BURGER LAB by Hestia Kitchen (COMING SOON) — Restaurant in Vancouver

Small neighborhood restaurant that has great food. Huge plus is their food looked like their photos on their website!

Family friendly: Yes Pet friendly: Yes, outside seating only Parking: No, street parking only and its very limited

FOOD: Foie gras & Grilled AAA Striploin Bowl (served w/ 1 piece Rougie foie gras, sous Canadian AAA striploin, and saute mushroom) $27.85: 4 Stars – Super good! Their foie gras was so delicious and the striploin was cooked just right. Foie Gras Slider (Homemade bun with 1 piece Rougie foie gras, mashed potato, beef & pork patty and black truffle puree) $19.85: 4 Stars – The best part of the slider was the foie gras. It did taste so much better eaten on its own as eating it as part of the slider masked the taste. Deep Fried Chicken Slider (Crispy deep-fried chicken, buns with spring mix, and garlic mayonnaise) $13.85 (2 piece per order): 5 Stars - Of all the slider, this was probably the best overall. The chicken was crispy and crunchy, great flavor, and married well with the other components. Lobster & Crab Slider (fresh butter lobster + local Dungeness Crab Meat) $14.85: 3 Stars – I wanted to really like this, but I think because everything else we order was hot, I wasn’t expecting this to be cold. The lobster and crab didn’t have much flavor to it so it was slightly bland. Crabmeat Noodle w/ Signature Yolk Sauce (crab noodle with local crab meat and house special yolk sauce) $24.85: 4 Stars – OMG! Nice creaminess and the flavor were on point! I understand why this is one of their Specials.

RESTAURANT/MENU: The restaurant was a cute neighborhood style eatery. There is a couple of small tables outside on their “patio” and inside there was two tall long tables for shared space. Very hipster like with the wall drawn art and the utensils held in a large egg on the tables.

I loves that their menu is pretty small as it means they focus on making each meal taste great. Huge plus is they have photos of each of their item and what you get look like it! I did wish they had some hard copy of their menu. They have the touchless menu where you need to scan with your phone. However being out-of-towners, we didn’t have the greatest service so a lot of the photos did not load. I did look up their menu at home!

SERVICE: The cashier/waiter/employee was helpful and patient with us since we had a lot of questions. We only saw one other employee, the cook, but everyone was...

Summary: We both got ill from the food. Symptoms represent food poisoning. Food quality is poor and can only be elevated by our state of mind. Poor value.

We saw Hestia pop up on Uber Eats and decided to give this new restaurant a try. We ordered the fois gras oyako don, crab noodles and the roasted chicken wings for takeout.

One of our takeout boxes had the slogan "quality is a state of mind" on it. This should have been a huge deterrent and I immediately started feeling uncomfortable seeing this. I had the oyako don so I started digging into that whereas my wife had the crab noodles and the chicken wings. The oyako don tasted a bit weird. Fois gras definitely did not go well with what's in a traditional oyako don, but I finished it anyways as it is dinner for the day.

The chicken wings were well below average and the wings we randomly grill up at our own BBQs made with default Costco wings were much more superior than the ones we got from this restaurant. My wife didn't even finish 2/4 of the wings in the box. The crab noodles was in general bland and unsatisfying.

The worst part was right after the meal, my wife started developing a cold sweat and started feeling very nauseous. She ended up having the runs and vomited multiple times that evening whereas I felt a little bit nauseous and my stomach was churning but did not have any worse symptoms that night. It is now Sunday and she still feels nauseous and doesn't have much of an appetite.

You would have to elevate your state of mind quite a bit to appreciate this meal. If your mind-over-matter skills are not incredibly strong and refined, it is better to avoid this place...

So I was surprised about this place’s approach — making fast food dishes with luxury ingredients at a medium price range … pretty cool I’d say.

The restaurant is located on 2209 West 1st Avenue in Kitsilano so the demographics of this neighborhood could certainly be quite entertained and enjoy much the concept of their food items. In any event, I certainly enjoyed their food a great deal.

With their casual and premium dining fusion dishes made from high quality luxury ingredients such as Rougié foie gras, Italian truffle, Fresh lobster or crab meat, sushi-grade Hokkaido Scallop, I would naturally be biased and expect the food to offer me above average tastes — and Hestia did not disappoint!

We started from a new special tray/box set including 4 sliders, a mini risotto bowl, butter shrimp, butter corn, deep fried chicken wings, as well as fried tofu in roasted pepper sauce for $80 — everything was delicious and I really appreciate their work put into each slot of the tray.

Other bowl items such as Omurice Bowl with Fried Chicken and Truffle Chicken Linguini were super flavourful and well-cooked so bravo there as well.

If you visit, do try their new drink, The Garden, a lightly sweetened peach tea with rose, mint and lemonade with kanten balls (seaweed jelly). I loved the taste, colours, and looked this drink — so pretty and refreshing to say the least.

Providing delicious and still well-presented food, if you just want to get down to the beef (pun intended) and want to skip the overcharged 2/3 empty plate surfaces as found in upscale restos, and, do not mind them cardboard trays and bowls, Hastia is absolutely for you!

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