Browns Restaurant Bar (restaurant web site) 1165 Mainland Street, Vancouver, phone (604) 696-9335, is a casual and fun restaurant in Yaletown, an upscale dining neighborhood in Vancouver. Keep tabs on your favorite sports teams on the flatscreen TV’s while enjoying a California-style burger, or even a fancy entree. I really enjoyed my Pan Seared Halibut (pictured below), which was lightly blackened and served with a delicious “citrus risotto cake”. Its price varies according to market, but was around $22.

Samurai Japanese Restaurant (more photos, 1108 Davie St. Vancouver, Phone 604-609-0078) is a cozy and very busy restaurant located in Vancouver’s downtown core. It serves yummy Japanese food at reasonable prices. My “Combination C” came with a variety of sushi and sashimi (pictured below) as well as Teriyaki, Tempura, miso soup, and rice. My meal came to $13.73 including tax.

Urban Thai (1119 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, Phone 604-408-7788) is a bustling, spacious, and cozily decorated Thai restaurant in the heart of Vancouver’s Yaletown shopping and restaurant district. Yaletown is known for its upscale restaurants, where it is not uncommon to walk into a restaurant and find the average entree price is $30. Urban Thai bucks the norm and aims to please with a very reasonably priced lunch special that includes a salad, spring roll, and entree served with rice. My total bill including tax and tip came to $9.00. There is quite a number of lunch selections to choose from; I enjoyed the chicken with bamboo shoots which was fairly spicy!!