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Robson Street Vancouver BC – 8 Best Things to Do

Vancouver is one of the most beautiful places in Canada, you can do a lot of things in Vancouver, but do you know that, you can also do a lot of exciting things at Robson Street Vancouver BC?

Robson Street is a very busy place as well as a very beautiful and colourful road downtown. Granville Street is located to the east of Robson Street and Jervis Street is located to the west.

1. Top 8 Things to Do in Robson Street Vancouver BC 

Robson Street is very popular and also the oldest street in Vancouver. Robson Street is formerly known as Robsonstrasse

Robson Street is a very wonderful place to visit and here you can find a lot of shops, dining to drink at, desired boutiques, fancy cocktail bars and chain restaurants

On one side of Robson Street you will find BC Place Stadium, on the other side you will see Stanley Park, and most importantly the popular shopping precinct lies in between Robson Street.

As it lies in the middle of downtown Vancouver at a certain time you will see yourself walking beside the local people.

Some of those people are on their way to the office, while some are going to watch the game and some students standing and lining outside the noodles shops.

1.1 Visit The Daniel Le Chocolate Belge

If you are a chocolate lover then Daniel Le Chocolate Belge is a perfect place for you. They produce fine quality of taste and yummy chocolates.

A very interesting thing about their chocolate is they don’t use any artificial way to prepare it.

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Screenshot from Daniel Chocolates

This is one of the finest chocolate producers in British Columbia. Their chocolate is very famous all around Vancouver.

You can visit there and can buy various designed chocolate boxes filled with tasty chocolate, chocolate bars with some customization and yummy pastries.

You will get various types of chocolates, that are flavoured with a mojito, wasabi, maple and much more. The special menu of Daniel’s is a kirsch box that contains a cherry and a taste chai vanilla truffles box.

1.2 The Mind Freshen Jugo Juice

The taste of this Jugo Juice is too yummy. If you test it once you will never forget the taste for the rest of your life. Don’t forget to taste this yummy thing during your visit to Robson Street.

The Jugo Juice prepares fresh and squeezed juices and mouth-watering smoothies. These are produced to be healthy and full of vitamins a good alternative to quintessential fast food.

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Screenshot from Jugo Juice

Besides all these smoothies you will also get many more creamy smoothies like bliss smoothies, and super smoothies.

These smoothies are prepared by combining four types or more than four types of fruits or hip veggie smoothies. Recently, a new kind of green squeezy juice is introduced by them named Kale Aid.

The Kale Aid is prepared by mixing Kale, apple, celery ginger, lemon and spinach. Here you will also get sandwiches, wraps and snacks apart from juices and smoothies.

1.3 Visit The Canadian Crafts

Canadian Crafts is a very big souvenir shop. In this souvenir shop, you will get various kinds of items and products.

If your motive is to buy a good gift for your friend or anyone else then this place is best for you.

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Screenshot from Canadian Crafts

Here you can buy top-class and amazing Canadian thematic gifts. You will get a very big collection of clothes, mugs, key chains, postcards posters as well as maple syrup bottles.

You can also get products such as gorgeous paintings and the First Nations’ artwork.

1.4 Take a Tour To The Seafood and Chop House of Joe Fortres

At the very corner of Robson Street and Thurlow Street, you will see the Seafood and Chop House of Joe Fortres, as well as their beautiful roof garden Café.

The Joe Forters is a very amazing and special restaurant on the corner of these two streets. It is also an award-winning restaurant.

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Screenshot from Joe Fortes

The restaurant is named after a triumphant bartender. The bartender was settled in Vancouver Robinson Street in the 19th century.

The specialty of this restaurant is its classic American cuisine and the food products of the Pacific Northwest.

The varieties of menu offered by them are lunch and brunch, dinner, late night and taste desserts. If you visit Robson Street then make sure to go to Joe Fortres, otherwise, you will regret it later.

1.5 Visit the Robson Square

Robson Square is located at the downtown core of Vancouver. It is an urban oasis as well as the location of UBC campuses. Robson Square also hosts many sports events and cultural exhibitions.

The place also hosts salsa classes, an ice rink of artistic installations as well as street performers. Here you will also find various street foods, juices and much more.

