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Chef Steeve Raye makes a visit to Café Regalade seem like a trip to the French countryside.
Manager Jimm Darbyshire has added 10 taps of local craft beer at King’s Head Inn.
Café Régalade Brunch at Cafe Regalade is Kitsilano’s best kept secret. Chefs, discerning diners and Francophiles line up for the regional variations on French country breakfasts which embellish sunny side up eggs with savoury sides ranging from short ribs and chorizo to pearl onions, mushrooms and white beans. Generous portions and a talented chef take simple bistro fare from good to excellent. The dinner menu also tempts with all the wiles of Julia Child. Flawless beef bourguignon and duck a l’orange compete with tempting West Coast-inspired seasonal specials.
2836 W 4th, CafeRegalade.com
Golden Aura Organic Eatery Vegetarians have sought out Kitsilano since the Naam, Vancouver’s quirky 24/7 veg restaurant, opened in 1968. Skip the queue and head to Golden Aura Organic Eatery, the new kid which specializes in meatless cuisine 2.0. Owner Mahan Khalsa has curated an organic, vegan and often raw menu. Try her spin on pho: pho-ever soup with kelp, carrot and zucchini noodles in spicy black sesame miso. Linger over
Owner Mahan Khalsa wants the Golden Aura to be a temple for body and spirit. a wine glass of fresh-pressed Shiva’s nectar and a slice of avocado coconut pie while enjoying the uplifting vibes from the raised Moroccan-style seating. Khalsa is as serious about ambiance as she is about food; she intended Golden to be a temple for body and spirit.
2680 West Broadway, GoldenAura.ca
49th Parallel and Lucky’s Doughnuts Vince Piccolo, who brought single origin espresso and iconic Tiffany-green ceramics to the caffeine addicts on West 4th, isn’t one to rest on his laurels. 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters is moving down the block to bigger digs this June, increasing their 21-seat capacity to 90, including a spacious patio for people watching. The best bit? The hip, French retroinspired cafe has room for Piccolo’s other passion: Lucky’s Doughnuts. Lucky’s will make 15 wacky square and round doughnut varieties, such as crunchy PB& J and decadent apple bacon fritters, in-house daily.
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The King’s Head Inn Die-hard Kitsilano regulars resurrected the King’s Head Inn in December 2012 by boycotting the Wings franchise that replaced it. Now in its 40th year, give or take the dark patch, the King’s Head attracts a blend of old-timers, rowdy UBC students and partiers doing the Yew Street/Kits Beach circuit with an irresistibly cheesy neighbourhood pub atmosphere. Manager Jimmy Darbyshire is restoring the dark wood furniture where patrons love to carve their names. He’s added a 10 taps of craft beer, Buck Hunter and dirt cheap daily specials.
1618 Yew, TheKingsHeadKits.com
Waffle Gone Wild The sweet aroma of caramelized pearl sugar in a fresh Belgian Liège waffle is the most effective marketing ploy. Since its March opening, Waffle Gone Wild has taken off by luring in foot traffic and keeping them with their corrugated waffle goodness. You may think you have to choose between savoury (try black forest ham and and cheese) and sweet (we like banana Nutella), but stop waffling and have both.
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When O5 first opened, critics predicted a swift demise for the sleek specialist tea bar and boutique. Luckily, they were wrong. Owner and “tea hunter” Pedro Villalon obsessively sources terroir based tea far and wide from regions including China, Jamaica and the Himalayas. Try the sophisticated brews at the tasting bar before you shop. If you want the full experience, don’t miss the intimate fun at O5’s Tea + Spirits tasting events series which bring in the best Vancouver bartenders.
Leo Boutique is giving West 4th temples of chic, Gravity Pope Tailored Goods and Moule, stiff competition when it comes to dressing Kitsilano’s elite. The boutique has a competitive, unpredictable roster of exclusive brands such as Vancouver’s own wings + horns, Berlin-designed CLOSED, and Nudie Jeans organic Swedish-made denim. With an ambiance more Main Street than West 4th, Leo’s brought a refreshingly young undercurrent to Kitsilano retail offerings.
