Goldfish Pacific Kitchen is located in the Yaletown neighborhood, and offers a modern atmosphere, tasty food, and novel cocktails. You can find it on 1118 Mainland Street, and you can make a reservation by calling 604.689.8318, or visiting their website. This is an interview with Andrea Maglajlija, the marketing manager for Goldfish Pacific Kitchen and Joe Fortes Seafood and Chop House.

Q. How did you do in 2008?

A. 2008 was a great year for Goldfish.  We have been honored with the 2008 Wine Enthusiast Award of Unique Distinction as well as Wine Spectator’s 2008 Award of Excellence.  We have quite the neighborhood following.  Goldfishers love our contemporary, sophisticated setting and the seafood-focused clean, fresh-flavoured dishes.

Q. What was your most popular dish in 2008?

A. Our most popular dish of 2008 was the miso sake sablefish with sautéed gai lan and lemongrass broth.  The texture of sablefish melds very well with the flavors of miso and sake; this combined with the lemongrass broth creates a great balance of flavors. 

Q. Are you taking part in the "Dine Out Vancouver 2009" event? If yes, please give us a scoop of your special menu for the event?

A. Yes, we are always happy to participate in Dine Out – it’s an opportunity to offer something different to our guests and at a great value.  This year we are doing a $38 three course menu with items such as sugar cane skewered prawns (appetizer), duck breast with mushroom thyme risotto (entrée) and warm spiced pear crumble streusel topping, pear sorbet (dessert).  We also have a Wine Out Vancouver promotion on Sundays and Mondays, with special pricing on most of the wines from our regular wine list. 

Q. Any special plan for 2009?

The Goldfish experience is uncomplicated and uncommon.  We strive to provide our guests with a distinctive menu, lots of variety, superb service and highest quality product at a reasonable price.  That’s our bottom line. We will continue to listen to our guests and keep things exciting with new menu items, interesting cocktails, fun events and unique value based menu promotions.  You’ll have to keep checking our website and our facebook page for news!  

Q. What is your recommendation?! From your menu, of course! 

A. Hmmmm, that’s a tough one…I love our JASMINE TEA SMOKED LING COD with edamame bean & mushroom ragout.