Robson Square is also the abutting place of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

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Screenshot from Robson Square

1.6 A Trip to Victoria’s Secret Shop

A very large and beautiful shop on Robson Street is Victoria’s Secret shop. When you see at the corner of Burrard Street and Robson Street you will see this shop. It covers near about half of the block.

This shop attracts customers because of its elegant awesome designs as well as with pink-black display. Products that are available in this shop are lingerie, underwear, pyjamas and swimming costumes.

If you go to the gym, then you can also buy your gym clothes here. Sweet-smell fragrances are also available here.

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Screenshot from Victoria’s Secret

1.7 Dine at an Indian Restaurant

If you are an Indian and you are looking for some Indian food in Robson Street, then go to Spicy 6. It is a complete Indian Restaurant here you can get popular Indian dishes such as Mustard Chicken Tikka, Tandoori Prawn, Malai Tikka, etc.

The chef of Spicy 6 comes here from India, Delhi. Except for these Tandoori dishes you can also enjoy other cooking curries with some Indian spices.

The Spicy 6 is also very good for vegetarians, you can have a lot of vegetarian dishes. The Spicy 6 shows the world-famous fine international cuisine of Vancouver.

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Screenshot from Spicy 6

1.8 Watch a Game at BC Place Stadium

Add the BC Place Stadium of Robson Street to your things-to-do list. Beginning from the east end of Robson Street, you will see sports fans will go to visit BC Place Stadium.

The Stadium of BC Place is the home ground of two big clubs that is BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps, which participate in the North American Football League which is popularly known as MLS

If it is not a matchday, then you must visit the BC Sports Hall of Fame. It is housed inside the stadium along with great galleries like the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the professional team of the city and the heroes of the hometown such as Terry Fox.

You can see the sculptural tribute given to Terry Fox just outside of the stadium on the plaza. Go west along Robson and have a short walk and you will pass the Coliseum of the city.

The Coliseum includes Vancouver Public Library. After that, continue walking toward the iconic Vancouver Art Gallery. This iconic Vancouver Art Gallery is a part of Robson Square.

Right under the street, you will see a covered event space. This space hosts events like ballroom dancing during the summer evenings as well as a free public place for an ice skating rink during winter.

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screenshot from BC Place Stadium

2. Other Things to Do on Robson Street

For food lovers, Robson Street is a very lovely place to visit. It has some historical international flavours in it. If you go down towards the east end you will see many normal eateries.

The place is best for a burger and beer before watching the game. After that, towards the middle of Robson Street, you will get some amazing high-end options. Some of which are very high from the street level.

Then move towards the west again you will see Stanley Park. At Stanley Park, you will get some good-priced Asian restaurants. However, for the first time, you might get tense, because of the huge crowd.

The interesting thing includes visiting the izakaya the place is quite the same as the Japanese pub, you may explore the cuisine of Korea or might swill your way by the bowl of ramen.

Conclusion

From here you will get a brief idea about what things you can do on your visit to Robson Street. Amazing cafes, tasty foods, and shopping places are all present on Robson Street. It is a very beautiful place to spend your vacation.

We suggest you must include all these places in your list of things to do. If you miss visiting any of these places, you will surely regret it later.

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  • Sourish

    My name is Sourish Das and I live in West Bengal. I am student of BCA 2nd year. My hobby is to write articles, blogs, do coding, playing and watching football. I have written more than 40 articles and completed one month of content writing internship at College Aftermath along with a certificate. I have also done a job of data entry for one month at RPD BPO Services. Beside this I know different programing language like- C, C++, Java, Python, R. I have done some graphic design using python and java. Experience of using free version of canva graphic design tool.

Sourish

My name is Sourish Das and I live in West Bengal. I am student of BCA 2nd year. My hobby is to write articles, blogs, do coding, playing and watching football. I have written more than 40 articles and completed one month of content writing internship at College Aftermath along with a certificate. I have also done a job of data entry for one month at RPD BPO Services. Beside this I know different programing language like- C, C++, Java, Python, R. I have done some graphic design using python and java. Experience of using free version of canva graphic design tool.

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