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Where Vancouver Is Watching the World Cup — and Why Match Day Might Be the Best the City's Restaurants Have Ever Looked.
A World Cup group stage in your city does something to the dining scene that no chef, no PR campaign, and no food festival has ever managed to replicate. Every neighbourhood has a reason to be alive right now. Here is where to find it.
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The Restaurant Bill Is Bigger. Here's the Honest Conversation About Why — and What It Actually Means.
A weeknight dinner for two at a neighbourhood restaurant in Vancouver now routinely clears $120 before you leave. People are frustrated. Some of that frustration is fair. Most of it is aimed at the wrong target.
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Ray's Just Opened in Yaletown. It Is Exactly What That Neighbourhood Has Been Missing.
Yaletown has been a reliable place to spend money on a mediocre experience for twenty years. Ray's, which opened on Hamilton Street last month, is something different — and it is already proving that the neighbourhood was ready for it.
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What Vancouver's Food Scene Actually Gets Right
Forget the four-month waitlist and the $200 tasting menu. The real case for Vancouver as one of North America's great food cities is being made in Richmond, on Commercial Drive, and in every neighbourhood that doesn't have a PR firm.
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Richmond at Night: Why the Lower Mainland's Best Dining District Still Doesn't Get the Coverage It Deserves
The food media has been writing about Richmond for twenty years. It still hasn't caught up. A guide to the neighbourhoods, the format, and why you keep eating better here than anywhere else in the city.
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Vancouver's Brunch Problem (And the Restaurants That Have Actually Solved It)
A ninety-minute wait in the rain for eggs that cost twenty-two dollars is not a dining experience. It is a stress test. The restaurants that understand this are the ones worth finding.
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The Vancouver Wine Bar Scene Has Quietly Grown Up. Here Is Where to Start.
For a city that spends this much on real estate, Vancouver was embarrassingly late to the wine bar. It is making up for lost time — and the rooms getting it right are worth your attention.
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The Standard Set by Vancouver's Japanese Restaurants Is Embarrassingly High for Every Other Cuisine
Every serious food city has one thing it does better than almost everywhere else outside the country of origin. Vancouver's is Japanese food — and the gap has widened considerably in the last five years.
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What a Meal in Vancouver Costs Now Is Either an Outrage or a Mirror, Depending on How You Look at It
The average spend at an independent Vancouver restaurant has increased significantly in three years. The people who are angry about this are right. So are the people defending it.
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Vancouver's Coffee Culture Has Outrun Its Own Reputation
The city that gave North America a certain chain also quietly built one of the continent's strongest independent coffee scenes. The two facts are related, and not in the way you might expect.
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The Farmers Markets Vancouver Actually Takes Seriously
Saturday morning at a good farmers market is one of the better uses of time this city offers. The ones that have stayed serious about why they exist are worth the effort.