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Bowen Island

Looking for a break from the city but not sitting on enough cash or time to hop on a plane for a stint far, far away? Give yourself a faux vacation with a day trip to Bowen Island!
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Vancouverites Bowen Island

On ‘Soil-Up’ Production and Starting a Fibre Revolution, with Dana Lee

Transparency and community - it's what we value in the food we buy and consume, so why not extend these same principles to the clothing we wear? Join us as we uncover the Dana Lee Brown designer's perspective on clothing could be a game-changer for your closet...
Heads Up Bowen Island

Score a Seat at the “Seeyousoon” X Endswell Farm Collab Dinner Series, June 10 + 11

Celebrate all that early June produce has to offer by making your way to the Bowen Island farm for a multi-course fresh-air dining experience focused on seasonality, fermentation, and sustainability.
Cool Things We Want Bowen Island

We Want to Hide Out in This Nifty Bowen Island Airstream Trailer, Indefinitely

Vancouver-based photographer Ryan Voigt takes a trip a trip to Bowen Island to explore the new Wildernest Airstream trailer retreat.

Burnaby

Though it still feels umbilically connected to Vancouver as a suburb, Burnaby is very much a city in its own right. In fact, it is the third largest city in all of British Columbia
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Community News Burnaby

Mon Paris Pâtisserie is Donating Half of All Macaron Sales to Burnaby SPCA, March 20th
Community News Burnaby

Delight in Springtime Treats with Mon Paris’ 2024 Easter Collection
Community News Burnaby

Chef Elena Krasnova Supports Women’s Advancement This International Women’s Day

Chinatown

Home to an eclectic mix of traditional and trendy eateries, markets, gardens, temples, and a wide assortment of businesses...
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Opportunity Knocks Chinatown

Bar Gobo is Seeking a New Head Chef
Community News Chinatown

Announcing Capture’s 2024 Pendulum Gallery Featured Exhibition
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!

Commercial Drive

A distinctly permissive counter-culture had a lock on the neighbourhood by the 1980’s, and despite the creep of gentrification it has never really let go.
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Opportunity Knocks Commercial Drive

St. Augustine’s / Industry Apizza is Seeking a Night Kitchen Manager
Community News Commercial Drive

Banda Volpi Announces New Pepino’s Spaghetti House & Caffè La Tana Head Chef, Kenny Kao
Opening Soon Commercial Drive

Iconic Vancouver Pizzeria Reopens as ‘Don’t Argue Slice Shop’ on Commercial Drive

The date for the local legend's official rebirth inside Caffé Soccavo at 1321 Commercial Drive to be announced soon. In the meantime, take a look at what is to come....

Coquitlam
Community News Coquitlam

Legends Haul Announces Special ‘Dinner With Friends’ This October
Community News Coquitlam

City of Coquitlam Announces New Mountainside Restaurant Lease Opportunity

The space is expected to be a hub for residents, business owners, workers, developers, and park and trail visitors alike.
Community News Coquitlam

Legends Haul Can Deliver All Your Easter Essentials Right to Your Door

Downtown

Though much of it is given over to the corporate, speculative, and financial world, there are many isolated pockets of fascination...
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Community News Downtown

Bacchus Restaurant Launches New German-Inspired Brunch Service
Community News Downtown

Sakura in Bloom at Miku Restaurant
Community News Downtown

Botanist to Welcome NYC’s ‘Lysée’ for One-of-a-Kind Dessert Collaboration This April

Downtown East Side

...a strong, vibrant, and essential facet of Vancouver that – to its eternal credit – isn’t afraid to stand up for itself.
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Vancouverites Downtown East Side

Talking History, Culture, Community and Caribbean Food, with Chef Cullin David

We have a lot of respect, admiration, and questions for the people behind the 13+-year-old restaurant, so an interview was long overdue…
Refund Vancouver Downtown East Side

Get to Know: Overdose Prevention Society

The official mandate of the Overdose Prevention Society includes: "to be leaders in the harm reduction movement with a continual push for change and justice..."
Vancouverites Downtown East Side

Why is the City of Vancouver Stopping You from Enjoying One of Vancouver’s Best Patios?

Chupito's success story is unique: An empty lot in the DTES transformed into a thriving business that attracts locals and visitors alike with its great food and award-winning service. Plus, they make some of the best cocktails in the city. This place is on the map, and doing something cool. Too bad you can't go...

