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FOOD FIGHT: Timber falls like a freshly logged tree

Timber, a relatively new gastropub on Vancouver’s Robson Street, is a thumbs-down from me. Their brand is endearing, being a “Canadian comfort” gastropub, and they covered all the requirements: the waitstaff are dressed in plaid shirts and denim, the furnishings are polished wood and concrete with high ceilings, the TVs broadcast sports, and their menu is bursting at the seams with beer and Canadian comfort food. The ambience is as you can imagine: the interior very trendy, and reeks of the high-end hipster culture notorious in Vancouver. So what went wrong? After trying three out of the four vegetarian mains…

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