January 3rd, Fuel on 4th opened up. I was one of the fortunate souls who had a chance to check the place out last year before the official opening and blogged about the experience (with lots of great photos) HERE.

Well, I couldn’t resist it – on opening day, Nina and I checked FUEL out again for lunch and are now officially FUEL’s first official customer.
For those not up to speed, first, the skinny:

FUEL Restaurant
1944 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver (MAP)
TEL: 604-288-7905
FAX: 604-288-2700
WEB: fuelrestaurant.ca

Fuel is owned by Robert Belcham and Tom Doughty both famous for their contribution to C restaurant in Vancouver.

Here are some great photos from the opening day lunch experience at Fuel Restaurant along with a description (below):

So what did lunch entail?

The wine of choice by Tom was the Mezza Corona Pinot Grigio. I enjoyed the sablefish, with button mushrooms for my first course. Pork belly, braised all night, with a cauliflower and olive gratin.

Nina enjoyed the warm Maitake & Yellowfoot Chantrelle mushroom salad to start, followed by pork belly of her own, accompanied by fraser valley beets and arrowleaf spinach.

For dessert we enjoyed vanilla ice cream, lime sorbet, pineapple sorbet and chocolate truffles accompanied by Tom’s legendary West Coast Soda.

After that, I went home and took a very long, well deserved nap.