Overview:

Commercial Drive is better known as Little Italy but as one of Vancouver’s most offbeat areas, other ethnic delights are opening up and restaurants are serving far more than pasta.. Named after Charles Bukowski, a barfly American writer, Bukowski’s is a boho restaurant with a stylish tweak. The room is lined with black and white photos of literary figures, and diners range from Mad Max wanna-bes to the Jeep Cherokee crowd. Menu items are real casual that combine roasted chicken with Thai noodles, quesadillas with mushrooms, sea bass with orange glaze and other experiment. There’s live jazz, blues and poetry on most nights except at weekends when DJs liven up the place. On at least one Sunday a month there is a book launch open to the public.