SHY City Guide ~ Vancouver, Canada
Alright babies!
Welcome back to another Shy World city guide starting my 2025 travels off with a bang in the west coast! I began the tradition of traveling for my birthday this year by celebrating 28 in Vancouver with my childhood best friend Edyta! Edyta (Deet) and I joke we have a bicoastal friendship now since we grew up in the same hometown but now live on opposite coasts. I get Montreal on the east coast side and she gets Van in the west coast ~ princesses in our own cities.
Anyways Vancouver is my second favourite Canadian city filled with still citylife but lots of nature ~ beaches, mountains, forests, scenic views. There’s a big west coast healthy active lifestyle culture here and the city has some of the best asian food. Thank you to my best friend in the whole universe (inside joke) for always hosting me and sharing the best memories together. This time was truly one of a kind incredibly special and my favourite birthday i’ve had in a hot minute. We got to spend time with old friends and new friends, spend some quality time and just enjoy all the gems.
Our recs:
Dress up super cute, go out for a nice dinner, go get some drinks and go out dancing!! In this exact order
Cafe kitsuné for their ice oat strawberry matcha and walk around gastown
Neighbour womens had a very strict curation of cool pieces in their shop
Neighbour mens had a sick collection of books and magazines to collect
All studio reformer pilates at the Aritzia office was a good stretchy workout
Bar tartare was a perfect lil wine bar with some yummy bites
Monzo’s had some tasty smash burgers and milkshakes plus they’re open late
Sing sing had a great menu of like asian fusion sharing plates
Slice of life gallery for the absolute cutest vintage photo booth pics
Winter bear for the best shaved ice ever (there’s corn flakes hidden)
Cowdog kits for overall the most aesthetic cafe and some delicious matchas (how pretty does steph look?)
Breka bakery for literally all the pastries that you can dream of
Reformation kits!! this is the third store open in canada and dreamy
Old faithful in kits for the perfect curation of home goods/decor
Elio volpe for the most spectacular italian dinner with 12/10 service too
It deserves a second slide for the desserts, order olive oil ice cream
Maxine’s for delicious brunch in french bistro vibe (and they have matches if you collect like me)
Misako studio for literally the best japanese blowout and massaged hair wash
Mister ice cream for nitrogen smores dipped bars which were so unique
Joe fortes seafood house, go for happy hour 3-5pm and order gazillion oysters
Love,
Dovey + Deet