This month the fun and food-filled times don’t stop at It’s Okay Bar! Another reason to swing by the Hastings Sunrise spot in the near future: the Dicky’s Dumps menu takeover this Saturday only.

Experience five different Georgian wines hitting five different flavour profiles, plus as many different chicken wing flavours, and two live DJs - not bad for a Wednesday night!

The new bakery and cafe will see longtime Farmers Market favourite, Tall Shadow Breads, take the long-awaited leap into a brick-and-mortar situation.

This is your chance to get super intimate with winemakers Marie and Elena, from Albamar, whilst luxuriating over a wine-paired five-course dinner prepared by Chef Ben and the rest of the Dachi crew. One seating only!

Co-owners Cass Helps and Dayle Kennedy have enlisted customers and friends, Miki Ellis and Stephen Whiteside, to open a brick-and-mortar location at 2474 East Hastings Street.

Vancouver's inventory of independent neighbourhood joints fell by two with last week's announcements of the closure of Dock Lunch and Oh Carolina, so it's particularly nice timing for some positive restaurant-related news. Luckily for us, 'It's Okay Bar' is stepping up to the task.

We catch up with co-owners of Dachi, Elephant, Hānai and Mucker to talk about business, service and making it less hard to open independent restaurants in Vancouver.

Today is the day! Although Chef Ben Berwick is known to occasionally slip izakaya-style plates onto Dachi’s ever-changing menu, this will be one of the rare occasions that a full snack bar menu will be on offer.

This year's third annual Dachi Dinners edition features three very unique, very different (but equally beloved by Dachi's Chef Ben Berwick) cuisines: Nikkei, Alsatian, and Japanese.

East Vancouver will see a new bar open doors before the end of the year – and it comes with a comforting name that, given the times, everyone can appreciate: “It’s Okay”. The new concept is slated to open doors by mid-November.

Mark March 4-5th on your calendar, for Part 1 of their planned ongoing series featuring natural wines, including two female wine makers (along with food by chef Kovic Prévost).

A new project brought to us by Miki Ellis (Dachi), Stephen Whiteside (Dachi) and chef Justin Ell will offer a omakase-style menu, as well as à la carte dining for walk-ins beginning Friday, December 3, 2021.

A cash-only spot to the end, the friendly Master Chef Cafe was in operation on East Hastings from 1953 until 2014.

This Dachi and Bella Wines collaboration is likely to be pretty popular, so if you're as enamoured as we are then you'd better act quickly!

The recently relocated Red Wagon is deftly blending the French bistro and North American diner concepts together at night.

The new location at 2128 East Hastings will seat 55 and serve both lunch and dinner when it opens in December.

The sake-lover and co-owner of Dachi restaurant talks to Jamie and Mickey about working through the weirdness.