Anti-gentrification protesters, some of them masked, picketed a new restaurant on the Downtown Eastside tonight.
The demonstrators gathered outside Cuchillo restaurant on Powell Street say new restaurants like this one are pushing poor people out of the neighbourhood.
They say if the government won't stop the gentrification, they will. They plan to stay there until the restaurant closes.
"We're going to be here until we send a message to all these businesses, these gentrifying businesses, that you are not welcome in our community until we have our housing, until we have the security of our low-income people!"
A similar protest at another eastside restaurant, pidgin, has been going on for five months.
Police will be keeping an eye on the event.
Const. Brian Montague says police will remind those protesters not to cross the line and do anything that breaks the law.
"Vancouver police facilitate many lawful protests each and every year. We don't want to have to intervene but if someone crosses the line from peaceful protest to an unlawful act, then we will enforce the law."
The department has written letters to protesters, even arresting one, in the past for a similar demonstration that turned rowdy outside Pidgin.