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Hastings House, Salt Spring Island and the elusive Crab (Alexander Moser feature) ****
Alexander Moser discovers that one does not need to travel far afield from Vancouver for a deep-sea adventure -- and luxury. [More]

The Stand (at Otter Bay) ****
For about 11 years now, ferry passengers and residents of North Pender Island have enjoyed some of the best West Coast-style fast foods in BC -- from a little food stand at the Otter Bay ferry terminal! Appropriately named "The Stand," this tiny food emporium is actually a Winnebago converted into a food kitchen, and it’s amazing what this place can create. Everything here is cooked up fresh, and the menu (new in the Summer of 2002) offers a variety of burgers, breakfast items, sandwiches and the like, plus, unexpectedly, venison and ostrich. In 1998, New York’s Financial Post voted The Stand’s salmon burger as Best on the West Coast. Those U.S. Easterners can be pretty darn smart! [More]