You really have to check this video out. Brought to you by the same guys who produced Dear Vancouver, this video highlights the Granville strip and reminds us all why we love it so. Visit us at Sanafir and find out why… Granville Street really is the place to be!
Dear Friends and Volunteers,
Emad and I would like to extend our sincerest THANK YOU to all of you for volunteering your time and efforts at the Union Gospel Mission BBQ. This is a charity that Emad and I have supported personally for a long time and it felt great to be able to work alongside each of you in support of such a worthy cause.
UGM’s commitment to the less fortunate does truly impact the community and we’re so grateful to them for allowing us to participate in helping to make a difference. Aside from providing meals, our hope is to drive more awareness, compassion and action because every little bit helps.
During the course of the day your smiling faces came in contact with over 4,000 people. Your generous time and energetic spirits put out well over 6,500 plates of food, satisfying many hungry appetites. Whether behind the scenes, on the front or the back lines, water tent duty, tart delivery or food runner and tent maintenance duty, each one of you was integral in making a large scale project flawless in execution.
I had the chance to stand back a few times during that busy day, and watch everyone working together – the simple words “THANK YOU” are very heartfelt. It was fantastic to see Glowbal Collection staff working alongside customers, friends, media, family and even strangers. It really made no difference, as we all became part of a genuine TEAM sharing a common goal.
The true sense of community and energy created by all of you was both emotional and inspiring to us and we hope the experience was equally as gratifying for all of you.
We met some amazing people that day and we hope you did too! Once again, a sincere THANK YOU for your support and generosity of spirit.
BE the change.
Shannon Bosa Yacoub and Emad Yacoub
Whichever location you choose, from August 19 – 29 , glowbal grill, COAST, Sanafir, Italian Kitchen, Trattoria Italian Kitchen and SOCIETY Dining Lounge are offering hot deals that won’t make you freckle!
glowbal grill Steaks and Satays
Enjoy Surf & Turf selections this month at glowbal grill. Begin with a Wagyu Beef Chuck Satay and Dungeness Crab Cake or try the Braised Short Rib and Sweet Pea Risotto with a Tempura Atlantic Lobster Claw. From the Prairies to the Pacific, entrées span the country with offerings of Canadian Prime Tenderloin and Jumbo Tiger Prawns. Sample the ‘Surf & Turf Platter’ to taste a variety of treats, including a Dry-Aged Canadian Prime Strip Loin, Lobster Risotto, Jumbo Tiger Prawns with a Buratta and Tomato Salad and Sautéed Green Beans. Sweeten the deal with White Chocolate Crème Brulée for dessert.
Surf & Turf Menu
COAST Restaurant
COAST is going wild this month with an untamed assortment fresh from British Columbia’s shores. Start off with a Gratinee of Wild Sockeye Salmon or a Dungeness Crab Salad with oyster vinaigrette. Main course selections include Seared Fillet of Halibut complemented with Chanterelle Mushrooms or enjoy Barbequed Haida Gwaii Sablefish spiked with miso bourbon barbeque sauce. Chocolate Crème Brulée with salted caramel ice cream is on offer for dessert.
Wild BC menu
Sanafir
Experience a taste of Mumbai this month at Sanafir. Try the Spiced Tomato and Lentil Soup appetizer with sweet corn and onion bhaji. Mumbai is the epicentre of India and the cuisine incorporates many different cultures which are reflected in Sanafir’s ‘Surf, Turf, and Earth’ main course Tapas Trio. The unique blend of dishes includes Braised Beef Korma and Basmati Rice, a Prawn and Sweet Pea Samosa served with watercress yogurt, and a Vegetarian Curry. The Mumbai-inspired dessert is a Chai Baked Rice Cake served with cherry vanilla ice cream.
Mumbai menu
Italian Kitchen
Can’t getaway to cruise the waterways of Italy this month? Taste your way through the beautiful country with a Veneto-inspired menu from Italian Kitchen instead. Featured starters include Scallops poached in Saffron Tea or Tuna Salad with Confit Fingerling Potatoes. Entrées include a Butter Poached Dungeness Crab or Braised Duck Pasta. Finish the meal with an order of ‘Zaleti,’ fritters topped with candied fruit and caramelized pistachios.
Veneto menu
Trattoria – Italian Kitchen
Simplicity and fresh ingredients rule this month as Trattoria pays tribute to Tuscan-inspired fare. Antipasti selections include Potato and Bean Salad or a traditional Italian Crostini – toasted bread with spicy Fennel Sausage and fresh Buratta Cheese. Steak and pasta are offered for entrées, including a Grilled T-Bone Steak and Angel Hair Pasta with Tiger Prawns in a lemon cream sauce. Sweet Sugar Dusted Fritters, served with Arborio rice pudding, cap the evening
Tuscany menu
SOCIETY Dining Lounge
Get your kicks on Route 66! The famous highway has inspired the culinary talent at SOCIETY Dining Lounge. American favourites are re-worked with appetizer options like Blackened Ahi Tuna Sliders or Cobb Salad with Confit Chicken. Hearty main dishes include ‘Bacon and Eggs’ – Braised Pork with a Poached Egg topped with Truffle Hollandaise – or check out the Buttermilk Fried Chicken and house-made Waffles. For dessert, sip a Root Beer Float (made with house-made root beer and vanilla gelato) and enjoy the ride.
