Kino Cafe

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Kino Cafe has been hosting a series of flamenco performances featuring local artists seeking a venue to showcase the talents of a growing flamenco community in Vancouver. The artistry and the enthusiasm of the flamenco performers mixed in the European bistro atmosphere of Kino Cafe has proved to be a lasting legacy as thousands of patrons have enjoyed the passion of flamenco at Kino Cafe Flamenco Tapas Bar. more... See more text

Restaurant type

  • Coffee Shop,

Cuisine type

  • Mexican,
  • Spanish,

Dishes

  • Tapas,
  • Pizza,

Features

  • Restaurant With Live Entertainment,

Products and Services

  • Dance Show Flamenco,
  • Sports Bar,

Languages Spoken

  • English,
Location
3456 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2W8
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  • $11 To $25,

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Meet the owner

Step into the Kino Café Flamenco and Tapas Bar on a flamenco dance night, and you’d swear you’d been swept away to Barcelona for an evening. The Cambie Street institution, with its sepia-toned walls, fierce-eyed flamenco dancers and seductive sangria, offers one of the most exciting cultural experiences in the city. Opened in 1987, the Kino Café is also a Vancouver institution — the kind of place whose walls you wish could talk.

Luckily there is usually someone around who can share a tale or two. Actor and comic Steve Allen, who performs at the café’s Tuesday and Sunday comedy nights, first brought standup to the Kino Café stage in 2007. “When I moved back to Vancouver from LA, I approached the owners because they had this wonderful stage. This is now the longest-running comedy room in the city,” he says. The funnyman is now adding his own touches to the restaurant — he purchased it in October 2014. “I told the previous owners ‘I’ll keep the flamenco, and my standup, alive.’”

To get the flamenco backstory, it’s best to speak with Peter (Pedro) Mole. The Argentina-trained guitarist strummed the Kino’s first-ever flamenco notes back in 1990. “I had just been to Spain and I was playing for flamenco dance classes. I got a dancer and a gypsy singer to come [to the Kino] with me, and we started to play as a trio…” Peter now schedules the café’s world-class Wednesday to Saturday flamenco lineup, upon which he appears regularly.

But the cafe didn’t always have such Latin flair. “’Kino’ is actually the German word for ‘movie’,” explains Peter. Located beside another Vancouver institution, the Park Theatre, the café first opened in 1987 as an answer to moviegoers craving a coffee or a snack pre- or post-flick.

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TAPAS MENU - Kino Cafe

Garden Salad

$8.00

Caesar Salad

$8.50

Caprese Salad

$10.50

Chips & Salsa

$6.50

Spinach Artichoke Dip

$9.75

Homus

$8.50

Spanish Black Olives

$5.50

Nachos

$11.50

Bruschetta

$9.75

Patatas Bravas

$7.50

Spanish Chorizo

$9.75

Albondigas (Spanish meatballs)

$9.75

Chicken Wings

$10.50

Camembert Melt

$9.50

Pesto Camembert Melt

$10.50

Antipasto Plate

$14.50

Smoked B.C. Salmon

$14.50

ENTRADAS MENU - Kino Cafe

Veggie Burger

$14.50

Salami Foccacia Sandwich

$13.50

Chicken Breast Foccacia

$14.50

Meat Lasagna

$14.50

Chicken Caesar salad

$13.50

Chicken Parmagiana

$15.50

PIZZA MENU - Kino Cafe

Vegetarian

$11.00

Chorizo sausage

$11.00

Chicken Pesto

$11.00

Salmon

$12.00

Kino

$11.00

PARTY MENU MENU - Kino Cafe

Special Tapas selection for parties

Chips and Salsa, Antipasto platters of Salami, Ham, Black Olives and Homus, Bruscetta,
Spanish Chorizo Sausage, Patatas Bravas, Chicken Wings and Albondigas (Spanish meatballs)(Individual Party Platters of any of our tapas are also available at 19.50 per platter)

Price per person $19.50
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