Was in a private room for a bachelor party for 10 people of half white guys & asians.. Food was from a set menu for $50 that includes appetizer, main & desert.

Both me and my buddy's chicken was not fully cooked, flavours reasonable, but nothing was outstanding, with small portionsl. Ambience was good, restaurant was full, but full of pretensious, posery people overpaying for Asian food.

Service was solid for a busy night and only redeeming quality of the place.

Make a long story short, we all went out to eat again afterwards.

We went to Goldfish and the food was sub-par, but not so bad. The worst thing was the manager, talk about being rude. The waitress was taking so long to put our bill together (over 30 minutes) and when we asked how much longer, he snapped back at us and said it takes 3 minutes per transaction and you have a table of 12. Talk about inexperienced. Take your business elsewhere!

I actually quite enjoyed goldfish. The ambiance is a little off with the TV's... is it a high end restaurant or is it a sports bar?? And it seems like it's half-asian fusion... but they didn't want to go all the way.

Service was decent.. not much to say about that.

But in terms of food, everything was pretty good. The black cod was very smooth and had good flavor. I likedit alot.. except the portion was tinnyyy. I think my date had the trout.. or something similar, and it was quite good as well. We also liked the hand cut chips and the prawns on sugarcanes. I will agree with everyone else that it was quite pricey for what you get..

Just what is the purpose of the Taste Of Yaletown promotion running in some 25 Yaletown restaurants? I thought that by offering some reasonably-priced set menus the restaurants would be tempting us inside to sample their offerings, win us over so that we’d return sometime paying full price or maybe contribute some positive “word of mouth” to our friends and colleagues about our experience.
Well after my experience I really can’t say that this is the plan of Goldfish Global Kitchen. I reserved my table for 2 using their online system, but when we turned up (on time) it seemed to be a surprise. One of the 3 hosts told us that she’d see what table they had available. We waited and after a few moments we were directed to a central table and presented with the regular menu, the Taste of Yaletown (TOY) menu and the wine list.
The TOY menu offered 3 courses for $35 – an apparent bargain compared to the full price menu. Our server was friendly and attentive. I asked a question about the menu and the reply should have been a warning. “the set menu papaya salad is almost the same as on the regular menu – apart from the fact it has no beef”. I skipped the salad that had lost its beef and selected the crab tempura. My friend decided to eat from the full menu and choose duck spring rolls.
The room was very busy, the bar area too. We weren”t surprised to have to wait a while. The wine list is interesting if rather expensive – about 2.5 times BC liquor retail prices. Despite a fair number of wines by the glass, these were of course on the less interesting varieties. I had a $12 glass of Washington chardonnay.
The first courses arrived, the server not knowing who ordered what. We put him right and I had plonked in front of me what appeared to be a small, slender fillet of deep fried cod. I was reassured that it was indeed the crab tempura. The spring rolls arrived accompanied by wilted lettuce leaves and a dipping sauce topped by raw garlic.
My first bite of the crab told me that the batter was heavy – just like traditional fish and chips and equally over salted. The crab had no flavour at all. The spring rolls were tastier but best when the lettuce and garlic dip were avoided.
Luckily for me the portion of springs rolls was generous and my friend shared these. She took a bite of the crab and agreed about the saltiness. The third and final bite we left on the plate.

We waited quite a while for the main course. My small Steelhead salmon fillet was served in a shallow bowl on some unadvertised wilted spinach and 2 ravioli stuffed with flavourless ricotta. There was no sign of sweet peas. My friend had chosen the Korean fish tacos which arrived in a faux newspaper lined box with several accompaniments, pointed out by our server – the lime, fresh salsa, the ouzo flavoured sour cream and guacamole. She diplomatically avoided mention of the more than wilted – almost composted – cilantro. There was a reasonable portion of tasty fish and seafood with 4 soft tacos. Again my friend was generous enought to share. My set menu dessert choice was Almond Cheescake and I noticed a smile on our server’s lips when we announced we would share it. It arrived, conveniently only 2 bites big and surprisingly covered in raspberry compote. It certainly had an almond flavour but no texture. We avoided coffee and asked for the bill.
No surprises. It added up to the $90 I expected, but i felt very cheated. I felt that i had been lured into the restaurant to sample its cuisine for a reduced fixed price. What I got was reduced portions and reduced quality and really the feeling that I wasnt wanted. My companion had chosen from the full menu and was served full portions at a total cost of $34. I had mini portions and mini cheescake for $1 more.
Is that what Taste of Yaletown is really about?

I love these guys. They have always treated me and the missus well and the staff is friendly and knowledgeable. the menu allows diners to choose healthy options if they wish and the food is tasty and well prepared. The seafood is especially well prepared with a deft hand in the kitchen. The restaurant is one of the nicest looking in town with comfortable chairs that enhance the dining experience.
What I don't like, however, are the excessive markups on their wines, which in some cases are close to 3 times what the private wine stores charge. This unfortunately leaves me only 2 options - I can either stop eating here or stop ordering wine when I do. If you folks can't make a decent profit on your operations with a 100% markup on your wine list I will have to give you a miss. Either way everyone loses.

We were 3 and arrived at the Goldfish around 8pm on a busy Saturday night. There was no problem! They directed us to the bar to wait for our table, where the barman was really nice. We got our table within 10 minutes and had an outstanding service. The food was tasty, the ambiance music great and again, we got an awesome waiter. We're planning to go back again and stay longer next time!

