The World Cup, the Mexican Way

Four spots across Metro Vancouver, one mission: every match with real food, cold drinks, and people who actually care who wins. Pick your game plan below.

Watch in Port Moody

Watch Downtown

Attending the Hastings Fan Festival?

Host at home

ORIGINAL'S RESTAURANTE MEXICANO (Port Moody)

The Patio Is the Stadium

Our outdoor patio in Port Moody turns into open-air seating for every match — big screen, full sound, and a kitchen that doesn't stop until the final whistle. This is the closest you'll get to watching the game in Mexico without the flight: tacos and antojitos made from scratch, micheladas in hand, and a crowd that celebrates every goal like it's the final. Patio seats go first on match days, so lock yours in early.

📍 Original's Restaurante Mexicano · Port Moody · Outdoor patio, big screen, every match

Reserve Your Patio Spot

The World Cup is here, and there's no better place to watch than Originals! ⚽
Catch every live game on our patio — now open for watch parties. Pair the action with great food and our awesome margaritas.
Spots will fill fast, so reserve your tab

Look at that sauce. 🤤🦐
Our Enchiladas Costeñas are smothered in a velvety guajillo and prawn fondo cream, finished with a generous shower of toasted sesame seeds and fresh cilantro.
Inside? Soft corn tortillas stuffed with cheese and prawns

A bowl with deep Mexican roots — Carnes en su Jugo. 🥣🇲🇽
Born in the kitchens of Guadalajara, Jalisco, this beloved dish layers tender steak in a savoury tomatillo broth with refried beans, onion, and fresh cilantro.
Served in traditional bar

Cool, creamy, and criminally refreshing — the Ensalada Cremosa de Pepino. 🥒🌿
Fun fact: cucumber has been cultivated in Mexico for centuries and remains a street-snack staple, usually served with lime, chili, and salt.
Our version dresses it u

Mediterranean meets Mexican on a crispy tostada. 🌊🦐
Our Camarón Mediterráneo tostaditas bring together the bright, herbaceous notes of olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and parsley with the unmistakable soul of a Mexican baked corn tort

New on the menu and ready to steal the spotlight — our Ensalada Cremosa de Pepino. 🥒🌿
Crisp cucumber, fresh mint, garlic, avocado, pumpkin seeds, all tossed in a silky cucumber crema and finished with a drizzle of salsa macha for that subtle

Meet the Chuletón — our showstopper. 🥩🔥
A perfectly grilled rib eye, sliced to reveal that gorgeous medium-rare centre, topped with caramelized onions and chiles toreados, served with fresh avocado and Mexican rice.
This is the kind of

Long weekend, we've got you covered! 🌶️ Originals Mexicano is OPEN on Victoria Day, Monday May 18th — come celebrate with bold flavors, tradition, and that warm Mexican hospitality you love. On Tuesday May 19th, we'll open a little later at 5

Say hello to one of our newest additions — Enchiladas Costeñas. 🌊🦐
Inspired by the bold coastal flavours of Mexico, these beauties are stuffed with cheese and prawns al ajillo, bathed in a rich guajillo and prawn fondo cream sauce that

Three little tostadas, big on flavour. 🦐✨
Our Camarón Mediterráneo tostaditas — shrimp, olive oil, parsley, apple cider vinegar, garlic, purple onion, and a silky cucumber crema, all layered on a crispy baked corn tortilla.
Fresh

LUCHA LIBRE BARRA & MEXICAN RESTAURANT (Downtown Vancouver)

Margaritas at the Heart of the Action

Going to a match at BC Place? Lucha Libre is a short walk away, right next to the Granville pedestrian zone — the natural before-and-after for game day downtown. And if you don't have tickets, this is the next best seat in the city: every match on screen, margaritas that earn their reputation, and a bar that feels like fight night when Mexico scores. Pre-game, post-game, or the whole game — we've got you.

📍 Lucha Libre Barra & Mexican Restaurant · Downtown Vancouver · Steps from Granville St, a walk from BC Place

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Held up against the magenta glow, this one feels like La Parka in a glass — skull vodka, black currant liqueur, blackberry purée, condensed milk foam. Named after the legendary luchador whose skeleton mask became one of the most recogniz

Two coupes. One bartender. La barra in full effect. 🍸💗
Behind every cocktail at Lucha Libre is a story — each drink named after a luchador, each build designed to capture their fight style: bold, smooth, smoky, or sweet.
That magenta glow isn

Every goal tastes better with tacos. ⚽🌮
The World Cup is coming to 722 Nelson St — every match, live, at the bar.
Book your table. This one's going to fill up.
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The pour that changes everything. 🍲✨
Our Sopa Azteca Guerrera is built tableside — fresh avocado, cheese, crema, and hand-cut tortilla strips wait in the bowl while the rich tomato-chipotle broth comes pouring in hot.
This isn't a soup that ge

Three coffee beans. Placed by hand. With tweezers. 🫘☕
This is the moment most people miss — the final detail on a Carajillo before it leaves the barra.
Tradition says the beans represent health, wealth, and happiness. We say they represent the

Deep ruby red, served in textured glass, built with intention. 🍷🌺
That jewel-toned pour over fresh ice — likely our jamaica-forward build — gets stirred and finished by hand, the way every drink crosses our bar.
No premix, no shortcuts.

