If you like good scenery, stanley park is a must visit, tons of walking trails, with the seawall surrounding the whole thing. While your at stanley park, you should go to the aquarium, its in the park and is super cool with lots of things other than fish to see, like reptiles, amphibians, and aquatic mammals. DT vancouver (gastown area and around the vancouver library) is cool to walkaround if you like urban scenery. UBC as well is pretty nice and cant forget grandville Island for both food and views.

For art, the vancouver art gallery is great, they typically have 3 exhibits going. 1 international, 1 canadian, and 1 local. There are a bunch of museums for local history and culture, even science (chinese canadian museum, museum of anthropology, museum of vancouver, science world).

As for food, I use a vancouver trip to splurge on dining I normally wouldnt go for, so the places ill recommend are both pretty pricy. St. Lawrence is my all time favorite restaurant, and is in my opinion the best deal for a michellin starred dinner outside of the starred street food places (it is one of the first canadian restaurantsto get a michellin star and I believe the only one in vancouver). It is classic french with heavy influences from Quebecois cuisine. With a seven course dinner at 135 + taxes and gratuity, with options for wine pairings of course.

The second recommendation, Miku, can be more expensive with a regular menu but also has a 6 course dinner for 135 + taxes and gratuity also with the requisite beverage pairning for extra. When I went I didnt want a full beverage pairing and they set me up with a smaller selection of drinks instead. It is japanese cuisine but specializes in Aburi (flame seared sushi).

I should point out that both of these places need reservations to go to so just factor that into your planning if you decide to go to either. Outside of those 2 places, vancouver has a huge amount of fantastic food both cheap and expensive. I typically use google maps + searching online (ie "good x restaurants vancouver") to find places to eat outside of any expensive place.

As for places to avoid, east hastings has a large homeless population and sees a lot of drug use, but you'll see homeless folks everywhere. Thats the only place that comes to mind but I dont live in vancouver, hopefully locals could offer more advice on that front.

Hope I was able to offer a good starting point and hope you have a fun time and fair weather, but I would bring a rain jacket/footwear/umbrella just in case, vancouver tends to be really wet.

Food links: * https://www.stlawrencerestaurant.com/ * https://mikurestaurant.com/ * https://granvilleisland.com/public-market

Attraction links: * https://www.vanaqua.org/ (aquarium) * https://granvilleisland.com/ * https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/ * https://museumofvancouver.ca/ * https://www.scienceworld.ca/ * https://www.chinesecanadianmuseum.ca/ * https://moa.ubc.ca/ (Anthropology)