Is there any place where the setting is as good as the food - and the smoke? The Sandbar on Granville Island is amazing. It is such a beautiful restaurant, and it is very West Coast. They serve amazing seafood there, salmon and calamari and different things that they catch locally. The view is of the bay in Vancouver, so you can overlook the city as well as the ocean. Granville Island is also the place to go if you want to see an outdoor theater play or an indoor theater play, or if you want to go and see live music, or if you want to go and check out galleries or check out the art scene in Vancouver.

Do you have any good stories from your days as a waitress at Earls? One time, Clint Eastwood came in, and I served him at the restaurant, which was kind of cool. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell came into that same restaurant when I was working there. I wasn't specifically waiting on Clint Eastwood, but I was a bartender for a few years as well. He had just had a house burn down that his former girlfriend and their daughter were leasing in Vancouver, and that night, they took their daughter there for dinner. You would assume it was because they didn't have anywhere else to go for dinner. They didn't have a home to be in, so they came to our restaurant. I felt that, as an ironic, cheer-you-up joke, I would do a fire trick for him. I did this trick with black Sambuca where I pour a shot of black Sambuca into my mouth, tip my head back, open my mouth, set the Sambuca on fire, and then pour cinnamon over the fire - it basically looks like I'm breathing flames like a dragon. That was my attempt to cheer him up and make their experience of having their house burn down a little bit less awful. I'm sure it didn't help at all. They were probably like, "Oh my goodness, leave us alone." I was very impressed with him. He was very kind and very sweet and said that he liked it and thanked me for doing it. He was very cordial; he was a nice man. He seemed very natural and down-to-earth.

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