{"id":912089,"date":"2026-09-27T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912089\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:28:11","slug":"michelin-recommended-restaurant-in-vancouver-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912089\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin recommended restaurant in Vancouver closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverisawesome.com\/food-and-drink\/michelin-guide-vancouver-restaurants-list-updated02025-11258663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michelin-recommended<\/a> restaurant in Vancouver is closing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlightrestaurant.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildlight<\/a> (which is technically just outside the border of Vancouver on UBC&#8217;s campus) will close in late November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After careful consideration, Wildlight\u2019s ownership has made the incredibly difficult decision to close our restaurant on November 28, 2026,&#8221; reads a post from the restaurant on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>It originally opened in February 2023, featuring a menu focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverisawesome.com\/food-and-drink\/michelin-guide-recommended-restaurants-vancouver-bc-wildlight-ubc-9140236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">upscale West Coast dining<\/a>\u00a0with global influence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of our ownership and our management team, thank you to everyone who helped make Wildlight something truly special,&#8221; reads the post.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, it&#8217;s noted the Wildlight team are &#8220;going out with a bang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the next couple of months ahead of us, and we intend to spend them properly: one final menu, celebrating everyone who built this place into what it became,&#8221; reads the post.<\/p>\n<p>It goes on to give a shout-out to the leadership team at the restaurant, including Executive Chef Tim Hui, Sous Chef Michelle Garcia, Bar Manager Aman Nijjar, Sommelier Mike Cooke\u00a0and GM Margot Baloro.<\/p>\n<p>Reservations are open for the next two months at Wildlight before it shutters at the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Michelin-recommended restaurant in Vancouver is closing. Wildlight (which is technically just outside the border of Vancouver on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-912089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}