Dates: November 21-24, 2018
Hot facts. Vancouver has the 5th highest population density in North America. This is probably why it’s used as a shooting location for so many movies and TV shows (including my beloved Arrowverse). It has a large Chinatown, and dense New York-like downtown, shipping ports, mountains, farms. Lots of cool stuff.
We stayed in Chinatown, but spent a lot of time in Gastown. (Though we did find three amazing places in Chinatown: The Union (a great Thai restaurant), Vegan Supply Chinatown (where we found some great GF and vegan jerky!), and Umaluma for some dairy-free gelato).
The best coffee we found was Revolver, though The Birds & and the Beets was a nice cafe with quality hipster food, and 49th Parallel Coffee had some great doughnuts and blue coffee cups.
Continuing on theme, though, the real highlights were the vegan food. We found MeeT in Gastown (and later MeeT on Main) and went there literally three times. There was another vegan restaurant, Chickpea, which R loved, but I was underwhelmed.
Fun fact, Vancouver seems like a Thanksgiving destination for Seattleites. No fewer than three of my coworkers ended up there at the same time we were (we only managed to meet up with one of them though). Heads up, though, the line into Canada is long. The line into the United States is actual insanity. We were there for three hours. That’s actually longer than the drive.