C Restaurant

well, it's Dine-Out Vancouver time again :) DC and I went to C Restaurant, located on Howe street in downtown Vancouver, last night. this was my second time, my first was with NK last year and I was so impressed with the food, the service, and the environment, that i had to come back here again :D

of course, being Dine-Out Vancouver season, the restaurant was packed. so packed that they opened their wine room to serve guests in. when they told us we would be sitting in the wine room, i was like, "Oh! how nice!" but when we got there, i was disappointed. it may be a wine room but it wasn't a very cozy or inviting wine room at all. especially since i had dined in the wine room of La Terrazza, a really gorgeous restaurant with great food, and an equally beautiful wine room to boot!

to make things worse, the room was tiny. it only held 1 small table for 2, 1 table for 4, and 1 larger table for 6. Of course, being in a small room with a low ceiling, no windows whatsoever, and blank white walls, the sound of everyone's conversation, especially coming from the larger table, was just too loud. DC and I practically raised our voices in order to be heard by each other.

C Restaurant has a great environment in the main dining areas, however it was not carried out into the wine room. it was almost as if the room was an after-thought -- something they quickly pulled together in haste in order to accomodate their reservaation list that night. i felt like we were put in the 'kiddie room' away from all the 'adults' :b

the food was great, but the experience was not. i thought C Restaurant sincerely cared about providing not only great food and service, but a great experience as well. clearly, this was not the case, and because of one bad experience, i don't know if i would classify the restaurant as Fine Dining.

oh! and if you're wondering what we had, i had the lobster 4-course meal, and DC had the steak 3-course meal.

i hope they'll think twice abuot serving in the wine room next year...