The votes have been tallied and the results are in from the 2017 琉璃神社.

Central Kitchen + Bar was voted number one in the Foodie Vote category, thanks to their delicious butternut squash soup.

Part-owner Jared Lee says the soup contained ginger, lemon grass and Thai coconut milk.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a great dish for fall,鈥� he says. 鈥淚t was a really big hit .鈥� and you only have a small opportunity to really blow people away with an event like this and we wanted something to take people back 鈥� I think we achieved it.鈥�

It鈥檚 the second time Central has participated in Taste of Downtown and Lee says it is a great opportunity to bring new people to the restaurant to try the food.

鈥淚t is a really well attended event and for us we are a really small restaurant and we have been around for three years now and are popular to the people who know us.鈥�

The Ellis location restaurant was also voted award during the Small Business B.C. Awards in Vancouver.