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Restaurant Graveyard / False Creek

Remembering the Beloved Tex-Mex Restaurant That Joked About Cheating ‘Tourists & Drunks’

Launched in 1988, Carlos 'n Bud's was defined by its affordable Tex-Mex menu, relaxed attitude and sun-soaked patio.

Seen In Vancouver / False Creek

New Taqueria ‘Popina Cantina’ Opens Today Inside Granville Island’s Net Loft

The tiny taco takeaway joint in Granville Island's Net Loft is ready with five interesting tacos and a bunch of cool puffcreams.

TBT / False Creek

Five Years Ago This Week, When Vancouverites Crushed Thousands of Dumplings Outside

For this edition of Throwback Thursday we return to the south shore of False Creek in search of the Golden Dumpling...

Opening Soon / False Creek

New Taco Spot ‘Popina Cantina’ Opening Soon

It's coming to us in the original Sen Pad Thai location and is on track to open to the public in August, 2020.

Spaced / False Creek

Contemplating Life on a Handmade ‘Floating Island’

The big deck holds a BBQ, a herb garden, a hammock, and several other wonderful things besides (like a baby blue canoe).

Comfort Food / False Creek

The Comfort Food Guide to Vancouver: East Coast Lobster Roll at Popina

The restaurant's waterfront location adds some extra authenticity to the experience, even if it is the wrong coast!

Opening Soon / False Creek

David Chang Shuts Two Eateries, Says Vancouver’s Momofuku Noodle Bar Still on Track

David Chang might be closing two restaurants and moving a third, but he's still committed to launching in Vancouver this year.

View From Your Window / False Creek

The View From Your Window #221

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

Lexicon / False Creek

The Nickname for Rodney Graham's $4.8 Million Chandelier Under the Granville St. Bridge

"The Bridge Scrotum is great, but I'm not surprised some think its tasteless seeing how it's located where desperate people might seek shelter..."

Heads Up / False Creek

Get Ready for the First Ever ‘Uncorked: A Celebration of the Science of Wine’

On November 14th, Science World will transform into a veritable wine universe for this one-night-only inaugural event.

Seen In Vancouver / False Creek

One of Vancouver’s Coolest Food Events Went Down Last Night (and We Took a Bunch of Photos)

Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts played delicious host to "From Farms to Forks" last night and it was all kinds of good times.

Heads Up / False Creek

One of the Most Delicious Food Events of the Year Is on the Horizon — Got Tickets?

PICA is once again hosting the annual fundraiser that puts fork-armed foodies right in front of some of BC's best chefs.

Bartifacts / False Creek

So, About That Lethal Weapon Hanging Above the Bar…

Talia sat behind the bar at Ancora and noticed a bayonet from the 19th century hanging out with the top shelf booze. This is its story...

Opening Soon / False Creek

The Tuck Shoppe Opening New Location on Granville Island This Summer

The Union Street staple (home of the ridiculously delicious French Onion Beef Dip sandwich) is expanding into the Net Loft.

Lexicon / False Creek

This Is Now a Permanent Facet of Vancouver's Public Art Collection

"I was all for taking the viaducts down until I realized we'd lose the Hot Wheels optical illusion of the Trans Am Totem..."

Cool Things We Want / False Creek

We Want to Customize Our Very Own Search and Rescue Denim Co. Apron

Regardless of your industry or hobby, the newly launched Custom Apron Builder by Search and Rescue Denim Co. is really f*cking fun!

Heads Up / False Creek

Get Your Weave On at Workshops Led by Local Artist Amanda Wood

Round two of the Weaving 101 workshop runs weekly from February 6th to 20th at Granville Island's Silk Weaving Studio.

Foreign Intelligence Briefs / False Creek

Dig These Oddball Houseboats Made of Airplanes, Tractors, Buses and Ambulances

Formerly homeless eccentric Englishman Hamish McKenzie likes to think of himself as a "boat renovator"...

Definitive Records / False Creek

The Musical Education of Faculty Brewing’s Mauricio Lozano

The Head Brewer and learned craft beer lover's picks range from political punk and uplifting island vibes to good ol' fashioned grunge.

Cool Things We Want / False Creek

We Want to Glide Above False Creek on This Newfangled Beast of a Machine

Developed in Puerto Rico, the Lift eFoil allows its rider to cruise silently above the surface of the water at speeds up to 40 km an hour.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / False Creek

Imagining Public Baths in a Clean False Creek

If the Danish city of Aarhus can open public baths in their once filthy waterway, why can't we do something similar here?

Spaced / False Creek

This Tiny Cabin for Beer Island, Please

With solar panels on its A-frame, the stilted construction has very little impact on its immediate environment and did not require building permits because of its diminutive size.

Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver / False Creek

The Most Deliciously Beastly Entry in The Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver

The annual good time on Northeast False Creek brings together many of the city’s best restaurants to do their carnivorous best to impress a sold out crowd of meat-loving beer drinkers.

Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver / False Creek

Is This the Most Picturesque Spot Currently Brewing Beer in Canada?

In our first addition/amendment to our ever-evolving Craft Beer Atlas of Vancouver, we focus on a veteran brewery with a superb location.

The Dishes

Search & Rescue’s Will Fosdick Does ‘The Dishes’

10 Places

The apron aficionado behind Search and Rescue Denim fills us in on his favourite places to eat and drink around Vancouver.

1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / False Creek

The One Delicious Day of the Year We Actually Looking Forward to Meat Sweats

The annual Brewery and the Beast festival of meat and beer easily cracks our 1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver list.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / False Creek

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had This Art Project That Gave Out Free Hot Dogs

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm transformed an old VW bus into a bizarre, oddly obese food truck of sorts, and we want it for our sea wall.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If / False Creek

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If it Had a Weird Village of Spherical Homes

Made of concrete strengthened with fibreglass and originally subsidized by the Dutch government, these futuristic homes from 1984 are awesome.