{"id":3254,"date":"2015-01-17T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2015-03-26T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:03:36","slug":"bel-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/bel-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bel Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny and Justine wanted to meet up with us at Bel Cafe for a snack, and they were particularly interested in what the place was offering for the Hot Chocolate Festival. I am no big fan of hot chocolate, but I was hoping to show Ben a fine eatery that has a prestigious David Hawksworth label on it.<\/p>\n<p>Ben and I decided to share and snack on a soup-sandwich-beer combination: the Roasted Eggplant sandwich, the Smokey Beef Chilli, and a Blue Buck pale ale. And boy was I glad to make such comforting and tasty choice for this wet and crummy late afternoon. The sandwich was filled with roasted eggplant, spiced chickpea, almond, mint, and gouda &#8211; subtle but pleasing. The beef chilli was a winner &#8211; the ingredients were so fresh and clean, I could see and taste every single component, and there was a ton of flavours. Blue Buck really had tied up everything together nicely in this meal and it just made me feel relaxed and happy.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0099.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0099.jpg\" alt=\"Smokey Beef Chilli @ Bel Cafe\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smokey Beef Chilli @ Bel Cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0104.jpg\" alt=\"Eggplant Sandwich @ Bel Cafe \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eggplant Sandwich @ Bel Cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0105.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Buck Beer @ Bel Cafe\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Buck Beer @ Bel Cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The girls didn&#8217;t end up getting their Hot Chocolate Festival special because they thought it was a little pricey. I however saw them serving it in a nice latte cup with a piece of over sized marshmallow, looking extremely enticing. So the girls got a couple croissants and some coffee instead. As Jenny was raving about the croissant, I took a bite on the chocolate one. It was decent but it was just not as good as the big croissant that I had at Swiss Bakery in the morning. Maybe it was just not as fresh as when they first came out of the oven.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0106.jpg\" alt=\"Croissant and Chocolate Croissant @ Bel Cafe \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Croissant and Chocolate Croissant @ Bel Cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I truly like it here at Bel Cafe for the casual atmosphere, the simple but elegant food with great quality, and the top-notched services from their genuinely friendly staff.<\/p>\n<p>Official website:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/belcafe.com\" href=\"https:\/\/belcafe.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/belcafe.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Map and other reviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/14\/1580497\/restaurant\/Downtown\/Bel-Cafe-Vancouver\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1580497\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Bel Cafe on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny and Justine wanted to meet up with us at Bel Cafe for a snack, and they were particularly interested in what the place was offering for the Hot Chocolate Festival. I am no big fan of hot chocolate, but I was hoping to show Ben a fine eatery that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[192,178,165,193,55,97],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0099.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}