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Two leading sommeliers compete to pair the perfect wine with each of four courses. Every dish arrives with two mystery wines. You taste both. You debate at your table. Then you pull out your phone and vote for the wine you think paired best. Results are revealed after each course, and one sommelier advances to the final showdown on April 1.

Experience the Sommelier Showdown at Five Sails

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Review: Five Sails

Check out my new #review of #FiveSails at @panpacificvan. Wonderful restaurant with lovely food and fabulous service. #FoodReview #FoodCritic #Restaurant #Canada #Vancouver #PanPacific #FiveSailsRestaurant

Stunning Sweeping Harbour Views

Five Sails in Vancouver

9/10

The Location

  The Five Sails is an experience in itself. With a culmination of incredible views of Vancouver mixed with gorgeous West Coast cuisine and wonderful hospitality – you have yourself an award-winning luxurious combination.

The restaurant is chic, modern and yet completely relaxed within a beautiful setting, it’s hard to…

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OpenTable Diners Recognize 14 BC Restaurants in their Best of Canada List for 2017

14 #BC Restaurants made the top 100 in @OpenTable's Best of Canada List for 2017 @OpenTableCanada

From outstanding service to one-of-a-kind dining experiences, OpenTable, the world’s leading provider of online restaurant reservations, announced the 100 Best Restaurants in Canada for 2017. These awards reflect the combined opinions of more than 500,000 restaurant reviews submitted by verified OpenTable diners for more than 2,000 restaurants across Canada. This list illustrates some of the best…

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“Five Sails” -  Convention Center, Vancouver, BC 2017

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” -  William Arthur Ward

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Five Sails | Fine Dining, Fine View

It's rare for Q and I to go out eating at higher end restaurants, as we are often really casual and prefer to look for quick, cheap, and delicious eats. Gotham Steakhouse is my most recent fine dining experience, and it was pretty eye-opening. A good friend of mine raved about Five Sails a while back, and so I decided to take Q here for our 5th anniversary (Q:we've came a long way)! Five Sails is located in the Pan Pacific Hotel by the Coal Harbour area (Q: meaning expensive and hard to find parking!). It doesn't look very large from the outside, but there's quite a bit of seating space. They also have a private dining room for events. [caption id="attachment_4271" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Inside Five Sails - image from their website.[/caption] Beyond great food, a major selling point for Five Sails is their magnificent view of the water and mountains. Q and I had our reservations around 5:30 for a slightly earlier dinner - it worked great to see the sun set, but if you can I would recommend a later dinner. The night view is, in my opinion, even more beautiful!  (Q: the view is spectacular regardless the time of the day/night, but time is obviously more romantic!) Being a bit of a special night, Q and I ordered a glass of champagne to celebrate! [caption id="attachment_4261" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Champagne[/caption] Unfortunately, neither of us took a photo of the wine menu so we don't really remember which champagne this was - I know that it was delicious (Q: it is worth the $20/glass delicious)! After we ordered, our fantastic server brought out an appetizer - spiced squash soup and sliced salmon. Squash soup is solid  (Q: except mine didn't come in a cup with handle so it was a bit hard to drink when the cup is hot!), but the first bite into the sliced salmon was really great. Really fresh, and the added texture of the fried taro slices was delicious  (Q: made me anticipate what's more to come when these 2 things are so tasty!). [caption id="attachment_4262" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Complimentary appetizer - squash soup and tuna.[/caption] Seafood is what Five Sails is said to excel at, so I focused on seafood dishes. I wanted to try more than a main, so Q let me pick an appetizer ;). The Ahi Tuna Tartar caught my eye.  (Q: that caught my eye to!  Good thing he chose it ;)) [caption id="attachment_4263" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Ahi Tuna Tartar ($18)[/caption] It is a beautiful tower of crispy wonton, avocado, ginger infused sesame oil dressing, and, of course, tuna tartar. It looks really simple, but man this tuna tartar was made using fresh ingredients. The ginger sesame oil dressing was quite light, which was prefect to accompany the wonton crisps and tuna.  (Q: the mix of avocado made the dish more creamy with the tuna!  The crunch from the wonton wrapper is very welcomed given everything is rich and creamy!) For our mains, I ordered the Crispy Sea Bass with Citrus and Q ordered the Soy Glazed Marinated Sable Fish. [caption id="attachment_4264" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Crispy Sea Bass with Citrus ($40)[/caption] Five Sails' Sea Bass dish included crispy basil, taro root & leeks, citrus butter sauce and seasonal vegetables. I don't frequently order sea food when I eat out, so take this when a grain of salt when I say that this is the best sea bass I've ever had.  (Q: I think Le Crocodile does it better.)  The texture is perfect - crispy top and bottom and a tenderness in the meat that hits the sweet spot of having a good bite to it without being rubbery. Carrots and leeks are solid, but it's the citrus butter sauce that ties it all together. If you're a fan of sea bass, try this!  (Q: not much comment from me as I was busy enjoying my own dish and didn't find his sea bass that amazing!) [caption id="attachment_4265" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Soy Glazed Marinated Sable Fish ($38)[/caption]   While the sea bass was good, I found that the Soy Glazed Sable Fish was even better! On the surface, it looks really simple - sable fish with truffle sauce & sautéed shimeji mushrooms, and some bak choi, but the sable fish was outstanding! Perfect texture and flavour. Best seafood dish I've had so far. I highly recommend ordering the sable fish if you're planning on checking out Five Sails.  (Q: the truffle sauce mixed with the earthy taste of mushroom is out of the world.  It is simple but complement the soy glazed sable fish.   I did not find this dish to be salty at all!!  All that flavor subtlety from each single ingredients harmonize so well as a whole! I can't stop singing its praise!) [caption id="attachment_4267" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Luxe Lemon Mille-feuilles ($12)[/caption] A meal for us isn't totally complete without dessert. We ordered the Luxe Lemon Mille-feuilles, which consisted delicate layers of crisp phyllo pastry, chilled lemon cream & lemon parfait, fresh berry purée, and topped with pearls of orange “caviar”. If you like lemon tarts, you'll like this dessert! Great tangy lemon flavour, and the phyllo pastry is fantastic.  (Q: strong lemon taste cleared the palate quite well!  It is a refreshing dish to end a heavy meal!) Overall, Five Sails is a great place to try if you want something higher end. Everything we had was delicious, and the service was also amazing!       [gmap width="400" address="five sails"]