FEAST | Dine Out 2019 x Coquille Fine Seafood x Gastown

Gastown—(January 10, 2019) After the new year, we are now fully ready and in the mode of the sixteenth annual Dine Out Vancouver Festival with its many set menu options. Last week, on the first-stop of our Tourism Vancouver restaurant tour, we were treated to the still newish downtown shellfish eatery Coquille Fine Seafood to sample their various three-course prix fixe dinner ($45) items.

KAFFE | Iktsuarpok Coffee Stand x Downtown Eastside

Downtown Eastside—The tiny, shiny, and new Iktsuarpok Coffee Stand utilizes its compact but bustling 183 square foot to go space and location to serve some precisely brewed coffee.

BEERFEST | Funky x Electric Bicycle Brewing x Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant—One of Vancouver's newer and definitely funkier craft breweries, Electric Bicycle Brewing's tasting room has quietly made itself a standout in the crowded beer scene with its uniquely original attitude inside and out of its industrial and well-populated Brewery Creek neighbourhood.

CINEMA | Top 10 Films of 2018

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) The Favourite * (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

2) Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)

3) Vox Lux * (dir. Brady Corbet)

5) Support the Girls (dir. Andrew Bujalski)

4) Wildlife (dir. Paul Dano)

6) If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins)

7) Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

8) Thoroughbreds (dir. Cory Finley)

9) You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay)

10) First Reformed (dir. Paul Schrader)

CINEMA | Paul Dano Tames the 'Wildlife'

"Well, ain't this a wild life, son?"

Actor turned filmmaker Paul Dano makes his directorial debut adapting author Richard Ford's 1990 novel. Focused on an emotionally distant married couple and their teenage son, Wildlife proves to be such a remarkable, lovingly-made American slice of life period drama.

CINEMA | Barry Jenkins Dreams 'If Beale Street Could Talk'

"Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street."

Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins sensuously adapts renowned author James Baldwin's hopeful but devastating and undeniably romantic 1974 African-American novel, If Beale Street Could Talk. A heart-wrenching portrayal of true love in the face of racial injustice, it's a luminous yet soulful portrait of emotions told with a historical breadth and the literary sophistication of 1970s Harlem.

KAFFE | Coffee Break x Small Victory Bakery x South Granville

South Granville—Fresh bread and coffee purveyor Small Victory Bakery's very bright and shiny second location in its ritzy neighbourhood is a spacious cavern of stylish baked goods.