The food is nothing special, but we've always liked the room.

After overhearing a group of the bar staff making rude comments about a customer a little too loudly, I asked my husband that we boycott Goldfish.

All that upbeat Olympic energy on the streets of Yaletown got us into Goldfish once again for an afternoon cocktail.
We had our drinks, paid the waitress we'd ordered from, and as we were leaving one of the staff runs after my husband, grabs him, slams down the bill and yells "YOU WANNA PAY FOR YOUR DRINKS?!"
To which he replied, he had already paid.
We were stunned by the crass employee, embarrassed at being treated so rudely in front of the whole restaurant, and ever determined to never, ever go there again.

$15 cocktails and the staff treated us like that? We're good, decent people. Noone should have to contend with either of our last two visits there.

Give it a wide miss until they get their act together.

I went to try Taste of Yaletown, but the set menu only offered tuna sashimi appetizer, arctic char entree, and creme brulee. I don't like arctic char so I ordered off the menu.

I started with the shrimp cupcakes, followed by the lamb chops with bacon fried rice as a side, and finished with the chocolate sushi. The food was rather disappointing. The cupcakes (6 in total) were small in size and I would have preferred two large cupcakes or three medium cupcakes instead of these very small cupcakes. The cupcakes didn't offer much in the flavour department except for a hint of coconut. The texture was mushy except for the shrimp on top.

The lamb was extremely disappointing. Normally lamb chops are rich in flavour, but these were bland. I didn't detect any sort of seasoning. Plus, they were a little charred on the outside. The fried rice was much too wet and clumpy. I would have preferred if the bacon pieces were crispy.

The dessert was interesting and esthetically appealing, but that's the only nice thing I have to say about it. The "rice" was coconut tapioca with one very small piece each of mango, strawberry, and kiwi all wrapped in a sheet of dark chocolate. The sushi comes with a sugary dipping sauce. Without the dipping sauce it was rather awful; I couldn't taste the fruit. I don't think sugar water is worth $9.

Overall, I get that the menu is trying to use Asian accents, but the flavours were confused and lacked harmony. It's like they thought ginger is good and we'll just put lots of ginger without thinking of what we're putting the ginger on.

Service was poor for the caliber of restaurant Goldfish is attempting to be. The server took a long time to bring our drinks and she was noticeably disappointed when we didn't order wine.

It is much too loud inside the restaurant, which made the conversation difficult. The decor is nice except for the black recessed panels in the ceiling; they didn't match the rest of the decor.

I had been meaning to go there for awhile but never got around to it. I usually try to steer clear of the Yaletown strip as I find them a bit dull (although tasty) however as this has a set menu for $25 between 5 and 6:30 I was keen to give it a go.
I was very happy with everything, we got seated quickly and the ambience of the place is really nice (didn't look like a bachelor pad as many Vancouver restaurants do). There was five of us and we all settled for the three course menu and between us we tried all the starters and all but one of the entrees. Everyone was very happy with the service and we had two people in our party from abroad both of whom were impressed.
One thing I liked and which I find many other venues around town lack is that the servers were very efficient, pleasant and natural. They didn't have any of those irritating fake smiles and ahomogenous way of greeting you that many other venues have. My one gripe was that all three courses were slow to come out, this fortunately wasn't a problem as we were a chatty group of five but if I was with people I didn't feel as comfortable with (ie trying to make conversation) or looking to be in and out quickly then I don't think Goldfish would do the trick. Fortunately for them food kept coming out just as we were starting to look at each other and say "where is this food?".
Drinks aren't cheap and I spent as much on two glasses of wine as I did on food. The main courses also aren't cheap but I think for the quality they're what you would expect to pay.

Give me a break, Vancouverites are more food savvy than this.

Goldfish comes in at a price point that can only be justified by good food. We tried this place on our anniversary and left after our appetizers. Don't get me wrong, the decor is modern and both the Mayor of Vancouver and Isaiah Washington were eating here when we went on Sunday, so there's clearly some 'buzz' around Goldfish, but my advice is stay away.

The word 'snowed' occured to my companion and I as I was served up a way too pulpy cran/blueberry martini and a prawn cocktail made up of 5 or 6 small, shriveled up (aka overcooked) things that wouldn't even meet Costco's standards. We also had the scallops, which were cooked but not flavoured properly. That is, they were crispy on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside, but the sauce was so BLAND that my palate cannot - honestly - recall any taste!

We had also ordered a host of other things, including the chili crab (at $59) and halibut ($26) , which I was really excited about, a fish dish, a few sides like asparagus, rice, and mushrooms (since everything comes a la carte) and alot of alcohol (you should know that the wine list is very poor, it's not only limited but doesn't contain better selections - more like a wine list suited to a Milestones or Earls calibre and even that's arguable).

The appies were such a disappointment that we canceled the rest of the order, paid, and went somewhere else! Don't get me wrong, we weren't unhappy or angry with this experience (as our waitress was warm and friendly), just hugely disappointed and unwilling to shell out more for such poor quality. I can see what others are saying about the service though, the hostessing was pretentious and one of the managers (I think) we came to speak of us was as well.

I love dining out (do so alot) and I love great food, excellent service, and a cool ambience - Goldfish just doesn't have it.