My lovely hubby took me to The Teahouse for my birthday, and what a great experience! We have no complaints at all about the service, every person we encounter in this restaurant was respectful and very helpful. Ambiance is excellent, inside is nice, warm and cozy, and the ocean view is the best. Good appys, but I did not rate the food a 5 or even a 4 because i've had better; it was good, don't take me wrong, but I expected outstanding. They plated my cake beautifully.

The food was very good but the service was a bit lacking.

We got there an hour early because I thought my reservation was for 6 when it was really for 7. They offered to seat us in the lounge, so we sat there for 30 minutes before they even came to ask us if we wanted any drinks!

The rotten part is there were these two older ladies who got there long after we had and one of the servers took their order and totally ignored us.

After we sat down, our waitress was very friendly, but when it came time for desert and coffee, she brought the desert and then didn't bring the coffee until we had ALREADY finished eating it.

To make matters worse, she brought me my Americano but didn't bring creme... who does that???

P.S. my Girlfriend had the Sablefish which comes with clams and she got sick right after dinner...

The group who runs the Sequoia Grill also manages the Sandbar, Seasons in the Park, and Carderos. What do they all have in common? Overpriced, comical food served in beautiful locations. (To be fair, I haven't eaten at the Sandbar or Carderos recently). It is so annoying to be at the bad end of a restaurant (e.g. the customer end) who knows it can keep serving terrible food because the location brings in a steady stream of tourists that may never be in the city again.

The menu items ring of fine dining: frisee greens, braised lambshake with reduction, blah, blah. It is all empty rhetoric. The ingredients were sub-par. My spouse had the lamb, which was dry and grisly. We shared the frisee greens ($13) appetizer which literally consisted of 4 frisee leaves circling a little bite of goat cheese we had to fight over. If you ordered a similar appetizer at Bishop's, for instance, you would get three times the amount of food on your plate. How can they not be laughing in the kitchen? It is like a bunch of people are playing make-believe, a dress-up game they like to call "fine dining restaurant". We are not oblivious.

For my main course, I ordered the lobster special. It was served with green ooze pouring out of its innards and stale butter. What ever happenened to presentation? We were not satisfied with our dish, so the waitress was hostile to us. I mean, who are we to complain? Oh yes, the customers spending a couple hundred dollars.

On the plus side, I drank wine by the glass that night and the selection was amazing. The Sauvignon Blanc was probably the nicest I have ever tried. And the dessert was pretty good, too. So, if you want a place to go for wine and dessert after dinner, I definitely recommend the Sequoia Grill. You can see a beautiful view of the the city from your table.

Sinday brunch is a real treat. Our croissants were great with fresh preserve, I had the West coast eggs benedict, which were some of the best i have tasted so far in vancouver. My friend had the french toast, she loved it and would have had a second helping given the chance. The service is some of the best i have experienced form around the world. Friendly and attentive without being suffocating. Basically a great place for a sunday brunch treat for anyone. I would definately return and take out of town friends here for any of the menus.

This would be a great restaurant to take tourist too. The view is outstanding and the food is tasty. I found the service staff to be ok but I was a little disappointed with the lack of interaction with our waitress.

The carrot soup is amazing. Everyone at our table enjoyed their main courses.

I would recommend this place if you want to get out of the downtown core and experience Stanley Park.

After hearing some accolades from friends I decided to take my parents who are visiting Vancouver. The restaurant is in Stanley Park, so there is nothing lacking in overall setting. The restaurant feels cozy like a mountain lodge, and coupled with the drive through Stanley Park makes the whole atmosphere peaceful and as close to sublime as a city restaurant can be. Service here is top-notch. It does not get much better, so I give a hearty 5 for service. I ordered the daily specials, and all were tasty. The mushroom soup on the regular menu is a definate thumbs up. Even the table bread is out of this world, and I wish I knew where to get it. So, I look forward to returning. This is of course not a cheap restaurant but for what it is, it is reasonably priced and well worth it. Go!

Went for dinner here last Friday for the first time since this place has changed hands/names. The menu is similar, they still have the famous mushroom caps and carrot-ginger soup. Although the food is solid, you go to this place for the views. We split the seafood sampler appetizer (grilled salmon, ahi tuna tartare and curry prawns). The portion size was generous and all of the dishes were fresh and good. The server was a bit spacey though. For example, we had to ask for plates to share the appetizer and for water refills. He was fairly knowledgeable about the menu though. My partner has the 10 oz NY steak, which was decent, although the sides (potatoes, minted demi glaze) were predictable and lackluster. I had the scallops (actually an appie) with a side of veggies. They were OK, not bad, not great, came with a huge pile of useless radish sprouts piled on top. The desserts were excellent - try the sunburned lemon tart. I don't know if I'd be rushing to come back since nothing was really of "WOW" quality besides dessert, just solid good food. For the prices (which, BTW, are more in the $20-$30 range, not $10-$20) I would expect something a bit more creative and original. Maybe because the clientele is older (the majority of patrons were gray hairs - 65+) the cooking is more conservative? I'd still take out of towners here though for the amazing view.

Went earlier this week for dinner at 8.30 and we were seated within millimeters of the next table; they certainly like to pack in their clientele even at less popular sitting times! I was concerned when the waitress described the truffle sauce to my friend as "a bit like olive oil flavour" and "it's not a fungus". The atmosphere was lovely, and I was pleasantly surprised by the absence of muzak that most nicer restaurants in Vancouver like to pump out. My mussels were disappointing, but my friends enjoyed their tortellini and soup. The desserts were wonderfu; I'd go back just for them.

7 walk-ins dined on the deck. The service was excellent, friendly and attentive yet casual. All of us are at least passable cooks, and none of us detected a "blip" in what we ordered. Most impressive to all of us was the impeccable fish --- fresh and cooked to perfection (done to the proper degree, still moist inside). Limited but interesting wines by the glass (wish there had been more to choose from, especially BC wines as we are from out of town). Gorgeous setting and most welcome after a walk around about 3/4 of Stanley Park.