That Hit The Spot

It's been a Vancouver tradition for some 80 years and still counting. And what better way to start my day, I thought, than with a hearty breakfast at the famed White Spot restaurant.
The chain, which is no doubt well doubt known to every Vancouverite, was birthed back in 1928 by Nat Bailey, a U.S.-born restaurateur who's also well known to many in local minor baseball circles here (perhaps you've heard of Nat Bailey Stadium?).
Anyways, a friend who's a Vancouver native recommended the White Spot breakfast and it didn't disappoint (I hit the West Georgia St. location, a brisk morning's walk away from the Sheraton Wall Street). But the chain is perhaps best known for its Triple O burgers, which apparently are even sold in Hong Kong and Bangkok these days (they're also dishing them out in steady numbers here at Pacific Coliseum).
I'm told it's the sauce — a combination of mayonaisse and red relish — that makes a Triple O, well, a Triple O. And that there's just nothing like it, especially to anyone who calls this city home.
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Signs of the 2010 Olympics are in evidence everywhere you look here.
Of course, there's the countdown clock in from of the Vancouver Art Gallery (785 days away, if you're wondering). And, as I've learned, that big hole in the ground on Granville St. next door to the big Sears store is part of the deal, too.
It's supposed to be the site of the main station for the expanded SkyTrain rapid transit system that will service, among other things, the Vancouver airport and the Olympic venues in the Richmond area.
Which explains a lot to me. Kinda figured right away, though, that there was a whole lot more than sewer replacement going on there.