Mint Recs Blog

March 31 was the last day of business for arguably the best little sandwich place around. Frannie’s Gourmet Deli made amazing, cheap food for  25 years, I believe, all created by the same duo that had been there from the beginning, Helen and Kee.

I remember going into Frannie’s at the end of February, for my semi-usual early-morning breakfast fix, along with two or three other regulars, plus a steady stream of construction workers (yes, they were still around, building the…

Mint Records’  first “office” was in the closet that was in the bedroom of the house that Bill and his girlfriend at the time, Lisa (soon to be of cub), rented. They were the upstairs tenants, while below were Scott, who worked on Discorder with Bill (and me), and his girlfriend, Jennifer, and then later on, Lisa’s sister, Julie. Their house — which still sits on East 19th Avenue, although it has since been refurbished to become a high-end duplex — had an interesting…

Sure, Nuba has gotten its fair share of praise, but it’s for a reason. The food is GOOD.

You can read elsewhere about the reincarnation of this Dominion Building basement spot, from the total redo of the interior to reflect its Middle Eastern vibe, to the saving of the (I believe) Davide Pan-created security bars on the windows put up for a previous tenant, to the little garden out on the sidewalk tended to by Nuba staff, but the thing for…

Greetings from the new Mintern in town - Amanda! I’ll be updating the blog as often as possible to document the happenings of all that is Mint. For now, I’ll tell you a little bit about myself:

- I’m in my final year of the Arts & Entertainment MGMT diploma program @ Cap U

- I love all sorts of music (of course, I hate all sorts of music as well, but I don’t keep my taste locked to…

Mint Records has been in the Hastings and Cambie neighbourhood for years and years, well, since 1993, if not earlier. And we’ve borne witness to the restaurant space in the basement of the Dominion Building seemingly continuously rotate with tenants, from Jackson’s Beef House to Route 66 to The Victory to The Mouse & Bean to its newest incarnation, Nuba.

Next door to the Dominion Building, on the ground floor, facing Cambie Street, upstairs from where an early version of Scratch…