Cloud 9

If you live in Vancouver, you must know about the revolving Cloud 9 restaurant on top of the Imperial Landmark hotel. It's been there for a long time. Well, my mom wanted to bring us there as a celebration for my graduation, so we went...despite the fact that I remember the food there was only mediocre when we visited many years ago. My mom says it has improved so we trust her. And indeed we were surprised by the food.

Not only was their Angus beef steak cooked just right with the perfect juices left behind but they were also doing a promotion, either $33 for the entire 3 course dinner or buy 1 entree and get the 2nd $20 off. Now, I wouldn't really consider myself a carnivore but I wouldn't mind having another piece of that steak. Although my mom is a vegetarian, her pasta was delicious and impressive as well. Both their black cod and seafood dishes were also very good. We shared some yummy desserts at the end too...a chocolate mousse and a mango cheesecake. The mango cheesecake was definitely the dessert winner.


And of course, who can come here and not enjoy the spectacular view...especially on a sunny day like the one we had when we visited? All-in-all, we had a wonderful time. And I really mean it this time because if you know our family or many Chinese people in general, we tend to rush at everything, even eating, so our typical 1 hour order, eat, pay, go routine actually extended into 2 hours because we were having a good time...(well...ok...the service was a tad slow too.)

I would say the only downfall would be the fact that service was really slow...I'm not sure if this had to do with their lack of staffing or the fact that all the staff were near retirement and they just couldn't keep up with a restaurant's needed pace?