Cobre Gastown is moving

There’s a restaurant shuffle going on right now on Powell Street in Gastown, which will result in four great restaurants (two of them brand-new) on one block.

Popular latin restaurant Cobre has closed up their location at 52 Powell Street, and will be opening up next door in a larger location. The new spot will feature large windows overlooking the street and more seats. Right now crews are working on the new Cobre and it should be open within a few months.

Rodney’s Oyster House will be opening a new location in the old Cobre space. Work is underway and the location should be open sometime this summer.

Also on the same block, the former Tamam Mediterranean/Brasil Stone Grill/countless other restaurants over the years, will open soon as The Sardine Can, a Spanish tapas restaurant and drinking spot from the same people who brought us Cafeteria on Main. The Sardine Can, like the name suggests, will be small, only about 500 square feet.

On the other side of the alley closer to Maple Tree Square, Café Dolcino has been sold and looks to be re-opening soon as another concept. Although no one seems to know who snapped up the location, work has been going on inside for about a week now.

Quite a bit further up Powell St., past Oppenheimer Park, the Fat Dragon BBQ has been open for a couple weeks now, and is getting rave reviews for their southern/asian BBQ plates.