Showcase Restaurant inside the Vancouver Marriott Downtown has launched a new menu and concept. The menu offers new sharing plates which highlight everything local that is Vancouver. It features fresh, seasonal west coast flavours by Chef Westley Feist.
I’ve dined many times at Showcase restaurant and the food is solid.
Interior
There are lots of seats inside, a few booths, and a private room. They also take reservations too.
House Made Sourdough
The bread is cut up into slices and served with their rooftop bayleaf honey with whipped butter. Who knew honey and butter would go so well together. Very delicious!
Salt Roasted Beets and Burrata
This is served with frisée, sherry vinegar, olive oil, and cracked pepper. One of my favourite dishes of the evening. That burrata is so good and makes you not want to share it with the table.
Sous Vide Pork belly
It is paired with charred scallion purée, gai lan, sesame and chilli threads. The pork belly was tender and flavour, plus the purée worked really well with this dish.
Grilled Pacific Humbolt Squid
It is served with romesco sauce, watercress, fennel, charred lemon vinaigrette, and pine nuts. The squid was tender and easy to chew apart.
Seared Oceanwise Scallops
The scallops were served with ajo blanco, caramelized cauliflower, and Calabrian chili. The scallops were seared nicely and the caramelized cauliflower was tasty.
Haida Gwaii Halibut
The halibut sits on top of ricotta gnocchi, Sole Food Street farms veggies, herb vinaigrette, and crispy onions. It was good to see different textures in this dish but I did feel like the halibut was a bit dry.
16 oz Ribeye Steak
They steak has peppercorn jus, cipollini onions, and puffed beef tendon. I think this was cooked medium, but I would have preferred medium rare. The puffed beef tendon was a nice addition to the dish for added texture.
Oven Roasted Baby Carrots
The carrots have a gochujang mirin glaze, hazelnuts, and topped with Barnston Island peashoots. A good sharing plate to make sure everyone gets some tasty carrots.
Glazed Japanese Eggplant
The eggplant is paired with soy butter, crispy shallots, and sambal sauce.
Japanese Cotton Cheese Cake
To finish off the night, this fluffy cheese cake has pink grapefruit, yogurt cremeux, and white chocolate puffed rice. I was surprised to see this on the menu but it was good.
Strawberry + Rhubarb Caramelized Puff Pastry
This has pickled rhubarb, strawberry puree, and vanilla whipped cream as well. I didn’t take a liking to this as the strawberries were quite tart.
Final Thoughts
I love the transformation of the menu and the dishes are more sharable, so you can do it family style and try a bit of everything rather than having the traditional plate to yourself.
My favourites were the Salt Roasted Beets and Burrata, Seared Oceanwise Scallops, Grilled Pacific Humbolt Squid, and Sous Vide Pork belly.
Address:
1122 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC
