Andrew Morrison

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Vancouver-born Andrew was a veteran of the food and restaurant trade before he launched Scout in 2008. In addition to being the proud father of boys with good table manners, he is an award-winning cookbook author; the National Referee and Senior BC Judge at the annual Canadian Culinary Championships; and an annual advisor to both enRoute Magazine’s "Best New Restaurants In Canada" issue and "Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants".

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Restaurant Graveyard / Gastown

Remembering a Prolific Restaurateur’s Counter-Service Experiment in Chinatown

Sean Heather launched this small coffee and sandwich shop (cheffed by Lee Humphries) at 75 East Pender St. in May, 2010.

Name That Restaurant

Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?

Do you think you know Vancouver's restaurant scene well enough to identify this spot? Give us your best guesses in the comments...

Drinker

The Lengths One Wine Advertiser Went to Circumvent Government Restrictions

After the Israeli government banned wine ads on TV, the oldest winery in the country had to get smarter about marketing...

Spaced

‘Tree Houses’ on the Edge of the Italian Wilderness

Milan-based Peter Pichler Architecture has imagined a series of sustainable hideaways in the Italian Dolomites.

The Dishes

Chris Bjerrisgaard Does ‘The Dishes’ in Victoria

11 Places

Let the Marketing Director for Vancouver Island Brewing and Vancouver Craft Beer Week take you for a whirlwind Victoria crawl.

Smoke Breaks

Your Olive May Have Been Shaken Long Before Your Martini Ever Was

Israeli company AFRON has a special machine that shakes the hell out of olive trees to make short work of harvest.

TBT / West Side

Sneaking a Peek Inside What Would Soon Become the West Side’s Best Pizzeria

For this edition of Throwback Thursday, we return to the very beginnings of Kerrisdale's much-loved, 55-seat Bufala.

Restaurant Porn

Dig This Stylish Vietnamese Eatery in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Neighbourhood

Di An Di, which means "Let's go eat!", is a two-zoned space that is bright and modern without surrendering traditional flavour.

Cool Things We Want

We Want One of These Plinko-Style Bottle Opener Boards

This hand-made, wall-mounted bottle opener from Maryland's LeRoy Woodworks looks like it would fun to mess around with.

Picking Grapes

Picking Grapes with Michael Hiram and Scott Mitchell

8 Places

We asked the guys who run the wine program at Kitsilano's Annalena to map out his affections for British Columbian wine.

Foreign Intelligence Briefs

Bolivian Ad Campaign Trades Shrimp For Pork in Remake of ‘Forrest Gump’ Scene

To imprint a message about the diversity of pork preparations, Bolivian creative agency Athos channeled the shrimp-obsessed Bubba...

View From Your Window / Gastown

The View From Your Window #187

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Restaurant Graveyard / Main Street

The Mt. Pleasant Restaurant That Got to Live Two Very Different Lives in the Same Address

There were two visions for Habit Lounge, the first launching (bright and minimalist) in 2005 and the second (dark and moody) in 2008.

Name That Restaurant

Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?

Do you think you know Vancouver's restaurant scene well enough to identify this spot? Give us your best guesses in the comments...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If

We Want to Sleep in the Cockpit of a 747 Permanently Parked at YVR Airport

As much as we appreciate the luxury and convenience of the airport's Fairmont Hotel, it wouldn't hurt to give it some direct competition.

Drinker

‘I’m Drinking It For You’ Might Be the Greatest Beer Advertisement Ever

Advertising agency BBDO created this irresistibly charming beer ad (and song!) for New Zealand's DB Export.

Spaced

Forbidding Concrete Exterior Hides ‘Tranquil House’

Japanese architecture firm FORM / Kouichi Kimura artfully makes a fortress-like home next to a factory and a highway seem liveable.

Foreign Intelligence Briefs

Volkswagen Van Driven Out of the Alpine Forest It Was Lost in 40 Years Ago

A VW enthusiast hears of a 1955 VW van lost in the mountains and sets about resurrecting it from its woody resting place.

The Dishes

Camilo Romero Does ‘The Dishes’

14 Places

We asked the bartender at Mt. Pleasant's Como Taperia to take us on a tour to some of his favourite spots across Vancouver.

TBT

What Canadian Weather Reports Once Looked Like

Long before green screens and computer graphic representations of radar, CBC weatherman Percy Saltzman used chalk.

TBT / West Side

Five Years Ago This Week, This Short-Lived Wine Bar Opened in Cambie Village

For today's Throwback Thursday, we go back and time to revisit the arrival of Angela Maida's beautiful wine bar on Cambie Street.

Opening Soon / North Vancouver

Popular Neighbourhood Pizzeria to Open New Location

The crew from Gooseneck Hospitality are opening a second Bufala in North Vancouver's Edgemont Village this September.

Picking Grapes

Picking Grapes With Stephen Whiteside of Dachi

8 Places

We put our Picking Grapes questions to Stephen Whiteside, sommelier and co-owner of East Vancouver's Dachi.

You Need To Try This / Railtown Japantown

You Need To Try This Pina Borracha in Railtown

It'd be a 'stiff' drink if it weren't for all the char-speckled juice. Pair it with Stu Irving's wild prawn tacos with sunflower sprout chimichurri.

Cool Things We Want

We Want a Copy of the ‘Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America’

Featuring "Fuck-Tailed Flycatchers" and "Great Blue Morons", this new book is a taxonomic takedown of winged and evil elusiveness.

Restaurant Porn

Dining Room Once Hidden From the Nazis Marries Art Nouveau With Red Meat

Protective walls hid the long lost magnificence of the murals from the outbreak of the Second World War to the 1980s.

Name That Restaurant

Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?

Do you think you know Vancouver's restaurant scene well enough to identify this spot? Give us your best guesses in the comments...

View From Your Window / West Side

The View From Your Window #186

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