Wine Wednesday: DiVino Wine Bar and Lime on Commercial Dr
Jen’s new territory includes all the liquor stores in Vancouver, along with restaurants on Main St and Commercial Dr. It’s been a while since we had a “date night,” so we took this past Friday to hit up a couple of her clients on The Drive to see how things rock on a Friday night.
First up was DiVino Wine Bar. It used to be 1 big gelato shop, until the owner decided to put a wall up the middle and turn the corner piece into a wine bar. Brilliant move. It’s got a charcuterie styled menu, like Salt, with meats and cheeses, plus a nice full kitchen menu of Commercial Dr cuisine.
It was stinking hot inside, so we grabbed a piece of the patio and just chilled and chatted.
Okay, my Lake Breeze Zephyr Brut was okay, but Jen’s Sergio Mionetto Rose was not what the night needed at all. That said, the cheese was awesome. The battery died on the Flip or I would have done a piece with it, we had a cheese called Red Dawn from Hillary’s Cheese Company in Cowichan Bay. It’s a cow’s milk cheese with Merridale Cider. Wow!
After our bubble and snacks at DiVino, we wandered down to Lime.
It looks so groovy and cool from the outside. Very Yaletown in its colour, menu style, sign and entry way. BUT … walk inside and its a mish mash of styles with a hodge podge of bamboo in baskets tossed around the room. No warmth. No atmosphere. No style, nothing of the zen you would expect from the outside. From the street you’d expect something along the lines of what the Glowbal Group has defined for restaurant style in the city, on the inside you find something begging for a Restaurant Makeover.
The sushi rolls were creative; I had a lobster roll wrapped in cucumber, Jen enjoyed her beef sashimi roll. We each had a glass of white, Jen a Kettle Valley Chardonnay, me a Pentage Pinot Gris. They came not quite cold enough for such a muggy night and the entire experience was forgettable.
We walked back up the Drive to the other side of DiVino for a little bit of Dolce Amore gelato and called it a night.
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Seems like a cool place. Will suggest it to the missus. Thanks for the heads up.
Love what you’ve done with the Viddler player. Thanks for using Viddler!
@colin devroe thanks for adding customization to the player … i dont think i’m done just yet!
I love Hillary’s Cheese Company! My parents live a 10 minute walk away and whenever I’m there visiting I always hit it up…it’s a very chill lunch spot!
DiVino hasn’t lived up to its name. It’s a hang out for the gangsta crowd– the pretend boys and the old Commercial Drive mob. The wine list is short, the food spotty and the place is frequented too often by bikers.
Great place great food and great crowd loved it!
Great place great food and great crowd loved it!
Great place great food and great crowd loved it!