Chinatown
Announcing June Events at the Chinese Canadian Museum
Villa Lobos: Meet the Crew Behind the Next Dinner at Pizza Coming Soon
There’s something refreshing about young people building something together outside the usual scroll. Villa Lobos feels like a reminder of why people get into hospitality in the first place. A few tickets are still up for grabs. Meet the crew...
Villa Lobos: Skate Kids, Sharp Knives, Sold-Out Dinners
A group of skate kids from King George started cooking for each other and ended up building something bigger than they expected. Now they’re running sold-out dinners, with strong community backing.
Get Ready For Supernova: A New Cocktail Bar Headed for Chinatown
Two bartenders join forces with a chef to open their first cocktail bar in Chinatown. At Bar Supernova, everything starts at the end - ingredients most kitchens would throw away, turned into something entirely new.
“Touski” Set To Open In Chinatown With a Day-to-Night Shift Built Into the Room
A couple of sharp cooks are setting up shop at a decommissioned Chinatown flower shop and retail space, and we like their approach.
Chinese Canadian Museum Announces Upcoming Exhibition, ‘Momentum: Power and Identity in Sports’
Lunar New Year 2026: A Guide to the Coolest Ways to Ring in the Year of the Horse in Vancouver
From parade-day feasts and special cocktails to hands-on workshops and packed community rooms, Lunar New Year 2026 is coming up quickly. This insider guide is here to steer you toward some of the cooler ways to welcome the Year of the Horse, so you can show up, keep pace, and ride the momentum.
Chinese Canadian Museum’s ‘Dream Factory’ Recognized with 2025 Canadian Museum Association Award
Beaucoup Bakery Celebrates the Year of the Horse with a Dim-Sum Inspired Lunar New Year Collection
Inside Uchu Peruvian Cevicheria Coming to Vancouver’s Chinatown
Somewhere between dust, design, and service manuals: a look inside Uchu as it moves from job site to dining room in the final weeks before its February 6th opening.
Chinese Canadian Museum Ushers in the Year of the Horse with a Festive Lunar New Year Weekend
Join the Chinese Canadian Museum for Curators and Crafts: Lunar New Year Records, Jan. 24
Taste of Chinatown! Returns February 6-22, 2026
KT Restaurants is Seeking a GM to Lead Their New Duo Concept
Chinese Canadian Museum Celebrates Winter Solstice Festival with Family-Fun Activities
Enjoy a Shojin Teishoku Plant-Based Dinner, Nov. 26th
For a single night, Saan Saan brings together the quiet intensity and careful cooking of friends Tomoko Tahara and Raphaël Pirenne for a modern Japanese plant-based multi-course meal.
Chinatown’s ‘Meo’ Debuts Nostalgic New Cocktail Menu
Noir at the Bar is Coming to The Irish Heather on October 23rd
There's something especially cozy and atmospheric - perhaps even illicit - and innately literary about posting up in a dark pub while listening to authors reading from their best noir-ish works. Even better with a pint or glass of something nice and stiff in hand!
Kissa Tanto is Hosting Le Violon for One Night Only, Sept. 30th
When the Co-Owner and Executive Chef of Montreal’s hottest new room comes out west to cook at a perennial Vancouver favourite — you make time for it.
Sip Your Way Around the World with The Chickadee Room’s ‘Negroni Passport’, Sept. 22-28
Head to DD Mau for a Two-Night Cambodian-Vietnamese Collaboration, Sept. 9-10th
Next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the family-run Chinatown restaurant is hosting chefs Chanthy Yen and Tyler Hoang for a special menu takeover. Don't overthink it. Just go.
CANCELLED: Get ‘Wine-ish’ with Kurtis Kolt and Kelcie Jones on Tuesday, Sept. 9th
For the first time ever, the longtime friends and colleagues are combining their forces to bring us a double-whammy tasting event featuring classic wine and non-alc offerings on the same playing field. This should be good!
Dress Rehearsal’s Summer Pop-Up Dinner is Happening at Say Hey Café on July 19th
Chef Lina Caschetto and This is Wine School are back for ‘Act 2’ of their new monthly pop-up series, serving up a fresh market-inspired and wine-paired meal that’s personal but far from 'precious'. The theme this round? 'Le Maraîcher' ('The Market Gardener') - meaning the vegetables are the stars.
Uchu Cevicheria & Raw Bar is Set to Bring Peruvian Coastal Cool to Chinatown
Uchu will seat 68 diners across booths, tables, a central bar, with a distinctive eight-seat raw bar.
New Monthly ‘Dress Rehearsal’ Pop-Up Dinner Series is Kicking Off on June 14th
Chef Lina Caschetto and This is Wine School are joining forces to deliver Vancouver their "mildly posh and maximally fun" monthly pop-up dinner series, playing out across four "acts". Get stoked!
DD Mau Chinatown is Celebrating Seven Years This Weekend
The team is marking the milestone this Sunday, April 20th, by bringing back some of DD Mau’s most-loved dishes at their “All-Star Snack Party”.
New Herzog Exhibit ‘Vitality: Iconic Images, Hidden Stories’ is Opening in Chinatown This April
Opening Friday, April 11th at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre, it explores Vancouver’s Chinatown and historic Hastings district between the 1950s and 1970s, blending Herzog’s striking photography with personal histories uncovering the deeper narratives behind his most celebrated works.
Room for Dessert, Vol. 5: Saan Saan’s Ginger Milk Burnt Sugar Cookie
Ksenia Dempster is a baker and proud "dessert person". A believer that desserts should make people happy, she is spotlighting the final courses that are worth unbuttoning your pants for, and the talented local chefs behind them.
