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Every day for a dozen years, customers would line up outside Café Medina in anticipation of the famous Belgian waffles and short rib fricassee. Then a global pandemic hit. And, just like that, the hungry crowds disappeared.
“One of the hardest things, aside from letting 38 employees go,” says Medina’s owner Robbie Kane, “was coming into the restaurant and finding it empty.”
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He hopes that taking part in Dine Out Vancouver Festival (Feb. 5 to March 7) will fill those seats once again. And he’s not alone: a record-breaking 350-plus restaurants are joining in the annual event, many of them, like Medina, for the first time.