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Fable launches fundraiser as longtime staff face uncertain next steps (opens the original)
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The owners of Fable are asking Vancouverites to help support longtime staff following the closure of Fable Diner—and as another Fable restaurant prepares to shut its doors. Ron MacGillivray and Kathy Schleyer have launched a GoFundMe for employees of Fable Diner, which recently ended its decade-long run at Broadway and Main. “We want to do everything we can to support them now,” MacGillivray and Schleyer have written on the fundraiser's page. The campaign says 90 percent of donations will go dir
Reuben Major is doubling down on Commercial Drive with Violeté (opens the original)
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Five months ago, Violeté was still something of a construction site. When I spoke with restaurateur Reuben Major in late March, ahead of the European-inspired bistro's spring opening, he described the space as an "absolute war zone." The finishing touches were underway, friends-and-family service was still weeks away and, as with every other restaurant opening, there were not an insignifcant number of problems left to solve. "It's always chaos coming down to the wire," Major told me. "There's so
COFU’s pressed sushi is leaving Granville Island for Chinatown (opens the original)
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COFU is making some big changes this fall, including saying goodbye to the restaurant where it all started. The plant-based Japanese restaurant will wind down its original COFU Pressed Sushi location at 1833 Anderson Street near Granville Island in September, with its signature pressed sushi moving across town to COFU Chinatown. Fans shouldn't worry though, as owner Akiko Gulkison said she's already working on an entirely new concept for the Anderson Street space, with more details expected this
Pax Romana wasn't built in a day (opens the original)
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For anyone who has settled in at one of Pax Romana’s cozy tables over the past two-and-a-half years, news that the restaurant is closing its current location naturally raised a question: what happens to everything that made it special? The good news is that Pax Romana will live on in a new space, to be located nearby. “It’s going to largely remain the same—the same heart, the same spirit,” says Janine Spartano, Pax Romana’s interior designer and brand manager. The new spot will feature a better-
The Broadway Subway isn’t finished, but Fable Diner is (opens the original)
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In January this year, I sat down with Fable Diner owner Ron MacGillivray to talk about what years of Broadway Subway construction had done to his business. At one point, he said something that stuck with me: “I don’t think I’m going to make it by the time this is finished.” Seven months later, we know he was right. Fable Diner announced this week that its Mount Pleasant location will close after its final service on August 23, ending a run of just over a decade at Broadway and Main. The restaura
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