{"id":151,"date":"2008-03-04T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-03-04T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:28:24","slug":"food-for-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-though\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Chef Expands Casual Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/2008\/03\/04\/fraiche_dsc1432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/2008-small\/03\/04\/fraiche_dsc1432.jpg\" title=\"Fraiche_dsc1432\" alt=\"Fraiche_dsc1432\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>This week on Food For Thought, a brief profile of Wayne Martin, former executive chef at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver.&nbsp; He left that lofty position to open <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craveonmain.ca\/\">Crave<\/a>, a casual restaurant on Vancouver&#8217;s East Side.&nbsp; It was a great success, and now he has a new venture called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraicherestaurant.ca\/\">Fraiche<\/a>, in the lofty heights of West Vancouver&#8217;s British Properties neighbourhood. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the audio file for your <a href=\"\/files\/fft-mar05-08.mp3\">listening pleasure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos reproduced here taken by Dean Sanderson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/2008\/03\/05\/fraiche_dsc1876.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/2008-small\/03\/05\/fraiche_dsc1876.jpg\" title=\"Fraiche_dsc1876\" alt=\"Fraiche_dsc1876\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> Fra\u00eeche<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\">2240 Chippendale Road<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\">West Vancouver, BC<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\">T: 604.925.7595<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\">Directions:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; Going north, take the West Vancouver exit off the Lion\u2019s Gate Bridge and turn right onto Taylor Way up the hill to the Upper Levels Highway. Turn left at the highway going West and take the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Street exit. Turn right onto 21<sup>st<\/sup> Street (which is actually Westhill) and follow up Westhill through the residential area till Chippendale Road at the top. Turn left and drive approximately 4 to 5 blocks.&nbsp; <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\"> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;;\">Free underground parking below the restaurant or street parking<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Food For Thought, a brief profile of Wayne Martin, former executive chef at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver.&nbsp; He left that lofty position to open Crave, a casual restaurant on Vancouver&#8217;s East Side.&nbsp; It was a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-though\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-restaurant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}