Where: 363 East Broadway, Vancouver

When: Dinner, Tuesday to Sunday

Info: sumibiyakiarashi.com

Behind every great chef, is there a grandma? Often true, I find.

Case in point — Peter Ho, awarded a Michelin star a few short months after opening his first restaurant, Sumibiyaki Arashi. His yakitori restaurant is also a finalist in the annual Canada’s Best New Restaurants Awards, with winners to be revealed later this month.

His inspiration? His late grandmother. “What inspired me the most is her passion and love for cooking and for who she would be cooking for,” he says. “Grandma was a great cook.” She had a side job catering and he cooked with her “learning the foods she’d make — 12-hour braised eggs, braised pork trotter, midnight egg congee, and so on.”

His grandparents would tak

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