Forkhill House Irish Bistro
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Restaurant type

  • Bistro,

Cuisine type

  • Pub,

Dishes

  • Local,

Products and Services

  • Irish Food,
  • UK Beer,
  • Melton Mowbray Pie,
  • Guinness,
  • Private Dining Vancouver,

Languages Spoken

  • English,
  • French,
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Meet the owner

Jeff and Jaime Lenz were looking to buy a Vancouver restaurant when they saw a 1910 heritage spot on Alberni Street for sale. An image of Jaime’s ancestry came to Jeff, who shouted: “Let’s create an Irish restaurant!” Jaime, a first generation Irish-Canadian with proud heritage, told her husband he was crazy. “There’s no such thing,” she said. "Why not?" Jeff asked. “We’ll offer fine food with an Irish twist, top-notch service without pretension, and a bushel of Irish humour!” Jeff and Jaime put in an offer on the Alberni listing immediately. They took possession 24 hours later and opened Forkhill House a month later, in March 2017. “We worked for 28 days straight,” the couple laughs.

Generations of Jaime's family, the Brooks, were food producers in the village of Forkhill in Northern Ireland. During the Great Famine, the Brooks set a famine pot in front of their property. The giant cast iron vat held porridge in the morning and stew in the evening – food for anyone willing to work a day in their fields. Famished folk often avoided asking for food at a church, where they would likely be asked to convert from Catholic to Protestant, or vice versa. The Brooks' famine pot made a huge difference to hungry locals.

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If you think Ireland’s only contribution to world cuisine is green beer, then you need to visit Forkhill House to reeducate your taste buds. On offer are old Irish favourites with a contemporary twist. Always popular is the Irish seafood chowder (a creamy mix of salmon, cod, mussels, prawns and bacon), as well as the lamb shank, beef tenderloin and Irish stew. And of course no menu from the Emerald Isle would be complete without yorkies or the Scotch egg.

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