Victoria BC Restaurants - John's Place Restaurant - 723 Pandora Ave. Victoria, BC Canada - V8W 1N9

Welcome to John's Place Restaurant

How could I have imagined that driving down a California highway in a 67 Volkswagon van, rag top down, singing Stevie Wonder hits, would lead me to a small city on an island in Canada for the past 23 years, creating and operating John's Place Restaurant? Oh yes, I had the experience -- I've been cooking for 30 years, even won a gold medal at the food Olympics, but that's a far cry from running a very busy diner style restaurant with breakfast, lunch and dinner 364 days a year. It sure didn't start out that way, though.

I came with my best friend, Joe Weisbrodt, ( who has since passed away Nov 19, 2004 ), a transplanted LA man, to open a hamburger joint called Little Sammy's Fattburger with his childhood buddy Howie Siegel. A far cry from gourmet meals and gold medals you should ask? You're right; looking back, I must have been crazy, but I've been a Bob Dylan troobadoor my whole life and the intrigue of owning something far outweighed my culinary desire. It will be of no surprise to everyone that I lasted just about a year. I went to bed with Fattburgers on my mind and woke up to the smoke of the charbroiler. Do you believe in destiny? I had a ticket to leave Victoria and go on another Bilbo Baggins adventure to Tahiti. I had saved $6,000 and was headed to the sun. I had no idea what was in Tahiti but I knew it was warm and had plenty of girls and NO FATTBURGERS! As luck goes, my motorcycle broke down and I had to start walking to work.

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Tel: (250) 389-0711
Fax or Kitchen Phone: (250) 389-0799
Email: info@johnsplace.ca