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Atmospheric Granville Street. (Tourism Vancouver/Nelson Mouellic)
Located in the heart of Vancouver, Granville Street is considered the city’s main entertainment district. Lined with countless restaurants, bars and nightclubs whose neon signs spark to life as darkness falls, the strip pulses with activity during weekends. As a main thoroughfare, Granville Street is easy to get to, whether your pleasure lies in shopping by day or shimmying on the dance floor at night.
Sourced from Cibo
This time of year marks a shift in our eating preferences towards food with more robust, earthy flavours.
Cibo Trattoria and its sister establishment, UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar, are ushering in the change in seasons with a new executive chef, Curtis Luk, and new menus that showcase their accessibly sophisticated take on Italian cuisine.
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Cibo’s New Executive Chef, Curtis Luk, Launches Fall and Thanksgiving Menus
The following article was submitted by Tourism Vancouver staffer, Sonu Purhar.
Fancy infusions, liquid nitrogen and inventive ice… these days, it’s par for the course to find your coupe filled with a (damn delicious) work of art – but let’s not forget from whence they came. Yes, I’m talking about The Classic Cocktail.
As with any historical certainty, no one is certain when and where the cocktail originated. What we can agree on is that these stimulating brews traditionally consisted of spirits, sugar and bitters. By the mid-1800s, liqueur had joined as the fourth horseman. And shortly thereafter, the first genuine “cocktails” were born, including our friends the Sazerac, Old Fashioned and Manhattan. If it weren’t for these forerunners, you’d be sipping on bitter bathtub gin.
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Elegant and Intoxicating: An Ode to Classic Cocktails in Vancouver
