Sour Grapes: Upheaval at Vancouver Restaurants

As we inch our way closer to the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver restaurants are facing a pretty massive shuffle. New dining rooms are opening up on what feels like a daily basis and there is starting to be a distinct instability in terms of staffing. Several key restaurants staff have decided to change establishments, from sommeliers to managers, sous chefs to head chefs.

Sommelier Tom Doughty and chef Robert Belcham, for example, left C Restaurant behind to open Fuel. Similar staff changes were experienced at Lumiere and CinCin where GM Edwyn Kumar left the former to go to the latter; Manager/sommelier Sebastien Le Goff went the other way in exchange. With talks and changes like this, the Vancouver restaurant scene is starting to sound like the NHL at the trade deadline. And those aren't the only staff swaps that have occurred. Far from, actually.

Vancouver restaurants are struggling to maintain a sense of consistency with everyone moving around like this. Servers are looking for pay raises, chefs are looking for more elbow room in terms of creativity... and restaurant owners are having a hard time keeping up. It will be interesting to see what the dining scene will look like in 2010, and in the time being, it's unclear whether all this movement is good or bad for diners.

Source: Globe and Mail

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