Called Monzo, this upscale burger joint combines British Columbia’s best ingredients with Italian products, all with a salute to the fashion, food and car cultures of Italy in the 1980s.
“The concept for Monzo was inspired by the carefree attitude and inimitable style of the Italian paninari, who haunted the streets, piazzas and ‘panino bars’ of 1980s Milan,” says Drew Dunford, one of the partners in the restaurant. “Known for their borderline obsession with designer sportswear and American-style fast food, we’ve created our own modernized interpretation of this culture in the form of a restaurant that celebrates great food, personal expression and fun for all ages.”
The 88-seat restaurant and bar is in the neo-futurist skyscraper Vancouver House, in the spot that was once rumored would be a Momofuku. That’s the 52-story building designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group in the newly dubbed Beach District, the one that looks like it twists up from an impossibly tiny footprint. Wooden benches line the building—it’s right next to the pillars of the downtown side of the Granville Bridge—so grabbing take-out for an al fresco picnic is easy. Plus, Monzo is open until midnight daily: perfect for hungry passengers arriving in Vancouver after a late flight.
Monzo is part of Vancouver’s Kitchen Table Restaurants, which includes three restaurants recommended in the inaugural issue of Vancouver’s Michelin Guide: Ask for Luigi in Gastown, Venetian-style Bacaro at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel, plus Carlino in the Shangri-La Hotel with its northern-Italian menu.
“Monzo” is a play on the Italian word for beef—“manzo”—and this burger joint knows its beef. Monzo’s four beef burgers have a custom blend of seven whole muscle cuts sourced from Legends Haul, the Vancouver distributor of high-quality, consciously-sourced meats and seafoods. Monzo chefs then grind it in-house and cook it to order.
Beef isn’t only for Monzo’s burgers, either. The retro restaurant also calls back to the good old days with French fries (and onion rings) that are cooked in rendered beef tallow, just like McDonald’s used to do up until the 1990s. Monzo also cooks their handheld apple pie in the beef fat, though, if you prefer, they’ll use their vegetable oil fryer for menu items too. For non-beef eaters, Monzo also has the Big Legume burger with a house-made vegetable patty, a chicken handheld dubbed the Milano plus classic chicken strips.
For desserts beyond that apple hand pie, Monzo offers soft serve gelato three ways: in a cup, as a sundae with toppings of salted caramel or chocolate, and as a milkshake (boozy mixers optional). The ice cream is from Motoretta Gelato—in the same Kitchen Table Restaurants family as Monzo—which has classic and
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