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Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA) in Vancouver, BC is the city's most progressive centre for culinary and baking & pastry arts education. Since 1997, our accredited institute has offered highly regarded career programs in Culinary Arts and Baking & Pastry Arts, with the option of expanding your career training with a 1-Year Dual Diploma program. Our programs are designed for students who wish to be productive immediately in a professional environment upon graduation.

Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts is located at the ocean's edge, on the south shore of False Creek, near the heart of Downtown Vancouver. We're at the gateway to Granville Island, an energetic conclave of businesses, restaurants, a visual arts school, a public market, galleries and theatres all of which attracts an estimated 250,000 visitors each month.


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Spectacular and endlessly varied, Vancouver combines ocean, rainforest and mountains in a welcome climate that attracts residents and visitors alike.

One of the world's most livable cities and a leading tourism destination, Vancouver is set amid the stunning natural beauty of snow-dusted peaks rising above ocean inlets and a broad river delta. This city of one million people is Canada's western gateway to Eurasia, New Zealand and Australia, and to the United States. It is also British Columbia's major education and service industry centre.


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School / Office Address: 101 - 1505 West 2nd Avenue, V6H 3Y4
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