Christian "Back to Vancouver" B.'s Profile

Look - my wife and I just had an addition to our family. She's a living, breathing time and energy sucking beautiful baby girl. That being said, as I already referenced, we don't really have much time to treat ourselves to nice dinners, let alone COOK dinner.

I know I can go to Mar's Restaurant and get some good, quality Chinese food in a relatively quick amount of time.

I simply haven't had a better main Chinese dish than their honey-lemon glazed chicken. So amazingly good.

I've been going here for awhile and will continue going here. Haven't had a bad meal!

This park was one of the reasons why my wife and I chose to move nearby. In short, this is a wonderful park that has nice walking paths, an off-leash dog area and a skate park for the kids.

My wife and I find this park to be a really nice place to go for a walk. You have some paved and unpaved walking paths that allow you to walk all around.

The off-leash dog park is, simply put, pretty much Disneyland for Dogs. I'm not much of a dog person, but I can't help but look and see happy dogs running around or walking with their owners.

The park also has some wide-open areas. I've seen some pee-wee soccer practices happen as well as flag football.

Definitely check it out!

I recently moved nearby and my wife and I were craving pizza. We went here and left pleasantly surprised. Bellagios makes a wonderful BBQ chicken pizza. My wife and I also had some delicious salad beforehand which was quality as well.

I'd say it was a solid 4-star experience. When I go back, which I will, if subsequent visits still are positive, this could very well be bumped up to five stars.

When I want a hamburger the way I like it (lettuce, tomato, raw onions and green peppers) and delicious fries, I go here. What I like about Five Guys is that there isn't any BS - you say what you want on your burger, you get some awesome fries and Coke Zero.

Maybe I'm a simpleton. Indeed, I do believe I am. Five Guys just gets it right.

I had the pleasure of working with Marc Pitcher in securing a home loan for a house in Vancouver area and couldn't have been happier. Marc and his team helped me along the process, making sure I understood every step. I found this to be invaluable, as I was a first-time home buyer.

It was also great that Marc spent off-work hours helping me along, as sometimes I wasn't able to get away from work.

If you're looking for a mortgage broker in the Vancouver, Washington area, America's Premier Mortgage should be on your shortlist. I truly believe they helped me immensely and when it comes time to purchase another home (hopefully not for awhile!), I'll certainly look for their help again.

These guys did a great job for my wife and I. Had no problems with their service and they were very quick. And with movers, being quick and not causing any problems makes me give them 5 stars.

Delicious. Glad we stumbled across this place, as it's kind of easy to miss if you're unacquainted with Hood River and just stick to the main drag to see all of your restaurant choices.

I got the blackened burger with green chilies and pepperjack and it was a great-tasting burger. Definitely not like, one of the best I've had... but I'd peg it above the average. Lots of fries come with the burger, so be prepped to be stuffed.

I enjoyed the ambiance of the place - kind of 'pubby' but a setting that is still fine for family dining.

A solid, 4-star experience. Will be coming back whenever we're in Hood River!

I'm fairly keen on the Columbia Gorge Hotel. I've stayed there several times now and feel like I've formed enough of an opinion to give it a solid 4 out of five stars. First, the pros:

1) Quite posh. You're driving down I-84 and you spot places like the Vagabound Lodge (love the name - looks sketchy as hell) and some dinky hotels here and there and then WHAM - like a one-legged man in an ass-whoopin' contest - there suddenly appears something you don't see very often in that stretch... a beautiful looking hotel - the Columbia Gorge Hotel.

2) The grounds are very much kept-up and look quite nice. You must walk around the premise to take in the little bridges and the nice waterfall out back.

3) The beds are super comfy. I usually hate hotel room beds and sleep on them poorly; the beds here are amazing.

And some cons:

1) When I "get out," I try to stay somewhere away from traffic. I currently live right near a busy street so the wonderful whirls of buses slowing down and cars whizzing by goes on 24 / 7 right outside my window. Unfortunately, the hotel is a tad bit too close to I-84... so I am still able to hear the traffic.

2) Window panes are seemingly fairly rustic and absolutely do not keep in warm air. It's nice that you have heat in the room but be prepped to crank that thing.

I've also had the brunch, which was quite tasty and came with a lot of different food choices. I'd recommend hitting that if you're hungry.

My wife and I have been to the Women's Health section of this medical center for two OB visits and we couldn't be happier. Exceptionally friendly staff who really know their stuff when it comes to insurance as well as very knowledgable doctors who we have felt 100% comfortable with. We're looking forward to continued visits that are as wonderful as the first two.

Eight chips.

Eight chips do not equal nachos. But apparently they do at Joe Theismann's Restaurant.

My brother and I were staying at the Embassy hotel right next door to this place and at about 10pm, felt like having some beers and something to eat.

So shuffled in here and the atmosphere was fine. Couple of TVs showing sports but none were showing any in-progress hockey games. It's not like it was the LAST WEEK OF THE REGULAR SEASON or anything... oh wait, it was.

In any case, after ordering some drinks, we decided on sharing some nachos. You know when you order nachos you're receiving something that is really hard to mess up.

We were surprised when we received our "nachos."  Why? Because our nachos consisted of eight chips. Sure, there was some shredded lettuce out of a bag and some pico de gallo in the middle... and the chips were normalish-sized and had some cheese on them.

But eight chips?

I mean, my god, we paid $9.50 for these nachos. That's roughly $1.19 per chip! They weren't even hot; the cheese had melted and already started becoming more "crust" than anything else.

So we paid our bill and made our way back to the hotel, disappointed and shaking our head at eight chips.