Lillian C

Review of The Exchange Hotel

My bf and I stayed here 1 night in February, 2019 ...

My bf and I stayed here 1 night in February, 2019 and had a great short stay. We actually live downtown Vancouver, but my bf surprised me with a 1 night stay-cation. The hotel is beautiful, if you go look at their hotel pictures online, they speak for themselves. The building use to be the old Vancouver Stock Exchange, and has been restored with the perfect amount of luxury, and history. The hotel restaurant, Hydra, was not opened at that time, however all staff were great with us, and they made sure to answer all questions we had to make our stay that much more special.
I'm posting this review months later (June 2019), as I recently went to the now-opened hotel restaurant, Hydra. We were SO happy to randomly call one evening and to have made a reservation, as we 1) loved the hotel 2) love Mediterranean cuisine. For appies, we ordered the Hydra Special, Grilled Octopus and Ceviche, amazing, especially the Hydra Special which is thinly sliced zucchini - doesn't sound like much but it was amazing! For Entree we ordered the Black Cod and lamb chops. I am a lover of lamb, and these lamb chops were probably one of the best ones we have had in Vancouver. Everything was amazing, our sever Krista was great! We even got a tour by one of the other servers to their night bar/day coffee lounge downstairs. Personally, I eat with my eye first, and from the decor to every plate served, it looked and tasted amazing. I have raved about both this hotel and restaurant to all my friends, and hope that it is successful, as I love seeing great establishments open up in my city. Bravo !