Seen In Vancouver #340: A Seaplane Over Strathcona Narrowly Escapes Lunar Impact
February 8, 2012
As seen over McLean Park a few days ago when last night’s amazeballs full moon was ripening.
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Vancouver Detail #272: Troops Train For D-Day Invasion On Kits Beach (While You Pee)
February 7, 2012
As seen in the men’s washroom at Vera’s Burger Shack | 213 Carrall Street in Gastown
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Vancouver Detail is a new (and overdue) offshoot of Scout’s regular Seen In Vancouver column. With it, we aim to share the more macro scenes of our city’s awesomeness, the things that some of our more hurried readers might miss, from hidden works of art to all manner of unlikely but cool things lying in plain sight.
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Seen In Vancouver #339: Making The Effort To Talk To A Dinosaur About Its Extinction
February 2, 2012
A stack of unwanted Telus phonebooks doesn’t impress a fed up, forward-thinking resident of Vancouver.
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Vancouver Detail #271: Hand Drawn Map Of Our City By Sean Colohan At “Style Garage”
February 2, 2012
Us: “Woah! That’s pretty cool.”
Sean: “Yeah”
Us: “Who did it?”
Sean: “I did.”
Us: “It must have taken awhile.”
Sean: “Yup.”
Chalk Map of Vancouver (from found image) | by Sean Colohan | Style Garage | 124 West Hastings
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Vancouver Detail is a new (and overdue) offshoot of Scout’s regular Seen In Vancouver column. With it, we aim to share the more macro scenes of our city’s awesomeness, the things that some of our more hurried readers might miss, from hidden works of art to all manner of unlikely but cool things lying in plain sight.
Seen In Vancouver #338: Cool “Matchstick” Getting Its New Grind On In The Fraserhood
February 1, 2012
by Andrew Morrison | I really like the look of Matchstick. It’s a recently opened cafe and coffee company in the Fraserhood from former JJ Bean, Crema, and Elysian hands Spencer Viehweger, Annie Viehweger and Aaron Braun (639 East 15th, just a few doors down from Les Faux Bourgeois). The 1926 space, which had previously housed a hoarder for some 17 years, was – if my notes are correct – once upon a time a Bank of Montreal (I could see the massive vault door still in place). It has clearly undergone a top to bottom spruce, the clean effects of which are being beautifully amplified by lots of natural light. The minimalist design was done in house and put together by the same construction folks (Tetherstone) who did the awesome Revolver coffee house on Cambie. It’s a looker, for sure.
Matchstick is setting up to start roasting beans in a couple of months (as evidenced by all the equipment in the back), but the coffee is pretty damn fine as it is (from Calgary’s excellent Phil & Sebastian). Ancillary offerings include an array of sandwiches (meats supplied by Save On Meats) and baked goods, including fresh baguettes (from Baguette & Co). About 25 seats all day (no patio yet), with the majority being communal. Wireless? Plenty and quick.
The branding is superb. They’re aiming for quality everything, from bean to bread, with the name symbolizing the significance of a single, high quality matchstick in a world of plastic lighters (so take that, Starbucks). If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. They’re open every day from 8am to 4pm, and killing it.
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Seen In Vancouver #337: On Enduring The Rain & Loving The Chow At Street Food City
January 24, 2012
by Andrew Morrison | Today was the first day of Street Food City, the three day food truck smorgasbord component of Dine Out Vancouver. Located right in front of the VAG, the laager-cloister of trucks made for a scene that sucker-punched our gullets and amped up our appetites, even in the rain (hooray for the covered tents with tables and chairs). While it would be nice to see the City arrange for something like this on every night of the summer, I’m grateful for any sort of baby step, and this looked and felt rather like a leap. The good chow was hot and flowing, so much so that some among the sellers had already sold out by the time we upped and left. Moral: whether the weather rules or sucks tomorrow (Wednesday) or the next day (Thursday), this is where you should be getting your bites on between 11am and 3pm.
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Seen In Vancouver #336: “Beggars Banquet” Comes Fleetingly To The Old Boneta Space
January 20, 2012
Gastown’s newest pop-up market, The Beggars Banquet, opened up tonight in the old Boneta space at 1 West Cordova. Check it out from 11am to 6pm tomorrow (Saturday). The Found and The Freed were well represented, as were Union Wood & Supply Co. and Cocolico (among several other locally spun bits of awesomeness). Score clothing, unique housewares, furniture, books, trinkets and all manner of curiosities.
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11- 6pm | Saturday, January 21 | Boneta 1 West Cordova | $2 Admission
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #335: Pretty Reigned In This Morning’s Snow At Hastings & Main
January 16, 2012
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #334: $10,000 In Fat Black Winter Truffles Land At “Hawksworth”
January 13, 2012
How do you make a chef happy in January? Bring him black winter truffles of course. Chef David Hawksworth of Hawksworth in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia took delivery of a $10,000 pile of them this morning from Perigord, France, and will be using them in the restaurant starting this evening. Anyone else fancy potato gnocchi with oxtail dusted with black winter truffle for supper?
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SEEN IN VANCOUVER #333: Everything We Saw At The Polar Bear Swim In English Bay
January 1, 2012
May your year be as weird as they day that started it.
