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How To Cook Vancouver / Downtown

We Tried to Make Nuba’s Awesome ‘Mjadra’ at Home (With Delicious Results)

In her latest attempt to cook Vancouver at home, Maciel tackles the delicious Lebanese mjadra dish from Nuba.

Honour Bound / Downtown

Over a Dozen Vancouver Chefs Band Together for New Event Series, KitchenAide

"We started with a broken industry. We’re still not perfect, but we know there’s a problem, and we want to fix it."

You Need To Try This / Downtown

You Need to Try This Decadent Brioche French Toast With Dulce de Leche

Botanist in the Fairmont Pacific Rim will start plating from chef Hector Laguna's new weekend brunch menu this Saturday, October 26th.

Heads Up / Downtown

Celebrated Portland Chef in Town to Collaborate on a Special Multi-Course Feast

This sounds one of those meals that will be forever seared into the memories of those lucky enough to have forked their way through it.

View From Your Window / Downtown

The View From Your Window #205

We love posting photos like this that reveal the views through the windows of our readers. We hope you'll consider sharing yours!

Honour Bound / Downtown

Chambar to Host Special Feast in Support of One of Its Veteran Servers

Chambar server Portia Pascuzzo is self-publishing a new book with the support of the restaurant and the hospitality community.

Stacked / Downtown

Deconstructing the Most Delicious Thing to Eat in Vancouver for Under $5

These decadent sliders at Gotham Steakhouse don't need to be this good for $4.50 but we're not complaining...

Opening Soon / Downtown

A Sneak Peek Inside ‘Open Outcry’

Sean Heather's highly anticipated, 88-seat restaurant and bar opens later this week in the heart of the Financial District.

Seen In Vancouver / Downtown

60 Photos From the Climate March

It has been estimated that over 100,000 people attended the Climate March this past Friday. It felt like a hell of a lot more.

The Dishes

Veteran Barman JS Dupuis Does ‘The Dishes’

14 Places

The Beverage Director of the Wentworth Hospitality Group takes us on a whirlwind tour of his favourite places to eat and drink.

Vancouverites / Downtown

The View From Your Window #203

We love posting photos like this that reveal the views through the windows of our readers. We hope you'll consider sharing yours!

22 Places
Heads Up / Downtown

Don’t Miss These Ten VIFF Film Screenings

We narrowed down the deep list of VIFF screenings to just 10 flicks that have us excited to get into a theatre and out of our own heads.

Picking Grapes

Picking Grapes With Josh Carlson of Provence Marinaside

9 Places

This week we put our Picking Grapes questions to the sommelier at one of Yaletown's best restaurants, Provence Marinaside.

21 Places
Seen In Vancouver / Downtown

Why Chambar Is Still Vancouver’s Most Important Restaurant After 15 Years

Visualising the indelible and far-reaching impact of an idiosyncratic Belgian-Moroccan restaurant on Beatty Street.

Lexicon / Downtown

If Vancouver Had a Superhero It Might Be the Woman Who Takes Her Duck Everywhere

"I saw the Vancouver Duck Lady on the bus today and she was just about the sweetest thing in the whole wide world..."

Heads Up / Downtown

You’d Better Grab Your ‘Restaurant Rumble’ Tickets NOW Before They’re All Gone!

The annual charity boxing tournament from Aprons For Gloves is on the immediate horizon (August 20).

View From Your Window / Downtown

The View From Your Window #198

We love posting photos like this that reveal the views through the windows of our readers. We hope you'll consider sharing yours!

Heads Up / Downtown

Chambar’s Tia Kambas Details the Uniquely Collaborative ‘Yes Shef!’ Long Table Dinner

The restaurant's Director of Operations clues us into the motivation behind the one-of-a-kind dinner, and details her own dish.

Vancouverites / Downtown

Vancouver Queer Film Festival Invites You to ‘See for Yourself’, August 15-25

We turn to Anoushka Ratnarajah for extra inspiration and some advice in navigating this year's packed festival program.

The New Breed / Downtown

The Award-Winning Vancouver Bartender Who Once Dreamed of Being an Astronaut

In this New Breed interview, Jamie Mah asks a rapid fire series of questions to Botanist bar manager Jeff Savage.

Lexicon / Downtown

Vancouver Had Its Own Music Video Show Before MTV or Much Music

“When Nite Dreems didn’t have the video for a song they just filmed a tight-shot of John Tanner’s hands 'dancing' to the music.”

TBT / Downtown

Five Years Ago This Week, Inside the Second Coming of Chambar

For this week's edition of Throwback Thursday we return to the early days of the Belgian-Moroccan restaurant's major move on Beatty St.

Restaurant Graveyard / Downtown

Remembering the Elegant Weirdness of Yaletown’s Long-Shuttered Elixir Bistro

The first (and very likely last) Vancouver restaurant to ever screen a live feed of its dining room above its washroom urinals.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / Downtown

What If Vancouver Followed Berlin’s Lead and Froze Rents for Five Years?

The rent-freeze starts in January and is retroactive to June, so landlords can't jack up the rent in one last frenzied orgy of greed.

Lexicon / Downtown

The Old Clock at Granville & Hastings Has a Short Name and a Long Story

"Long ago when Vancouver revolved around the intersection of Georgia and Granville, the Birks Clock was like its spindle."

Heads Up / Downtown

Vancouverites Invited to ‘Space Out’ All July

The Cinematheque will be taking viewers to the moon and back with a tribute of sci-fi classics, future-classics and documentaries.

The Dishes

Mike Shum Does ‘The Dishes’

8 Places

We asked a bartender at the Fairmont Pacific Rim's Lobby Lounge to take us to some of his favourite spots across Vancouver.

You Should Know / Downtown

How Bikes Liberated Vancouver

In her latest "You Should Know" story, Christine Hagemoen reminds us of how the bicycle first took our city by storm.