Food + Drink

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THE SCOUT 25 Winter 2024 | We’re working on updating this list of Vancouver’s best restaurants, selected by industry pros and ranked by readers.
Opening Soon An archive of Vancouver’s most important restaurants under construction
You Need To Try This A running account of all the Vancouver dishes and drinks you need to try…
Never Heard Of It The hole-in-the-wall restaurants of Vancouver that don’t get the attention they deserve
The New Breed Short interviews with the new generation of Vancouver’s restaurant scene.
Drinker Stories detailing the best of British Columbia’s craft beers, ciders, spirits and wines.
The Dishes We ask Vancouverites to map out their ideal day and night of eating and drinking on the town.
Recipes In this column we learn how to make Vancouver’s best restaurant dishes in our own homes.
Best Seat in the House Not all restaurant tables are created equal. Here we illustrate as much, one seat at a time.
Milk Crate Interview Authentic conversations happening in the hospitality industry.
Community News News, updates, events and more from members of the Scout Community
Opportunity Knocks Are you looking for work? Check out the very latest job listings…

From Collaboration to Climate Change: Get Gritty in the Vineyard with Winemaker Severine Pinte

Scout catches up with the oenologist, viticulturist, and decorated Executive Winemaker at the Le Vieux Pin and LaStella wineries to ask a few questions about the complexities of the wine industry...

Mar 20, 2024

Track and Food

Demythologizing Poverty with Local Expert, Tracy Smith-Carrier

Will poverty always be a systemic issue? This is the question at the heart of an article published in The Conversation last December, written by today's guest and Jamie Mah's most recent Track & Food Podcast episode.

Mar 19, 2024

Heads Up Main Street

The Arbor on Main Street is Closing Doors This April

Co-owners Scott Lewis, Shira Blustein and Paul McCloskey announced today that the popular casual vegetarian restaurant, which has been a fixture in Mount Pleasant for almost eight years, will be holding their final service on April 7th.

Mar 19, 2024

Heads Up Kitsilano

Tickets Now On Sale for a Spring Seafood Feast at Farmer’s Apprentice, March 24th

This is your chance to familiarize your palate to a variety of lesser-known species from the sea in six flavourful, creatively executed courses.

Mar 18, 2024

Heads Up Strathcona

Hit Container Brewing for One-Night-Only Table Service with PiDGiN

Everyone can use a dose of affordable, approachable fun right about now... Enter Chef Wes Young and the PiDGiN kitchen crew, who are carting their mobile commissary kitchen over to Container Brewing for a good-time party-time on March 26th...

Mar 14, 2024

Heads Up Main Street

Get Your Tickets for The Acorn + Pamplemousse Jus Brunch Before They Sell Out!

The Main Street restaurant and Summerland winery are banding together for a super special weekend service, coinciding with Pamplemousse's new Pet Nat release, March 30th and 31st only...

Mar 13, 2024

Cool Things We Want Chinatown

The St. Patrick’s Day Collab Between The Irish Heather + Mello Has Our Name on It

If you're the sort to write off St. Patrick's Day celebrations due to stereotypical associations with the messy, rowdy, green-beer-binge-drinking brand of partying - not so fast!

Mar 13, 2024

Opening Soon

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Opening Soon West Side

Osteria Elio Volpe Officially Opens In Cambie Street Village

The time has finally come: Osteria Elio Volpe will open at 540 West 17th Avenue this Thursday, March 14th - take a look at what you can expect...

Mar 12, 2024

Opening Soon Chinatown

New Chinatown Bar, Meo, Set to Officially Open March 13th

The highly anticipated retro-inspired cocktail bar brought to us by the team behind Bao Bei and Kissa Tanto (Tannis Ling, Joël Watanabe and Alain Chow) is on track to open doors next week.

Mar 7, 2024

Opening Soon Main Street

Good Thief is Coming to Main Street

Scout has toured Good Thief, a new concept by Amélie and Vincent Nguyễn, the sibling duo behind the celebrated Anh and Chi. Although we're sworn to secrecy on the finer points, we can confirm that the "thrilling extension of their vision" will be very, very cool.

Mar 7, 2024

The New Breed

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The New Breed Main Street

Reverence, Respect, and Realization: What The Acorn Taught Me

At 21 years old, I'm still just a kid and relatively new to working in restaurants, but I grew up umbilically tied to the hospitality industry. My father was a food writer, and my mother is a photographer. Their careers meant that most of my early years were spent in kitchens and dining rooms instead of on playgrounds and soccer fields; consequently, I learned my table manners before I could count past one hundred.

Jul 6, 2023

The New Breed Gastown

Amanda MacMullin Talks Seeking New Challenges and Becoming a ‘Grizzled Old Bartender’

Rhys Amber recently sat down with The Diamond bartender to catch up, swap 'war stories' and discuss the minutiae of the crazy, hospitality life.

Dec 15, 2022

The New Breed

On Expensive Hobbies, Title-Chasing & Getting ‘Rinsed’ in the Kitchen, with Josh Stel

The veteran Vancouver pan jockey and recently appointed Chef de Cuisine at The Mackenzie Room possesses a slew of attributes harder and harder to come by these days, so Rhys saw it fitting to reach out and see what makes him tick.

Dec 12, 2022

The New Breed East Vancouver

Get To Know Maria Ponce, Executive Chef for La Taqueria

Packing up and moving across the continent for a job takes a lot of tenacity. But, in the case of Chef Maria Ponce, that sort of motivation has translated into some undeniably delicious food.

Oct 6, 2022

Bulletin Board

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This bulletin board is used by members of the Scout Community to share their news. On a typical day it will include new menu offerings; details on special deals and events; new stock and sale notices; announcements of senior staff appointments; and much more.