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Hyper-Specific City Guide: Entertaining Those Couple-Friends From Culinary School

Consider this a checklist for how to entertain your Double Income No Kids couple-friends from culinary school who are eternally in the honeymoon phase the next time they're in town.

By the Editors /

This is part of our Ultimate, Hyper-Specific Vancouver City Guide, featured in the May 2024 issue of Vancouver magazine. We’ve created 25 unique personas and 25 unique itineraries to match. If this to-do list for ‘your culinary school friends’ isn’t helpful, perhaps one of the other 24 bespoke schedules will be. Explore them all here. 

doorway to a prestigious-looking cooking school

Remind them how they fell in love with a cooking class at The Dirty Apron ($190). While prepping lemon-sherry caramelized parsnips in the Vibrantly Vegan class, they’ll finally make plans to open their own restaurant. 540 Beatty St., dirtyapron.com

a dish of green broth and perfectly crusty bread on a table
Photo by Allison Kuhl

See if they can figure out how chef Mike Robbins delivers his incredibly detailed, thoughtfully executed, ridiculously filling tasting menu at AnnaLena for just $144. (There’s a reason he swept the 34th annual Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards.) 1809 W 1st Ave., annalena.ca

a wood-lined lounge with leather chairs

Count celebrities in the Gerard Lounge at happy hour. Sutton Place Hotel is a go-to for Hollywood visitors, but whether Bradley Cooper is there or not, they won’t be mad about negronis in the woods-and-leather back room of Boulevard restaurant. 845 Burrard St., suttonplace.com

More from the Ultimate, Hyper-Specific Vancouver City Guide here. 

the Editors

the Editors

The editorial team at Vancouver magazine is obsessed with tracking down great food and good times in our favourite city on earth. Email us pitches at [email protected].