Georgia Straight’s “Best of Vancouver” is the best Vancouver “Best of” list. Running for 13 years now, the Best of Vancouver edition of this popular newpaper gives readers the Best of Vancouver in many categories. Some of the entries are funny, some strange and some make you wonder who voted!

Here’s are some of the better entries. For the complete list of the Best of Vancouver 2008, click here.

Best place to Pimp Your Ride

Best Public Make-Out Place

Best Reasons to Support A Code of Silence on the Bus

Best Free Wireless

..and many more if you go to the rest of the Best of Vancouver 2008, by clicking here.

The Blarney Stone Pub in Gastown, Vancouver, has been around for over 30 years. With its cheap beer prices and college student crowd, its one of the best places to see a bar fight in Vancouver. The bouncers are untrained and uneducated, the management is generally clueless and because it is always packed over capacity so everyone is anxious.

There are some great sightlines throughout this old Irish Pub in Vancouver. If you stand anywhere near the railing on the balcony, you’ll see at least 2-3 scuffles every Friday and Saturday. My girlfriends and I went there last year and saw some nastiness. Even the Manager got in to the mix and ended up getting slashed in the head with a bottle, causing blood to go splashing everywhere.

The fake line-ups they have are very long so go early and get a good spot. The band is pretty decent and there are some good looking students that go there, along with quite a few skids. You’ll have plenty to look at until people get liquored up and the frustations start to boil over.

I’m not sure what makes people want to fight at the Blarney Stone. Could be the huge fake line-up they have. Could be the bouncers that treat people poorly. Could be the dancefloor being so overcrowded that people get angry. Or, could it be the student mentality? Who knows but I know that out of the 20 or so times I’ve been there, I’ve seen a fight at least 15 times.

I can’t lie. It kinda excites me!

So if you are someone that enjoys watching(or maybe starting) a good ol’ fashioned bar fight, I suggest you check out the Blarney Stone Pub in Gastown. You’ll have a blast!

Directions to The Blarney Stone, Irish Pub, Vancouver.

While Vancouver is known for it’s amazing natural beauty and it’s friendly people, there is also a very dark side of Vancouver that many people don’t see. From crack heads to Heroin junkies, drunks to HIV and Hepatitis infected prostitutes, Vancouver has it’s share of nastiness.

So, if you are curious as to what these sort of people look like and how they live, there is only one place to see it all.

Main Street and Hastings Street in Vancouver is the epicenter of the drug and disease problem in Vancouver. No where else will you see such a concentration of junkies and crackheads. Day and night you will find hundreds of people scurrying around like rats, looking for a fix or for something to steal to buy some crack or Heroin.

For the safest viewing, stay in your car and drive slowly on Hastings Street, past Main street and then to Cambie Street. In those few blocks you will see things that will amaze you. Sketchy junkies searching the ground as if some magical crack fairy dropped some crack rocks for them, to people shooting up in dark doorways and you’ll even see drug deals going down.

For the really brave, walk along the street from Main to Cambie. It’s 4 blocks of Hell. You’ll be propositioned by whores and crack dealers every few steps and after you end your trip at Cambie Street, you’ll have a fresh appreciation for what you have in life!

One experience you will never forget if you are courageous enough…Dress in old ripped up clothes, put on a hat pulled down low and go hang out in front of the Carnegie Library at the corner of Main and Hastings. You’ll be amazed at the activity there at any time of the day. Drug deals, stolen goods, you name it…All happening right outside the Vancouver Police Station!!

Safety Tips

1. If you are driving to check out the crackheads and junkies, make sure to lock your doors and do not park. If you do, many will come to your window to ask you if you need anything. A great time to take close-up photos of the junkies, but don’t stay too long. They won’t appreciate photos being taken!
2. If you are walking, don’t walk alone. The more people the better and make sure you have a cellphone ready to dial 911. Also, try to keep an eye behind you
3. If you are walking, hide all jewelry. Rings, chains, watches or anything else shiny or valuable looking should be hidden.

Directions to Main and Hastings Streets in Vancouver

“Guide to Vancouver“

Vancouver tourist information centers, the Vancouver airport, the Vancouver hotels and other tourist hot-spots are filled with them. You have seen the web pages that want to help you discover Vancouver, but don`t really give you the low-down on the city. These so called “Vancouver Guides” aren’t really giving people that are looking for of a guide to the City of Vancouver, a honest interpretation of all the best that Vancouver, B.C. has to offer.

Best Vancouver Guide is going to change that.

We won`t just be posting about the tourist attractions that you’ll find in the regular Vancouver tourist guides. You know, the incredible Capilano Suspension Bridge or all the many exciting things you will see on Granville Island.

This guide to Vancouver will be about more than that. This guide to the city will give you a much more “cool” Vancouver guide, where you will find a wide variety of things to see and do when in Vancouver. Things that aren`t in your usual Vancouver guides.

Best Vancouver Guide is fueled by YOU and our email bin is wide open to suggestions. We want YOU to tell the world what you think is best about Vancouver

Send us a email and tell us what’s best about this incredible city. As long as your opinion doesn`t contain vulgarity or any sort of racist, sexist or just pain nasty comments, we`ll post it right away!

The best part?? Others can speak their minds, giving the people that are looking for some of the best that Vancouver has to offer, a much more honest opinion.

Need some ideas?? Here are some of the Best Vancouver posts we`ll be putting up. Once the posts go up, get in there and tell others how you feel, or, send us your own!We`re powered by the people and we like it!

Best places to get a deal when you dine out in Vancouver.
Best Vancouver Island camping spot.
Best places you won`t find on a Vancouver map.
Best Vancouver jobs to have in the summer.
Best Vancouver travel ideas for people that want to see odd things.
Best and nicest looking Vancouver restaurant staff.
Best spot to find some Vancouver sun in the winter.
Best craigslist Vancouver posts.
Best place go in Vancouver to make you appreciate what you have.
Best Vancouver Canuck memory.
Best places in Vancouver to smoke a joint and trip out on nature.
Best show in Vancouver.
Best Vancouver Hotel to film an adult film in.
Best North Vancouver store for slurpies in the summer.
Best time to go to the Vancouver aquarium and avoid big crowds.
Best Vancouver used car dealership.
Best Vancouver community college that isn`t a rip-off.
Best place to take a photo of Vancouver.
Best agency to deal with when it comes to apartment rentals in Vancouver.
Best restaurant for a romantic dinner in Vancouver.
Best times to go to Science World.
Best Vancouver hotels for pet owners.
Best Vancouver downtown hotel.
Best place to see the Vancouver skyline.
Best Stanley Park sight to see.
Best Vancouver school district to place to your child in.
Best Vancouver Sun Run training tips.
Best Vancouver web design company.
Best Vancouver web site.
Best Interior Designer in Vancouver.
Best Vancouver limousine company to rent from.
Best Vancouver airport hotel bartender.
Best Vancouver web cam sites

Give us a shout now and tell us about the Best of Vancouver!