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As the artisan butcher craze rages on, Pete’s stands out for the in-shop service from Pete and the gang who are happy to advise on recipes. The brightly-lit, dinerstyle space leaves zero room for concern about sanitation. Their best offering? You can’t go wrong with any of the cuts of 45-day, dry-aged AAA grass-fed BC beef. If you find yourself too hungry to focus on decision making, grab Pete’s in-house sandwich, a rotisserie beef chuck roll that comes au jus, before you make the tough call.
As Kitsilano shoppers know, it’s nearly impossible to pass Stepback’s windows without pausing to admire old-fashioned schoolroom furniture, beautifully faded maps and globes, and apothecary accessories. It’s such carefully curated vintage, nearly every piece pleads “choose me.” Step into the void and emerge hours later with a bit of simple beauty, large or small, to embellish your home space.
2208 West 4th, O5Tea.com
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Owner Chris Switzer invites you to Stepback in time. All photos by Rob Newell except Café Regalade by Doug Shanks
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hen Rob Lewis arrived in Kitsilano as a young university grad starting his first job, the iconic beach was all about girls in bikinis. A decade later, the young father still makes a pilgrimage to the beach but now it’s because it has the best teetertotter in the city. It’s not so much that as he ages the neighborhood ages with him. Instead, it’s more that as he gets older and his interests change, the neighborhood reveals different parts of itself. Whereas before he wanted to know the best places to hang out until three in the morning, as a young father he wanted to know where he could get the best cup of coffee at seven in the morning as he pushed the stroller towards the beach. In February 2005, he did his first blog on Kitsilano.ca, the website he started as a “passion project.” (Today he’s also the president and editor of Techvibes.) He loved Kitsilano and wanted everyone to know why. He built it to a point where he hired Taraneh Ghajar Jerven as editor and she now has 10 regular contributors who are equally as keen to share their love and knowledge of the neighbourhood. Last July was their best month ever, with 37,000 hits. Just as Kits beach is a tourism magnet, the website has become a resource for tourists who want to know what they should do and see. It brings together the West 4th and West Broadway BIAs as well as the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce to highlight businesses and attractions. But one of the things that impresses Jerven the most about the website’s readers is how involved and committed they are. The website is a forum for
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sharing information as well as opinions. You can follow fascinating threads about whether Kitsilano moms are snobs to cycle-chic vs Lycra. “The residents are so well informed,” she says. And, as many people have learned — especially if they try to do something that isn’t quite Kits-y — they are not shy about saying what they think. “They’re vocal and their voice counts.” She uses the story about a popular pub named King’s Head as a a cautionary tale for other businesses. A neighbourhood institution, especially for university students, since 1973, the owner recently leased it to a chain, Wings. The independently minded neighbourhood responded by no longer going there. Last September it went back to being the King’s Head. “It’s hard if not impossible to make it a chainfriendly neighbourhood,” Jerven says. It’s because most businesses are independently owned that they can respond to what the community needs and wants. As a result, the businesses are as diverse as the people who live there. The neighborhood got its name from a Squamish family named Khatsahlano. In the 1800s, the beach was a popular getaway for both the city’s elite and its workers. In the 1970s, rents were low so it attracted a lot of artists and musicians, who found it an inspiring place to live. The proximity to UBC also made it popular with students. Today, the median income is $70,000 and it’s no longer an inexpensive place to live. But its lovely streets and real sense of community — Lewis loves that everything you could need or want is in walking distance — make it as much of a residential destination as a great-place-to-hang-out destination. We’ve asked Jerven, a regular contributor to WE Vancouver, to share some of her favourite places to eat and shop. Find her choices on pages 6 and 7.
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says Russ Davies, CEO of the Kitsilano 4th Avenue Business Improvement Association. West 4th Avenue has been a Vancouver shopping destination since 1923. The sewer system that needed replacing was 100 years old. Although the construction crews had to work around ancient tree roots and the 120-year-old street car tracks that still lie under West 4th, they kept the street open for shopping during the duration construction January to May 2013. The Kitsilano 4th Avenue BIA is celebrating the successful end of renovations with a street-wide shopping party May 25. Guests have the chance to win a $500 shopping spree. Other deals include $10 West 4th gift cards for $5 available at a booth at 4th and Yew Street, DJs and street performances, meter “fare-ies” paying down select parking meters, and in-store shopping parties. Find details on deals at Shopwest4th.com.
