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Gordon Ramsay : Greek Food Is Better Than Italian Food

 

Call us biased but we agree with Chef Ramsay.

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Join the Club – The Moussaka Club

 

Hydra’s favourite moussaka as a feast thoughtfully packaged, paired with new wines each month and ready for pickup or delivered safely to your home to re-heat, savour, sip, and enjoy. That’s Hydra moussaka and wine club. Starting at just $99/month.

Our traditional moussaka is a baked casserole of spiced lamb & beef, complimented with local eggplant, BC potato and homemade yogurt béchamel. It’s part of our culinary expertise here at Hydra. Arriving family-style in a oven-safe pan for heating or storage, we have 4 choices of package to feed the whole family or just one.

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Hydra Restaurant: WHAT WE ARE

 

Named after the beautiful culinary Greek island in the Aegean Sea, World-Class culinary-driven Hydra Estiatorio Mediterranean & Bar is a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant with an engaging lively 40-foot cocktail bar. 

Hydra applies Greece’s time-honored ingredients and traditional cooking styles, focusing on quality Mediterranean dishes prepared in the original fresh and simple way with great enthusiasm and passion.

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Hydra Vancouver: It’s all in the details

 

Have you visited our washrooms, want to hear that story again? 

We have strived to attend to each and every detail to ensure you receive the ultimate HYDRA experience. Have you ever been regaled by the ancient Greek legends and myths in our beautiful washrooms? We have been asked time and time again to make the curated Greek myth Spotify playlist public… FYI, most of these timeless stories are from 1957

So here it is, especially for you!

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A look inside Vancouver’s own Hydra Restaurant

Take a look inside Vancouver’s own Hydra Restaurant, from it’s intimate and inviting downstairs to the grand eloquence of the main dining room and through the bright and airy Cabana. The unique spiral staircase with custom leather-wrapped bannister brings you into the space with flair and style, making every entrance an event to remember. You’ll be struck by our bespoke, one-of-a-kind fish chandeliers made from delicate, handmade bone china porcelain; Scabetti works of art imported from London to match our fish scale tiling behind the bar. For an exceptional and private experience, reserve a table in the Cabana, suspended high above the atrium and dressed in bright linens and washed in light.

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Cook Like a Chef: The Essentials

 

Everyone has seen the late-night infomercials hawking must-have kitchen gadgets that will slap-chop, air-fry, and squeeze-dry your food in ways you never imagined.  Before you add “the next big thing” to your shopping cart for your foodie-friend’s stocking stuffer this year, think about whether a professional chef would ever be caught dead using it?  Through roughly two centuries of professional restaurant cooking, even though kitchens have gotten shinier and smarter, very little has changed in terms of equipment that a chef relies on every day that you would use at home.  I have used knives and ovens worth more than a year’s salary, aerated foamy sauces with repurposed aquarium bubblers and immersion-circulated espumas of all kinds, but I could do-away with all of them without a tear, as long as I have these essentials:

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Hydra implements health and safety measures

The health and safety of our guests and staff is our utmost priority. As we welcome you back for Dine-in Service we want you to know that we have implemented enhanced measures to our already meticulous health, safety, and cleanliness measures.

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