Commercial Drive

Where to begin with describing the Drive? It's brash. It's got opinions. The pedestrians are anything but and will walk into the street as if every day is Car Free Day. Located in Vancouver's east side, the neighbourhood officially known as Grandview-Woodland has been the nexus of a wide variety of different ethnic and cultural groups since its heyday as a Vancouver's counter-culture scene. Since then it has seen waves of first Italian, then Portuguese, Latin American and East Asian immigrants settling and making the neighbourhood home. It's not so much a melting pot and more of a Jackson Pollock painting with each blob of paint be it Chinese, Ethiopian, lesbian, or crust-punk adding its own unique voice and presence to a larger whole.

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Via Tevere

Address
1190 Victoria Drive
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Named after the street in Naples where the owner's passion for pizza began, Via Tevere is a lovely pizzeria that never seems to be lacking a crowd. The main feature of the menu is authentically prepared, thin crust Neapolitan pizza cooked in an instant in a traditional domed wood oven, the focal point of the restaurant. There are also other Italian staples like pasta, antipasti as well as sumptuous desserts though pizza really is the focus here. If you're looking to eat in the restaurant be prepared for a wait during peak times though I've found, if you order pizza to go, you can often get them out faster than you'd get a limp sandwich at Subway.

Via Tevere
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Via Tevere
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Via Tevere
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Via Tevere
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Via Tevere
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Commercial Drive Licorice Parlour

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