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🍜 Restaurants – Casual

Tacofino – Fish Tacos

£ ⏱ 30–45 mins ☂️ Rainy day

💡 Vancouver cult favourite that started as a food truck in Tofino. Fish tacos and burritos. Granville Island and Gastown locations most central.

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🍜 Restaurants – Casual

Bao Bei – Chinese Brasserie

££–£££ ⏱ 1.5–2 hrs ☂️ Rainy day 📅 Booking needed

💡 Modern Chinese brasserie in Chinatown. Dim sum-inspired small plates with excellent cocktails. One of Vancouver's most interesting restaurants.

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🍜 Restaurants – Casual

L'Abattoir – Gastown

£££ ⏱ 2 hrs ☂️ Rainy day 📅 Booking needed

💡 Gastown's best restaurant. French-inflected Canadian cooking in a converted 1906 building. Cocktail programme is excellent.

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🍜 Restaurants – Casual

Ancora – Waterfront Peruvian-Japanese

£££–££££ ⏱ 2 hrs ☂️ Rainy day 📅 Booking needed

💡 Nikkei cuisine (Peruvian-Japanese fusion). Waterfront patio on False Creek. Ceviche and tiradito are outstanding.

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Hidden gem
🍜 Restaurants – Casual

The Naam – Vegetarian

£–££ ⏱ 1–1.5 hrs ☂️ Rainy day

💡 Vancouver's oldest vegetarian restaurant, open since 1968. Unpretentious, hearty, and good value. Open late.

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