Araxi is part of the Top Table Restaurants Group. A chain that includes CinCin, Bluewater Cafe and three time ‘Restaurant of The Year’ winner, West. Araxi holds an international reputation for excellence in food, wine and hospitality, including award for ‘Best Restaurant in Whistler’ by Vancouver magazine for eight consecutive years. I met the general manager of Araxi during Big Night and he told me to give him a shout if I’m ever in Whistler.

Executive Chef James Walt creates his menus using locally sourced ingredients from nearby Pemberton Valley Farms. Araxi also showcase the freshest and finest from the Pacific Ocean. The Araxi dining room offers a lively ambiance enhanced with fresh flowers, original artworks and stunning wine displays. The adjoining bar is a hot spot with locals and visitors alike, and in the summer season the heated patio is surrounded by the vibrancy of the village and picturesque mountain vistas. I couldn’t think of a better restaurant to take the family for dinner. They even made a dish just for Sally!

Sally’s High End Baby Food & Fresh Canadian Oysters

The Small Plates

Seared Quebec Foie Gras served with Pemberton apple, pear and chili compote, toasted brioche. I can’t say no when I see Foie Gras on the menu.

Citrus Cured Sockeye Salmon with Vancouver Island honey mussel salad and sake vinaigrette. You need to make sure your fork has a bit of everything to truly appreciate this dish.

Nova Scotia Lobster with housemade truffle ricotta gnocchi, truffle nage and baby spinach.

Dungeness Crab and Coconut Bisque served with cilantro, lemongrass and salsify. It was garnished with a crab and pea springroll.

The Entrees

"Kobe Style" Beef Shortribs cauliflower. Served with white beans with parsley and lemon gremolata red wine jus and Pemberton horseradish.

Certified Angus Beef Ribeye with aged Quebec cheddar and potato gratin with vichy style carrots roasted shallots and sauce Madeira.

House Smoked Arctic Char. Served with lemon, mint and mascarpone risotto with Vancouver Island octopus with sauteed Pemberton salsify.

Alaskan Weathervane Scallops. Served with North Arm Farm sunchoke puree with maple vinaigrette and chorizo sausage.

The Desserts

Okanagan Apples and mascarpone cheesecake with gingersnap crust apple Lillooet honey sorbet.

Lemon Tart made with baked lemon curd in a sweet crust mixed berry sorbet and raspberry coulis.

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I tried this method before and it worked quite well. Overall I got around 300K legit views, no paid to surf whatsoever. All I did was to use StumbleUpon. Most of you may say that’s normal, to get a couple hundred thousand views from Social bookmarking site. I don't think so, simply because I don’t take StumbleUpon as a social bookmarking site. SU is totally different from Digg and the users are also more subject based. Unlike Digg, user sees whatever that is on their frontpage. It's almost like a visit to the toilet for digg, come in and go.

What’s The Magic?

I tested this on my site letscafe.com. Basically I treat every post as potential viewer subscribing to my content. The content you show on your site reflects what your site is all about. From my experience, funny stuff does really really well on StumbleUpon. All you need to do is post some funny stuff once a week and wait for the magic to begin. Like I said, your content reflects your site. So don’t overdo it or people would think your site is suppose to be a humor site (That's the last thing you want). To make sure that doesn’t happen, title your post something like “Your Site funny moment of the week” as an example.

Community on StumbleUpon?

You don't even need friends on StumbleUpon for this to work. I did it without any friends. Instead people add me as friends after seeing the content I deliver. StumbleUpon works by itself. Just stumble your content and wait a few hours or day for it to get you views.

Where’s The Proof?

These are the stats over 4 months. Take note that 95% of the views came from StumbleUpon. December was when I started using this method. Unfortunately for me, I pumped in too much picture to my site almost every day until it became a humor site (that not my original intention). Since then viewers just came for the pictures and revenue dropped tremendously. No one read my articles, it's really disappointing. Now I am starting everything from scratch and trying to gain back my viewership.

Here are the referrers I got all time. Just look at how many views I got from StumbleUpon!

Overall I got nearly 370k views from StumbleUpon keeping in mind that the remaining 5% came from other source.

Maximizing The Views

Yet again I made a mistake with my site by taking the free view for granted. You must never make the same mistake I did. I simply posted the picture with nothing else. Yeah, looking back it was a stupid move. What I should have done is to find a way to relate the picture to any of my previous post. Just make a short write up before the picture and link it to something within your site. This is how you expose visitors to the real content of your site. The chance of visitor clicking a link in the post compared to an ad on your site is actually 200:1. That explain why a John Chow dot Com review is so expensive, haha. With that I wish you all the best in getting views and potential reader on your sites/ blog.

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