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How To Cook Vancouver / Main Street

We Tried To Make The Acorn’s Celebrated Deep-Fried Halloumi Dish at Home

Maciel Pereda's "How To Cook Vancouver" series continues with a Main Street dish so good it's almost dangerous.

1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / Main Street

This Mt. Pleasant Restaurant Honours Its Veteran Staff Members in a Really Cool Way

Wallflower Diner recognizes and celebrates its long-serving crew members by affixing their names to the long edge of the wooden bar.

You Need To Try This / Main Street

You Need to Try the Chicharito Cocktail at Mt. Pleasant’s Como Taperia

Named for soccer star Javier Hernández Balcázar's sobriquet (which translates as "Little Pea"), the drink is as striking as its namesake.

Heads Up / Main Street

Show to Feature the Anonymous Artists That Regularly STICK It to Vancouver

The first annual STICK art show is scheduled to take place March 14 - 28 at the Red Gate Arts Society.

Cool Things We Want / Main Street

We Want a Summer Subscription to Beautiful Flowers From Local Grower ‘Valley Buds’

Buying into this flower share is a brilliant way to pre-emptively ensure fresh, gorgeous, local blooms all summer long.

Opening Soon / Main Street

‘Published’ Opening Soon at Main & 20th

The 100+ restaurant and bar is about to start construction at 3593 Main Street. It is expected to launch in early summer, 2019.

Restaurant Graveyard / Main Street

When a Veteran Four Seasons Chef Opened a Comfort Food Joint on Main Street

In this week's edition of Restaurant Graveyard, we remember and inter Chef Wayne Martin's casual experiment, Crave on Main.

TBT / Main Street

Five Years Ago This Week, Main Street Landed This Awesome Seafood Spot

For this week's Throwback Thursday feature, we travel back to when Rob Clark and Mike McDermid opened The Fish Counter.

Vancouverites / Main Street

On the Future of Sustainable Fashion with Vancouverite Sam Lau of Hecho & Co.

In this long-form Q&A, we get to know a local creative whose sustainable and ethically-sourced textiles go to the fibre of her being.

Cool Things We Want / Main Street

Five Reasons to Hit Up the TOQUE Craft Fair This Year

The Western Front's annual fundraising event is our go-to place to scoop up holiday goodies from some of Vancouver's best makers, and it's happening November 30th to December 2nd.

Opening Soon / Main Street

Como Taperia Set For Launch in Mt. Pleasant

The Spanish-inspired restaurant from Shaun Layton, Frankie Harrington and Justin Witcher officially opens on Monday.

You Need To Try This / Main Street

Anh and Chi’s Warming Winter Punch Is Literally on Fire, and You Need to Try It

Aged rum, pineapple, passion fruit, cinnamon, five spice dram, citrus and tea are combined in a teapot and topped with flaming fruit.

Heads Up / Main Street

‘Swine Out Vancouver’ Bringing All Things Pork & Beer to Heritage Hall on Nov. 19

Nine local chefs and six breweries are getting set to showcase their love of pork in support of a great cause. Mmm, bacon...

Heads Up / Main Street

Sunja Link Body Shoppe Concept Store Opens Today on Main Street

The shelves are stocked with Link's own line, plus all manner of hand-picked, unique and ethical goodies for your home and body.

Lexicon / Main Street

The Wildly Successful Art Show We Wish Was Still Around

"The coolest thing about The Cheaper Show was the genuine thrill finding a piece of art that you loved that hadn't sold yet."

Opening Soon / Main Street

Carving the First Spanish Ham Inside Como, Opening Soon in Mt. Pleasant

Staff of the highly anticipated Spanish-themed restaurant gathered to break bread, trade sips and test their skills in the construction site.

Vancouverites / Main Street

Local Architect Susan Scott on Building Balsa Spitfires and a Better Vancouver

This wide-ranging interview with one half of local firm Scott & Scott covers design both big and small, and life at large in Vancouver.

2 Places
Heads Up / Main Street

Food & Beverage Industry Activist Ashtin Berry to Host Two Events in Vancouver

Regardless of your industry and work environment, we think everyone can benefit by attending this seminar and workshop, on October 28th and 29th.

Opening Soon / Main Street

New 100-Seat Tacofino Ocho Imminent in Mt. Pleasant

We take a look inside Tacofino's latest restaurant, which is set to open any day now on the southeast corner of 5th & Ontario.

Definitive Records / Main Street

The Musical Appetites of Local Doughnut Whisperer Aaron Surman

The chef at Lucky's Doughnuts fills us in (get it?) on the three records that really anchor his taste in music.

The Dishes

Peter Van de Reep Does ‘The Dishes’

11 Places

We asked the renaissance man and Campagnolo Upstairs bartender to draw us a map to some of his favourite local food and drink...

Seen In Vancouver / Main Street

One of Vancouver’s Best Vietnamese Restaurants Gets Its Story Told in New Short Film

Anh and Chi, the stylish Vietnamese restaurant on Main Street, represents a lot more than just the delicious sum of its parts.

Vancouverites / Main Street

An Interview With Local Artist and Crow Whisperer, Ehren Salazar

Check out his latest exhibition of drawings, "Crowland", on the walls of Luppolo Brewing in Strathcona this weekend.

TBT / Main Street

Seven Years Ago This Week, This Outstanding Local Chocolate Shop Was Born

In this edition of Throwback Thursday, we go back exactly 7 years ago to just before the launch of Beta5 at 413 Industrial Avenue.

TBT / Main Street

Five Years Ago This Week, This Excellent Brewery Was Born in Mt. Pleasant

For this edition of Throwback Thursday, we look back to the birth of Brassneck, one of Vancouver's most loved breweries.

Heads Up / Main Street

You Need to Check Out This Upcoming Illustration Market Coming Soon to Main Street

Get an early autumn art fix by hitting Heritage Hall on September 22/23 for the 2nd annual ArtBreakers Illustration Market.

You Need To Try This / Main Street

You Need to Try This Katsu-Sake Halibut in Dashi Chowder on Main Street

The pretty thing tasted like Summer, so if you want to eat some time travel in an Autumn downpour, hit Torafuku before it's off the menu!

The Dishes

The Acorn’s Shira Blustein Does ‘The Dishes’

12 Places

The co-owner of two of Vancouver's best vegetarian joints shares her personal treasure map of great places to eat, drink and unwind.