A Hong Kong-style restaurant on Denman Street in Vancouver’s West End has closed after three years, with lease termination notices on its door.
Kin’s Food & Bistro opened at 792 Denman Street in 2023, across the street from Nook.
A Noms Magazine community member (yum chah) spotted the notices.
The two-page “Notice of Termination and Notice of Quit” comes from the landlord, Transworld Management, and is dated August 27.
It says the tenant is in default “by reason of its failure to pay Rent and Additional Rent,” and that the landlord “terminates the Tenancy effective immediately.”
According to the notice, the amount owed is up to $16,308.86 in unpaid rent and additional rent.
That puts the last day for Kin’s in late August.
The menu leaned on Hong Kong-style Cantonese comfort plates.
Regulars could order dry plum honey pork back loin ribs, house-made crispy skin roasted pork belly, or spaghetti tossed in the wok with pork chop.
There was also a Hong Kong-style baked pork chop over cheese and tomato fried rice.
Kin’s was far from the first restaurant to try this storefront.
Some locals have taken to calling the unit cursed, and the list of past tenants makes it easy to see why.
Before Kin’s, it was Yadori, a Korean bistro and bar that held its grand opening in October 2019.
Before that, the space was home to a Yugo kitchen, a sister spot to Restaurant Yugo on Main Street.
Go back further and the names keep coming: Guoyan, Monk Bistro, Michael House and a Szechuan restaurant, stretching back to around 2014.
That is now 7 restaurants that has cycled through this unit since 2014.
The doors and windows are papered over now, with a leasing company’s branding printed across the paper.
No new tenant has been announced for the space yet.
Kin’s joins other recent West End closures like Legendary Noodle on Denman, Hook at English Bay and Tabom on Robson.
Address
792 Denman Street, Vancouver, BC V6G 2L5
