FEAST | Yew Seafood + Bar x Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver

Financial District—(April 25, 2018) The brand new culinary team over at Yew Seafood + Bar celebrated the warm weather by unveiling a complete revamping of all their menus inside the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver.

baked and crusted lobster (with morels, asparagus, and green garlic emulsion)

On this night, we sampled items from new Executive Chef Edgar Kanonew—by way of Four Seasons Bora Bora—and his new dinner menu and Executive Pastry Chef Suraj Karmakar's many delightfully concocted seasonal desserts.

Hazelnut Rocher 2.0 (with praline chocolate mousse, liquid caramel, hazelnut ice cream, and flambé)

The new menus are littered with fresh, west coast fare including plates like trout toast, cured salmon, halibut, and other turns at classically prepared dishes paired with new, playful cocktails from the well-mannered hotel bar.



Cracked, split in half, and served over fresh greens, the basic but substantial lobster dish lets all the might of its shellfish tastes shine through. Presented with some usual FS flair, it was, for me, the highlight of the entrées.

Eton Mess (with pink peppercorn meringue, white chocolate foam, passion fruit curd, and fresh berries)

The new desserts are as visually enticing as they are satisfying with little gimmicks to hold your attention. Both the meringue and mousse bad a crackling and smooth sweetly delectable taste while the "iced cappucino" was quite flavourful, if less ornate.



I found this sampling of new menu offerings fairly refreshing and exciting. Yew has been such a consistent seafood staple of hotel fine dining and building on that reputation was surely a tricky task. However, enough of the new dishes and flavours nicely represents much of the restaurant's notable appeal while providing more than a few subtle new culinary twists.



It was recently announced, after forty years and a very public feud with their landlord Cadillac Fairview, the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver in its current thirty-storey location attached to Pacific Centre mall will close on January 31st, 2020 when its lease ends. It's unclear what's in store for the storied luxury hotel brand and Yew in Vancouver beyond that.


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