Skip to content
Coiled mooring rope on a wet fishing dock, boats in the fog beyond in Richmond BC

Written in Richmond, not about it

Find Local Businesses in Richmond, BC

By locals, for Richmond: every table, storefront and service from the Steveston docks to the Golden Village.

Businesses listed
406
Neighbourhoods
21
Categories
9

Browse the directory

Find what you need

These are the categories I cover in Richmond, each one carrying a live count of what is in it. The food categories are the biggest, which will surprise nobody who lives here.

Food & Drink in Richmond BC

Food and drink is the widest section of any local directory and usually the reason someone opens one. It covers everywhere you can sit down for a meal, pick something up on the way home, or restock a cupboard: full-service restaurants and quick counters, coffee bars, bakeries and dessert shops, pubs and taprooms, grocers, liquor stores, and the corner shops that stay open after everything else on the block has closed. The subcategories split the section along the lines people actually search. Someone booking a Saturday dinner and someone hunting a bag of rice at nine at night are not doing the same task, and one blended list serves neither. Each subcategory keeps its own listings, its own map and its own neighbourhood filters. Every listing shows address, phone, website and posted hours wherever the business has published them, with a short description of what the place actually is rather than a line lifted from a brochure. Businesses that genuinely straddle two subcategories, a bakery with a full café menu, a brewery with a kitchen, appear in both, with one marked primary so the breadcrumb trail and the structured data stay consistent.

Browse food and drink businesses

Shopping in Richmond BC

Retail is the part of a local economy that people miss only once it has gone. This section covers the shops you can walk into: florists, pet stores, hardware and garden centres, furniture and home goods, clothing, shoes and jewellery, books, toys, sporting goods, bikes, electronics, music, phones and the department stores that still anchor a mall. The organising principle is what you are shopping for, not who owns the business. A national chain and a forty-year-old independent sit in the same list and carry the same fields, and neither is pushed up the page for paying us: nothing on this site is a paid placement. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours, plus the neighbourhood, which is the filter most people want: retail is an errand, and errands are geographic. Where a shop offers something that changes whether the trip is worth making, repairs, rentals, custom orders, delivery, in-store pickup, the listing says so rather than leaving you to phone and ask.

Browse shops

Beauty & Personal Care in Richmond BC

Personal care is a relationship business. Most people find one hairdresser, one nail technician or one barber and stay with them for years, which means the search that brings someone here is usually a first visit or a move to a new part of town: and both are decisions people want to get right. This section covers hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, day spas and tattoo studios. Each subcategory holds its own listings with address, phone, website and posted hours, plus the neighbourhood, because proximity genuinely matters when an appointment is a monthly habit rather than a one-off. Booking practice varies enormously across these trades: some businesses are appointment-only, some take walk-ins, some run an online booking system and some still work a paper book at the desk. Where a business publishes how it prefers to be booked, the listing says so and links to the booking page where one exists. No listing here is a paid placement, and no rating is published unless it comes from real, verifiable data.

Browse beauty and personal care businesses

Health in Richmond BC

Health

42

The health section lists local practices and clinics people need to find quickly: dentists, medical clinics and doctors, optometrists, pharmacies and veterinarians. Most searches here are practical rather than exploratory: a clinic accepting new patients, a pharmacy still open, an eye exam this week, a dentist for a tooth that has started to hurt. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood. Where a practice publishes it, the listing notes whether new patients are being accepted, whether appointments can be booked online, and whether walk-in service is available : the three questions that decide almost every search in this section. Nothing in this directory is medical advice, and no listing here is an endorsement or a credential check. Practitioner registration in British Columbia is a matter of public record with the relevant regulatory college, and verifying it is always worth the two minutes. For anything urgent, contact HealthLink BC at 8-1-1 or emergency services at 9-1-1.

Browse health services

Professional Services in Richmond BC

The advisers and offices people deal with a few times a year and remember for a decade: real estate agents and brokerages, insurance brokers, accountants and bookkeepers, lawyers and notaries, and bank and credit union branches. These are appointment businesses rather than walk-in ones, and the questions people ask are different from the rest of the directory. Not just where and when, but what this office actually handles, whether a first consultation costs anything, and whether they take on work of your size at all. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood. Where a firm publishes it, the listing notes areas of practice, whether consultations are free, whether remote or virtual appointments are offered, and which languages are spoken at the office: the last of these matters more in this section than almost anywhere else. Nothing in this directory is legal, financial, tax or insurance advice, and a listing is not a recommendation. Professional licensing in British Columbia is publicly searchable through the relevant regulator, and it is always worth checking.

