Playing the stock market

Sean Heather’s latest instalment to the downtown feast-side, Rainier
Provisions, offers up tasty, well priced plates, Stumptown coffee
and some essentials to stock the larder at home.

This cosy room has all of the usual heritage trappings… exposed brick,
high ceilings and dodgy floors, but with some unexpected extras like a
wall papered with Nineteenth century reproductions from French seed
catalogues, lest we forget to eat our vegetables. Try the kale caesar or
the hot sandwich (carved roast beef, horseradish mayo, cheddar and
lettuce) served on a Parker roll (soft, pillowy roll from a old recipe
from 2’0s-’30s dug up by Heather and now made in their in-house bakery).
Shop for Moccia & Urbani salumi, Marcona almonds or jars of preserved
lemons from Morocco and yellow tomatoes from Italy. Soon to be up and
running: an industrial blue barrel full of Italian extra virgin olive
oil they will pump into your own container and charge by weight. Also on
offer are craft beers, bourbon and wine.

Now that’s our type of grocery shopping. Murray Bancroft

2 W. Cordova St., Vancouver, 604-558-2473, www.rainierprovisions.com