Where do you send friends for lunch? There's a place called Market Grill, which has the best burgers in town. That's on Granville Island, and that's my favorite lunch. It's a booth - literally like a burger booth. Really fresh burgers and fries. It has a great salmon burger and a great chicken-teriyaki burger. And it's right on the water.

How would you spend an afternoon? The view from the Burrard Street Bridge is just incredible - the view of the ocean, and the mountains, and of downtown, of Kitsilano, of Granville Island. One of my favorite things is going over the Burrard Street Bridge, particularly on a bicycle. Granville Island is a little island underneath the Granville Street Bridge. It's where a lot of personal boats are docked. There are places for kids to play, restaurants, and a big fresh market - a farmers' market. There are three different bridges going into downtown; Granville Island is a great place to see all of them. Next would be South Granville, which is Granville Street, from probably Third Avenue to Fifteenth Avenue. It's 12 blocks of really interesting art galleries and shopping and restaurants. There's a great shop called Liberty that has hip home furnishings. We have a great table from Liberty. And there's a great men's store on Broadway called Mark James.

What don't people know about the city? There's a real artistic community in Vancouver, and the city is really connected to the outdoors. It's not a town where you're stuck inside for two-thirds of the year. There's a lot of rain, but it's not a freezing-cold, snowed-in winter town, so what a lot of the local artists are painting is the beauty that they've grown up around. Another thing that people are into, but I don't do it much, is the skiing. There are several mountains - Whistler being the most popular for skiing. There's tremendous life outside the city. But when I'm there, I'm usually there for such a short time that I live downtown, I live in Kitsilano, I live in Granville Island.