Article content If you’re looking for tasty cheap eats around Vancouver, the Zsillei brothers have a YouTube channel for you. It’s called and has grown from barely 500 subscribers mere months ago to 5,500 today. Inspired by Anthony Bourdain’s and the TV travel series , Owen and Jeremy Zsillei started out reviewing Vancouver bars such as the Lamplighter and Metropole after they reopened with restrictions after COVID-19’s onslaught, as well as takeout from Gringo Taco, one of their go-to eateries.
Jeremy, now 31 and working in IT, moved to Vancouver seven years ago to study at BCIT. Owen, 25, followed soon after and is a cook at a brew pub. The don’t make any money from their project, but they’re having fun since they started their YouTube venture four years ago.
“It was such a weird feeling during the COVID lockdown, we thought, ‘We’ve got to document this,'” Jeremy said. “We had no idea how long it was going to be like this for, and we went to Metropole, our favourite bar at the time.” “We were just bored, I think,” Owen added.
“The origin of it was we always wanted to make a travel video, but we were like, ‘Let’s just start making videos here, start honing the craft a little bit.'” There is indeed, among their YouTube offerings, a Japan series covering a pub-crawl in Tokyo’s Shibuya; seeing if there’s a difference between cheap versus expensive ramen; surviving on nothing but convenience store foods for 24 hours; and things to do in To.
