{"id":203,"date":"2008-07-19T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T04:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-07-19T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T04:17:06","slug":"market-square-victoria-a-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/market-square-victoria-a-photo-essay","title":{"rendered":"Market Square (Victoria) &#8211; a photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Market Square <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=560+Johnson+Street,+Victoria,+BC,+Canada&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=26.177529,60.996094&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=48.430226,-123.36844&amp;spn=0.010678,0.029783&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=addr\">map<\/a>, 560 Johnson Street, Victoria, BC, Canada) is &#8220;one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world&#8221;, according to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketsquare.ca\/\">website<\/a>. Much like Pike Place Market in Seattle, Market Square is a place you don&#8217;t want to miss. Over 35 unique shops and restaurants surround a large courtyard that has frequent live music and events.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo essay from my visit to Market Square today. The sushi pictured below was from Asahi Bubble Tea (#69 Market Square, phone 250-382-2305) and was delicious!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bill Johnson, blues guitarist, performing at Market Square in Victoria\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/live-music-victoria-01.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Johnson, blues guitarist, performing at Market Square in Victoria\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Johnson, blues guitarist, performing at Market Square in Victoria<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Popcorn Machine at Market Square in Victoria\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/market-square-victoria-01.jpg\" alt=\"Popcorn Machine at Market Square in Victoria\" width=\"690\" height=\"1035\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popcorn Machine at Market Square in Victoria<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Popcorn Machine Detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/market-square-victoria-02.jpg\" alt=\"Popcorn Machine Detail\" width=\"690\" height=\"449\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popcorn Machine Detail<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sushi from Asahi Bubble Tea and Japanese Food ($9.95)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/market-square-victoria-07.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi from Asahi Bubble Tea and Japanese Food ($9.95)\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sushi from Asahi Bubble Tea and Japanese Food ($9.95)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"No smoking sign in Market Square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/market-square-victoria-03.jpg\" alt=\"No smoking sign in Market Square\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">No smoking sign in Market Square<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Garden in Market Square courtyard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/market-square-victoria-04.jpg\" alt=\"Garden in Market Square courtyard\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden in Market Square courtyard<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Seagull and Market Square sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/market-square-victoria-05.jpg\" alt=\"Seagull and Market Square sign\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seagull and Market Square sign<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Musicians from the Victoria Conservatory of Music Summer Jazz Workshop Student Ensemble, getting ready to perform.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/market-square-victoria-06.jpg\" alt=\"Musicians from the Victoria Conservatory of Music Summer Jazz Workshop Student Ensemble, getting ready to perform.\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musicians from the Victoria Conservatory of Music Summer Jazz Workshop Student Ensemble, getting ready to perform.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market Square (map, 560 Johnson Street, Victoria, BC, Canada) is &#8220;one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world&#8221;, according to their website. Much like Pike Place Market in Seattle, Market Square is a place you don&#8217;t want to miss. Over 35 unique shops and restaurants surround a large courtyard that has frequent live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,52,190,23,5,7,88,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble-tea","category-live-music","category-photo-essays","category-shopping","category-sushi","category-take-out","category-tourist-attraction","category-victoria"],"views":11973,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}