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Michelle Sproule grew up in Kitsilano and studied Business Marketing in Australia and at the University of Victoria before receiving her graduate degree in Information Sciences from the University of Toronto. She lives in beautiful Strathcona and enjoys wandering through the city’s streets and alleyways with her two very best friends, a beat-up camera and a 50mm lens.
Five Years Ago This Week, When Ramen Gojira First Debuted Its Huge Noodle Bowls
They invited me down to participate in the staff tasting on the day before launch. I was so excited that I skipped breakfast.
This Dark and Sexy Restaurant With a ‘Nuevo Latino’ Theme Was Once a Gastown Hotspot
Cobre enjoyed a five-year run before shutting down in 2012 with the chef launching Cuchillo a few blocks east on Powell Street.
Supercut Honours the Role Typewriters Have Played in Film and Television
The typewriter may have been replaced by the keyboard, but it still finds work in Hollywood as an instrument of dramatic effect.
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...
You Need to Try This Hot Mexican Chocolate Cream-Filled Pastry on Commercial Drive
The thing is positively loaded with the stuff (really the volume of a cream puff), thus warming the palate without mercy.
Five Years Ago This Week, When the West Side Landed Its Best Vietnamese Restaurant
A year in the making, the new West Side location of an East Van favourite was immediately welcomed by the neighbourhood.
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...
1967 Advertisement for Old Milwaukee Beer Relies on Word of ‘Specialists’
Wisconsin's most iconic beer brand introduces us to trio of beer 'specialists' who carry their own glassware around in fancy cases.
The View From Your Window #247
We love posting photos like this that reveal the views through the windows of our readers. We hope you'll consider sharing yours!
‘Thank You Pizza’ Set for Launch at Gore & Union
On four nights a week, Devon Towler, Sean Cunningham and chef Lee Kellough will transform Hunnybee into a wood-fired pizzeria.
This Acclaimed Gastown Restaurant Will Be Remembered as One of the Best of Its Generation
The city - and most immediately the 100 block of West Hastings - is so much the lesser for the loss of Wildebeest.
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...
This Artillery Attack Survivor Makes a Living Crafting Kitchen Knives From Old Artillery Shells
Taiwanese blacksmith Wu Tseng-dong, aka Maestro Wu, uses his skills to transform the things that once terrified him.
A Look Back and Last Call for Gastown’s Peckinpah
Selling a restaurant can't be easy, especially in the midst of a pandemic and in a neighbourhood that's having a hard go of it.
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...
You Need to Try This Altogether Different Golden Yuzu Chocolate Bar at Beaucoup Bakery
The edge-of-Kits bakery and cafe is better known for its pastries, which is why the impact of this stuff feels so great.
Inside Slim’s BBQ, Now (Softly) Open on Main St.
The new restaurant's soft launch is set for tonight (Thu, Jan. 28th) with the official opening scheduled for February 1st.
COMFORT FOOD GUIDE // Hundy’s Tater Tots Dusted With Housemade Ketchup Powder
These are served hot and naked save for a dusting of ketchup powder that makes them glow ever so unnaturally and attractively.
New Zealand Hilariously Warns Visitors Against Traveling Under the “Social Influence”
Watch an officer from the "Social Observation Squad" steer tourists away from taking the same Instagram photos as others.
The View From Your Window #246
We love posting photos like this that reveal the views through the windows of our readers. We hope you'll consider sharing yours!
Terrifying 60-Year Old Glue Sniffing PSA Warns of ‘Big Trouble In a Small Tube’
With plenty of scary anecdotes, the slideshow-style film explains the ways in which glue causes its sniffers to go batshit crazy.
This Beautifully Retro-Futuristic Restaurant Was Specifically Designed For Scientists
The restaurant at Shanghai's ATLATL Innovation Cluster has space for 200 researchers in need of sustenance.
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...
OPENING SOON // Inside the Imminent Vancouver House Location of Autostrada
The new restaurant is located just a stone's throw from Chef David Chang's (hopefully still) upcoming Momofuku outpost.
After a Six-Year Run, This Impressive Hotel Restaurant Was Replaced by Something Even Better…
Oru Cuisine was the fine dining establishment that operated where Botanist currently excels in the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel.
You Need to Try This Pork Belly Rice Bowl With a Side of Gochugaru Citrus Spiced Chicharrones
The next thing you know you're up to your sinuses in crunchy, salty, silky, spicy deliciousness, ready and willing to hang in there.
Slim’s BBQ Opening Soon in Mt. Pleasant
David Duprey has partnered with the founders of Dixies BBQ to launch the new restaurant in his old Rumpus Room space.
COMFORT FOOD GUIDE // Flourist’s Addictively Simple Hazelnut Jam Cookies
Bag up a couple of these beauties and nibble 'em as you wander this always interesting block of Commercial Street.
