The park, cafes — ones that don’t serve brunch — and a kava lounge in the centre of the city.
Honourable mention to the public library.
Mar 27, 2024
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idk if all of these are hidden but i love them dearly. Bonus to Honeybee brunch spot but i feel like that one is a lil obvious lol.
🥜 Peanuts Gallery - diy art space and studio, it’s a lil hole in the wall, the work is audacious and it reminds of the joy of creating rather than being perfect.
🏚️ Western Front- one of the oldest ARCs in Vancouver i believe. Amazing gallery, beautiful building, and very interesting art works that you may not see everywhere. I saw a show where the artist brewed 4-5 different beers, one using selenite!!!
✊🏻Spartacus Books - anarchist book store, awesome book selection, and it feels like they’ve distilled the community feeling of a library into this tiny store.
📚Macleod Books - i love this bookstore, books piled up on the ground, amazing rare books just on every corner, some amazing reference books if yr an artist. Prices are high ish for used books, but that feels like every used bookstore nowadays
🥪New Town Bakery - fucking insanely delicious buns, fluffy as fuckkkk and it makes me so happy.
🙂↔️MeeT on Main- met my cousins for the first time and had gay lil cocktails with them. amazing food, vibe is a lil too cool for u but that’s okay for some nice hedonism.
Nov 14, 2024
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Not necessarily downtown, but a few of my favorites…
Publican (bakery but also restaurant)
Doma 🍳
Best intentions 🍸
Middlebrow 🍕
Sportsman’s 🍻
Webster’s 🍷
Mothers ruin 🥂
Avondale bowl 🎳
Sugar moon 🥐
The charleston 🍺
Dial M for Modern 🛋️
Garfield park conservatory 🌿
Newberry library 📚
Myopic / Quimbys 📖
Lula cafe 🥕
Hope that helps! If you’re looking for something specific happy to make more specific recs :0)
Mar 15, 2024
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I grew up in the city and finding quiet (and free) things to do made me fall in love with it.
Interior green belt loop (a lush walk under canopies of trees / blackberries)
Clipper Community garden (oasis of fruits and flowers and lemon)
theres a teeny garden by the Chaparral Country Corporation that is so sweet and filled with native plants. Gorgeous hidden spot with places to sit and think.
Hope someone enjoys these recs❤️
Aug 28, 2024
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Late news and weather on this one. A depraved little medieval tale about human behavior, society, class and faith, and all the cognitive dissonance and moral fantasy that comes with them. Loved it.
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