This restaurant offers you a delicious meal and a place to relax after a long walk through the West Vancouver Museum. Come here and taste the Vietnamese cuisine. Perfectly cooked beef noodle soup, lettuce rolls and papaya salads can make a deep impression on you. Enjoy a good iced coffee, Vietnamese coffee or coffee with eggs.

Wooden Fish is famous for its excellent service and friendly staff who are always ready to help. Most guests note that the dishes have average prices. You will definitely appreciate the quiet atmosphere and great decor.

Wooden Fish gives each table a choice of four clay pots with homemade dipping sauces, which I found took the meal from very good to great. These garlic sauces included a brilliant orange hot sauce with an impressive, fiery chili flavor, an outstanding lemongrass puree, another flavorful garlic and chili puree, and an ingenious but simple condiment made from pickled garlic chunks that was like an ultra-flavorful, sweet and sour vinaigrette.

Vietnam is a culinary wonder of a nation, but I tend to forget that its difficult past included a significant period of French occupation. The latest evidence of this influence is evident in the cuisine that has taken French specialties (confit, baguette, gourmet liver pate, pot au feu, etc.) and reinterpreted them with a distinct local flavor. I can confidently say that I have never had perfectly cooked duck confit on seasoned rice before, let alone lemongrass puree and nuoccham (a fish sauce-based dipping condiment); the combination was a revelation.