Free cup of DAVIDsTEA - Feb. 29th (Wed.)

Pic from: DavidsTea Facebook What's your cup of tea? DavidsTea will be giving out free regular size cups of tea on Feb.29th at all their locations. There will be two types of tea on tap. It's ok if you haven't found your cup of tea because DavidsTea currently offers 135 different teas, according to their Facebook page. They have the traditional teas and you can probably imagine the variety...

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Free Menchie's Frozen Yogurt on Grand Opening Day!

Who doesn't love froyo? Who doesn't like free things? Today and tomorrow (Feb. 18 & 19) from 12pm to 5pm, the first Menchie's in Vancouver will be celebrating their grand opening on Cambie (and 7th) with free froyo! Yum + Yum! They are also offering free instant photos with their cute mascot between 2-4pm. Choose and mix your favourite flavours from caramel apple to cake batter then...

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"Man in the SUB" has left UBC

RIP Travers Last week, the UBC community lost a familiar stranger. If you go to UBC, you would have noticed Travers/Trevor, who sat in the Student Union Building (SUB) almost all the time. I've even heard some refer to him as "Chairbo" or the "man in the SUB" but nobody really knew his story as only a handful spoke to him. He would be always sitting in the same chair and reading the newspaper,...

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The Point Grill

I was staying at UBC pretty late so I decided to try The Point Grill on campus. The Point Grill is considered a one of the higher end restaurants on campus and it is located at the Marine Drive residence.   Turkey wrap with soup ($13) Salmon burger with fries ($13)   From this meal, what stood out to me the most was the salmon burger - it was very good! The salmon was flavourful,...

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