Cozy & Intimate
Yokai Tapas & Sake Bar
Dim light, a sake flight, and small plates you have to negotiate over, which is how a low-key izakaya date runs three hours.
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Dim light, a sake flight, and small plates you have to negotiate over, which is how a low-key izakaya date runs three hours.
More infoGrill It Yourselves at Gyubeeinteractive
fun
shareable
Grill It Yourselves at Gyubee
All-you-can-eat yakiniku where you grill prime beef together on a two-hour clock, and 13,000 reviewers agree it was worth the lineup.
$$$ · 2h
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Apothecary Cocktails at The Keefer Barintimate
low lit
speakeasy feel
Apothecary Cocktails at The Keefer Bar
Chinatown's apothecary bar where the cocktail menu is literally called Remedies and Cures.
$$$ · 2h
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Wine Bar at Is That Frenchintimate
candlelit
wine
Wine Bar at Is That French
Minimal-intervention BC wine, lamb tartare, and a Gastown alley that does half the romantic heavy lifting.
$$$ · 2h
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Float Side-by-Side at HÄLSA Spaserene
intimate
restorative
Float Side-by-Side at HÄLSA Spa
Float weightless in body-temperature saltwater side by side in W 4th's most serene, screen-free double room.
$$$ · 2h
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Wine and Vinyl at Bar Gobointimate
listening bar
vinyl
Wine and Vinyl at Bar Gobo
A 25-seat Strathcona wine bar with an all-vinyl hi-fi setup and a Michelin Plate, because Tuesday needed an occasion.
$$$ · 2h
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Omakase at Sushi Bar Maumiintimate
omakase
counter seating
Omakase at Sushi Bar Maumi
Seventeen seats, one sitting, Edo-style nigiri piece by piece, and your phone face-down all night. Michelin-recommended and books out fast.
$$$$ · 2h
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Natural Wine at Grapes & Sodaintimate
natural wine
low lit
Natural Wine at Grapes & Soda
Vancouver's first natural-wine bar, a tiny bare-bulb Kitsilano room built for organic pours, premium sake, and losing track of time.
$$$ · 2h
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Occult Cocktails at Arcana Spirit Loungeintimate
speakeasy
occult
Occult Cocktails at Arcana Spirit Lounge
Enter through a Gastown pet psychic storefront; emerge in a velvet, candlelit tarot-bar that's theatrical without being embarrassing.
$$$ · 2h
Open this idea →Yokai is the dim, moody end of Richmond izakaya: a sake flight, a short list of small plates, and lighting that flatters everyone. You order in waves, negotiate the last piece, and look up to find it has been three hours. It is the anti-food-court, a room built for talking, and it lands the rare Richmond note of intimate rather than efficient.
