Lots of young families like them though, and most locations offer booster seats and high chairs as well as crayons and paper for colouring.
Their clientele are usually young to middle-aged adults. Kids are welcome though, except for maybe at the bar sections. Cactus Club operates 22 restaurants throughout the Lower Mainland. Burnaby , meanwhile, is home to three locations. The City of Vancouver has seven Cactus Club locations including a couple on the waterfront.
The one at English Bay , for example, is set right on the beach. If you want to impress your friends, family or date, try hard to get a window seat. Prime tables at these restaurants make for memorable dining experiences especially during sunsets! Classic menu items, however, such as burgers, pasta and steak, for the most part, remain the same throughout the company. Typical appetizers include things like Szechuan lettuce wraps, mini burgers, calamari fried squid , potato skins, edamame and chicken wings.
Some, but not all locations, serve sushi. Most of the restaurants also offer a selection of Asian-inspired rice bowls as well as more traditional beef burgers and chicken sandwiches. Some menu items are only available in certain restaurants and dishes can vary. Best Managed Companies How Cactus Club turned one funky restaurant into a growing national chain Richard Jaffray spotted the shift toward casual dining far before most competitors.
What it takes to become one of Canada's Best Managed Companies. How Questrade turns its underdog status into a strength. Joseph Communications uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. Learn more or change your cookie preferences. By continuing to use our service, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies why? Leroy Earl "Bus" Fuller is the patriarch of the Fuller family restaurant empire, and he founded Earls with his son Stanley in The two helped Jaffray and partner Scott Morison — both former Earls employees — open the first Cactus Club in North Vancouver in , providing the startup funds and taking majority ownership of the new company.
Morison left in , and went on to become the chairman and CEO of Browns Restaurant Group, yet another competitor in the same market. The Fullers and their companies now own 65 per cent of Cactus Club, according to court documents. The arrangement appeared to be working for both sides — recent years have seen Cactus Club chain expand its reach across Canada, while Earls is now opening restaurants in the U.
The first outward sign of trouble came a year ago, when Jaffray filed suit against various Earls subsidiaries and members of the Fuller family. His claim, registered in B. Supreme Court in June , alleges a complicated transfer of Cactus Club shares between members of the Fuller family. Jaffray claims this was done without giving him proper notice of the deal. Jaffray's lawyer, J. Kenneth McEwan, said in a written statement that Jaffray filed the suit "to enforce his legitimate commercial rights under the shareholder's agreement.
In their response to the claim, however, the Fullers deny breaking the agreement with Jaffray, saying there was no transfer of shares. At Joey, the menu spans sushi, and even a few French terms, such as frites and demi. But it is at Cactus—where you find the best food—that you are also vulnerable to the most deceitful illusion of all. The idea is that, when you dine there, you are eating true-blue Rob Feenie cuisine, food by an Iron Chef—the real thing, only at a cut-rate price, in a setting you can relate to.
But all the same, in Cactus-saturated Vancouver, I constantly bump into recession-weary chefs and restaurateurs involved in genuine fine dining who perceive Cactus Club as a direct and nefarious threat, responsible not just for drawing old customers away, but prompting those who remain to complain of what they see as elevated prices for product they see as fundamentally interchangeable.
But a closer inspection of even the restaurants at Coal Harbour or English Bay, with their spectacular coastal views, reveals that these places are a very different beast. When I sat at the bar of the Coal Harbour Cactus last summer, it struck me, with its 10,sq.
And I found it genuinely difficult to convince my jittery subconscious that, at any moment, some unseen PA would not bark out last call for our flight home. The initiative must have made good sense when the chef first signed up, but, five years on, with 90 per cent of the menu marked RF-endorsed, the lingering specialties from days of yore appear as if relegated to some culinary quarantine.
Go ahead and order the fish tacos, if you must, but understand that chef Feenie wants nothing to do with you! No fool, I ordered items that were RF-certified. My meal began with a dish that encapsulated the Cactus culinary experience: tuna sushi cones.
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