The Carajillo — Spain's gift, perfected in Mexico. ☕🥃
Coffee meets Licor 43 over ice, shaken until that signature foam rises to the top. Born as a soldier's pick-me-up, it became Mexico's favorite way to end the night — or restart it.
Th

Served in a cantarito de barro — because the clay is part of the flavor. 🏺🍊
This is the cantarito tradition done right: a chili-salt rim, fresh citrus, ice, and that signature kick, all in a hand-thrown clay cup that keeps it cold and adds an

The dip is the whole point. 🤜🍲
Birria tacos come with consomé for a reason — that rich, slow-simmered broth is where all the flavor lives. Dunk, bite, repeat.
Pro tip from the kitchen: dip the tortilla first, let it soak for a second,

Tres leches — the Latin American dessert that turned three milks into one obsession. 🥛✨
Our Pastel Fresa Lechero is an orange-vanilla sponge soaked in tres leches with a hint of rum, topped with strawberry whipped cream and finished tableside

PANTITLÁN BAR / MERCADO PANADERÍA (East Hastings)

Your Stop Before (and After) the Fan Festival

Headed to the FIFA Fan Festival at the PNE? We're a short walk away at 2447 E Hastings. Mornings, we're Mercado Panadería — fresh pan dulce and coffee to fuel the walk over. From the afternoon on, we're Pantitlán Bar: Chef Esteban Cuevas's Mexico City–style cantina, the perfect detour when the fan zone crowds get thick or the celebration needs to keep going. Groups of 4–5 can book online; smaller crews, just walk in.

📍 2447 E Hastings St, Vancouver · A walk from the PNE Fan Festival · Panadería by morning, bar by night

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Mint, picked off the plant. Not pulled from a jar.
That's the kind of detail most bars skip. Not here.
Every cocktail at Pantitlán starts the same way — fresh herbs grown right next to the bar, real fruit, salts we mix in-house, syrups w

Drink in one hand. Taco on the plate.
Cold beer, shaker mid-pour, lime ready on the side — this is what a proper night looks like.
In Mexico, you don't pick between eating and drinking. They happen at the same table, with the same people, at th

Two tacos. No filler. No fanfare.
Corn tortilla pressed daily, pastor carved fresh off the trompo, piña sliced to order.
The cilantro still bright. The onion crisp. The lime, untouched until you decide.
This is what we mean when we say we don'

A real trompo takes hours to build and even longer to master.
Layer after layer of pork, marinated overnight in achiote, guajillo, and a house adobo we don't share the recipe for.
Stacked tall, capped with pineapple, slow-turned until the edges crisp

The taco al pastor — Mexico City on a tortilla.
Marinated pork in adobo, crowned with that signature char and a slice of grilled piña, finished with onion and cilantro.
Born from Lebanese shawarma, reborn on the streets of la capital, pe

Look closely — that's the detail that separates a drink from a cocktail.
Crushed ice, a ribbon of deep red bleeding through, fresh lime zest grated right over the top.
Nothing on this glass got there by accident. Every garnish is a decision.
Ta

The blade comes off the trompo and the piña drops straight onto the plate.
This is the move that can't be faked — pork stacked and spinning, charred at the edges, carved to order in one motion.
No pre-cut trays. No microwave. Just fire,

Al pastor isn't complete without the piña on top.
That single slice of pineapple isn't decoration — it's tradition. Cut from the trompo, kissed by the same flame as the pork.
The sweetness cuts the adobo. The acid lifts the spice. Every

The pour is the moment.
Shaker tipped, ice catching the strain, fresh juice landing where it should.
No bottles with measured pumps, no shortcuts behind the wood.
Tacos waiting below, drink coming together above — this is how a night gets built

In Between Flags — the cocktail named for the meaning of Pantitlán itself.
Tequila meets maple whiskey. Lime meets ginger. Mexico meets the place that's now home.
Two worlds in one glass, finished with a fresh lime zest under low light.

MERCADO, MEXICAN MARKET & TAQUERIA (Coquitlam)

Hosting the Watch Party? We'll Cater It.

If your World Cup happens in a living room or a backyard, Mercado in Coquitlam has the whole spread covered. Taquiza Packs to go or delivered — tortillas, salsas, rice, beans, garnishes, and your protein, ready to serve. Add fresh guacamole, pico de gallo, totopos, and our signature salsas, and your place becomes the venue everyone wants an invite to. Order ahead for match day; the group-stage schedule waits for no one.

📍 Mercado, Mexican Market & Taqueria · Coquitlam · Taquiza packs, to go or delivery

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