When: Open for lunch and dinner; brunch on weekends. Closed Tuesdays.
This, my friends, is alchemy. Petite and delightful Yuyina Zhang recently experienced two shocking and hurtful racist attacks in Yaletown. She took that hate and made something harmonious out of it.
She’d recently opened Street Auntie Aperitivo House, serving food built on her memories of street food from Yunnan province, recreated into elegant westernized cuisine. In response to the attacks, she created a multicultural dish using smoked salmon and avocado salsa layered over crispy tofu skin from China. Food does not hate.
Street Auntie’s launch was surprising in a couple of ways. It was conceived and opened during a pandemic that was killing many restaurants and businesses and on an uncool entertainment stretch of downtown Granville St.