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As part of the 2024 Dine Out Vancouver Festival, Vancouver Foodster presents an extraordinary night of art, eating and drinking in Mount Pleasant. During the event, you will enjoy dishes, bites, and sips as well as get a chance to meet the artists, chefs, and discover more around the neighbourhood using a digital map passport as your guide.

VIP Experience

A special preview hour has been created for participants to learn how to make tamales by Mount Pleasant’s Tamaly Shop chef. In addition there will be a meet-and-greet with three Latin American artists exclusive to this VIP experience. The VIP ticket includes both preview hour and evening event to follow at 6 pm.

Participating restaurants and establishments include some of the Mount Pleasant’s best:

Tamale Shop
2525 Main Street, Vancouver
Specializing in house-made tamales and other Mexican eats and drinks, this wonderful eatery also features their own house-made Mexican baked goods that includes Concha and other Mexican breads. They also sell a variety of Mexican and other Latin American grocery items.

Maizal
2815 Main Street, Vancouver
Enjoy classic hand-crafted cuisine just like on the streets of Mexico. Enjoy gluten free dishes, real Mexican beverages and Maizal’s famous soft shell tacos.

Pizza Rubato Napoletana
561 W. Broadway, Vancouver
In addition to Neapolitan pizza, the rest of the menu features a selection of salads and various house made dips and desserts.

Chai Ghai
562 Granville Street, Vancouver
Vendor located inside the Art Studios

Kizzy’s Macarons
Vendor located inside the Art Studios

A few of the participating artists at Art, Eat & Sip include:

Lukas Lundberg
City Centre Artist Lodge
Unit: 208
Lukas Lundberg is a visual artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He is a painter with a muralist background, alongside of his work creating special effects for feature films. Lukas’ paintings often depict vibrantly coloured monochromatic portraits of people or wildlife with abstract elements. His artistic style utilizes high-contrast elements to emphasize the motive he chooses to paint, often using a complimentary colour to reflect warm and cold tones.

Mallory Donen
Studio 211
Mallory Donen is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh First Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of the Fraser Valley, and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Manitoba. Her art explores the intersection of digital art and embroidery through processes rooted in traditional craft passed down from generations of women in her family.

[Paulo OConnor]

Paulo OConnor
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio 225, directly under the rooftop City Centre neon sign
A rapidly emerging Vancouver Visual Artist, Paulo OConnor’s noted themes of layered communication and balanced detail emerge from his uncommon treatment of colour and typography across media including illustration, photography, paint, and soon, sculpture. Describing his works as simply compassionate expressions of life’s peripheries, Paulo credits his aesthetic to solo immersions in nature, a beloved grandfather’s lessons on conscious living, and years reconnecting people with wilderness as a marine biologist and outdoor guide.

Zandi Dandizette
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio 235
Zandi Dandizette is a nonbinary interdisciplinary New Media installation artist and cultural worker living and practicing on the Coast Salish peoples’ unceded lands known as Vancouver, BC. They have a BMA in Animation (2014) from Emily Carr University and likens their medium as space whether 2D, 3D, or 4D.

Watch for more restaurants and vendors here as they are announced closer to the event date.

Art, Eat & Sip Mount Pleasant

Tickets: $99 per person through January 24, 2024
VIP Experience: $149 per person (until sold out)
Ticket price includes tasting dishes, beverages and bites at each of the participating establishments on this self-guided tour throughout the evening.
Note: Ticket prices do not include Eventbrite fee and GST.

ALL tickets must be purchased in advance online and all sales are final. If you or your group are not able to attend, you will be able to transfer your ticket(s) to another person(s).

Participating restaurants. establishments and art studios subject to change. This is an all-ages event and everyone is welcome.

Event produced by CMI Chat Media Inc.