
I recently spent a week test driving the Acura MDX Type S car 2025 around Vancouver and Surrey while trying some dishes at eateries in the area.



Drove to Kitsilano for a coffee visit to Café Lokal where I had the very unique and beautiful flat white and the tasty was Zoran’s pizzicotti al pistachio. This cafe popular cafe in Kitsilano has been keeping the community caffeinated and well fed for over the past 8 years. It’s got a great vibe, delicious coffee and food to keep people coming back.

Later that afternoon I drove to the East Village neighbourhood to Di Olivia Tasting Bar to get a bottle of their Lemon Balsamic which we love using at home. They have a large selection of olive oil and balsamic’s that can be bottled with a few different sizes available. Makes it easy to return and pickup your favourite flavour or to try something new.


The next day I headed to one of my longtime favourite pizzerias in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, here at AJ’s Brooklyn I had the Tropical Reeves NY style pizza with pineapple. They offer all sorts of different types of pizza at this hot spot pizzeria.


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 drove to Surrey to visit Paan Waala where it is all about Paan at this Pakistani and Spanish fusion café. It is a family business with the sons running the cafe and their mother nearby educating the new customers (which included us) about the various beverages and sweets they make in-house.

We came mid-afternoon on a Sunday when it was nice and quiet (they told us it gets very busy at night and they are open until 2am). I had the Kashmiri Chai (pink chai) while Lawrence had a Mango limon cold drink; we both shared the delicious Pistachio Tres Leche (milk cake).
There are many more items that are of interest to me including their Falooda drink/desserts as well as their shakes and more.

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.


The next morning I drove back to the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood to 49th Parallel Cafe for a Flat White as I admired their large selection of donuts.
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.