Vancouver LC Friendly Restaurants
 

After reading a similar thread for Winnipeg, I thought I'd start one up for Vancouver. So what restaurants do you frequent that have good low carb options?

Here's what I've found so far:

Swiss Chalet - yummy rotisserie chicken with vegetables/salad

White Spot - Low Carb Menu & they have a new low carb burger wrapped in lettuce

Boston Pizza - Low Carb Menu

Memphis Blues Barbecue House - delicious array of assorted barbecued meats and they always serve the barbecue sauce on the side (not much in the way of veggies though, just meat galore!!!!)

TGIFriday offers a low-carb menu. the entire from page of the menu is now low-carb options. They aren't TOO low carb, though. My DH and i have been to the Metrotown TGIF twice now. They have lo carb hot wings served with broccoli, low carb Caesar salad, a fish dish, a few other things. The lowest I saw was 5 carbs (fish) and the highest about 17. All together maybe 8 items - a few appetizers, a salad, couple of entrees. No bad if you ned to eat out!

SubWay's lo carb wraps are kinda useless. The wraps themselves have about 9 carbs, and if you choose not to eat it you can just eat the filling for far less; it just seems a bit of a ripoff to pay $8 for a few pieces pf chicken, dressing, cheese, lettuse and a couple of black olives. Coulda made THAT myself! I understand you can get it made as a salad, though, which is a lot bigger and a better value. We missed that option when we went.

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I have to say that any restaurant I've been to in Vancouver - except the obvious like "Pete's House of Pasta" or "Wing's Wonton and Noodles" - have low-carb choices.

For blow-out $$$ dining, West on Granville, The Cannery and Morton's of Chicago.

Not quite as $$$, more like $$ are Parkside and Vij's. For Japanese, Guu in Gastown, 375 Water St. has some excellent choices. The Popi Salad with spinach, bacon, mushrooms and canned tuna is great. There's some fried noodle-y bits but I pick them out. There is Guu with Garlic 1698 Robson in the West End. Louder than the Guu in Gastown. Neither serve sushi.

I love Swiss Chalet and only have the salads at Subway.

For cheap and cheerful, Earls has the best wings - IMHO - and an OK Caesar salad. Milestone's has a lot of choices but there is a coating on the wings. The steaks at Cactus Club are good. And rebma is right about Memphis Blues. It's fabulous but the only vegetable options are salad and collard greens cooked with pork but they're pretty delish. If you're ever there and beef ribs are the special, get them! :yum:

Karen

I went to Memphis Blues Barbecue House for the second Friday in a row and it was yummy once again! The brisket is soooo good!

Karen, I heard a rumor that you had done a class on lo-carb sushi. I am a total sushi freak. Do you have recipes posted somewhere? Or are you doing another class? Is there a place to get lo-carb sushi?

Yeah, I taught a low-carb Japanese class a little while ago at City Square and sushi was one of the items. I'll let you know if I teach it again. You can go to restaurants that serve sushi and ask for rolls that only contain seafood, cucumber and avocado but there is no specific low-carb sushi that I know of.

Karen

Yuji's (Japanese "tapas") on West 4th serves a sushi trio (nigiri type) made with tofu rather than rice.

ROXY BURGER (Granville St.) - Lot's of options, usually under $10 total.

FALAFEL KING (Denmen St.) - Special order the Chicken Shwarma in a to go box, and eat like a salad. We eat this at least twice a week.

WENDY'S - 2 Jr. Bacon Cheezeburgers (no bun or tomato) can squish together nicely (meat on the outside) for a quick (but a little messy) meal.

On another note... The only bad Subway wraps are the pre-determined Atkin's ones that they advertise... we go there all the time and order a variety of 6" subs (on Atkins wrap) and they're A LOT more filling than the ones promoted on the sign.

Rugby on Broadway & Oak-menu divided up in proteins, carbs, & veggies so they make it very easy for lcers

Romio's on 4th-Greek restaurant that is more than happy to substitute rice for greek salad & not put any tsatizki on your souvlaki

Nando's Chicken-roasted chicken with different rubs. The workers on the one in Ackroyd will let you know which rub has sugar in it

I tried the Quizno's low carb BLT on the weekend. I'm on low carb to manage my diabetes so I did a blood test before I ate it, and did two more, one and two hours later. The results were great: 5.3 after one hour, 5.1 after two. According to Quiznos, the carb content is 8.7 grams with the sauce and 6.7 without. I'll certainly have it again.

Karen D.

I ate at the Rugby Club last weekend, and there are lots of delicious protein choices. Everything is ordered separately, so you can order prawns, chicken etc. with veg of your choice. No need to have bread, potatoes etc. even come to the table. The food is really good too. I will go back there, for sure.

I'm so happy to find this thread.

Question about Nando's chicken: Does anybody know which of the rubs are sugar-free? I would've thought the 3 hot ones would be okay but who knows? Last time I ordered a caeser without croutons, it was more like a sauce on the chicken, and they put croutons on anyway. But their stuff is pretty good when you're stuck at a mall.

They also told me once their wings are breaded but they don't look like they are--has anyone tried them?

And about Memphis Blues: Karen says the ribs are good so I'll try them next time. Thoughts, anyone? I must say I worry a bit about all the sauces they provide, especially since they're so delish (and I grew up in the south so find it hard to resist that cornbread). I like that you can get their meat on a salad, which isn't too bad (actually has some green leaves in it!).

So far no one has mentioned the Fish House, which has a full low carb menu in addition to the regular one! :lol: Can you say "delicious"???

I, too, like Rugby Club and Memphis Blues. Rugby is a bit loud and they seem to promise you the moon in terms of seating when you make a reservation but then welch on the deal when you get there... I don't like that at ALL! Memphis Blues is yummy but I tend to overeat when there - probably because I am filling up on meat and it tastes so good and there is so much of it! :lol: Every time I've been, we've ordered the $30 platter...

I've looked at the labels on the bottles of sauce and none of them have sugar. BUT, there is sugar in the cure that Memphis uses on their meats.

Karen

Thanks for the reassurance about Nando's, Karen, and the suggestion about the ribs. That's too bad about M.B.'s cure but maybe it's not TOO much sugar (I'll go with that!). I did try the ribs there last night, BTW, and they were very yummy. :yum: The sauce didn't taste sweet at all, and they gave me salad instead of fries, no argument. My only "beef" was there were just 3 ribs. Jean--I think we'll order that $30 platter next time!



Oh, yum! Now I'm racking my brain trying to figure out when the next "special occasion" is!