Press

  • Q magazine – Best Caribbean Restaurant 2000-2010
  • Dose Magazine – Best Caribbean 2005
  • Vancouver Magazine Best Of The America’s – Silver 2002,2003 Bronze 2004
  • Where Magazine – Best Casual – Nominated
  • Where Magazine – Best New Restaurant, Nominated 1999, 2003
  • Georgia Straight – Multiple Readers Choice Awards

Recommended in such prestige international books such as Zagat, Frommers & Time Out.

PRESS VANCOUVER

Westender Vancouver Best City Dining Out Gold 3 years running!

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PRESS VICTORIA

Honor Cory, the chef at’ The Reef, shows off two of the restaurant’s dishes – grilled marlin with exotic fruit salsa (left) and oxtail stew.

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PRESS VICTORIA

Caribbean f lavour comes t0 town Afine linemust be walked when offering authentic cultural cuisine that is both adventurous arid accessible. It helps if patrons have an adventurous enough palate to be responsive to a spicy jerk or oxtail, said The Reef chef Honor Cory., “It’s fun to provide something different for the Victoria palate,” [...]

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WHERE MAGAZINE

Our pick for best new restaurant of 2003, The Reef Restaurant features traditional and contemporary Caribbean cuisine in a warm, inviting atmosphere. The jerk dishes are excellent and you can savour this spicey marinade in a number delicious ways. Other great ideas include West Indian curries, roti, Trenton spiced ribs, tomato and mango red snapper, [...]

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GEORGIA STRAIGHT

Jerk forces Sweat to Pour At the Reef, the bold flavours of Caribbean food make people’s eyes water. Plastic and passports in our pockets off we flew to the British Virgin Islands and one of those tiny exclusive resorts that advertise in the New Yorker’s back pages. No. a better idea… Once we’d landed on [...]

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VANCOUVER PROVINCE

THE REEF is a tropical breeze of fresh air for Vancouver. THE REEF By Stuart Deredyn The Reef is a tropical breeze of fresh air for Vancouver. A neighbourhood eatery with loads of laid-back ambiance, killer value for food and a willingness to present Caribbean cusine with a West Coast spin, this is the first [...]

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VANCOUVER COURIER

Brunch, Main Street Style Bored with bacon ‘n’ eggs? Fed-up with French toast? If you’re suffering from a case of the brunch-time blahs then grab your cast-iron stomach and point you license plate in the direct of Main Street. Case-iron stomach? Don’t get me wrong. The places I’m about to suggest aren’t dicey, but they [...]

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VANCOUVER COURIER

A visit to Main Street Reef as friendly as trip to the Islands First impressions are everything. How can you not warm up to a place where staff can’t do enough for you? We hit The Reef (figuratively speaking) at a time of evening when this cozy, colourful room is ablaze with the sun’s late, [...]

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VANCOUVER SUN

THE REEF tells the story of how 500 years of slow-cooking a blend of European, African and Asian flavours created a unique Caribbean cuisine. They do a surprisingly good job marshalling the exotic flavours of tropical and African vegetables, fruits, hot spices, herbs and meats that could easily alienate western palates. The home cooking has [...]

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