Congratulations to Glasfurd & Walker, who designed the packaging for Chef Nico Schuermans signature spice line for being featured in Applied Arts Design Awards. The spice line features fresh individual and mixed spices, including a six pack of Nico's favourite spices, and a selection of rubs and salts.

To purchase spices visit The Dirty Apron Delicatessen, available in store at 540 Beatty Street. Crosstown, Vancouver.

WARNING: The following information may contain wit, humor and verbal abuse.

We, the owners & creators of Chambar Restaurant would like to congratulate 
Fissal Oubida, the new owner of Chambar Belgian Bistro in Shanghai in opening his new restaurant.

We often wish that someone had given us advice when we opened that could have lowered the hurdles - so would like to share what we hope will be valuable advice:

We'd like to offer our assistance with your menu, which aside from the mussels is getting repeatedly slagged on shanghai blog sites. Although this blogging phenomenon by self proclaimed food critics and possibly sex deprived individuals (why else would you be posting these comments at 2am) are not always complimentary, there are some great people who are genuinely passionate about food. Anyways, feel free to peruse the menu section of our website as it's continually changing and an easy way for the conceptually challenged to get new ideas.

Please switch to using sustainable seafood, we know this is not a priority in China, considering they're still serving shark fin soup - but give the our oceans a break
will you.

We would strongly advise against serving half waffles (give people the whole damn thing) and DO NOT top with spray can cream and chocolate out of a tube!!

Ditch the gingham table cloths, Belgium has no alpine chalets & Heidi is not from
this country - although there are some hot blondes.

If you are going to advertise a url (www.cham-bar.com) you may want to register it first. Now that we own it, it points to this news page which exposes your blatant incompetence for being original.

If you are going to blatantly steal our logo, which took owner & designer Karri Schuermans about 100 hours to create old school typography style, please don't insult her further by adding brush script text below it, and definitely don't add photoshop glow filters - please, this is graphic blasphemy.

It was nice of you to be a patron of Chambar while you lived in Vancouver. We hope all our guests take home a wonderful experience - but not the name, logo and concept. Granted a Belgian style restaurant is by no means an original concept, it helps to have a Belgian chef as good as Nico Schuermans. Don't get us wrong, we take no ownership of the cuisine from this small country (with a big beer list) that many can't locate on a map.

Be sure to take legal letters that arrive in the mail quite seriously, especially the ones stating that the 'Chambar' name and logo you've used are already registered in China. Take this from someone's foresight, which has now become your hindsight.

For any of you readers who happen to visit Shanghai, please be sure to ask Mr Oubida what 'Chambar' means.
- First person to retweet the link to this article from our twitter page with the real meaning of Chambar gets a case of Chambar Ale. www.twitter.com/chambar. If you don't know what Chambar means, make something good up and post on our Facebook page. The winner will also receive a case of Chambar Ale.

DISCLAIMER: You have received this message from the original Chambar Restaurant in Vancouver, Canada. This message is intended only for those who may confuse or think we are in any way related or associated with the Chambar Belgian Bistro in Shanghai. We consider ourselves privileged as imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Any other distribution, copying or disclosure of our logo or name is strictly prohibited as stated by trademark law. This e-mail is intended for your own humour.

Below is an excerpt from our trademark registration in China:

To celebrate our 5 year anniversary we produced Chambar Ale, a beer created to pair with Chef Nico Schuermans food. The stunning bottle design by Glasfurd Walker features 22 carat gold lettering has been picked up by Coolist. The beer is now available in preferred beer & wine stores, cafe's, restaurants and nightclubs here in Vancouver. Check this website www.chambarale.com for locations or come enjoy on tap exclusively at Chambar.