Koolfest Summer Drink Festival

A Top Chef alum runs the griddle at this pastel 1950s room on Pemberton, where the coin-tiled floor was laid by hand and the milkshakes are still spun to order.

The cult Belgian brewery on Thunderbird Crescent where national-medal sours and golden tripels await anyone clever enough to find it.

A 38-seat binchotan counter where the chef hands the roll straight across, still warm, and the nori is still crackling.

Vikram Vij's legendary modern Indian room, where the wine-marinated lamb popsicles have been redefining romance since the '90s.

Doors at 7am, a glass roof over the Fraser, and thirteen kinds of eggs benedict at the only Dutch breakfast room in the region.

West Coast seafood and a marina-view patio at the toe of Horseshoe Bay, two minutes from the ferry ramp.

Climb the Robson staircase into a golden room where a six-foot wood grill has been perfuming everything since noon.

The only dinner where eating with your hands from the same plate is not just allowed, it's the whole point.

Crispy, forearm-length dosas and midnight filter coffee until 3am, for the night that isn't over yet.

Tsawwassen's own coffee house and licensed bistro, scratch-baking since 2012 and open at 7am for breakfast sandwiches and a properly pulled espresso.

Four breweries on one walkable block in Port Moody: start hoppy at Yellow Dog, end by the fire pit at Brave.

Lantern-lit West End izakaya where the sake list rewards bravery and stone-grilled beef keeps arriving until you've forgotten your plans.

A thirty-year-old Richmond warehouse hung with classic records and old instruments, serving crab cake bennies and waffles from 8am, seven days.

Six or eight tables, Ethiopian art, and a tradition called gursha where you hand-feed each other, which is romantic on purpose.