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On a hot muggy day, stop for a cold milkshake from these five New Westminster eateries this summer.

The New Westminster street will be decked out with arts and craft stalls, food vendors, balloon artists and live music performances for the free event that’s expected to bring in about 5,000 attendees on July 24.

Alida Dube, owner of New Westminster’s West Coast Pretzel Co., took half a year to come up with a pretzel recipe that uses flour made with grains that breweries discard as waste. These grains are, in fact, loaded with fibres, minerals and proteins, she says.

New Westminster’s Old Crow Coffee Co. morphs into a chic cocktail lounge called Moodswing every Friday and Saturday at the stroke of 5 pm. The Record talks to the owners about the shapeshifting Front Street noshery.

Whether you're looking for a spongy birthday cake or a flaky breakfast pastry, New Westminster’s Take THE Cake has your back. The Record talks to founder and pastry chef Lalit Pant about their warm cakes and cold shakes.

Carmen Isabel Pepio learnt to cook empanadas when she was a nine-year-old girl in Guatemala; now, at 57, she runs a successful business baking the crescent-shaped pastries in New West

Fridays on Front will see Downtown New Westminster transform into the perfect place to unwind with good music, delicious food, exciting art, and more — every Friday evening, starting July 8.

At the day-long Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo at New Westminster's Anvil Centre June 25, you can play popular classic games on old gaming consoles, engage in a game swap with independent collectors, or buy your dream game from a flea market vendor.

The newly opened Lucifer’s House of Heat in Queensborough offers around 1,000 different hot sauces, including one of the hottest in the world: Hellfire Doomed.