La Zuppa Entertainment

Friday and Saturday are Flamenco Nights
Experience passionate Spanish dance & tasty food!

We realized there was nothing on the North Shore to expose people to our culture, says owner Juan Carlos Paez. Every Friday and Saturday evening we bring to La Zuppa the world of Flamenco, accompanied by an ever-changing assortment of Tapas, little dishes to nibble on and share.

La Zuppa brings the tradition of providing a tasty accompaniment to lubricate the social discourse to North Vancouver. We have borrowed a bit from here and a bit from there to create our own collection of dishes. Enjoy our food as you are surrounded by intense and passionate Spanish music & dance.

Flamenco is the traditional song & dance of the Gypsies of Andalucía in southern Spain. It developed over several centuries from Gypsy, Moorish, Andalusian and other roots. Flamenco music and dance entered polite society in the early 19th century as café entertainment. Cante (“song”) and Baile (dance) is the core of flamenco. Text and melody of these songs, like the flamenco dance, are improvised within traditional structures such as characteristic rhythms and chords.

Live Entertainment

Enjoy the music in the company of friends, as a happy and contented state of mind is the best digestive known, and let your worries flow away for another day !

Our philosophy of food and life continues! Eat well, share time with your friends, enjoy music, laughter and good conversation. Concern yourself with the things that really matter and all will be well in our world

Philosopher's Café
No formal philosophy training required; real life experience desired.
Come early, stay late.

We actively participate in Simon Fraser University’s Continuing Education Philosophers’ Café project. At La Zuppa we provide comfortable surroundings for vibrant street level discussions on burning issues of the day. We strive to keep this truly a street-level discussion with life experience as the only requirement.

Erudite opinions abound in universities, places of power and books. It is not difficult to find expert opinions even to find which ones are shaping our world. However, it is a different matter to find where we, the average citizen, stand. How do we understand a point of view? How do we see its consequences? Do we come to the same conclusion or different ones, based on our own life experience?

If we say that we believe in a democratic world, we must know what that term implies. In order to have our voices heard, we must have a voice; and for that voice to have validity, it must be an informed and considered voice. Like the voice of a singer, the voice of the people can only be developed through use. It is one matter to listen to the opinion of “experts” and another to formulate our own stance from a synthesis of the “bytes” of knowledge, experience, values and beliefs. In our hectic lifestyles, the art of meaningful converstation is falling out of use, at a time when the potential for access to information has never been greater.

The potential for a true democracy has never been greater, however it is being thwarted by information and work overload to the point that we abdicate the power to shape our world to others. We welcome everyone to bring their experience and hopes for our world to contribute to an understanding of ourselves as a society.

For schedules and more details please visit The Philospher's Café Website