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KITSILANO Cover artist Nick Gregson wants to paint the entire city By Kelsey Klassen
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horeau wrote that the world is but a blank canvas to our imagination. City bylaws see it otherwise. Tough restrictions on public murals are the first of two reasons why our cover illustrator Nick Gregson started the Metro Vancouver Mural Project — a nonprofit that aims to pair local artists with donated wall space. The second is purely economic. “I really think that there are so many big blank walls in Vancouver. It’s just insane how much graffiti management spends on buffing — and then you get those white squares that are off, the tints not quite the same,” he smiles ruefully. Gregson, 28, has learned through experience that transforming walls with artwork (to a standard that taggers and graffiti artists will respect) is one of the best ways to prevent costly future vandalism. And the city agrees. To address the increasing issue of graffiti in Vancouver and
help keep the city beautiful, City Council reestablished the Integrated Graffiti Management Program in 2012. “While the focus has been on the repair of existing damaged murals, the City will be considering new murals in the near future. Murals have been shown to be an effective tool to prevent illegal graffiti and help to make City streets more vibrant,” says councillor Heather Deal, liaison to the City’s Arts and Culture policy Council. Gregson was recently hired by the owners of Bon’s to Gregson paint murals at two of their restaurants for that very reason. “When people have graffiti problems, the city hounds them to paint over it, and [the owner] said he was painting it every week.” The graffiti bylaw requires property owners to have graffiti removed within 10 days
of being served a notice from the City. But the city’s stance isn’t as hard-nosed as a street artist such as Gregson might perceive. The soft-spoken former construction labourer grew up next to the Leeside Tunnel skateboard park at Hastings and Cassiar, one those places in Vancouver where the artwork seems to be left alone by bylaw officers. The park was named in memory of Lee Matasi, an aspiring artist and skateboarder who was shot and killed in Gastown in 2005. According to Deal, while the city does not support any free or legal graffiti walls, there are more than 200 murals in Vancouver, whose artists were engaged through a variety of processes including ReStart (Restorative Justice through Art), working with community groups, working with the property owner, and/or working directly with staff. In addition to aesthetics, there is a secondary benefit to active mural programs: cities such as Chemainus and Vernon have embraced the practice to the point where their murals are now heavily touristed, create jobs, and their arts communities are
stimulated and thriving. Gregson, through his organization, has begun applying for mural grants in cities throughout Metro Vancouver, and aims to meet with Deal in the hopes of lobbying for more opportunities like that. The Emily Carr drop out, who suffers from dyslexia but says art just comes easily to him, is also working on projects in Port Moody, North Vancouver, Burnaby and Victoria. And on a recent trip to LA, he offered up a free mural on Craigslist and received more than 500 responses. The construction company he eventually gifted the mural to is planning to fly him back down to work on more developments. Back at home, Gregson has a show June 6 at the Leo Koo Gallery at W. 3rd and Burrard, entitled ‘Own Your Walls.’ Having recently been advised to raise his prices, this might be one of the last times you can get an original Gregson at the astonishingly low prices he has been selling his artwork for.
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African Breese: A social club for the nostalgic After travelling the world, a Vancouver man has returned home to help his family bring international foods to locals.
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itch Breese recently joined his family in opening a second location of African Breese — an international speciality store selling primarily South African packaged groceries and meats, as well as English, Italian, and local products. Originally from South Africa, Breese moved here with his family when he was 14 years old. He caught the travel bug after graduating high school and left to travel the world. Upon returning home, he decided traveling was his passion and departed once again, this time to work on luxury yachts from Europe to the Caribbean. There, he met his wife, got married, moved to Florida, and enrolled in helicopter school. Last year, after hearing that his parents were planning to expand their family business, Breese
African Breese owner Mitch Breese sells a range of specialty meats and fine ingredients for South African cuisine. Rob Newell photo.
returned home to help them fulfill their dream. The second store opened in December at 3654 West 4th Ave (near 4th and Alma), expanding from the first location on Marine Drive in North Vancouver. So far the response has been supportive. “Running a store in Vancouver, particularly a food store, is great,” says Breese. “Vancouver is a foodie town and anything new and exciting attracts people. Being an international store also allows me to take people “home” with a “taste” of their past. It’s almost a social club for the nostalgic.” Breese takes into account suggestions from customers on what to have in stock. Some of their most popular items include meats, such as the boerewors sausage, peri peri chicken, and biltong — a dried, spiced strip of beef. There are also ‘the every day products,’ as Breese
calls them: the rusks, which are cookies for dipping in your tea, and chutney. “It’s what we grew up with — it’s the stuff we can’t live without.” The area has been great for business, adds Breese. While it’s quiet, there is a lot of foot traffic and plenty of free parking. As the area is also a popular region for South Africans, the family took special care to decorate the store in a way to make people feel at home, from the music to the carvings. “It just takes you back,” says Breese. “It’s a social hangout for people. People will come in, meet other South Africans and talk for hours.” Next, African Breese will be launching an online store that will offer delivery in the Greater Vancouver area and shipping throughout North America.
