Every fall, the same thing happens: someone says 'we should go out more,' and then it's suddenly November and nobody has. Consider Monday, November 2 your chance to fix that. Davide de Pierro is at the Rio Theatre tonight, and a Monday plan has a quiet advantage: it isn't competing with a pile of weekend invitations, and the rest of your week starts with a story. Check the start time, eat beforehand, then go.
Here are tonight's two picks; choose the one that sounds most like the two of you.
Michelin-listed Main Street kitchen where Peru meets Tokyo and Canton: alpaca tartare, arroz con pato, and a pisco bar that hums until close.
Six or eight tables, Ethiopian art, and a tradition called gursha where you hand-feed each other, which is romantic on purpose.
Plush velvet, live jazz and a drinks menu named for literary icons, under the Hotel Georgia until 2am.
Named for chef Tushar Tondvalkar's mother and the Marathi word for poetry, Kavita's Ammakase tasting earns both meanings course by course.
Chef Angus An's Michelin-listed Kits room, where the family-style chef's menu builds to a chilli heat you will not see coming.
Pick one thing above and open its page: every idea builds into an hour by hour plan, timed against the venue's real closing hours and tonight's actual sunset. Or answer five questions and be handed the whole evening, built for exactly the 6pm version of you.
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2 live events are on today, listed in the carousel above and refreshed through the day. Below them: the late-night rooms that are great any night of the week.
The late-night picks on this page run past midnight: ramen counters, cocktail rooms, night markets in season. Each idea page shows the venue's hours.
Yes. Open any idea and tap Make my date plan: the planner respects tonight's actual closing hours, so it only chains stops that are still open.
The weekend pages carry the full Friday to Sunday slate: see Things to do this weekend and Weekend events, both reviewed daily. Daytime plans for today, including markets, matinees and free events, are on Things to do in Vancouver today.
