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Restaurant Graveyard / South Granville

This Was Once Upon a Time Vancouver’s Most Popular Restaurant Chain

The Aristocratic was well known for its cheap burgers, neon signage and 'Risty' character sporting a top hat and monocle.

You Need To Try This / South Granville

You Need to Try This Shaved Fennel and Apple Salad at Farmer’s Apprentice

This picnic-worthy sharable sees fennel, radish, cabbage, and ambrosia apple all dressed in a gentle pumpkin seed vinaigrette.

Restaurant Graveyard / South Granville

A 20-Year Fine Dining Legend Enters Vancouver’s Restaurant Graveyard

For much of West Restaurant's nearly 20-year run, the Toptable icon stood astride Vancouver's hospitality scene like a colossus.

View From Your Window / South Granville

The View From Your Window #204

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

TBT / South Granville

Five Years Ago This Week, Inside an Almost Finished ‘Farmer’s Apprentice’

Scenes from Chef David Gunawan's multiple award-winning South Granville restaurant in the final stage of its 2013 construction.

The Dishes

Vij’s Rangoli Bar Manager Andrew Schneider Does ‘The Dishes’

8 Places

The cocktail pro shows us exactily where he prefers to breakfast, lunch, dinner, sip late night and take advantage of Happy Hour.

The Dishes

A Gastronomic Crawl Around Vancouver With Everybody’s Favourite Bartender

9 Places

For this edition of The Dishes, the talented bartender was generous enough to show us where he breakfasts, lunches, dines and drinks.

Heads Up / South Granville

Grapes & Soda to Host a Special Night of ‘Ethical Hedonism’ on February 11

The celebrated establishment welcomes Existential Eating chef Heather Dosman and teacher Camille Flanjak for a restorative evening.

You Need To Try This / South Granville

You Need to Try Andrew Schneider’s ‘Strange Animal’ Cocktail at South Granville’s Rangoli

You need to try this simultaneously refreshing yet complex sipper.

You Need To Try This / South Granville

Gently Fizzed ‘Ri-Kyu’ Kombucha Cocktail At Grapes & Soda

A light yet complex cocktail with a touch of effervescence from the kombucha.

Definitive Records / South Granville

The Three Albums Anchoring The Tastes Of Chef David Gunawan

Best Seat in the House / South Granville

Either Table 9 Or 21, The Twin Window Roundies At Vij’s Rangoli

Opening Soon / South Granville

Lebanese ‘Jamjar’ Imminent In The Old Rangoli Location In South Granville

Bartifacts / South Granville

Two Hand-Drawn Superheroes Hold Court Behind The Bar At Grapes & Soda

Seen In Vancouver / West Side

Student Art Sale Comes Together At ECUAD On Granville Island

Opening Soon / South Granville

Authentic Lebanese Eatery ‘Jamjar’ To Open In The Original Rangoli Spot This Winter

Seen In Vancouver / South Granville

Navigating The Unique Deliciousness Of ‘Farm2Fork’ At PICA

Heads Up / South Granville

Emily Carr Set For Alumni Art Sale This Weekend On Granville Island, October 1+2

Seen In Vancouver / South Granville

Typeface Treasure Hunting Amidst South Granville’s Classic Apartment Buildings

1,000 Cool Things About Vancouver / West Side

Arthur Erickson’s Soothing Waterfall Building

Seen In Vancouver / West Side

2016 Graduating Class Exhibition ‘The Show’ Ready At ECUAD

Heads Up / West Side

Big Interior Design Sale ADDRESS Assembly Set For Waterfall Building, May 5-8

Read This / West Side

Books On Lamp Design, Enduring Illustration, Pretty Pictures, And New Orleans

Best Seat in the House / West Side

Table #20, The Unique Scalene High-Top At The Stable House

TBT / West Side

Recalling West Broadway’s ‘Cru’ & Its Outstanding Duck Confit, Cellar Door Caesars

TBT / West Side

Remembering JC Poirier’s Deliciously Doomed Chow Restaurant On Granville Street

Honour Bound / South Granville

Free Chicken Noodle Soup Dinner To Be Hosted By Chef David Gunawan

The New Breed / South Granville

Five Minutes With Satoshi Yonemori Of South Granville’s Grapes & Soda