East Vancouver

...a huge swathe of land; largely residential (with some pockets of industrial), massively multi-cultural, and predominately working class.
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Opportunity Knocks Fraserhood

Osteria Savio Volpe is Looking for a New Manager to Join Their Team
Opportunity Knocks Commercial Drive

St. Augustine’s / Industry Apizza is Seeking a Night Kitchen Manager
Drinker Railtown Japantown

Win a Trip to Guadalajara at The Tequila and Agave Festival Cocktail Competition, May 20th

Backed by Nodo Tequila Blanco, this competition challenges bartenders to create a cocktail encapsulating their interpretation of the spirit of Guadalajara - and the prize is super rad!

False Creek

A long, snaking stretch of picturesque seawall connects it to Granville Island...
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Opportunity Knocks False Creek

Mahony’s Tavern False Creek Now Hiring for Several Key Positions
Vancouverites False Creek

On Bookish Pairings, Local Literary Leanings and “Growing Slow”, with Upstart & Crow

The Granville Island bookshop recently celebrated their three-year anniversary on August 26th. With that in mind, and in the 'back to school' spirit of 'hitting the books', we caught up with their Co-Founders and Creative Operations Director to reflect and chat (and get a bunch of book recommendations, of course)...
Heads Up False Creek

The ‘False Creek Crab Fest’ is Set to Go Down at Fishermen’s Wharf This Saturday!

Guests to the inaugural fest, hosted by the BC Crab Fishermen's Association, can look forward to a delicious crab boil prepared by chefs Vish Mayekar, Robert Clark, and Dez Lo, plus beverages and entertainment...all the while contributing to the "deeper purpose" of sustainable seafood harvesting.

Fraserhood

The retail shops, restaurants, markets, and community hubs are strikingly diverse...
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Opportunity Knocks Fraserhood

Osteria Savio Volpe is Looking for a New Manager to Join Their Team
Opportunity Knocks Fraserhood

Much Anticipated ‘Slo Coffee’ is Seeking Experienced Baristas
Opening Soon Fraserhood

Slo Coffee Aiming to Bring a New Pace to the Fraserhood by Summertime

By late spring or early summer, Fraser Street is expected to welcome the new café inspired by the Japanese idea of wabi-sabi and the universal desire to just slow the fuck down.

Gastown

...ebbing and flowing over the decades as a hard-edged entertainment nexus where much of the rest of Vancouver feared to tread.
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Heads Up Gastown

Get to Know the Gastown Izakaya Giving Vancouver’s After-Hours Scene Exactly What it Wants

Oku Izakaya is quickly carving out its niche as the go-to spot for hospitality folks looking for a post-shift destination to chill and decompress.
Community News Gastown

PiDGiN Announces ‘Ko•me to Water’ Vol. 4 Collaboration Dinner with Doi Sake Brewery
Heads Up Gastown

Snag Seats for the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival This Weekend

This year`s fest features is packed with creativity and conversational fodder, featuring over 30 short films divided between five themed programs screening over the course of two days, and book-ended by Opening and Closing & Awards.

Hastings Sunrise

Ethnic restaurants and independent shops, heavily utilised parks, working class roots and a family-anchored sense of community...
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Opportunity Knocks Hastings Sunrise

Dachi Restaurant is Seeking a Passionate Person to Join Their BOH Team
Opportunity Knocks Hastings Sunrise

Elephant Restaurant is Growing Their FOH Team
Community News Hastings Sunrise

Enjoy a Special NYE Dinner at Dachi Restaurant

Kitsilano

...coming of age in the interwar period as a magnet to blue collar workers looking to put down picket fence roots...
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Heads Up Kitsilano

Basta BBQ is Breaking the Barbecue Seal on Sunday, April 21st

Smell that? BBQ season is fast approaching, and the team behind Basta BBQ are primed to get grilling ASAP!
Diner Kitsilano

Outtakes From a Maenam-aLena Staff Meal

We love a good family-style staff meal. Last month, we caught wind of a variation on this theme: a staff meal exchange between neighbourbood restaurants, Maenam and AnnaLena.
Community News Kitsilano

Fable Kitchen Kicks Off Monthly Tasting Dinners Series with El Santo Collaboration, April 3rd

Main Street

Known for its cool factor, diversity and down to earth accessibility, Main Street is as honest a cross-section of Vancouver’s cultural promise as you’ll find.
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Power of Two Main Street

Getting to Know Best-Friends-in-Business, Winnie Sun and Hassib Sarwari

Anyone who has ever been to Zarak knows that it is the ever-present and always smiling faces of Winnie and Hassib that make the Mount Pleasant restaurant what it is. In order to glean some insight into their strategies for success and what makes their collaboration work so well, we recently reached out to the pair with a slew questions.
Heads Up Main Street

