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Roxy, The

Roxy, The | Place | For many years, The Roxy on Granville St. has really taken the cake as Vancouver’s tequila-shooting meat market of incomparable douchebaggery. The street outside is where out of town hockey players go to get in “unprovoked altercations” and where people can kick homeless people in the groin. Unsurprisingly, it’s widely considered to be the epicentre of the Granville Shitshow.

Usage: “I got roofied at The Roxy, or is that roxied at the Roofy?”

One of the Most Beloved Players to Ever Wear a Canucks Uniform

“I was there when Gino scored a penalty shot goal against Calgary. The way the crowd erupted, you’d think we had just won the Stanley Cup!"

How a Climate Change Event Created a Local 'Cause Célèbre'

"Is Barge Chilling Beach a good first date or nah?"

How Generations of Underaged Partiers Have Avoided Cops and Cover Charges in BC

"On our way up to Jones Lake on Sunday we had to wait for a slow convoy of hungover bush party survivors to pass..."

How Vancouverites Know a Targeted Hit on a Gangster Has Just Gone Down

"Like sunshine after rain and dawn after dark, a report of a burning vehicle usually means a gangster has just been shot at."