The Dishes is a new Scout column that asks Vancouverites to map out a blow-by-blow of their ideal day and night on the town. We’re talking breakfast, lunch, happy hour, dinner and late night cocktails. Tax and tip included.
Get acquainted with the Vancouver-based, Filipino-Canadian rapper and producer - and whet your sonic and stomach appetites - via his recommendations (heavy on Filipino flavours) for eating and drinking around town.
In this edition, we consult the Co-Founder and Principal at Studio Roslyn - the Vancouver-based interior design and creative consulting firm behind several of our favourite local restaurants and other spaces - not for design advice, but to find out about her favourite places for eating and drinking around town...
We already know that the local clothing designer and owner of Main Street boutique and spa, Sunja Link Body Shoppe, has discerning taste when it comes to the products and items that she puts on her body. So we're unsurprised that she's equally thoughtful about what food and drink she prefers to put into it.
The registered dietitian, recipe developer, podcast host and cookbook author leads us on a day of indulgent plant-based eating and drinking around her East Van neighbourhood.
We work up an appetite joining local photographer and man-about-town on his typical Sunday route along the Drive, "taking photos and popping in and out of places to fuel up"...
For this special Lunar New Year edition of 'The Dishes', we thought it would be fun to consult with Sophia Lin, owner of the Mt. Pleasant based 'modern Chinese bistro', to find which Vancouver restaurants (besides her own) she recommends for celebrating this auspicious occasion in proper gustatory style.
Being a central part of the local independent business scene for so long (TWENTY years!), we knew that Erin would have some solid suggestions on what to eat around Vancouver...
Get to know more about the chef and proprietor of Mon Paris Patisserie by following her on her ideal day of eating and drinking around Burnaby (and nearby New West)...
The effervescent polymath, co-owner and bartender at Main Street's Zarak (Afghan Kitchen Group), spells out her ideal day of eating and drinking around Vancouver...
The Co-founder of Studio A-OK and Vancouver's most stylish head shop, All Day Breakfast, takes us on a day-long feasting tour of Chinatown and its surrounding areas.
The co-owner of popular North Vietnamese street food flavour show, Mr. Red Cafe, tells us where she likes to go out to eat and drink around Vancouver (in addition to her own restaurants).
Matthew “The Dumpling King” Murtagh-Wu Does ‘The Dishes’
In this edition, Murtagh-Wu reveals a penchant for foods cooked in leaves, and a couple of Vancouver spots serving up eats that he's willing to wait in line for...
With a demanding schedule involving a weekly commute between Vancouver and Ottawa (and back again), what does Chef Yen look forward to eating in Vancouver? We recently caught up with him to find out...
In this edition, the General Manager and Co-owner of Dosanko Japanese restaurant, takes us for a spin around town to visit some of her current favourite places for eating and drinking.