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Foodie Experiences
French-Indian Brasserie Night at Peya
Where Pondicherry's centuries-old French-Indian love affair lands in Hastings-Sunrise, with a coconut tequila chaser.
Foodie Experiences
Where Pondicherry's centuries-old French-Indian love affair lands in Hastings-Sunrise, with a coconut tequila chaser.
Peya is the restaurant that makes you feel slightly outcompeted by your own dinner. French technique and Indian spice have been in a committed relationship since the colonial era in Pondicherry, and frankly they've sorted things out better than most couples. Chef Ashwani Dabas runs the Hastings-Sunrise kitchen, plating tamarind-bright curries and rich French-inflected sauces in a wood-toned room flooded with natural light, the kind of space that photographs well and eats even better. The cocktail list runs masala-infused syrups and coconut tequila, which sounds experimental until your second one. The rabbit kebab is the dish to order, the Bronze at the 2026 Vancouver Magazine awards is the detail to mention casually when your date asks how you found this place, and arriving hungry is simply the homework.
