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Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives
One of the oldest family-run restaurants in Vancouver, The Tomahawk serves their take on a classic, comforting dinner: roast beef and gravy!
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You Gotta Eat Here!
The Tomahawk Barbecue has been around since 1926. Their secret, keep it in the family, and cook delicious food!
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150 Stories that Shape British Columbia
The fine line between kitsch and caricature is examined in this quirky short about the Tomahawk Restaurant - the oldest family run restaurant in BC.
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Times Colonist
North Vancouver’s Tomahawk Barbecue has survived the Great Depression, a world war, the fast-food revolution, the diet craze, progress, regress, life, death and dry rot. More than survived, it’s thrived.
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North Shore News
The Tomahawk restaurant has an unmediated relationship with its history. The older I get, the more I come to appreciate how vital it is to keep history close at hand, to keep the past alive through knowledge of it and afford it the ability to inform and, where appropriate, guide the present.
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