Browse professional services

Home Services in Richmond BC

Trades and services that come to the property: electricians, roofers, landscapers and lawn care, general contractors, locksmiths, movers, cleaning companies, pest control and self-storage. These businesses are found differently from every other section of the directory. Many work from a yard, a unit in an industrial block or a truck rather than a storefront, so the address is often an office rather than somewhere to visit, and the service area matters more than the pin on the map. Where a company publishes the areas it covers, the listing carries that instead of implying it only works on its own street. Listings show phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood the business is based in. Where published, the listing notes whether free estimates are given, whether emergency or after-hours call-out is available, and whether the company is licensed, bonded and insured. For any work requiring a permit or a trade qualification, ask for licence and insurance details in writing before work starts. It is a normal request and a reputable contractor will expect it.

Browse home service businesses

Things To Do in Richmond BC

The section for everything that does not fit a trade heading: gyms and fitness studios, yoga, hotels and places to stay, childcare and daycare, schools and tutoring, dry cleaners and photographers. Some of it is what you do with a free afternoon and some of it is the standing arrangement that makes the week work, and both belong in a directory people actually use. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood. Where a business publishes it, the listing notes booking and registration practice, whether drop-ins or trials are available, and whether there is a waitlist: which is the deciding factor in several of these categories rather than a footnote. Community centres, public pools, arenas and library branches are civic facilities rather than businesses and are not listed as such, though they are often the right answer and are linked from the articles where they belong. No listing here is a paid placement, and no rating appears unless it comes from real, verifiable data.

Browse things to do

Serving Richmond in Richmond BC

Businesses based elsewhere in the Lower Mainland that serve Richmond customers.

Browse businesses serving richmond

Worth knowing about

This row rotates. The places on it are the kitchens, counters and workshops people in Richmond keep sending me back to, and not one of them paid to be here.

Why this directory

About Richmond

A directory is only worth anything if somebody keeps it honest. Here is what I actually do about that.

Richmond is a delta city. It sits on a cluster of low islands where the Fraser River finally lets go of the mountains and spreads out into the Strait of Georgia, and almost none of it stands more than a metre or two above the tide. Dykes ring the edges, farmland fills the gaps, and the middle keeps building upward.

That shape shows up in the businesses. Steveston still works a commercial fishing fleet off the cannery docks at the south end, with independent shops, bakeries and cafés along Moncton Street behind it. The Golden Village on No. 3 Road holds one of the densest concentrations of Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants, dessert shops and shopping malls anywhere in North America. Sea Island carries YVR and the hotels and freight offices that grow up beside an airport. In between sit the quiet residential grids, Seafair, Blundell, Broadmoor, Riverdale, and the West Dyke Trail running the whole western shore past the cranberry fields.

RichmondLocal.ca lists those businesses: who they are, which part of the island they work in, and how to reach them.

Checked, not scraped

Every entry starts from an address I can find, a phone number that rings and hours somebody confirmed. When a place closes, it comes off. Plenty of directories are still sending people to restaurants that shut years ago, and I think that is a rotten thing to do to somebody driving across town on a Sunday.

The whole city, not one strip

All 21 Richmond neighbourhoods have a page here, Steveston and East Richmond included, and every listing tells you which one it sits in. Most directories learn one strip of town and guess at the rest. The parts they skip are usually where I eat.

Free to list, quick to fix

Being listed costs nothing, and that is not a launch offer. Owners can claim their page, correct the hours, add a website, and I get to it that week. There are no tiers and no ad slots, so nobody here climbs over anybody else by paying me. My parents sold produce out of a stall, and I know what a rigged aisle looks like.

From one local to another

One person writes this site and that person is June Tam. I eat in Richmond most days and I walk it most mornings, so the guides come with opinions attached. Where I would pick one place over a near identical one down the road, I say which and why. Where I have not been since the owners changed, the page admits it.

Dyke trail at dusk with the far shore lit up across the water in Richmond BC

People keep asking me to pick a side of Richmond, the malls or the water. I have never understood the question. I can be eating dim sum on No. 3 Road at eleven and watching the tide go out from the West Dyke by three, and that is just a Saturday here.

June Tam, Editor in Richmond BC June Tam Editor, Richmond Local More about June Tam

Guides and local news

What's happening in Richmond

I write these for people who are going this weekend, not for people reading about the city from somewhere else. Expect ranked lists, warnings about what sells out early, and the answers to questions I get asked over and over.

What to Do in Richmond on the Labour Day Long Weekend in Richmond BC

6 min read

What to Do in Richmond on the Labour Day Long Weekend

The Night Market's final season is the loud story. The quieter one: free admission at the Cannery ends Monday, Britannia keeps summer hours through Sunday, and Steveston does sunsets better than anyone.

