SHORT HOP

Vancouver to Boston Bar

Distance: 216 km Travel Time: 2 hrs, 33 mins Truth? You’ll pass easily a half dozen restaurants that are better than Fat

Jack’s on your drive to Fat Jack’s, but those temples of urban fanciness get trounced by the setting, the honesty and the sheer surprise of chef Todd Baiden’s take on a roadside diner. The classics are all here—short stack of pancakes, turkey club—but Baiden cut his teeth running the lauded underground restaurant b in Vancouver, so everything is four notches better than you’d expect.