Tuesday

SLIP INTO A SPEAKEASY.

A secret bar is a good bar. Head through the unmarked green door and up the staircase to Upstairs at Campagnolo ( 1020 Main St., campagnolorestaurant

.ca), where the mustachioed bartenders pour sti drinks that play on the classics—the French 125 pairs cognac with cava—and the music is turned low to accommodate actual conversation.

GO ON A GENDER BENDER.

Peach Cobblah bills herself as “the Baddest Bitch of East Van,” but it’s 1181 ( 1181 Davie St., 1181.ca) in the West End that’s been home to her weird and wild weekly storytelling-meets-drag show Shame Spiral for three years and counting. Bu bartenders serve up cocktails through the lip-sync roulette and into the wee hours.