WHO / A group of misfits with the tenacity
to wait four years for a really good thing.


WHAT / The Mainstay is THE BAR at the
centre of BCs first licensed food hall.
18 kitchens + 1 bar.


WHY / Choice and ease. 18 kitchens + 1 bar.
An uncomplicated (and pretty awesome)
alternative to the restaurant paradigm.


WHERE / 49.310165016748,-123.0819566323967,
on the ancestral lands of the
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ
(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. But
specifically in the Lonsdale Quay
Market + Food Hall; address at bottom.


WHEN / Now. Finally. Open.


NAME / ˈmānˌstā/   noun

1. A thing on which something else
   depends

2. a stay that extends from the maintop
   to the foot of the foremast of a
   sailing ship.

FLAG / The nautical signal flag for the
letter M (Mike) is flown to communicate:
“I am stopped.”

Or, if you saw this as the Saltire and got
excited, we can be that. Scots wae Hae.