Troll's Restaurant

Joe and Dorothy Troll started Troll's Fish and Chips on the Horseshoe Bay waterfront in 1946, and at first they opened only on weekends and holidays for the local fishermen. The ferries came in the 1950s and '60s and the restaurant grew with the traffic. Their son Gary took it over with his wife Carol in 1972. Ab Troll has run the place since 2017 and still opens the doors every morning.

Fish and chips come in the house beer batter with homemade tartar sauce and a side the menu calls Trollslaw. On the 2026 menu one piece of cod costs $22, and two pieces of halibut cost $45. Breakfast gets a full menu of its own. The Famous Fisherman's Breakfast piles three eggs, bacon, sausage and two slices of French toast onto one plate for $26. On a wet winter afternoon Joe's Fish Stew makes sense, since it puts cod, salmon, halibut and baby shrimp in Manhattan red chowder for $30.

West Vancouver council approved a five-storey boutique hotel for the corner of Bay Street and Royal Avenue on 22 June 2026. According to Ab Troll, his family thought hard about who should buy the property. The restaurant closes on 31 December 2027 when its lease runs out, and manager Kim Montgomery has confirmed the date to the North Shore News. On the approved plans, a new restaurant space takes the corner where Troll's stands now.