Enjoy an Evening of Exceptional Japanese Sake at Burdock & Co, April 8th

The Main Street restaurant is shaking it up, shifting their focus from wine to their other long-term liquid infatuation - sake! - by welcoming multiple-award-winning Sohomare Sake Brewery for a five-course paired dinner.
Community News Main Street

Announcing the Ultimate Cross-Continent Dining Experience, April 28th at Published on Main

Mt. Pleasant
Heads Up Mt. Pleasant

Embrace Spring with a Walking Tour of Mount Pleasant’s Boulevard Gardens

Saba Farmand, a local landscape architect and the person behind Blvd Gardens of East Vancouver, is back with his popular series of Earth Day Boulevard Garden Walking Tours, April 13th, 14th and 19th.
Opening Soon Mt. Pleasant

A New Hub for Coffee Innovation is Set to Open in Vancouver Next Week

Although a new showroom setting up shop in Vancouver simply isn’t typically compelling enough to merit an ‘Opening Soon’ feature on Scout… after visiting the soon-to-open La Marzocco space in Vancouver, we’ve reevaluated our stance.
Heads Up Mt. Pleasant

Engage Your Body and Brain with a Mount Pleasant Walking Tour This Spring

Break out your best walking shoes: local history-buff (and long-time Scout Contributor), Christine Hagemoen, is priming up for another series of on-foot tours through Mount Pleasant, with various dates scheduled throughout April and May...and spots are already filling up!

New Westminster

Once upon a time at BC's beginning "New West" was the capital of the Colony of British Columbia, well before Vancouver existed.
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Community News New Westminster

Steel & Oak Brewing Co. Hosts the 2nd S&O Beer Run in Queen’s Park on May 11th
Community News New Westminster

Enjoy Seven Courses for a Good Cause at el Santo in New West, Nov. 19th
Community News New Westminster

Tultepec Brings Explosive Mexican Flavors to Steel & Oak every Wednesday & Thursday

North Shore

Dominated by mountains and parklands and fronted by a shoreline...
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Opening Soon North Shore

A Sneak Peek Inside the New Bufala

The new 160 seat Italian restaurant from Gooseneck Hospitality is on track to open in Edgemont Village later this month.
Opening Soon North Shore

A Look Inside ‘Farina a Legna’ — Coming Soon to North Van

The owners of Ask For Luigi and Pizzeria Farina are joining forces with the family behind Revolver Coffee for this new restaurant.
Community News North Shore

Fjällräven Goes on a Crown Mountain Hiking Adventure

North Vancouver

Home to sulphur piles, mountainous grinds, deep coves, ancient skateparks, good Amaretto and a bus that floats, North Van has it all!
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Opportunity Knocks North Vancouver

Bufala Edgemont in North Vancouver is Hiring a Kitchen Manager!
Community News North Vancouver

Jamjar Canteen Announces the Return of All-You-Can-Eat ‘Lebanese Feast Nights’
Community News North Vancouver

Rebel Rebel BBQ Returns to Shaketown Brewing on Sunday, August 6th

Port Moody
Heads Up Port Moody

Haul Ass to Port Moody This Weekend for the One-Day-Only ‘OK Horn Plz’ Pop-Up, July 15th

This Saturday, Matthew Murtagh-Wu and Chef Tushar Tondvalkar commandeer the Frankie Street Food truck together to park it at Brave Brewing to whip up a one-day-only Indo-Chinese menu.
Vancouverites Port Moody

On Modern Day Palates, Old Baseball Cards and Acura Legends, with Sam Payne

With another New Year fast-approaching, we think it's awfully apropos to check in and reflect with the co-owner of Port Moody's newest and most nostalgic brewery, Rewind Beer Co.
Opening Soon Port Moody

Rewind Beer // Opening Soon in Port Moody.

Finishing touches are underway at Port Moody's newest brewery, Rewind Beer Co. (2809 Murray Street), brought to us by the team behind Parkside Brewery.

Railtown Japantown

... at one time this neighbourhood was the epicentre of local Japanese culture and business
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Drinker Railtown Japantown

Win a Trip to Guadalajara at The Tequila and Agave Festival Cocktail Competition, May 20th

Backed by Nodo Tequila Blanco, this competition challenges bartenders to create a cocktail encapsulating their interpretation of the spirit of Guadalajara - and the prize is super rad!
Community News Railtown Japantown

This Month Join Odd Society Spirits for Live Music, and an Exclusive Distillery Tour
Community News Railtown Japantown

Vancouver Urban Winery Enters a New Era

South Granville

One of the more tony high street sections of Vancouver...
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Power of Two South Granville

From Road Trip Wisdom to Laugh-Love-Language, with Bailey Hayward and Mathew Bishop

