Food and Drink

Vancouver's Grounds for Coffee is known for their fantastic cinnamon buns, and throughout the year they get really inventive with their flavours.

The end of the year also brings with it the end of a chapter for the popular New West pan-Asian Wild Rice Market Bistro. The restaurant will offer their last service on New Year's Eve.

One of Vancouver's tastiest daytime coffee, pastry, and sandwich spots, Their There, in Kitsilano, is going to have a second identity come the nighttime soon.

It's been over 60 years since the Polynesian vibes and tropical drinks first brightened up the nightlife scene at the Tiki-themed bar at Vancouver's Waldorf. Now, after a bit of a revamp, the Waldorf is relaunching their Tiki Bar cocktail lounge with new drinks, eats, and management.

Beer fans find brews to love all year 'round, and the winter months are ideal for enjoying darker, heartier styles of beer. To celebrate stouts and toast to barleywine, there's an "extreme" beer fest slated to take place in Vancouver in January 2019.

After opening in Vancouver and following up with outposts at UBC, in Portland, Oregon, and in Toronto, the plant-based pizza spot Virtuous Pie has announced their biggest new location launch to-date.

For some sandwich lovers, it isn’t Christmas in Vancouver until Meat & Bread rolls out their very limited run of their acclaimed Turducken.

On Dec. 11, 2018, the multinational coffee company will open the doors to western Canada's biggest Starbucks store, and Vancouver's second high-end Reserve concept location, just steps away from where it all began 31 years ago.

Today, Revelstoke is growing. Long-boarded up heritage buildings are being restored, there’s new restaurants, breweries and distilleries. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of savvy Vancouverites and Calgarians are coming to visit, many of them deciding to stay.

A group of local bakers are doing a holiday cookie swap auction to benefit The Greater Vancouver Food Bank to ensure all Vancouverites have full bellies this Christmas.