Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts on West Second Ave, Vancouver

Polly and I resumed our cake meet after a long break due to her change of work schedule. I saw a review on the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts in the Vancouver Sun some time ago and decided to give it a try.

The Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts is located at the entrance to Granville Island. This school has a restaurant which serves three course gourmet set menu prepar3ed by the students. The menu ranges from $24 for weekday lunch, $26 for Saturday brunch to $36 for dinner from Monday to Saturday. The restaurant has a great marina view overlooking the North Shore mountains.

The institute also has a Bakeshop and Cafe which serves specialty breads, pastries, gourmet cakes, light lunches and dinners for dine in or take away. This is where Polly and I indulged our craving for cakes.

We ordered three items to share. It is just too tempting looking at the array of items offered at the Bakeshop & Cafe. Those with chocolate cost $3.25 while the rest cost $2.95 a piece.

The first item we picked was the Cheese Cake topped with blueberries. It tasted like lemon filing in cookies.

The next item, we picked a Chocolate Mousse Cheese Dome. It is a chocolate glazed chocolate mousse dome with cheese cake in the center. Very pretty and taste good too.

The last item is a Hazelnut Cake with Milk Chocolate Mousse. The crust is crunchy and the cake is layered with milk chocolate mousse. The cake itself is quite dry.

We also had a Mocha and Latte to go with the cakes. The total bill came up to $18.97.

After the indulgent, we walked to Granville Island Public Market to burn off some calories. There are a variety of stalls in the market which sells flowers …

…fruits…

…fresh pasta…

…cured meat and sausages…

…breads…

…cakes and etc.

This is a view of the Granville Bridge from the Granville Island Public Market.

I enjoyed the day out a lot and I look forward for the next cake meet.

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