A Tour of
International Village Mall
by Maria Cruz
The International Village Mall is marked by its architectural wonder: a 3-storey structure with a beautiful and magnificent cultural design; the entire building has high ceilings, colourful floors, and on the walls of the mall's first floor, you’d be amazed by the creative woodworks that’s been intricately carved by local craftsmen. The International Village Mall is commonly called Tinseltown because of the famous theatres on the second floor formerly operated by Cinemark Tinseltown and now by Cineplex Odeon International Village. Cineplex only shows first-run and the latest movies.
Let’s take a tour: Hungry?
There are many choices for either a leisurely or hurried breakfast, lunch or dinner: first stop is on the ground floor, there’s McDonalds (24 hours open); Starbucks (open at 6am); 7-Eleven; the delicious Quizno's Classic sub sandwiches; the fresh pizzas from Pizza Town, or you may want to try East Fusion, famous for their very tasty shrimp wonton noodle soup . Also, there’s the Food Court on the first floor that seats 300+ and tens of food stalls. To quickly serve you: try the popular and delicious Mexican food by Taco Time; Ryo Japan (Japanese); Kim Son Deli and Sandwiches (Korean); Giant Panda (Chinese); the Thai Village (Thai), India’s Flavour (India) as well as Canra Foods Grilled Chicken and Fish (Sri Lankan). If you want a refreshing drink, try Bubble (Tea) King. Blue Fugo Japanese Food; delectable sushi, rolls, tempura etc., prepared by a creative and well- experienced executive chef. Newly opened is the: Skyline Restaurant and Lounge, try their sumptuous and delightful Meditteranean, Greek and Italian Food. Kentizen is a Japanese/international lunch/dinner buffet restaurant that offers nightly entertainment, including dances and parties; both restaurants as well as Pivo Public House are licensed premises that serve alcohol. For your favourite alcoholic beverages, visit Crosstown Cold Beer and Wine which is open 7 days a week until 11PM to serve you.
How about shopping?
For high quality and inexpensive gifts, stationeries, household and office supplies, at Yokoyaya 123 department store, you’ll find unique and beautiful Japanese goods mostly for 2 dollars. Fancy Gift sells unique gift items. Touch of Africa –the best of African sculptures, clothing, jewelleries and gift collections. There are fashionable clothing stores at the mall, such as: LG Cashmere, known for elegant cashmere fashion; JNBY known for their chic fashionable clothing, and Belly Fit Fashion, for trendy clothing for men and women. Oxygen Outlet – casual, trendy clothing for the young at heart. Sienna Fashions Ltd. - high-end clothing outlet. Vata Brasil –high quality Sports Wear, Yoga, Running & Gym outfit. The mall also boasts of the unique jewellery and fashion accessories from: J Neillas & Sons Jewellery, Ki’s jewelry, Sunny Stones, and accessories from Get Grace. Jueleswholesales/retails exquisite jewelleries. Amanda’s Gifts – unique silver and gemstones jewelleries. The Shoe Studio – newly-opened, fashionable shoes for men, ladies & children. Fashion Hut (cellphone accessories, body jewelleries, gift items, knitted hats, LOA Trading – colored eye lenses, face packs etc, Business Depot – Accounting (tax filing), Bookkeeping & Consultancy, Girls Gone Native –High-end, one of a kind Aboriginal crafts & accessories, Wool is Not Enough –excellent quality woollen yarns, accessories.
Any other interesting shops at the mall?
Glory Link International Ltd is an exceptional 5,000 sq. ft Chinese antique outlet. If you need some classy modern home and office furnishings, check out Vivo Interiors. The Mall has 7 Art Galleries featuring outstanding local artists in contemporary art, modern oil paintings, sculptures, aboriginal art, painting classes and other forms of art: the Hunter Bissett Gallery(oil/water color paintings), Ayden Gallery (youth, modern art/crafts and fashion), Lumen-Grunet Imaging (modern arts), International Arts Gallery (has the best contemporary Chinese paintings) and Revival Art (Creative Arts). Kwan Yu Fine Art Studio - design, painting, mural gallery and art training. Shandon Fine Art Galleries & Custom Framing – Aboriginal collections of paintings and sculptures. Vivo Interiors – large selection of beautiful modern furniture.
What are the services at the mall?
Footopia Reflexology will pamper your aching feet/back with a truly relaxing massage; MTT Money Exchange & Travel Services offers money/foreign exchange and travel service; Rexall Drug Store provides pharmacy services, drugs, beauty and health supplies; Cut 2 Fit Tailoring & Dry Cleaning also does alteration and laundry; Galaxy Optical Eyewear for eyewear needs; Express News and Cigar sells lottery, international newspapers and Cuban cigars; Printing and Signage.ca for all your printing and signage needs; West Coast Tickets sells tickets for shows and games; Bell Mobility provides cell phone services; Cocoa Tanning Salon is a very modern place to go for your tanning needs; The Mortgage Group, a mortgage broker in the cross-town neighbourhood and Surface Collective - creators of artistic "wall tattoos" for homes and businesses. Marco's Italian Shoe Doctor, repair service for shoes, jackets, watches and all types of leather goods as well as Vikings and Dragons, a Celtic and Nordic style of collectibles and gift items. Mobilicity -Wireless Cellular phones & Accessories, iRepair - iPads, iPhones, cellphone.
Wind - Cellular Phone Provider & Accessories; Bell -Times Telecom – Cell phone provider; Fashion Hut - cell accessories, cover and body jewellry; Leathern Touch - custom-made leather bags, accessories; K2 Hair Studio for men - traditional haircut; Brandspank - Retail Marketing; Simply.ca - retails Apple products and services; Piranha Games - Animation & Games; Sequel 3 - Developer
Are there fun things and entertainment at the mall?
The One Stop Shop Card Games has daily card games, tournaments and sells models/games for the hobbyists; on the 3rd level, you’ll find Cineplex Odeon International Village known for having comfortable seats and its 12 theatres show only new and recent movie releases..
Driving Here?
The good news is: the mall provides two-hour free parking for shoppers as there are over 600 underground parking spaces.
New Features?
The big LED screen can now be seen on West Pender Street entrance just above MacDonald. The mall has rides for kids on the ground floor.
We invite you to visit the International Village Mall for its unique stores, for its good selection of fine restaurant & fast foods, movies & fun games as well as an enjoyable shopping experience. For leasing enquires, please come visit the Leasing Office in Unit 2083 on the second floor.
