The Cannery Seafood Restaurant

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The Cannery Seafood Restaurant has been a local favourite since 1971 for both its fine cuisine and waterfront location in the Port of Vancouver. Surrounded by fisheries and the action of a busy harbour, The Cannery offers guests a unique oceanside experience. The simple and rustic decor with a mix of nautical artifacts provides the ambiance of a traditional West Coast fish cannery.

The setting’s natural beauty is the perfect backdrop to Executive Chef Frederic Couton’s vibrant cuisine. While he draws on his French heritage, he also uses innovative cooking techniques. Using the freshest local and exotic produce, he creates truly international flavours. “One of my goals is to entice a new generation of diners, with their sense of culinary adventure, to come and rediscover The Cannery,” says Couton. He shares his approach in Chef Couton’s Cookbook, which won a Vancouver magazine’s Gold Medal for Best Food/Wine book of the year in 2005. Also available at the restaurant is his famous secret ingredient: The Cannery’s Lobster Oil.

Chef Couton’s menu is perfectly complemented with an extensive wine list, which offers fine selections from Old World and West Coast wineries. These include 37 Award of Excellence winners, as recognized by The Wine Spectator and The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Competition.

Just 15 minutes from downtown, The Cannery has free parking and is accessible by land or water. A 140-foot-long private dock allows boat owners to tie up their vessel and enjoy a fine lunch or dinner, or pick up The Cannery Picnic Basket for a special meal at sea. The dock also offers guests a pleasant stroll where they can see the harbour action up close.

While it reflects Vancouver’s long port history, The Cannery has maintained its status as a landmark and dining establishment of distinction with constant innovation and commitment to excellence. Here is tradition both old and new, served up in an authentic saltwater setting.

Menu Highlights

Appetizers

Seafood Platter for two or more
with oysters, mussels, tiger prawns, scallops, candied salmon, crab claws

Trio of Tartare
with ahi, tuna & salmon, lobster and olive oil, nori seaweed chips

Roasted Mussels
on a sizzling cast-iron pan with pine nuts, chorizo, caper beurre noisette

Entrées

West Coast Bouillabaisse
with a selection of fresh fish, shellfish and julienne vegetables, simmered in a tomato and fennel broth

Coast Platter for Two
with 1.5 lb lobster, Dungeness crab, scallops, jumbo prawns, steamed mussels, grilled oysters in the shell, and your choice of two grilled daily fish

Salmon Wellington
A Cannery Classic with local salmon, fresh shrimp meat and mushroom duxelle, baked in a golden puff pastry, pinot noir sauce

House Smoked Rack of Lamb
with chick pea & anise galette, balsamic braised lamb cheek, Mediterranean vegetable fricassée

Desserts

Semi-Sweet Belgian Chocolate Dome
with mocha crème brûlée, butterscotch sauce

Jacques’s Favourite
with a tasting of raspberry tiramisu, brandied cherry chocolate terrine & homemade California orange ice cream

Best of the Cellar

White Wine

Burrowing Owl Chardonnay

Cedar Creek Platinum Reserve Chardonnay

Seven Hills Riesling

Frog’s Leap Sauvignon Blanc

Kistel Noisetiers

Trimbach Riesling

Cuvée Frédéric Émile

Red Wines

Blue Mountain Reserve Pinot Noir

Woodward Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon

Leonetti Merlot 1999

Lecote 41 Syrah

Mondavi Vertical from 1986

Opus from 1989

La Tache Grand Cru 1982

Château Pétrus 1990

pictured: Coast Platter for Two – 1.5 lb lobster, Dungeness crab, scallops, jumbo prawns, steamed mussels, grilled oyster in the shell and your choice of two grilled fish

The Cannery Seafood Restaurant
2205 Commissioner Street,
Vancouver
(604) 254-9606

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