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KITSILANO Khatsahlano music fest outdoes itself 10 blocks. 50 bands. One giant street party on West 4th that gets bigger every year By Kelsey Klassen
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ood things have a gravitational pull. The Khatsahlano festival, much like its home ‘hood Kitsilano, could never stay quaint and small with the quality of programming drawing in heavier talent each year. Grant McDonagh, owner and founder of Zulu Records, has watched West 4th Ave. slowly develop from its laid-back ‘70s vibe (a Saturday traffic jam would run a mere city block) to a major retail and tourist destination since he opened the store in ‘81. Khatsahlano grew much faster. In only its third year, McDonagh, Russ Davies, executive director of the Kitsilano 4th Ave BIA, and brand.LIVE have recruited more hands on deck to share the load of planning the July 13 festival. Khatsahlano was born in 2011 out of the idea of keeping a street festival like Kits’ short-lived Hippie Days festival going, but in a more contemporary direction. “West 4th does have a history, but at the same time it’s continuing on. There’s still a lot of very creative people here and businesses that support the arts, to say the least. And there are a lot of good bands. That’s where [Zulu] stepped in, recommending the bands,” says McDonagh. The new formula worked. Last year, 80,000
Zulu Records’ Grant McDonagh (left), one of the founders of the Khatsahlano festival, welcomes the planning input of Danny Fazio and the Arrival team this year. Rob Newell photo people took to the streets to enjoy the one-day party and everybody wanted more art, more music, more fun. So one month after the Waldorf Hotel closed, the organizers reached out to Arrival, the new agency made up of the team behind the Waldorf, to join forces to make Khatsahlano bigger than ever. “I’d been to Khatsahlano before and got the feeling that you get every once in a while in Vancouver — that this is a great thing” says Arrival’s Danny Fazio. “We sat down with Russ and Grant and really felt a kinship with them. We think we can make this the best day of the summer if we all work together.” The guys are pretty tight-lipped about what they have planned for this year, but one thing they have green-lighted for print is a show called ‘This Happened Here’ — all work related in some way to Vancouver. It’s to take place in a village of moving containers and participants include Paul Wong and On Main Gallery, The Vancouver Museum, photographer Bev Davies, animator Marv Newland and poster artist Bob Massey. On May 15 at 6:30pm, the festival lineup, which includes 20 bands from the Peak Performance Project, will be announced at a free party at Zulu Records (1972 W. 4th), followed by performances by Gal Gracen and No Sinner.
