Friday night after work my boyfriend and I had a date night. We decided to go to Vancouver Christmas Market. Its a German market in downtown Vancouver selling food and knick knacks. Regularly tickets sold for $7 per person. But there was a groupon for $12 for two people which also includes two carousel rides and two seasons passes. I Happened to buy the groupon when there was an additional 20% off which made it even more worth it.
There was a long line up upon arrival but it went surprisingly fast. Because I didn't read the fine prints of the groupon properly we forfeited the carousel ride because we went on a Friday.
Once inside we could see a sea of people and plenty of well decorated stalls. We went straight for the food. To be honest it was all expensive and not with it. We first had a beaver tail. This was $5.50
After walking around the market, we ended having a Bavarian smokie. For $9.00!!!
We then saw the haxn stand next to it ands immediately regretted getting the smokie. We ended up getting it as well which was another $9.00!! :(
Our poor wallet was crying. After that we decide we had enough of the crowd and overpriced food. We left the market in search of great food.
We ended up at Falconetti's. We had seen it featured the previous night on diners, drive-ins and ... for their, guess what? Sausages! We arrived around 7:40 and were seated promptly. Apparently either they're always this busy or we went on a bad night because after we ordered which both of us didn't order their featured sausages, he had the quesadillas and I had the pulled pork burger, it was an hour for the food. The place was not that big and was packed and there was a live band too which was probably why. But I think we were the only ones there just for the food. It was disappointing that the rest of it ruined the experience for us. The pulled pork burger which had a coleslaw accompaniment was good not great. The pulled pork was good but dry in parts so was inconsistent.
In the end with deary's beer our bill came out to be $40+ which was still a bit on the high end. This turned out to be a pricey date. Hopefully we'll be brighter next time.
