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The Backstory: Executive chef Hector Laguna delivers New Canadian cuisine at an artfully appointed knockout inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim.
The Drink Situation: Their Cocktail Lab is a futuristic funland where the bar team uses a centrifuge, band saw, and roto vaporizer to craft insanely Instagrammable cocktails – like one that arrives inside a terrarium – while their eminently knowledgeable and supremely passionate wine director Jill Spoor excels at offering up pairings for your experience.
The Must-Order Dish: A twirl of tagliatelle topped with morels, mushroom “soil,” and shards of crisped up piave cheese.