The couple opened Gary’s on Twelfth in the Fall of 2023. We know very well that it takes something special to be able to be partners in both life and business; so, naturally we wanted to get to the bottom of what makes this duo such a winning combination, and learn more about them.
Community News South Granville

Get to Know Michael Soltis, Ian Tan Gallery’s April Feature Artist
Community News South Granville

Meet David Tycho, Ian Tan Gallery’s March 2024 Feature Artist

Squamish

Squamish was once where you stopped for lunch and to fill up on gas before gunning it to and from the mountain. Now it's a place to settle down and have some serious fun.
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Heads Up Squamish

Plan Ahead for the Women’s Moto Summit in Squamish This Fall (No Motorcycle Required)

The Summit will be sprawling across three acres of the idyllic Cheekye Ranch, September 1st to 3rd (the three days and two nights leading up to Labour Day). Early bird tickets are still available...but only until July!
Community News Squamish

Tacofino’s Newest Burrito Bar to Open Late Summer in Squamish on the Sea to Sky Highway
Heads Up Squamish

Hit the Road to Squamish This Saturday for Neighbourhood Craft’s First Fall Event

A new event highlighting local artists, makers and growers is kicking off this weekend (Saturday, October 15th, from 11am to 5pm) in downtown Squamish.

Strathcona

...a hip hotbed of artistic creativity with a my-garden’s-got-its-shit-together community feel.
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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...
You Should Know Strathcona

Vancouver’s History of Independent Grocery Stores, Vol. 9

In her latest instalment, Christine Hagemoen details the progression of Kong’s Grocery in Strathcona.
Heads Up Strathcona

Wind Down at ‘Den: A Place for Breathing and Rest’, This Friday Only

Local multidisciplinary artist Lorri Clark's new immersive sound experience at the Lobe this Friday, December 1st seems like it could be the perfect balm for a rough week

Vancouver
Vancouver Would Be Cooler If Vancouver

Vancouver Would Be Cooler if It Followed Florence’s Black Death Tradition of Wine Windows

Florentines had a cool architectural trick to keep socially distant while shopping for wine during times of plague...
The Tip Out Vancouver

The Tip Out, Vol. 1

Everything you need to know about eating and drinking in Vancouver right now.

West End

... two conjoined urban residential neighbourhoods.
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Community News West End

Papi’s Seafood & Oyster Bar Shares New Cocktail Menu
Heads Up West End

Set a Sweet New Precedent with a Dessert Tasting Menu by Chef Kenta Takahasi

If, like us, you’re someone who prefers to go against the grain by making new traditions, versus breaking old ‘bad’ habits, then consider snagging a ticket to one of the Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar Pastry Chef's upcoming events, kicking off next week.
Community News West End

Bacaro Appoints New Executive Chef Chanthy Yen

West Side

...with the right breeze and length of shadow, it's sometimes the very best place on earth.
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Power of Two South Granville

From Road Trip Wisdom to Laugh-Love-Language, with Bailey Hayward and Mathew Bishop

The couple opened Gary’s on Twelfth in the Fall of 2023. We know very well that it takes something special to be able to be partners in both life and business; so, naturally we wanted to get to the bottom of what makes this duo such a winning combination, and learn more about them.
Heads Up Kitsilano

Basta BBQ is Breaking the Barbecue Seal on Sunday, April 21st

Smell that? BBQ season is fast approaching, and the team behind Basta BBQ are primed to get grilling ASAP!
Diner Kitsilano

Outtakes From a Maenam-aLena Staff Meal

We love a good family-style staff meal. Last month, we caught wind of a variation on this theme: a staff meal exchange between neighbourbood restaurants, Maenam and AnnaLena.

West Vancouver

The well-heeled community hugging the north shore of Burrard Inlet from Lion's Gate Bridge to Horseshoe Bay.
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Community News West Vancouver

‘Aburi Market’ Premium Japanese Grocery Concept is Throwing a One-Year Anniversary Festival
Community News West Vancouver

Celebrate Sakura Season with Ancora Waterfront Dining & Patio Ambleside
Community News West Vancouver

Ancora Ambleside’s Rosé Mondays Return, New Tequila Thursdays Announced

Yaletown
Community News Yaletown

Enjoy the Flavours of Provence at Home with Mamie Suzanne’s Fish Soup
Community News Yaletown

Five Films and Events to Check Out at VIFF Centre This April
Heads Up Yaletown

Food Inc. 2 is Coming to VIFF Centre This April

Rally your troupe and snag tickets to a screening, April 12th through 22nd, for some serious 'food for thought'.

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