Route 66 menu
Make your reservation online at www.glowbalgroup.com
by Charles Zuckermann
From July 15 -25, glowbal grill, COAST, Sanafir, Italian Kitchen, Trattoria Italian Kitchen, and SOCIETY Dining Lounge are offering guests fresh fare, inspired from around the corner and around the world, guaranteed to complement any Vancouver staycation.
glowbal grill Steaks and Satays
This month, glowbal grill is paying homage to Texas and its famous BBQ. Appetizers include the Chipotle, Prawn and Avocado Tortilla or Spicy Texas Chilli. Put some meat on your bones – and in your belly – with entrée selections like Bourbon BBQ Glazed Bison Ribs or the Southern Spiced 16oz Cowboy Cut Ribeye. Finish up with the quintessential summer dessert – Strawberry Shortcake.
Texas menu
COAST Restaurant
This Month we explore Vancouver Island from top to bottom with appetizer plates offering Pan Seared Jumbo Scallops or Charred Local Octopus Salad with truffled sea urchin vinaigrette. Main courses offer sea selections including a Grilled Wild Ling Cod with a Dungeness Crab Crust or a ‘Canadian Surf and Turf’ of Broiled Beef Tenderloin with Poached Atlantic Lobster. Diners will fall hook, line and sinker for COAST’s patriotic Canadian Maple Parfait – complemented with house-made fudge – for dessert.
Vancouver Island menu
Sanafir
Guests may just ask Sam to play it again after feasting on our Casablanca-inspired menu this month. The Mixed Olive Salad appetizer features confit garlic in a tangy tomato cumin vinaigrette. Lamb Tagine, Lobster and Fried Eggplant, and Fig and Apricot Couscous, are featured in the Tapas Trio entrée. For dessert, sample the decadent Crème Caramel topped with coconut and almond truffles.
Casablanca menu
Italian Kitchen
Discover the ancient flavours of Sardinia at Italian Kitchen. Known for its natural beauty and abundant seafood, this Mediterranean island is the inspiration for menu items like Cassula – a Prawn and Halibut seafood soup, or Culingiones – stuffed ravioli with cacciocavalo cheese and braised greens. Entrées also embrace the sea with Aragosta Arrosto – Stuffed Lobster served with Bianco Risotto, and Tonnato – Tuna with Fennel Sausage, Peas and Heirloom Tomatoes. For dessert, enjoy Frutti di Bosco al Proseco con menta – fresh berries in Proseco and mint with a limone sorbet.
Sardinia menu
Trattoria – Italian Kitchen
Explore the Puglia and Apulia regions of Italy at Trattoria. From the land of many colours comes a kaleidoscopic menu. Primo selections include a vibrant Roasted Beet Salad or Duck Tortelli in Tuscan tomato sauce. Pizza and pasta are offered for entrées, including Spicy Calabrese and Gamberi Spaghetti Nero and Oven Roasted Cauliflower and Onion Pizza. End on a sweet note with a Sugar Dusted Fritter.
Puglia/Apulia menu
SOCIETY Dining Lounge
Summer screams for delicious comfort food and SOCIETY is dishing it up with delight. Try a Mini Chilli Dog or Bacon Vichyssoise to start the meal. Entrées include Queen Charlotte Halibut Fish ‘n Chips and Kobe Beef Hamburger Helper served alongside macaroni ‘n cheese. Strawberry season is in full swing, enjoy it with Strawberry Shortcake for dessert.
Diner menu
Make your reservations online at glowbalgroup.com.
Nothing beats spending a lazy summer day on a beautiful patio. No matter what you are in the mood for, The GLOWBAL COLLECTION has the perfect patio for you, shady or sunny! When in Yaletown enjoy a cool cocktail and delicious bites at glowbal grill or SOCIETY . If you’re strolling the Kitsilano neighbourhood, why not watch the world go by at Trattoria Italian Kitchen. When shopping downtown why not choose between the vibrant sunny Italian Kitchen sidewalk patio or COAST’s cool oasis across the street.
Watch for our upcoming patio at Sanafir where sexy, exotic and stylish spills on to the Granville Street sidewalk.
Enjoy the summer everyone!
by Russ Jahns
Yaletown will be in full swing with our Canada Day Street Party on the 1200 Block of Hamilton, right outside of SOCIETY Dining Lounge. Full details of the event can be found here
by Charles Zuckermann
The mood was unbelievable, yes Sanafir always has a buzz going on, but with Farshad at the drums you could feel something really special. Even our chefs found it hard to keep from moving to the beat.
