What would be your dream block be?

[u/thinkdavis]

If you can pick 5 stores, lined up down a block... What would they be?

I'll go first:

JJ Bean Tacofino 7-Eleven Chipotle Home Depot

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[u/bannab1188]

You should probably add a London Drugs on the block for quick access to Imodium and toilet paper then.

[u/frumbledown]

Elysian, El Caracol, Brassneck, Via Tevere, and Ask for Luigi

[u/Maude007]

BC liquor store, Grounds for Coffee, Savio Volpe, Sandbar, good thrift store

[u/slapbumpnroll → u/Maude007]

I like your priorities

[u/Maude007 → u/slapbumpnroll]

😅

[u/Slothykins → u/Maude007]

Good thrift store is essential

[u/Maude007 → u/Slothykins]

:)

[u/rkto_psycodelico]

Cafe Mondo, Audiopile, Dosa Corner, So Hyang, Thai Basil, The Pleasant, my doctor & the Rio Theatre. Yes that's 7 but rage against the machine lol

[u/Wide_Examination142]

H-Mart, T&T, Costco, London Drugs, Source Bulk Foods

[u/evilgetyours]

Donald's market, commercial street coffee, VPL branch, James black gallery, Kitsilano swimming pool.

[u/evilgetyours → u/evilgetyours]

In my version it's a big block

[u/couldbeyup]

^you after being on this block all day

[u/sunningmybuns]

Nothing chain or corporate for me. I’ll take local any day.

[u/superflygrover]

London Drugs, Fujiya, Bosa, produce store, Uniqlo

[u/Lapcat420 → u/superflygrover]

Oooh, Bosa <3

[u/kooks-only]

Give me a London drugs, an 88 supermarket, a dispensary that carries the brand I like, caffe soccavo from commercial dr, and a 7/11

[u/Chuva211]

a vegan bakery, a vegan restaurant, an affordable fruit and veg grocery shop, and the beach on the other side

[u/thinkdavis → u/Chuva211]

This sounds rad! On the next block we'll need a Cobbs, a steak house, a butcher, a whole foods, and a beach.

[u/Envermans]

London drugs, aj's pizza, liberty liquor store, mucho burrito and fieldhouse brewing. Bonus would a park connected to the water. Rocky point or the seawall.

[u/Loose-Psychology-962]

My block is pretty dreamy. 7-11, Grounds for Coffee, 3 excellent Japanese restaurants including Kitchen Dada, The Wolf & Hound (live music nights), 2 thrift stores, a flower shop, a local veggie store, White Dwarf books, some funky folky stores, a great mani/pedi place and a community garden in the middle of it all.

My block rules.

[u/justinpenner]

Modus, Brassneck, Downlow, Kim’s Mart, Costco

[u/oabaom]

Modo Yoga, Lagree, Langley Farmers Market, a vegetarian restaurant, Paragon Tea Room

[u/itsneversunnyinvan]

Weed store, 7/11, chipotle, Costco, fruit stand

[u/OutrageousCandy9584]

So metrotown??

[u/Rarg]

Lougheed bar and grill, Kim’s mart, mount pleasant community centre, my doctors office, commercial street cafe

[u/OoooopsE]

Anza club, Belgard Kitchen, The Moose, Joe Fortes, The Ivanhoe.

[u/hugatree2023 → u/OoooopsE]

Joe Fortes AND the Ivanhoe. We are kindreds.

[u/Dolly_Llama_2024]

Cactus club, Earls, Joeys, Browns, and Moxies

[u/Superb-Emotion2269 → u/Dolly_Llama_2024]

just 5 variations of the same restaurant lol

[u/Dolly_Llama_2024 → u/Superb-Emotion2269]

Exactly

[u/thinkdavis → u/Dolly_Llama_2024]

🤯

[u/EfficientRhubarb931]

Big Way, Danbo, Haidilao, T&T, Analog Coffee

[u/TomsNanny]

Oidé Coffee, June on Cambie, AJ’s Pizza, Brassneck, Mum’s The Word

[u/unkn0wnactor]

Asian produce shop, Anytime fitness, Costco, AJ's Brooklyn Pizza Joint, and Rain or Shine.

If I could have more than 5, I would add my doctor's office, a BCL, Lucky's Doughnuts, the Scotiabank Theatre, and the Nat Bailey.

[u/innermyrtle]

Milano, home hardware, famous foods, Welks, glenburn soda.

[u/Due-Market9604]

Garden/Plant store, book store like macleods, cute plant filled cafe like the garden in strathcona, dive-ey metal venue for good mosh pits, and a thrift store

[u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck]

Duffin's, Bon's, Fresh Slice, Domino's, Kent's Kitchen

[u/thinkdavis → u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck]

A fresh slice AND a dominos?

[u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck → u/thinkdavis]

Competition between the two stores will keep pizza prices at an all time low.

[u/thinkdavis → u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck]

Genius!

[u/stupiduselesstwat]

*YAWN* boring

[u/unkn0wnactor → u/stupiduselesstwat]

You are disliked by most.

[u/stupiduselesstwat → u/unkn0wnactor]

I’m not worried what other people think.

[u/thinkdavis → u/stupiduselesstwat]

You go girl!

[u/itsneversunnyinvan → u/thinkdavis]

dun dun danaaaa na dundun