The Apron

Spacious and comfortable restaurant with delicious food with a flair.
The seafood linguine exceeded my expectations. The prawns were *just* cooked through (perfection), and the scallops were the juiciest ones I’ve had. The Al dente pasta was sitting in a perfect olive oil & broth mix.
The curry halibut dish was a unique and tasty dish. It came with a side of mango coconut sticky rice that worked marvelously with the green curry. The only downside to this dish was that the halibut was somewhat overcooked.
Our server was also lovely and provided us with truthful recommendations, and we had a wonderful dinner experience at The Apron.

Used to be my favorite restaurant. Best salmon dinner in the world. Then they changed the menu, they made the food cheaper and I can tell the difference and since then I never went back. They’re too overpriced anyways.

OMG ! What a difference from my last visit.
They hired a new chef !!! Yippie ! About time.
Last night I ate in the restaurant and ordered a ceaser salad (which was very nice — but dislike they use pre cooked processed bacon) and the halibut which I wish I took a photo of so you could how wonderful it was. Beautifully cooked Halibut on top of a mixed exotic vegetable medley with a curry green broth that was probably the best meal I’ve had in months. Served with a mango sticky rice.
Visually it was an amazing looking plate and the different flavours in the broth was just fantastic !
Totally different and very enjoyable meal.
This new chef ! Wonderful addition to the restaurant.
Will certainly look forward to returning in a couple weeks and do it all over again !

The Apron is located inside Westin Wall Centre YVR Hotel. It’s casual bistro type restaurant, it’s quite modern and small. They have bar area to serve simple dishes as well.
I rarely dine in Richmond hotel restaurant and didn’t expect much too. The Apron didn’t disappointing us! First, the manager and servers were great and friendly! Second, the food portion were generous and tasted great.
Squash, carrot and ginger soup — This full-​flavored soup and really warmed me up
Pan seared scallops and pork belly — The scallops were so delicious and pork belly was crispy.
Halibut — Halibut was perfectly cooked and delicious way to go with healthy quinoa.
Complimentary valet parking available, so don’t forget to redeem the parking ticket.

First time dining at this restaurant and it exceeded all our expectations (food and service).
Kicked started off the night with Crisp Dungeness Crab Cakes, it was well portioned, beautifully seasoned, and well balanced with some fresh salad.
For our mains, we ordered the Wild Pacific Sockeye Salmon and the Deep Coastal Black Cod. Both well delicious and came in generous portions. Both fish dishes were had crispy skin and perfectly cooked. Again, it was well seasoned but not overpowering. It was fantastic!
As for dessert we decided on the Apron Chocolate Bar and the White Out. The chocolate bar was heavenly made that came with salted caramel ice cream, almond crumble and coco crisp. The White Out featured a buttermilk panna cotta torchon, vanilla bean gelato and white chocolate and orange brulee. Going back and forth on these sweets was so much fun! If I wasn’t full already, I would have ordered more desserts!
The service was fabulous, our waitress, Christina was not intrusive but was polite, attentive and catered to our every needs.
Overall it was a real delight to have dined at the Apron tonight. Highly recommended!

Went to this restaurant again recently – food ranges between blah and decent, but I’m happy to say that service was completely different and extremely rapid this time. Much better!

What a lovely evening at The Apron! … the chef is clearly passionate about his craft and making ingredients come together deliciously — Wow!
The service is fantastic!
Thank you for making my business trip to Vancouver start perfect!
PS… the lighting is to bright… Dimming the lights a bit would be good.

Decent crab cake and decent soup. I sat at the bar which gave me a great view of the bottles, that is it. The layout is a bit strange, but it is a posh hotel bar/​restaurant jammed into a corner of the first floor.
Only a few beers on tap, very odd view if you sit at the bar. You better make friends with your neighbor or you will spend your time staring at bottles of booze.

Tried their breakfast couple of times and tried their evening appetizers.
Portions are small for the price and my omelete did not come out as good as I expected, but they made great egg benedict. Thats very YUMMY so do order that when you go there.
Very friendly servers there throughout the day. I think if they can lower the price a bit and run some more promotions, they will able to attract more traffics (and please offer free parking for people who eats there).

I discovered The Apron while traveling on business and every time I am in Richmond I make it a point to come here. The food is very light and clean and the chef introduces subtle combinations of flavors in each dish that create true harmony in the mouth. For foodies, this restaurant is a must! The only reason that I gave them four stars instead of five is because service, while always professional and friendly, can get backed up if many hotel guests order room service during a rush. This in turn effects patrons seated in the restaurant. The food is so good though that it’s hard to even remotely complain. I’ll definitely keep coming back.

This place was trying waaaay to hard to be ’”hip.”
But décor aside, we were stunned by the low quality of the food here.
We started with green salads — and got wilted greens with no presentation.
My husbands got the slow cooked chicken — should have been called no-​cooked; he was lucky to avoid salmonella.
I had the pork loin, which was okay, except the pickled cabbage was very acidic = instant heartburn!
The service was mediocre, and certainly not what you’d expect for these prices. Overall, we were disappointed with our entire experience, and won’t be back.

Verdict: A must try restaurant hidden in Richmond using molecular gastronomy cooking techniques! It has free valet parking too!
Details: The Apron is really a hidden gem in Richmond’s new Westin Hotel. Bright greens and yellows paired with dark brown hues welcome you into the dining area. The servers were courteous and friendly, very knowledgeable and fun, it made the dining experience even better!
The chef specializes in molecular gastronomy, a very trendy (and truly spectacular) scientific way to cook and prepare foods by studying physical and chemical processes that affect the ingredients. Dishes created are absolutely delicious, artistic, and leaves you wanting for more since there seems to never be enough!
I took a look at their menu and just wanted to order everything! So we ordered the lobster globe, scallops, and their famous puffed foie gras as appies; lamb shank and sablefish for entrees; and matcha green tea mousse and baked apple tart.
An amuse-​bouche was brought to awaken our taste buds and it was really interesting! A small little cup filled with avocado foam, topped with a mini cucumber, carrot, fresh mint leaf and shaved popcorn. Yes popcorn! The taste and textures was really refreshing, a clever creation!
The appies came all at once and it was like 3 pieces of artwork. The lobster was rolled into a ball, hence the name ‘globe’, with a delicious seafood reduction sauce, gnocchi and oyster mushrooms. The scallops were seared just right, with a bed of basmati rice and light curry. The puffed fois gras was really something new, no clue how the chef made it, but paired with port jelly, beets and baked pastry. It was so good! The port jelly had a squirt of liquid inside a very thin shell, what a nice touch!
Entrees are just as perfect, lamb fell off the bones, fish was done just right, need I say more? 2 more artistic creations are placed before us, green tea mousse, lychee foam, coconut ice cream, and baked black sesame sponge. Hmmm!!! Need more mousse! The apple tart is not your usual ‘apple pie with ice cream’, this had a honey ice cream, with open faced cinnamon apple inside a round light pastry, and rose marshmellows! What an excellent way to top off the meal.
I just fell in love with the food here, I will have to come back to try all the other dishes, or the 5-​, 7-​, 9-​course set dinners! Go try it too!