What are some other eclectic places? Gastown is one of the oldest areas of Vancouver. It is just west of Chinatown. There's a steam-powered clock down by the water, and there are artists who will sit on the street and paint, and you can buy their artwork. There are little art shops, souvenir shops, and that kind of thing. It's right near Canada Place. I would also go to Commercial Drive. You are going to notice a theme here that I have; my tastes are becoming very obvious and apparent, but there are lots of great, sort of hippie hideaways. Little organic coffee shops and organic Indonesian restaurants and things like that. I think Commercial Street has so much character, and, for me, if I were to go and hang out somewhere now, I could totally still hang out on Commercial Street and assume that I wouldn't get bothered too much, because the people there are all really low-key and very cool. There was a restaurant, just about two blocks down from First Street, on Commercial Drive, and I don't know if it was Indonesian or African or what it was, but I used to go there for this one dish they served, which was basically mashed-up spinach with those Indian salty crackers, the flat type that they make. It was one of my favorite meals.

I know you had to watch what you spent when you were living in Vancouver. But where would you head for dinner now? There is this really amazing, amazing restaurant in the West End that overlooks English Bay and is right on the water. It is slightly more pricey, and all its food is from one of the neighboring Gulf islands. Every single thing they serve in that restaurant, the Raincity Grill, is wonderful. The food is impeccable, and the service is really great. You want to be there at either sunup or sundown. I don't think they are open at sunup. Dusk is the time to go there. It is so stunning. The sun sets over the water, right in front of the restaurant. I have been to the Creek Restaurant [now the Dockside Restaurant]. It's probably one of the most high-end restaurants I've been to in Vancouver. I went there, actually, before Lost, on a sort of special night one time with a guy. The Creek was on Granville Island, and the food was pretty incredible. The restaurant used to have a really great cigar bar, if you happened to be a cigar smoker. It had Cohibas and any other sort of international cigar that you could dream up for sale. There was this very old-fashioned gentleman's lounge, where you could go in and drink whiskey and smoke cigars. That's one of the beauties of Canada. Cuban cigars are totally legal there. I was a cigar smoker for eight years, believe it or not. And my favorite cigar always was a Cohiba.