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West Broadway’s Suika is part of a new wave of Izakaya restaurants in Vancouver, taking the more rustic, bar influenced, Japanese small plate dishes and modernizing them with a bit of West coast character.

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It was bound to happen. Portland makes it way up North to Vancouver — more specifically, a quintessentially Stumptown influenced menu and beer list settles on Main Street in the old Coppertank spot reincarnated as Portland Craft.

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Yaletown has a new neighbourhood go-to lunchtime spot. And its name is DD Mau — a scrappy, young upstart serving up Banh Mi the likes you haven’t seen before. In a parallel universe, if Banh Mi were to originate from the wilds of the Pacific Northwest instead of the streets of Saigon, this might have been the result.

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The Oakwood on West 4th avenue brings a little bit of the rustic Pacific Northwest to Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. Professing to be a Canadian Bistro, whatever that may be, they offer a meat and potato type menu with a modern bent alongside a careful selection of BC draft beer — all, in a log cabin influenced setting complete with antler horns over the fireplace.

A Fat Dragon has landed in East Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood. Fusing barbecue from the American South and stoking it with Asian Flavours, the latest outing from the same folks at Campagnolo and Campagnolo Roma add a stylistically modern eatery to an otherwise forsaken part of town.