Vancouver

Yaletown

Literally adjacent to BC Place, with False Creek waterfront restaurants, the Seawall for morning runs, and a concentration of good hotel options that put you within a 5-minute walk of the stadium gates.

Gastown

Vancouver's oldest neighborhood mixes heritage architecture, indie boutiques, and several of the city's most serious restaurants along a compact, atmospheric grid that rewards an evening walk before or after matches.

Kitsilano

Best for fans who want to decompress between fixtures — Kits Beach, English Bay swimming, and a cluster of good restaurants on West 4th Ave offer the most relaxed version of Vancouver, with the mountains as backdrop.

📍 Downtown / Canada Place waterfront

The pioneer of aburi sushi in Canada, Miku's flame-seared salmon oshi and spicy tuna rolls with a proprietary sauce are unlike any Japanese food you'll find outside Japan — the harbourfront terrace makes it the most atmospheric table in the city.

📍 Mount Pleasant / Main Street

Michelin-starred and ranked No. 28 in North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025, chef Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson's hyperlocal tasting menu draws on BC's extraordinary produce with a precision that has made it Vancouver's most acclaimed restaurant.

📍 Mount Pleasant / Main Street

Chef Andrea Carlson's Michelin-starred Moon Menus rotate entirely with BC's seasons — if you're visiting in late June or July, expect wild sockeye salmon, chanterelles, and stone fruit in configurations that feel both rooted and inventive.

📍 Main Street (or Richmond location)

The gold standard for Vancouver-style Cantonese cooking since 1988 — the roasted squab and live seafood tanks full of Dungeness crab and geoduck set it apart from the dozens of competitors.

📍 Chinatown

A beloved Chinatown fixture that modernizes Chinese bao and small plates without losing authenticity — handmade dim sum, inventive cocktails, and a warm, lantern-lit dining room that consistently tops Vancouver's best-loved lists.

A 10km paved loop through a 1,000-acre urban rainforest hugging the downtown peninsula — rent a bike and complete the circuit in 90 minutes, with views of the North Shore mountains, Burrard Inlet, and the Lions Gate Bridge at every turn.

A converted industrial site under the Granville Bridge that houses one of the continent's best covered markets — BC salmon, artisan cheese, fresh pasta, and local bakeries alongside craft studios and theatres, best on a weekday morning before tour groups arrive.

Arthur Erickson's breathtaking 1976 building houses one of the world's finest collections of Northwest Coast First Nations art — the Great Hall's 15-metre glass walls frame totem poles against rainforest, and the Bill Reid sculptures alone justify the 30-minute bus ride to UBC.

The first full-scale classical Ming Dynasty scholar's garden built outside China, hidden behind an unassuming wall in Chinatown — its winding paths, moongates, and koi-filled ponds are designed so no full view is ever visible at once, making it feel inexhaustibly surprising.

The only steam-powered clock in the world, whistling every 15 minutes on Water Street since 1977, is a gateway to Gastown's broader appeal: the Victorian brick buildings, cobblestones, and galleries make this the most atmospheric walk in downtown Vancouver.