This video only gives you a taste of what it was like. You really have to be at Sanafir when Farshad is playing to truly appreciate this experience. Luckily Farshad will be back Saturday July 3rd with more beats to compliment the dining experience at Sanafir.
by Charles Zuckermann
Easy to prepare Sanafir”s Tandoori Lobster Salad is sure to wow any guest. So dust off the patio furniture, pull out your salad bowls and get ready to eat in the sun.
Tandoori Lobster Salad
½ lobster, poached and cleaned from shell. (reserve knuckle meat.)
3 oz Baby Spinach
3 oz Baby Arugula
¼ Shaved Red Onion
½ Avocado, diced
½ cup Chickpeas
½ Mango, diced
Preparation:
Mix baby spinach, baby arugula, shaved red onion, chickpeas, avocado, mango, and lobster knuckle meat
in Tandoori vinaigrette, place in salad bowl. Season poached half lobster tail and claw in Tandoori vinaigrette;
arrange lobster and crisp lime rounds fanned out on top of salad.
1 egg yolk
1 oz white wine vinegar
1 oz lime juice
1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp coriander
1 tbsp fresh ginger
1 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp turmeric
¼ tsp cayenne,
3-4 oz grapeseed oil
Salt to taste
Dry roast all spices at low heat in a pan with no oil until whisps of smoke just begin to appear.
Combine all spices with lime juice, white wine vinegar, and 1 egg yolk in food processor or blender; puree;
slowly add grapeseed oil to base at moderate blending speed to emulsify. Check seasoning, add salt as needed.
1 lime. Freeze lime; slice into round cross sections as thinly as possible;
Dust with sugar, arrange on sheet pan, dry on low heat (200*) until crisp
by Charles Zuckermann
From the BC Coast to Spain and Southern Italy, each of our restaurants has a destination your palate craves.
glowbal grill
glowbal showcases the intense flavour of Wagyu Beef with tender selections from Snake River Farms. Based in Eastern Idaho, Snake River crosses its premiere Japanese Wagyu cattle with Black Angus cattle to create American Wagyu Beef. Appetizers include Pepper-Crusted Wagyu Chuck Carpaccio or a Wagyu Short Rib with sweet pea ravioli. For entrees, move onto the Wagyu Tenderloin and Atlantic Lobster Duo or the Prosciutto wrapped Kurobuta Pork Rack paired with apple-pecan chutney and fingerling potatoes. Bring it back home with the Okanagan Peach Cobbler for dessert.
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COAST Restaurant
COAST offers a boatload of BC Coast-inspired creations on its menu. Appetizers include smoked Qualicum Beach Scallops and fresh Dungeness Crab Cakes. The bounty of the West Coast is highlighted with entrees like Queen Charlotte Halibut served with creamed leeks and baby beets, or Wild BC Salmon paired with Salt Spring Island Mussels. For dessert, partake in the frozen strawberry parfait, bursting with marinated berries and sweet cassis syrup.
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Sanafir
Discover Spain at Sanafir. A bowl of Sopa de Ajo kicks off the Spanish serenade; the ham and garlic soup is topped with a poached quail’s egg. The feature Tapas Trio includes braised pork cheek, grilled prawn with sweet corn, and boquerone and artichoke heart ensalada. Say hola to cinnamon churros for dessert.
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Italian Kitchen
Explore the Liguria region of Italy at Italian Kitchen. Sample the Steamed Razor Clams or a Grilled Vegetable Calzone for the Primo Piatto. Entrees include the Branzino-Mediterranean Sea Bass with cucumber-tomato gazpacho, and the Poached Tuna Trenette Pasta featuring fresh heirloom tomatoes. The Ligurian Lemon Cake includes the quintessential Italian ingredient – olive oil – to create an elegant and irresistibly moist treat.
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Trattoria
Trattoria tips its hat to Basilicata – a tiny region in Southern Italy – with a menu big on flavour. Whet your appetite with the Savory Fig And Fennel Crostini or a Peperonata Calzone. Entrees include Orecchiette Vongole – a pasta dish featuring manila clams and barlotti beans, or the Forno Roasted Lamb Loin. If you still have room for dessert, Trattoria is dishing up Burricotta Cannoli, featuring rich burricotta cheese and pistachio crema.
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SOCIETY Dining Lounge
Dig into the goodness of comfort food at SOCIETY. Sweet Potato Chili Fries and Iceberg Lettuce Salad with baby shrimp and double-smoked bacon are appetizers sure to satisfy. Southern-inspired Chicken Fried Steak is complemented with creamy mashed potatoes, and the classic clubhouse sandwich gets a redesign with seared rare Ahi Tuna, crisp prosciutto and chipotle mayo. Round out the meal with a slice of Key Lime Pie for dessert.
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For Reservations:
glowbal grill 604.602.0835 Menu
COAST 604.685.5010 Menu
Sanafir 604.678.1049 Menu
Italian Kitchen 604.687.2858 Menu
SOCIETY 604.629.8800 Menu
Trattoria 604.732.1441 Menu
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