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Once again, Vancouverites have weighed in with their choices for which restaurants, bars, pubs, and cafés make this city one of the tastiest places on Earth. And you’ve done an amazing job, so thank you for that.

When you declare that all the dishes on your menu are $4.95, the prices on the bill better deliver. But to win Best Cheap Eats in a cutthroat culinary landscape like Vancouver, the food has to be something special, too.

Unless you’ve spent weeks cruising street food vendors in Hà Nội, you’ve never had Vietnamese like this before.

Hand-cut, double cooked fries. A generous ladle-full of flour-based poutine sauce. Cheese curds so young that they squeak.

When Justin Taylor, founding bar manager at Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar , resigned from his post in April of this year, his loyal clientele was perhaps less surprised about his departure than about his destination: the Cascade Room.

Peruvian flavours with a West Coast feel at Chicha

Tim Brady knows the vocabulary of the electric guitar. So much so, that in 2015 the acclaimed Canadian composer decided to lead 100 guitars in conversation in the centre of a shopping mall in Montreal.

“The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

“Things have been pretty difficult, being in a band,” muses Brasstronaut frontman Edo Van Breeman, reached over Skype from his Vancouver home. “When you get older, it’s harder to be in a band.