LunchHarvest
Chinatown’s Harvest is a community grocery store that sells seasonally fresh produce and is attached to a makeshift kitchen serving an extremely short, eclectic menu of Ramen, Udon and the occasional homemade waffle.
Harvest sells an assortment of seasonally fresh and less orthodox produce.
Harvest began life as a community experiment through This Space, asking local residents what kind of storefront they would like opened in their neighbourhood. This small grocery store and eatery with just a handful of seats, was the end result. Their main menu item — Japanese Ramen.
Harvest’s take on the Japanese classic Ramen ($9.95) topped with a slice of candied bacon.
How good is the ramen? Well, it contains the requisite fattiness of a slow cooked pork broth, handmade noodles and is garnished with fresh greens, fatty pork, luxuriously par-boiled egg and accented with a strip of extra crispy, candied bacon. Very well played. There’s little need to discuss whether the ramen at Harvest is as authentic as any one of Vancouver’s many ramen spots. It’s not meant to be. It’s a tasty bowl of noodle soup. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Harvest features a rotating selection of homemade waffles
Strangely puzzling, yet tasty is Harvest’s offering of rotating homemade belgian style waffles. Our particular waffles were topped with a smattering of ricotta cheese and strawberry sorbet and mandarin orange slices.
Dishes at Harvest are reasonably priced (under $10) and simply, yet carefully crafted. The curiously eclectic menu reflects the very personality of the store and the burgeoning neighbourhood it inhabits.
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