Put a Cork In It

One too many pints at a few too many Olympic venues has us pining for a
proper sit down meal.

To cleanse our palate of overpriced beers, we pulled up a bentwood café
chair to a white tableclothed table at Cork
& Fin. The name of the new brick-and-beam Gastown restaurant
spells out its best offeringsgood glasses of wine and well-priced
seafood. Anticipating small portions we ordered a feast of scallop
ceviche ($12), mussels in a bath of cream, bacon and white wine ($14),
Dungeness crab mashed potatoes ($9) and snapper ($13) to share, and
shamefully, were too stuffed to finish the generous, delectable spread.

Plenty of fish in the sea, indeed.

Cork & Fin, 221 Carrall St., Vancouver, 604-569-2215, www.corkandfin.ca