East Is East Chai Lounge - Vancouver

A good friend brought me here for lunch She suggested it as her "Happy Place".

This review is not what I would like to be writing for East is EastThe food was delicious, the ambiance was perfect and the show was really good.

I was searching for a late night beverage fix and chai suddenly popped in my head.

Absolutely excellent Professional staff, consistent food quality and always a familiar ambience I’ve loved for years

As always the food and ambiance were great. The servers were friendly but quite unattentive. I had to ask twice for water because they never brought it after the initial cups on the table. When we were ready to order it took a while to locate a server and get her attention. The food took a long time to come and after the server came back quickly to ask how the food was but then didn’t come again for a long time to let us order our next feast items. Thankfully they didn’t kick us out at the two hour mark but we ended up having the opposite problem where we had been done eating for ages and were waiting for the bill and not a server was in sight. Finally we saw one and asked for it but 15 minutes later still didn’t have it so went to the hostess who brought it to us about 10 minutes later. Thankfully we were not in a hurry but if we had been it would have been very frustrating. We were definitely very ready to be out of there by the end though! I would recommend it but only if you’re fine with having a very slow meal.