PICES-2026 useful information
CAFES and RESTAURANTS
Businesses downtown, that have been alerted about PICES 2026! Its not an exhaustive list of the local restaurants and cafes but should give some options (Opening times may be different to what is shown below, please check).Along Commercial Street:
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Reds Bakery
coffee, breakfast, lunch (and many types of cheesecake to go!) 7:30am-5pm
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Gabriel's Café
breakfast and lunch (8am until 4pm), Good for dietary restrictions
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Serious coffee
Coffee and snacks 7 or 7:30am to 5 pm (they make a great mocha!)
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Mon Petit Choux
Coffee, breakfast, lunch (8 or 9am til 3pm but may be closed Mon/Tues)
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Iron Works Café and Creperie (Trip Advisor)
Later breakfast, Coffee, lunch (8:30 am til 4pm)
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Bricks and Mortar Social House (Trip Advisor)
breakfast, coffee, lunch (7:30am-3:30pm)
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Top Notch burgers
Gourmet burgers - but also breakfast foods. 7 or 8 am til 11pm
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Firehouse Grill
lunch and dinner
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Modern café
lunch and dinner
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Craft Fare
Tap house plus food, 2pm onwards but may be closed Sunday/Monday
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Melange (Trip Advisor)
dinner
5-min walk from the venue:
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Gina's Mexican Café
lunch and dinner. Open every day. Tacky but friendly (their words!)
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Lighthouse Bistro
lunch and dinner (down by the water and the float plane terminal, great view!)
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White Sails
craft brewery beer and bites. Open for lunch Fri, Sat, Sun, otherwise open at 4pm (but closed Mondays)
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Old City Station Pub
Lunch, dinner, drinks (open 11-11)
10-min walk from the venue; up the hill in the old city quarter:
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Bistro Taiyo
lunch and dinner (12-3 and 4:30-8pm, maybe closed Sunday
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Real Food café
lunch, Monday to Friday
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la Stella Trattoria
Dinner. Booking is recommended (may be closed Monday and Tuesday)
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Asteras Greek taverna
Lunch (Tues to Friday) and Dinner (Tues to Sunday). Booking is recommended
Important Dates
Nov 12, 2026
PICES-2027 Proposals
Submit PICES-2027 Theme Sessions/Workshops Proposals by Nov 12, 2026 (midnight, Victoria, BC, Canada time)
PAST: March 15, 2026
PAST: June 30, 2026
Extended Deadline
PAST: August 7, 2026
Abstract Notification Deadlines
PAST: August 21, 2026
Confirmation Deadlines