I recently learned about the Food Blogger’s Meetup Group in Van­cou­ver, it seems like a good oppor­tu­nity to meet and eat with other food­ies in town. In my first meetup, we dined at Catch 122. One day as I was read­ing some tweets from my Twit­ter account, I saw this tweet about a free entrée. So it turns out the restau­rant is offer­ing a free entrée for the group and we would write an hon­est review of our din­ing expe­ri­ence. What’s bet­ter than eat­ing free good food and get­ting to review it? Catch 122 is a new restau­rant in Gas­town. I have read other blog­gers’ reviews on their lunch expe­ri­ence and they are all pos­i­tive so I was excited to visit the restau­rant for their new din­ner menu.

The Gas­town Riot Mock­tail — $4

The inte­rior of the restau­rant is quite com­fort­able, with a trendy and vin­tage feel. The owner, Brent came and intro­duced him­self. He explained a bit about the back­ground and the décor of the restau­rant — very nice per­son. As I sat down and chat­ted with the group, our server asked us if we would like any drinks. I didn’t feel like alco­hol so I opted for the Gas­town Riot, it was very fruity with rasp­ber­ries, straw­ber­ries, and man­goes — didn’t taste the “riot” part of it but it was yummy.

Com­pli­men­tary Bread

The bread was fresh, crusty, and fluffy in the middle.

Catch of the Day (Hal­ibut) — $22

I didn’t get appe­tiz­ers as we were told the entrée por­tions are quite large. For the entrée, I had Catch of the Day which was a Seared Hal­ibut served on top of a bed of roasted pota­toes with a but­tery cayenne sauce. I enjoyed the pota­toes, there were gar­lic and earthy flavours which worked well with the fish. There was also a good crust on them and weren’t too oily. The fish, how­ever, was a lit­tle over-cooked to my lik­ing. I also liked the creamy and but­tery sauce, I would have loved more though.

Coq au Vin — $21

I actu­ally didn’t have the Coq au Vin, a per­son from our table ordered this. Accord­ing to him, the chicken was very tasty though there was a bit too much pota­toes. He fin­ished the whole dish and found it very fill­ing as the por­tion was quite gen­er­ous. We had room for some dessert so we shared two among four of us at the table.

Crois­sant ‘bread pud­ding’ — $7.5

I adored the pre­sen­ta­tion of this dessert. It was a crois­sant and apri­cot bread pud­ding with crème Anglaise, and blue­berry sauce. We all enjoyed this as it was very creamy, and rich. The blue­berry sauce had a very intense colour and flavour, which paired well with the but­tery bread pudding.

Choco­late Ganache Delice — $7.5

The choco­late ganache was quite rich — the tex­ture was almost like a truf­fle. It had a good dark choco­late flavour, def­i­nitely a win­ner for choco­late lovers.

Latte — $3.75

Some­one at our table ordered a decaf latte, it looked pretty and cute with the “Catch 122″ writ­ten on it.

I had an enjoy­able din­ing expe­ri­ence at Catch 122, the food was pre­pared with care and ser­vice was friendly. I espe­cially enjoyed the bread pud­ding — I don’t know if I can re-make that at home but would like to try. I would love to try their lunch menu some time.

Con­clu­sion:

Ambi­ence: 3.5/5
Food: 3.5/5
Ser­vice: 4/5
Value: 3.5/5