Vancouver: Granville Island Market Tour with Tastings
Visit Vancouver's Granville Island Public Market. Sample fine foods from independent farmers and food artisans from the city and surrounding area.
BC Dungeness crab is the Pacific Northwest's well-known shellfish, with sweet white meat from the legs and claws. Served whole steamed at Granville Island, with butter, lemon and a cracker.
Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) is named for the small fishing village of Dungeness, Washington and has been harvested commercially in BC since the 1880s. The Fraser River and Strait of Georgia provide the city's reference catch. Granville Island Public Market opened in 1979 as Vancouver's reference live-crab counter; cracked-shell shrimp counters in Richmond and Chinatown serve the Cantonese ginger-and-scallion preparation as the kitchen standard.
3 editor picks for Dungeness crab in Vancouver, ranked by editorial score. All Vancouver signature dishes · Dungeness crab across every city.
Also in: San Francisco, Seattle.
Granville Island Public Market ★ 4.7
granville-island · 1689 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9
Granville Island Public Market under the Granville Bridge since 1979 is Vancouver's reference indoor food hall, 50+ vendors, BC seafood and produce daily.
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar ★ 4.6
downtown · 845 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2K6
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar at the Sutton Place Hotel under executive chef Roger Ma runs Vancouver's reference oyster bar plus a wood-fired Pacific menu.
Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House ★ 4.4
west-end · 777 Thurlow Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 3V5
Joe Fortes on Thurlow is Vancouver's long-running upmarket seafood house since 1985, named for Vancouver's first lifeguard, plus a rooftop oyster bar.
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