Category:
Music Venues
Neighbourhood: Mount Pleasant
Hidden away off Kingsway and 12th, the Biltmore Cabaret is the dream venue that almost never happened. With cheap beer and two bars to service any given night, loungey dining area style booths set up around the venue, a generously spaced dance floor…More »
Categories:
Music Venues,
Performing Arts
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Granville Entertainment District
The Orpheum is one of the only venues in Vancouver that you can hear the bands over the incessant chatter of the concert goers. If youre really interested in the music you dont need to express it by flailing your new moves in a crowd of sweaty…More »
One of the best dive-venues in town, if you're going for the right night/set of bands/etc. The dance floor is quite spacious on weekends, interrupted only by a support pillar. The booths on the outside corner of the venue can make for some intimate…More »
Category:
Music Venues
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Granville Entertainment District
This very secretive jazz venue is located on the granville strip, next to the clubs, and runs on a Friday night, when Granville st is packed with bros and hos getting their groove on. So what keeps it a secret when even the porn shops get a…More »
Categories:
Bars,
Music Venues
Neighbourhood: Queen Anne
This bar made a really fun Saturday night. I came from Vancouver for the weekend, met a lot of other people visiting who also decided this was the best place to be., met a few awesome people in the smoking patio, and started a ridiculous dance party…More »
Category:
Music Venues
Neighbourhood: Downtown Eastside
Amazing sound system, elevated seating and a stage front dance floor, in house light system and a bar during all-ages shows? How can you get a better concert experience than this?
There's a smoking section right by the door "separated" from the street…More »
Categories:
Music Venues,
Art Galleries
Neighbourhood: Downtown Eastside
Boasting 2 floors, a pool table, a dance hall, and an art space, the Chapel has taken what was once... well, who knows! And turned it in to a community space. Even if it is a new community to the area.
The live music doesnt sound so good due to the…More »
Category:
Music & DVDs
Neighbourhood: Riley Park
Neptoon has a huge selection of new and used vinyls, free and monthly music publications, and a very informative staff. Its a great place to catch a free show on occasion, if you can get in the door. They sell local concert tickets without any…More »
Categories:
Art Galleries,
Music Venues
Neighbourhood: Downtown Eastside
The GAM is a fun art-filled space in a little room on East Hastings. Often marked by the crowd of young smokers on the street outside and loitering in the display room out front, the events at the GAM are almost always local, inclusive, and cheap.
…More »
Category:
Bars
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Downtown Eastside
The Funky Winkerbeans is one of the cleaner dives on East Hastings. Their beer tastes and costs cheap and the tables smell of bleach, But the bar staff will remember you if you actually tip for your pint! Like most true dives, the regulars can be…More »
Categories:
Dance Clubs,
Music Venues
Neighbourhood: Downtown Eastside
The existence of the Honey Lounge is like a portal between two very different worlds of night life. Down one block the dives trash things up with old floors and older drunks, cheap beer and the occasional local gig. Up one block to Keefer and the new…More »
Categories:
Restaurants,
Music Venues,
Pubs
Neighbourhood: Downtown Eastside
Pats Pub is a bar known for it's willingness to host local and rockabilly music, but it's also host to the most interesting history of any venue in Vancouver. Almost a century ago, the bar and hotel was known as the Patricia Cafe, host to live jazz…More »
Categories:
American (New),
Dance Schools
Neighbourhood: Capitol Hill
I had so much fun stumbling upon this place late Sunday night. Hearing some jazz in the park across the street, I wandered over here thinking I was walking in to some private party. Realizing I had nothing to lose, I walked up the stairs to the left…More »
This was a very fun place to stop in for a drink after the super bowl. They had some snacks out for free and a pool table no one was using, and a full bar. Being from Vancouver, I've never seen a roof stuck with one dollar bills before, and the…More »
Playing jazz for the rich seems a staple nowadays, and with the "world renowned" cellar in Kitsilano, its no different. Their food and drink minimum and cover charge will make you wonder if perhaps jazz musicians are finally the most highly paid…More »
Categories:
Dive Bars,
Music Venues
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Gastown
Although open until 2 or 3 am all week, the bourbon is still a dirty bar with filthy, loosely clothed pool tables, a few ancient pinball machines, and a lot of domestic beer. Sunday to Thursday there are more staff than patrons on shift, although…More »
Category:
Music Venues
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Granville Entertainment District
The Commodore always seems to have as many security guards as patrons on any given night. The mandatory bag check is sort of obnoxious, especially if youre sitting for the event and dont want to have to wait in the huge line of people at the end of…More »
Category:
Dive Bars
Neighbourhood: Grandview-Woodlands
The Princeton only attracted my attention because of the new shows being billed here. They built up a stage against the train tracks and the place gets packed quickly, thanks in part to the talent and in part to the promotion work. The sound is hard…More »
Category:
Music Venues
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Granville Entertainment District
You might spot your dad here, if he's the kinda guy who likes to wear fedoras and plain leather jackets over a stevie ray vaugn shirt. It's a dark bar with some pool tables and over priced draft beer.
Conveniently, the Yale is located close enough to…More »
Pizza Pizza Pizza (9)Cheap and expensive pizza! |
Dive drinks (14)Cheap swill makes you feel ripped off paying $7 for a budweiser |
Dive Eats (33)Greasy food that gives your Wilfred Laurieate another run for Prime Minister! |
RECORD STORE DAY! (6)April 17th, 2010. One of my favorite annual holidays! |
Thrift Shoppin (7)Where Ive bought other peoples stuff! The reviews are not always accurate, but reflect the trends between the times ive been there. A thrift shop depends on its donations after all! |
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