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Same flash, less Bastard Danny Fazio, former bassist for Vancouver punk band Flash Bastard and current brand and design director for Arrival, still has some antics up his sleeve By Kelsey Klassen
move back to Vancouver, then, because a Google search now shows 1.2 million hits for ‘Danny Fazio.’ Fazio teamed up with buddies Thomas Anselmi, Scott Cohen, Ernesto Gomez and a biomass of Vancouver creatives in 2010 to create the “cultural hub in the middle of nowhere” that was the Waldorf Hotel. Two years later, the property owners sold the venue to condo developers, and, unable to secure a new lease, the team was forced to take their creativity elsewhere. Devastated at first, Fazio and his business partners now see the loss as an opportunity to reach wider and aim higher. They quickly founded the Arrival Agency, stepping up to help Grant McDonagh and Russ Davies program the Khatasahlano festival, and teaming up with The Rickshaw’s David Duprey and The Narrow’s Rachel Zottenberg to retrofit the Fox. It’s like watching a glimmering star supernova. They even count the City of Vancouver among their supporters. But they still need a liquor licence for the Fox, which is a provincial thing (and notoriously sticky). “We’ve got the space. No matter what happens, we’re going to do something there.” Great bars equal a great arts
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ompared to his tenure as a bassist with Flash Bastard (a 90s Vancouver punk band that embraced rumours of sexual acts on stage and was kicked off a Mötley Crüe tour for being too wild), Danny Fazio’s present engagement — helping transform the Fox porn theatre into a live music venue — is positively back page news. I first heard Fazio’s name in 2010, in connection with the newly minted Waldorf Hotel. Having been in junior high during Flash Bastard’s heyday, I would not have known of his colourful past, except that he chuckled during our phone interview about gracing the cover of the Westender once. (Cue a trip to the archives, seeing him in belly-baring leopard print.) Yet in a 2011 Rockstar Weekly report, a writer had lightly researched what the various bandmates were doing after their break up, and could only cobble together, “Danny...well, he obviously has a life outside, because his Internet presence is almost non-existent save for a mention that he moved to Toronto to start an art gallery.” Thank goodness he decided to
scene — an observation Fazio made watching the arts culture creep (and then explode) along Dundas and Ossington during his two years in Toronto. “A lot of people don’t get that culture is being facilitated by alcohol sales. It’s not that we want to get people blind drunk; we want to be able to put on events, and make money selling alcohol to put on more events.” So there’s the all-new Fox Cabaret to look forward to in the fall. And Arrival made sure to lock down their lease terms this time. “We’re sick of losing our cultural spaces. We’re in a constant squeeze here because real estate prices drive a certain type of development, liquor licence laws are antiquated, and great cultural spaces — specifically live music venues — often get shut down and they’re not replaced. They’re not renewable resources. When we lose beautiful theatres, we’re not going to get those kind of spaces back. No one is going to build a Pantages Theatre in 2013. No one is going to build a Richards on Richards. We lose the venues, we lose them for good.” And while the mere whiff of the future Fox quickly got fans of Fazio and co. excited (except for the
Before he was programming events at the Waldorf Hotel, Danny Fazio was gracing the cover of our newspaper with his notorious punk band, Flash Bastard (that’s him on the right). Now he and his business partners are turning Vancouver’s last porn theatre into a live music venue, and working with the Khatsahlano festival. dubious stars of the #SaveTheFox video campaign), one can’t help but wonder if Flash Bastard will make just one more appearance, for old time’s sake, once the worn
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Michael Des Cotes is the manager and baker at Benny’s Bagels in Kitsilano. The café also offers beer and an open mic on Monday nights, giving it a pub and music space personality. Doug Shanks photo
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or the last eight years, Benny’s Bagels manager and baker Michael Des Cotes has had the same bagel every day. “I like the poppy seed bagel with plain cream cheese,” he says, leaning over the table at the Kitsilano cafe. “I had one of those every day for the eight years I worked here. “That’s a disgusting amount of bagels and cream cheese,” he continues with a laugh. On weekends, Des Cotes and the Benny’s team will bake up to 700 bagels for hungry customers and during the week, they produce slightly fewer — up to 500 bagels. When Des Cotes comes into the work at six in the morning, the first thing he does is start boiling water. “The bagels get boiled, then they get dunked in a cold-water bath,” Des Cotes explains. “The boiling activates the yeast, kind of poofs them up, and that what gives our bagels their chewy crunchy texture. Then we seed them if they need seeds and they go into the pans and they bake on our rotating slate oven.” On weathered, wooden tables and in wrought iron chairs, under the gaze of a stained-glass Jesus, customers eat bagels that are prepared in
a vast range of creative, honest ways. From breakfast bagels to chicken sandwiches to nacho bagels to Caesar salads with bagel croutons, Benny’s takes advantage of the quality blank canvas that is a fresh bagel, creating dishes that are unique and simple with fresh ingredients. “We’ve developed a bit of a cult following,” Des Cotes says. “In the morning, I can name half to three-quarters of the people who come in here. I’ve met the children of people who came in here as students — that’s pretty cool. It’s intergenerational.” With reasonably priced beer on tap, an open mic on Mondays as well as quality coffee and tea to choose from, Benny’s Bagels is as interfunctional as it is intergenerational, constantly shifting from café to breakfast diner to pub to live music space. So does Des Cotes get offended when a customer calls a bagel a donut? “Well, they are very, very different,” he says with a laugh. “But no, I don’t get offended.” He pauses for a second to rethink his answer. “No, I’m not an elitist — I don’t mind,” he says with a smile.
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