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Symphonie Restaurant

4.2 (54 reviews)
InexpensiveFilipino, Sandwiches

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SYMPHONIE RESTAURANT ATMOSPHERE

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Casual
Moderate noise
Good for kids
Good for groups

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Loganisa garlic fried rice eggs
Trent D.

Great mom and pop restaurant tucked away on the bottom floor of an office building. Had super authentic Filipino breakfast with loganisa eggs and rice. Very reasonable prices for downtown of a big city and most importantly super nice owners. Highly recommended!

Longsilog and Tocilog

Was craving Filipino breakfast during our last day visiting in Vancouver. Symphonie was the closest to our hotel. Simple and clean space on the ground floor of an office building. Ordered the longsilog and tocilog. Garlic rice and over easy eggs with Filipino breakfast meats hit the spot. Owners were very nice. The place is closed on weekends.

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Rei E.

If you're craving Filipino Food, you should come here. Try everything and you will not get disappointed as it tastes the same as an authentic home cooked meal. We're visiting Vancouver and checked in one of the hotels near the Harbor. Luckily, this is only one block away from us. Glad to have Lunch here. Great customer service. Very friendly people.

Tapsilog (tapa, two eggs, vinegar, and garlic fries rice) and Sinigang (Tamarind sour pork soup) and rice
Geonne M.

Great food and great service! My friends and I were in the area and they let me pick what to have for lunch so I chose this homestyle, quick Filipino lunch spot! I had the tapsilog and they all tried the sinigang (Filipino lunch special). They loved it and I enjoyed my meal as well! The food came really quick (probably 5-10 minutes or less) and my friends were very shocked! I explained to them that many quick lunch spots in the Philippines were like this especially in Metro Manila where people prefer to grab lunch as quick as possible and go back to work. This place brought me right back to those days! The staff were very friendly and hospitable as well! The lady at the counter even came over and had a quick chat with us before we left. Prices were great for the meal. This was a great find! Will definitely come back whenever I'm in the area!

May W.

I love this place!!! Not only is the food homemade and delicious the owners and staff are friendly, thoughtful and just plain awesome. They serve both Western food (sandwiches, soup, spaghetti) and Filipino food (pancit, sweet spaghetti etc). They have a regular menu and a special one that changes week to week. Now, I'll tell you why Ed and Emily (plus staff) are great. When they see you they greet you by name. They care about what's going on in your life and they'll ask you how you are doing. Today I went to pick up my favorite dish (pancit) at 3:30 pm. This was actually their closing time and they waited for me. Like I said awesome people.

Mandy T.

Great place to have lunch if you work in the area. They have two different types of lunch specials, Filipino and Western menu. I got a special off the Filipino menu and it tasted great and was a decent portion.

Filipino breakfast with sweet sausage ($9)
Lily V.

Very friendly staff in a small coffee shop/sandwich counter space. I liked the options to get some Filipino food, and took the opportunity to try out one of their breakfasts. $9 got me some garlic fried rice topped with 2 fried eggs and some sweet sausage served with a small dish of what tasted like vinegar. It was made quickly and brought to my table after I ordered and paid at the counter. The food itself was ok. I haven't had a lot of Filipino food, so I wasn't sure about the vinegar. The sausage was very sweet and softer than say, a Chinese sausage. I liked the garlic in the rice. Just something different to try while I was in the area. I'd probably go back and try an empanada or something different.

Longsilog (Traditional Filipino Breakfast of Sweet Cured Sausage, Garlic Fried Rice, and a Fried Egg).
Cristina P.

A good old fashioned Filipino breakfast served throughout the the day in downtown Vancouver? Yes, please! Symphonie is your typical small downtown cafe, but with a twist. In addition to the usual lunchtime fare, they also offer daily Filipino breakfasts longanisa (sweet sausage), tocino or tapa (cured beef or pork), all served "silog" (with a fried egg) and of course garlic rice! There is a daily Filipino entree as well which changes throughout the week (follow them on twitter to see the daily special). I can't wait for sinigang day!!!

Kare Kare (Beef & Pork Stewed in Peanut Butter Sauce; 9.50)
Brent L.

Nothing beats a quaint family owned restaurant. Even more so when that restaurant is in the heart of Downtown! The moment you step in, you'll feel immediately at home in the cozy setting with the family that owns the place greeting you with a smile. Aside from deli sandwiches and breakfast offerings, they also have daily Filipino lunch specials. For today (Tuesday), I tried their Kare Kare (Beef/Pork Stewed in Peanut Butter Sauce) and it was tasty! Wasn't a huge fan of the super pungent shrimp paste on the side, but I guess that was meant to be mixed in with the rice and sauce. Overall, not a bad place to try some Filipino homestyle cooking! Watch out though, this place closes at 3:30 PM

Longanisa (Filipino sausage) with garlic rice, two fried eggs, vinegar dipping sauce, and a side soup of Bulalo.
Joselito L.

What a great find! My partner and I came in from our cruise at Canada place and stayed downtown. The yelp reviews for breakfast pointed us to this gem. Being Filipino, I was excited to find a place with Filipino breakfast. I was not disappointed. I ordered the longanisa (Filipino sausage) which came with garlic fried rice and two eggs. My partner ordered an egg sandwich on an english muffin with a side of hashbrowns. They were so sweet to give us a side of soup (the Bulalo which was the lunch special for the day). I wish I had a place like this close to my home in Los Angeles. The place looks unassuming but it has good food and a lot of heart. When I visit Vancouver, I'll definitely be back.

Chicken cordon blue
Hungry Kitt Y.

The line ups are a testament to food worth waiting for. The mom n pop owners offer hearty and healthy comfort foods. The personal attention makes me feel more like family than a customer. The breakfast sandwich is my favorite way to start the day. I like that they are always trying new things and open to suggestions. Just recently, they did a test run of Chicken Cordon Blue. Perfectly cooked and professionally presented. I'm going to call it 'Diner Surprise' because no one would expect this kind of quality in a small cafe. Yet that's what the owners and employees consistently provide. Who knew downtown dining could be both satisfying and affordable!

Filipino special for Wednesday
Jenny T.

Symphonie is a cute little Filipino restaurant that seems to have a bit of a following. I was staying at a hotel there and decided to try a restaurant outside of the hotel just a bit of the local flair. It was pretty early but there were a few people coming in and out. The restaurant itself is a really small cafe type restaurant with some pre-made food. I dove right in and went with the Filipino special for the day, which is sweet spaghetti with fried chicken, very interesting indeed. The spaghetti sauce tastes like ketchup with hotdog bits in it, and the fried chicken was alright but nothing special. I can appreciate that it is what Filipino eat at home, but I was not digging this over an eggs benedict dish and I was also not digging the ambience of the place. It really brought me back to my high school days where I ate a lot of fried chicken in little cafe places, and it made me fat. So, maybe it's a bit of my own personal bias.

Menu!
Audrey L.

I have been coming to Vancouver for years for work, waking up early only to find that no breakfast place opens until 8:00... this doesn't help when I have to leave by 7. So to have a place that not only opens early, but serves me Filipino comfort food for breakfast... two thumbs up from me! It's nothing fancy: garlic fried rice, fried eggs & your choice of meat, but this is the stuff I grew up on, so great for me!

Rice with longaniza $8.50

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