3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (700+ words) Chef Steven Che is getting ready to open the restaurant he's wanted to build for years. Haisan, opening this fall on Commercial Drive, is an intimate 30-seat fine-dining restaurant built around a single 16-course tasting menu. Rather than treating Chinese…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (203+ words) A new grocery store will be opening in about a year in Vancouver's Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood. Fresh St. Market has announced it'll be part of the Alba development currently under construction at 2585 East Hastings St. The new store will be more…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (209+ words) While Vancouver's Japanese food scene is one of the best in North America now, in the 1970s it was a much different story. In 1977, when Fujiya was founded by Shig and Akemi Hirai, Japanese food was not in the local mainstream....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (220+ words) Over the last few decades, Asian comics and animation have become increasingly popular in North American pop culture. A new exhibition coming to Vancouver's Chinese Canadian Museum is exploring the history of the comics art form with a touring exhibit....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (164+ words) A large house in West Point Grey has hit Vancouver's real estate market, listing for $16 million. Dubbed "Step House" by its designers at Measured Architects, the unique home has a modern design set in a park-like lot at 4725 W 4th Ave....

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (176+ words) Coal Harbour’s iconic Gasoline Alley was comprised of five different oil company marine fuel stations, but did you know that two of them had ties to North Vancouver? In the 1950s the Texaco fuel barge was built by the Burrard Dry…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (838+ words) Rob Feenie knows a thing or two about burgers. For longtime Vancouver diners, the connection between Feenie and the burger goes back decades. Back in the days of Lumière, he operated the more casual Feenie’s next door, giving diners two…...