Two of Vancouver’s most flavour-forward kitchens are joining forces again. DD Mau Chinatown is bringing back its Feast & Friends collaboration dinner series for a sixth volume, teaming up with Chupito Cocteleria on Sunday, August 23.
DD Mau, the beloved Vietnamese spot tucked into Chinatown, has built the Feast & Friends series around exactly this kind of pairing — inviting guest chefs and bartenders in to riff alongside its own menu for one night only. This round brings in Chef Maria Ponce alongside the award-winning bartender duo Tara Davies and Erick Vazquez of Chupito Cocteleria, promising a night where Vietnamese and Latin flavours land on the same table.
Why collab dinners like this matter
Chinatown has spent years navigating a tricky balance — honouring its history as one of Vancouver’s oldest and most culturally significant neighbourhoods while its restaurant scene fights to stay financially viable. One-night collaborations like Feast & Friends are a genuinely smart way through that: they turn a slow Sunday into an event people plan around, cross-pollinate two restaurants’ regular customer bases, and give diners a menu they can’t get any other night of the year.
It’s also just a good showcase of how much range is sitting inside Vancouver’s independent restaurant scene right now — a Vietnamese Chinatown institution and a cocktail bar known for its own culinary identity, meeting in the middle for one dinner.
Good to know
- When: Sunday, August 23
- Where: DD Mau Chinatown
- Who: Chef Maria Ponce with Tara Davies and Erick Vazquez of Chupito Cocteleria
Volume six of a dinner series is a track record, not a fluke — this is one worth booking ahead for if collab dinners are your thing. Have you caught a previous Feast & Friends? Tell us how it went. 👀
