Sobo (Sophisticated Bohemian) started out in 2003 as a purple food truck in the parking lot behind a surf shop, way before food trucks were cool. Despite its remoteness, it attracted rave reviews from food media across North America, with the likes of Saveur magazine calling it: "perhaps the most exciting lunch stand in North America". The back of the staff's t-shirts read: "Quite possibly the second best thing you can do in a parking lot"--and that same fun, authentic West Coast vibe weaves throughout the stories and recipes in this book. Sobo has since become a destination restaurant, having outgrown its food truck beginnings, with visitors making the pilgrimage to the west coast of Vancouver Island just to taste chef Lisa Ahier's cooking--which is, to use Tofino slang, simply "killer". The restaurant's menu focuses on locally-sourced, seasonally-inspired ingredients from family-owned producers. The dishes are shaped by Lisa's Tex Mex and Southwestern culinary roots, and her experience gained across several US states, including her stint as executive chef of Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas. The Sobo Cookbook includes over 100 of the restaurant's all-time favourite recipes--recipes that have fed surfers, hungry locals, curious visitors and die-hard foodies alike.

The SoBo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Ahier, Lisa

Morrison, Andrew

Cooking by Ingredient

Appetite by Random House

Welcome back to Tofino! In this long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning bestseller, The SoBo Cookbook, you'll find a whole new set of recipes, dialed up in delicious, unmistakable SoBo style. To know Tofino is to know SoBo, the restaurant at the heart of this magnetic West Coast surf town. Since opening as a purple food truck 20 years ago, SoBo (short for "sophisticated bohemian") has been bringing people together with Chef Lisa Ahier's fresh West Coast fare. Year after year, locals and visitors alike return for her killer cooking and the relaxed warmth that can only be found here. Bring home this new slice of SoBo to share with your loved ones. In Together at SoBo, Chef Lisa Ahier shares all-new recipes from her beloved restaurant. Lisa's recipes are love letters to Tofino and its position as the most westerly point of Canada. Drawing from local produce and a wealth of seafood, these are Pacific Northwest recipes enhanced by Lisa's Southern flair. Local and seasonal- recipes like the Chanterelle and Corn Chowder and the Nettle, Clam and Shrimp Tagliatelle highlight Tofino's coastal bounty Classics inspired by Lisa's Southern childhood- reminisce with her family's Summer Ratatouille and Grilled Peach and Raspberry Melba recipes Seafood standouts- embrace the ocean with the Chinook Salmon with Parsnip Puffs and the Halibut Cheeks with Celeriac Cream Perennial SoBo favourites- try the beloved Roasted Acorn Squash and Kale Pizza and White Bean and Chicken Chili And, in true, community-driven SoBo spirit, throughout the book, Lisa also introduces the people around her who have shaped the restaurant into the quintessential destination it is today. Two decades on from its purple food truck beginnings, SoBo has never lost its namesake "sophisticated bohemian" essence- down-to-earth goodness forged through a connection to the people and place-land and sea-surrounding it.

Together at SoBo: More Recipes and Stories from Tofino's Beloved Restaurant

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