain brown skinned potatoes, all scrubbed clean and hand cut up into wedges for our lunch! 🙂
Reading material was provided, from National Geographic Magazines to thick hard cover books for those choosing to linger over their meals. The owner even shyly gave us a shiny Travel brochure of Vietnam, when we were done browsing our original magazines with our meals 🙂
Classic bathing suit photography and mirrors mingled with hockey memorabila adorned the walls – a Nice 50’s to 70’s touch . It made our environment peaceful and serene to be in, and added to the great enjoyment of our lunch.
It is very RARE for us as seasoned diners who have eaten from small food stands to upscale 4 star restaurants to have this attentive and good natured anticipatory care from the owner of an establishment.
Usually one would only expect to have great customer service from higher priced and higher luxury restaurant. One does gets what one pays for – Greater money = Greater Service, but here in Uncle Henry Cafe, situated on East Hastings street – there is REAL genuine warmth, attention, friendship and pure classic hospitality 🙂
AHA MEDIA was being treated one of the family and all this upon our first visit to the restaurant! 🙂
Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA enjoys his fresh, hand cut potato wedge dipped in Mayonaise – the European way! 🙂
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Uncle Henry has it all in the DTES, service, smile, surroundings and great food. 🙂 Other places around attempt to have 1) either the ” Nouveau DINER ” food appeal but NOT the quality of meal, 2) have surly, bad tempered wait staff or 3) the atmosphere isn’t right for a pleasant dining experience. AHA MEDIA can really see why Uncle Henry has been around for over 15 years! 🙂
Wow! 🙂 This is why the Vancouver Downtown Eastside Community is rich in spirit and friendships. There can be real bonds that develop in our neighborhood and what better way to show that you’re loved, than to be served a Greal Meal for a Very Excellet price by an honest, humble and happy man?
Our full meals for 2 came to $7.50, (before tips ) less than the usual price for a small appetizer or a martini in a fancier restaurant.
If you’re in our Vancouver Downtown Eastside area, please try Uncle Henry Cafe 🙂 You’ll be treated well 🙂
AHA MEDIA is already looking forward to our next meal at Uncle Henry Cafe on East Hastings street 🙂
Car accident at Main and Cordova in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
A car accident occured right at the corner of Main and Cordova in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) Luckily, because of the proximity of the accident to the stations, the Vancouver Police Dept, Ambulance and Vancouver Fire Fighters Dept only had to go a 1/4 of a block to quickly help the accident victim.
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
AHA MEDIA attended the first performance of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Ballet BC
AHA MEDIA attended the first performance of ” A Streetcar Named Desire” by Ballet BC at Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Downtown Vancouver.
” Based on the 1947 Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, A Streetcar Named Desire is a highly dramatic contemporary ballet. This full-length work includes Alleyne’s unique signature choreography as well an innovative lighting, set and costume design, and an original jazz score. Wrought iron fretwork and hanging Spanish moss help to capture the sensuality and moodiness of the Old French Quarter in New Orleans”
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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A Message from John Alleyne, Artistic Director of Ballet BC
“It is a great pleasure to see this powerful ballet appear on stage once again. Premiered to great acclaim in 2006, A Streetcar Named Desire is based on Tennesse William’s theatrical tour de force and brings us themes of vitality, fragility, cruelty, promiscuity, and social realism; themes which we are reminded of from the issues and images of life around us. In particular, while creating this ballet I was struck by the struggle between gentility and commoness as well as the dying aristocracy and vital working class. This full lengt ballet would not be what it is without the music of BC’s own composer Tobin Stokes. Tonight you will hear the recorded version of his original score that was part of a true symbiosis of music and dance. Thank you for your continued support of Ballet British Columia and please enjoy the performance.”
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As it was AHA MEDIA ‘s first time at the ballet, we were mesmerized and awed by the sheer agility and grace of all the dancers. We were amazed how all elements of a successful and professional performance all seemlessly blended together to entertain the audience.
From how lighting added to the mood as well as the music helped captured each moment from raw emotion, to extreme joy between characters to touching, heart-breaking poignant scenes. The stage moved from scene to scene smoothly and the dancer’s beautiful and appropriately themed costumed added to the telling of the story.
Being at the ballet is quite an rare, beautiful and artistic event to enjoy, there are no words spoken, only the fluidity of the dancer’s bodies to emote the stories being told the audience.
A Streetcar Named Desire’s original music glorious costumes, appropriate props and mood lighting all coordinated flawlessly to give us that all around ereathral, and life changing experience 🙂
All scenes are performed on one stage, from “memories” of the past being enacted by other dancers to other background performers helping build and round out the main stage scene – giving a truly mult-faceted event for the human mind and soul to learn, absorb and enjoy! 🙂
What a truly memorable experience for AHA MEDIA! We feel we have grown as humans and artists. We feel more emotionally intelligent for having watched a performance by Ballet BC. As we usually have been covering news and event, it’s a blessing to come and see a live show! We felt that our souls were nourished with the beauty of the dancers acting out the story of “A Streetcar Named Desire” 🙂
This is truly the best type of performance art, where the epitome of our best dancers are able to translate to the audience what’s happening in the story! 🙂
“Every picture tells a story!” – Ballet BC
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If AHA MEDIA were to echo parrellisms from the performance of “A Streetcar Named Desire” where it depicts the ” struggle between gentility and commonness as well as the dying aristocracy and vital working class”, We as hyper local community reporters and citizen journalists from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside know very well the incoming and ongoing changes to our area – our neighborhood faces a shift in our community dynamics with the revitalization and gentrification that goes on …to even how some of our folks experiencing grief, loss, trauma, mental illness every day.
“Suddenly, Blanche is all-alone. She has lost her grip on reality, but she smiles and is more old-fashioned and gracious than ever. A doctor and medical attendant help Blanche to her feet. Blanche is calm now, ready to depend henceforward on “the kindness of strangers.” Wherever they may be taking her, it will be better and fuller than her past life has been.”
AHA MEDIA seeks to report on our neighborhood and to give a voice to our Vancouver Downtown Eastside citizens who may be facing struggles everyday which have the same “themes of vitality, fragility, cruelty, promiscuity, and social realism; themes which we are reminded of from the issues and images of life around us” from the performance “A Streetcar Named Desire”
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AHA MEDIA encourages everybody, ( if they’re able ) to watch a performance of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Ballet BC , on now from April 16 – 18th! 🙂 http://www.balletbc.com
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