praise
Awards
Best Last Course, Gold
Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, 2010
'Best of' Award of Excellence
Wine Spectator, 2010 (eleventh consecutive)
Wine List Award, Gold
Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, 2010 (sixth consecutive)
Best Italian, Gold
Westender, Best of the City Awards, 2009
Best Desserts
Urban Diner Restaurant Awards, 2008
Reviews
"The kitchen has long excelled at virtually everything it does."
Westender, 2010
"Superlative Italian cuisine in one of the city's loveliest and most comfortable dining rooms. The menu emphasizes seasonal delights cooked in a wood-fired oven, and everything tastes divine."
Frommer's Guide, 2010
"[Pastry Chef Thierry] Busset's skills shine in the simplest of dishes: ethereal coffee macarons, tiramisu like no other, brilliant sorbettos and gelatos."
Vancouver magazine, 2010
"Thierry Busset is widely regarded as one of North America's finest pastry chefs (Gordon Ramsay recently called him "the best in the world"), so leave room for dessert." …"Extensive Old and New World wine list holds many gems. Exquisite service throughout."
Vancouver magazine, Eating + Drinking Guide, 2009
"CinCin is full of warmth-from its open kitchen and wood-fired grill to the glowing Tuscan ochres of the interior." …"Thierry Busset is the leading patissier in Vancouver and his sweet sampler, with its array of sorbets, tartlets and tiny profiteroles, shows him at his best."
Where to Eat in Canada, 2009
"The perfect meal was only exceeded by the highly professional and seamless service of everyone at CinCin."
Vancouver Sun, 2009
"During the summer, there's no better place to sit outdoors than CinCin's garden terrace."
Wine Access, 2009
"The heritage wood-fired oven is responsible for a succession of delights from the Italian-inspired seasonal menus, such as sablefish from the Haida Gwaii islands and pizza with fennel sausage. The grill gives subtly different flavours to venison loin, Mediterranean sea bass and Alberta beef tenderloin. For a sweet farewell, leave room for dessert- CinCin's pastry chef is a veteran of a constellation of Michelin star-struck restaurants."
Explorer: The Complete Resident's Guide, 2008
"…the air is perfumed with an array of intoxicating Mediterranean aromas wafting out from the open kitchen."
Westender, 2008
"The food at CinCin is exemplary... The service is exemplary, the desserts divine."
Frommer's Guide, 2008
"One of Vancouver's best eateries."
Golf for Women magazine, 2007
"Thierry Busset, [a] pastry god."
Westender, 2007
"Acclaimed patissier Thierry Busset is a master who turns both the simple and the intricate into sweet wonder."
Vancouver View magazine, 2007
Guest Chef Dinner @ James Beard House
Three sold out events at the prestigious James Beard Foundation.
New York City, 2006 + 2002 + 1998