Heirloom
A Vancouver vegetarian restaurant with a green, contemporary interior: instagram-friendly brunch staples alongside intricately balanced plant-forward plates.
An heirloom, by definition, is something worth passing on, and Heirloom takes the idea seriously enough to put it in the name. From the green, contemporary interior to the tantalising vegetarian menu, you know the moment you step through the door that you’ve entered a haven of health.
Vancouver is a city that takes its plant-forward eating seriously, and Heirloom sits comfortably among its better tables. The kitchen works across two registers with equal ease. On one side are the familiar, photogenic crowd-pleasers (avocado on toast and its instagrammable cousins), done well rather than cynically. On the other are the intricately balanced dishes, the sort of layered, considered plates most of us could never quite replicate at home.
The vegan tacos deserve a particular mention. If you’ve ever set out to convert a sceptical friend to the plant-based side, Heirloom hands you the argument: it tends to take just one bite to seal the deal. That’s the restaurant’s quiet confidence: it doesn’t lecture, it simply lets the food do the persuading.
Every visit is framed as a small food journey, and the menu rewards returning. There’s enough range here to make Heirloom a place you come back to rather than tick off, each meal turning up something you didn’t try last time.
For travellers exploring Vancouver who want a vegetarian meal that’s genuinely good rather than merely virtuous, Heirloom is an easy, well-priced recommendation, and one worth passing on.
