Kingyo Japanese Izakaya on Denman street has won many accolades in its short five year existence, including “Best Casual Japanese” Gold 4 years running at the Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, slipping to Silver for the first time in 2011. One visit to Kingyo certainly isn’t enough to get the full depth of the menu…
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Summer Festival Style For Guys
Coachella Music & Arts Festival has wrapped up and kicked-off to the summer festival season. If you haven’t already planned your summer’s festival festivities there’s still time. After deciding which festivals to attend, the next big item on the checklist will be what to pack. You need to be prepared for everything but still need…
The Fairmont Waterfront’s New Chef Introduces New Menu
In firsts for both The Fairmont Waterfront and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Dana Hauser has been appointed as the luxury brand’s first female Executive Chef, taking the lead at the hotel’s gourmet restaurant Heron’s West Coast Kitchen + Bar as well as overseeing banqueting, in-room dining and all food and beverage operations at the hotel….
The Flying Pig Yaletown
“nouveau Canadian Bistro” is how the team behind The Flying Pig describe their Yaletown eatery. The bustling restaurant is an assortment of seating arrangements, banquets for two, long tables for groups and high seats around the bar and along the street side windows add variety and make for a convivial atmosphere as groups of people…
Generic Surplus Footwear – Anything but generic
As we move into the first days of spring, Generic Surplus draws inspiration for the new season draws inspiration from how the cityscape changes with the transition from winter to spring’s warmer weather and longer days, and mixes the laid-back outdoor culture of 1960s Los Angeles with the cutting edge urbanity of 1970s New York…
Vancouver Fashion Week – Fall/Winter 2012 Kicks Off
Tuesday night, Vancouver’s fashion lovers came together at the chic Opus Hotel to help launch this season’s Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW). A full house of media, fashion designers, photographers, bloggers, trendsetters and followers of fashion were on hand as VFW Producer – Jamal Abdourahman and dignitaries but the ribbon to kick off the week of…
Get your bodywork done at Manscape Spa
“A spa from a uniquely male perspective” is the slogan at Manscape Spa and exactly the concept behind this one-of-a-kind men’s only spa in downtown Victoria. Located conveniently at the Victoria Conference Centre, the spa is designed with a masculine aesthetic – cool, crisp, clean but comfortable and calming. Continuing the masculine styling, the staff…