The surface of Trout Lake, a small pond in East Vancouver’s John Hendry Park, is frozen solid. This is a significant event in Vancouver. According to the CBC, we’re currently experiencing our longest cold spell that the city has seen since 1986. …
Live Jazz on Sundays at the Tangent Café
Update: The Tangent Café closed in the summer of 2023 after a decade of operation. I’m keeping this story up as a time capsule of East Van life, a snapshot of why this place was so great. Yet another reason …
Odd Society Spirits opens in East Van
Odd Society Spirits, a new craft distillery, opened this evening to local media and industry folk, a day before it opens to the general public. Located on Powell Street at the foot of Commercial Drive (next to the ARC), it’s dangerously …
Tasting Plates Vancouver: Commercial Drive
I was walking down Commercial Drive on the first week of June, still in a daze after coming back from the TBEX conference in Toronto the night before, and who do I run into, but Richard Wolak aka: Vancouver Foodster. …
Commercial Drive’s Autumn Colours
Autumn is so fleeting in Vancouver that you have to act quickly if you want to catch the fall foliage at its peak before the winter rains set in and wash it all away. Not that Vancouver’s renowned for its …
The Brave Bull’s House of Steak Closing
Vancouver is about to lose an institution. According to a message posted on the B.C. Chowhound forum today, The Brave Bull’s House of Steak is closing for good on September 2nd: Never been, but for those interested, the couple that run Brave Bull are retiring and …