I recently spent a week test driving the Acura MDX Type S car 2025 around Metro Vancouver while trying some dishes at eateries in the area as well as visiting a farmers market.
A new Turkish bakery had recently opened in East Vancouver and I went over for a visit to Kaj Pastry (1428 Vernon Drive, Vancouver) where I picked up a box of their baked goodies.
The next day I took a drive to New Westminster to visit Bak’d Cookies (285 Nelson’s Court, New Westminster) and here I picked up one of their delicious S’mores cookie.
Later in the day, I visited Himalaya Restaurant (6587 Main Street, Vancouver) on Main Street in Punjabi village to get some of their Samosas and Naan to go.
There are some great features in the Acura MDX such as Acura’s intuitive and driver-focused True Touchpad Interface™ (TTI), featuring Acura’s largest-ever center display. At an ultra-wide 12.3-inches, the full-HD display works seamlessly with the Acura-exclusive touchpad with “absolute positioning” and a new, more powerful CPU for improved performance. The TTI in MDX features intuitive controls, including physical Power, Volume and Seek controls positioned within easy reach to the immediate right of the touchpad, along with more accurate swipe zones and handwriting recognition, and other performance enhancements.
The next day I visited Sabra Kosher Bakery and Restaurant (3844 Oak Street, Vancouver) it is a long standing kosher restaurant and bakery and here I picked up a challah and some knishes.
The next day I headed to Richmond for lunch at one of my favourite Japanese restaurants Saku (4771 Mcclelland Rd #1415, Richmond) for their Chicken Breast Katsu that comes with complimentary unlimited rice, sesame dressing and shredded cabbage.
The Coquitlam Farmers Market (1655 Winslow Avenue, Coquitlam) has been operating on Sunday’s for many years and this was my first time that I have visited. My visit gave me a chance to try Bar Down Cookies and I got one of the S’mores to go.
The interior makes use of quilted and perforated leather in saturated hues with decorative stitching and, for the Type S, inset nonslip faux suede on the bolsters; those chairs are also heated, ventilated, massaging, & 16-way adjustable. I also love the red/black colour combination.
For a late lunch I visited Stega Eatery (1778 Colombia Street, Vancouver) in the Olympic Village neighbourhood where I had the Al Pastor, a tasty sandwich with their house-made ciabatta with chicken, roasted pineapple and the fragrant annatto seeds of the Caribbean and it’s a Lebanese-influenced Mexican dish. While there we also had a Hibiscus water, Carrot cake as well as an Iced oat milk latte.
The Type S gets a front brake upgrade in the form of larger 14.3-inch rotors & four-piston Brembo calipers. It also uses Acura’s Electro-Servo Brake (ESB) brake-by-wire, whereas other trims use i-Booster, which is an electrically assisted hydraulic system.
I really enjoyed the Acura MDX was a great car to drive in and around Vancouver.
By: Richard Wolak
Disclosure: Acura Canada provided me with the 2025 Acura MDX for a week to test drive, and photograph.