By June Tam Read
Where Locals Actually Eat in Richmond BC in Richmond BC

6 min read

Where Locals Actually Eat in Richmond BC

Nothing on Alexandra Road is a secret. It is just in a strip mall with bad signage and no patio, which is why visitors never find it. Here is how I actually use Richmond's plazas and food courts, which specialists are worth the drive, and when not to bother.

By June Tam Read
A weathered farm fence post beside the gravel dyke trail at Terra Nova, Richmond BC

7 min read

Terra Nova Rural Park and the West Dyke Trail

The West Dyke Trail is about five and a half kilometres of flat gravel between Terra Nova Rural Park and Garry Point, and I ride it most mornings. Here is what is actually at the north end, which way to walk so the wind is on your side, and why winter is the better season for it.

By June Tam Read
June Tam, Editor in Richmond BC

Editor, June Tam

Written by someone who lives here

I grew up in Broadmoor, mostly behind the produce stall my parents ran at the Richmond Public Market. That is a strange way to learn a city and a very good one. You pick up which streets flood in November, which suppliers turn up when they say they will, and who is related to whom.

I live in Steveston now, four blocks off Moncton Street, close enough to hear the gulls working the dock before I am properly awake. Biscuit and I are out on the West Dyke Trail most mornings, which is why the trails and the places that will let a wet dog sit outside come up here as often as they do.

I started the directory because I was answering the same questions one at a time. Where to take visitors. Where to eat when it has rained for nine days. Which places are actually still open. Everything on the site gets checked, I say what I think of it, and when I have not been somewhere in a year I write that down rather than guess.

  • Lives in Steveston
  • Grew up in Broadmoor
  • Rides the West Dyke Trail
  • Dog: Biscuit

Add your business

Run a business in Richmond?

Listings are free and I check every one by hand, so yours is usually live within two working days. It lands in the right category and the right neighbourhood, on a page built to be found. Tell me when something changes and I will fix it that week.

Owner verified

Verified businesses

Every business below has a marketing relationship with this site, disclosed here rather than folded into the rest of the directory. Each one is listed and checked the same way as anywhere else on these pages.

Oi Marketing, marketing agency in Richmond BC

Oi Marketing

Surrey-based digital marketing team building WordPress sites and running SEO, social media and paid advertising across the Lower Mainland.

View details

Clayton Heights Chiropractic, chiropractor in Richmond BC

Clayton Heights Chiropractic

Chiropractic, registered massage therapy, acupuncture, custom orthotics and Class IV laser therapy from a single clinic in Surrey's Clayton Heights.

View details

Potential Security, professional service in Richmond BC

Potential Security

Guards, mobile patrol, cameras, event security and traffic control run from a single Delta office, with eighteen cities named as the service area.

View details

T.K. Graphics, professional service in Richmond BC

T.K. Graphics

Wide-format printing, signage and vehicle wraps from a Surrey shop that keeps sewing, hemming and installation in house, plus film and TV backdrops.

View details

Vertex Auto Corp, car dealership in Richmond BC

Vertex Auto Corp

Used-vehicle sales on Fraser Hwy in Murrayville, Langley Township, with trade-in appraisals, a payment calculator and credit applications handled online.

View details

Third Generation Painters, painter in Richmond BC

Third Generation Painters

Small crews handle interior and exterior repaints, stain work, wood restoration and cabinet refinishing across the North Okanagan and Columbia-Shuswap.

View details

Sonic Health Clinic, physiotherapy clinic in Richmond BC

Sonic Health Clinic

Massage therapy, physiotherapy, acupuncture and homeopathy at a Willoughby clinic in Langley Township, with ICBC and WorkSafeBC direct billing.

View details

Dream It Creations, photographer in Richmond BC

Dream It Creations

Video production, photography, drone work and corporate AV setup across the Lower Mainland, including a Lansdowne Centre shoot in Richmond.

View details

HAVN Hosting, professional service in Richmond BC

HAVN Hosting

Three-tier short-term rental management for property owners, covering listing setup, dynamic pricing, guest communication and turnovers.

View details

Hastie Plumbing, plumber in Richmond BC

Hastie Plumbing

Red Seal plumbers and gas fitters covering Langley Township, the Fraser Valley and the Lower Mainland, with call-out rates published by tier.

View details

Pacific Batteries, battery supplier in Richmond BC

Pacific Batteries

New and reconditioned batteries for cars, boats, motorcycles and equipment from a Maple Ridge counter, with cash paid for scrap lead-acid.

View details

Guarding Life Home Care, health service in Richmond BC

Guarding Life Home Care

Home health care for Richmond households: hourly, overnight, companionship, respite and specialised dementia, Parkinson's and stroke care, open 24 hours from a Surrey base.

View details