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Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?

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Renovated Our Town Cafe Revealed in Mt. Pleasant

The new cafe looks fancier than the original, but the real improvements are in systems, methods, machines and product.

New ‘La Taqueria’ Coming Together on Yukon St.

The new location will replace the one at Cambie and Broadway, which is slated to host its final service on June 24th.

Breaking Down Vancouver’s Best Cubano Sandwich

The best, most authentic Cubano sandwich in Vancouver is worth investigating, ingredient by ingredient, to see how it's done.

Our Favourite Event of the Summer? The Powell Street Festival

The annual festival in and around Oppenheimer Park offers up full plates of Japanese-Canadian arts, culture, and fabulous food.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had This Art Project That Gave Out Free Hot Dogs

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm transformed an old VW bus into a bizarre, oddly obese food truck of sorts, and we want it for our sea wall.

‘The Garden’ Bakery and Cafe to Launch in Strathcona This Summer

Long-time friends are opening a new cafe and bakery in the brand new building at 868 East Hastings St.

Take a Look Inside ‘Nowhere’, Now Open in Victoria

The new seafood-focused restaurant from the chefs that gave us Hanks is now open at 1001 Douglas Street.

‘Cacao’ Will Be Serving Latin-Style Barbecue Every Sunday, All Summer Long

Sneaking Into a Mediterranean Airport That’s Been Frozen in Time Since 1974

Few have set foot in Nicosia Airport since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus resulted in the forbidden zone that now contains it.

Vancouver Needs This Lasagna Restaurant

Having six different lasagnas on the menu is a clever way to ensure the affections of every sane person currently walking the earth.

Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?

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Get Your Eating Pants Ready! Italian Day is Coming

The annual celebration of Italian heritage is one of our great entertainment assets -- 14 blocks of delicious things to eat, drink, see and do!

What’s in Those Four Big Vessels Behind the Bar at Juke Fried Chicken?

Recently installed at the popular Chinatown restaurant are these big cut-glass vessels filled with pre-batched delights...

First Taste of The Downlow Chicken Shack

The highly anticipated restaurant serving "Nashville Hot" fried chicken kicks off trial runs before its June 13 launch.

Sherwood Cafe & Bar Takes Shape in Victoria

The highly anticipated new project from the owner of Habit Coffee is primed for a July opening across from City Hall.

A Spartan Hideaway of Wood and Window

This minimalist, perspective-compressing 2016 home in Japan would suit an out-of-the-way slice of the Lower Mainland.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If it Had a Weird Village of Spherical Homes

Made of concrete strengthened with fibreglass and originally subsidized by the Dutch government, these futuristic homes from 1984 are awesome.

Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?

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Seven Years Ago This Week, ‘The Electric Owl’ Opened on Main Street

Right before the last Canucks riot, a huge new bar would arrive on Main Street. Though it didn't last, these photos did. #TBT

People on the Streets of Tokyo React to North American ‘Sushi’

Asian Boss walk the streets of Tokyo with common examples of the types of "fusion roll" that typically pass for sushi in North America.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Massive Carpet Modelled On Its Streetscape

A South African furniture design company has made a 3m x 2m 'New York City Carpet' and we're a little covetous of it.

Sacrilegious Science Suggests We Should Be Pouring Guinness Into Martini Glasses

The science sippers at Tech Insider show exactly how Guinness may have been attaching the wrong glassware to their brew from the start.

Can You Correctly Identify This Vancouver Restaurant?

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Gastown’s Tempranillo to Close. Last Service Is June 2nd

The tiny Spanish-inspired eatery was celebrating its one year anniversary this week, but sadly its first year will be its last.

Let ‘H Make You at F*cking Drink’ in Chinatown This Monday Night

The one-of-a-kind bartender known as "H" returns to Vancouver for a Sunday School reunion and a night on the wood at Mamie Taylor's.

Visualising 400,000 Years of Humanity’s Relationship With Light

Our ancestors ignited a relationship between ourselves and photons that changed the course of mankind and continues to evolve to this day.

New Spanish Food Shop ‘Lola & Miguel’ Opening Soon on Pender Street

Kelly and Shawn Pisio are nearly finished turning what used to be Pender Grocery into a mecca for all things deliciously Spanish.