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Catch 122 is Gastown’s latest eatery, a French inspired bistro occupying a 100+ year old historic building along a strip of West Hastings across the street from the Woodward’s building. They serve rustic, comfort food in an expansive dining room held together by brick, exposed ventilation piping and layered with old wood.

Epic Brewing delivers Golden State flavour via Salt Lake City, Utah with their Santa Cruz Brown Ale, pouring dark and dirty, but finishing both sweet and hoppy. This little fella was uncovered at Portland’s own Belmont Station.

Beta 5 chocolates sits hidden in a small strip off Industrial Avenue, near Main and Terminal alongside a few retail shops and within the home base to some food truck commissaries.

Full Sail’s Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout from Hood River, Oregon is an intensely dark, limited release stout carefully aged for a year in Kentucky Bourbon casks soaking up all that sweet, smokey goodness. Limited availability at fine Oregon establishments like Belmont Station.

Pronto is a Cambie Village café that features an assortment of simple, home cooked, Italian dishes like Pesto Gnocchi, meatballs and classic Italian sandwiches. But the Porchetta — that indulgent amalgam of roasted pork, cracklings and herbs between two buns — is what started it all.