Provide good service and people will tell some people about it....provide a bad experience and people will tell EVERYONE they know. This place has gone down the tubes...it used to attract smart, witty and cultural types but now a days it seems to attract only the friends of the service staff that waits on you...and do not dare to cross any of the "patrons" - and by that I mean, do not dare to assume that if you have a chair saved for your husband who is simply picking up the drinks you paid for at the bar that you will be able to save that chair until he returns. No, no, no...not if the simpletons that hang at the kino on an apparently regular basis have anything to say about it. They take your chair, without even a common courtesy of, excuse me, "is this chair taken?" and then when the husband returns with drinks and no chair he is faced with mass contempt when trying to get a chair back from the "regulars". Oh and then we were asked to "stop talking" to the RETARDS by the bar staff when we decided to stand up for our right to have a chair. Not sure, but it would seem to me that the rent in this hood needs to increase even more because these yahoos down at the kino are a tiny step up from the scum that frequents the Cambie Pub in the downtown east side...and the service is just as shoddy. Don't waste your money or your intellect. Cambie has much more to offer and the Kino is not it.

This is a decent sized cafe with numberous tables. I have been there a few times, the dancing and performances are great and highly-energetic, music great and service is very good. I suspect having read other reviews below that Kino has worked on their service issues. It is much better now!
The food is decent, not enough flavour I agree in SOME of the dishes, but the plates, chorizo and other small dishes are popular... tapas as they are meant to be, in the Spanish style!
The little pizzas are also popular.
I recommend Kino, a great way to spend your evening and something quite different!

M

Not only is the menu very limited and the food mediocre, but the customer service is the worst I have ever experienced. Six of us went there for dinner -- we were there for almost three hours trying to get something to eat. It was impossible to get service; when we did get service, the server couldn't answer any of the questions we had about the menu (didn't know the menu at all). After about an hour wait, another server started to feel sorry for us and offered to bring us nachos while we waited for our meals. By the time she brought the nachos, the first of the six meals were coming out. Four of our six meals were brought out about 15 minutes apart; they brought the wrong meal to one person; and our final two meals never arrived at all. We finally gave up and went to pay our bill and they didn’t even offer us a discount! I will never, ever, ever return to Kino Café. Ever! (And to top it off, they would only accept cash!)