Archive for the 'Coffee Shops' Category



Starbucks on Commercial Drive

The Commercial Drive area is jam packed with some of the most amazing coffee that this city has to offer. Authentic Italian joints like Cafe Roma or Joe’s pepper the street and serve up some rich, thick, crema topped goodness. Places like Prado Cafe, Continental Coffee and JJ Bean have not only great coffee, […]

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Kits Coffee Company

Kits Coffee Co on West 4th is a big, bright coffee shop in the heart of Kitsilano. More importantly, it is home to some of the best cinnamon buns in the entire city. Grounds for Coffee delivers them warm and gooey each morning and along with a fresh cup of joe, this can be a […]

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Continental Coffee

Continental Coffee on Commercial Drive is one of the cities best coffee shops, and a welcome break from the Starbucks and Blenz that dot most corners. Located at the corner of East 2nd and Commercial, Continental is full of locals and has been around since the late ’70s.
Floor to ceiling windows cover two sides of […]

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Yaletown Starbucks

What can I say? One Starbucks is like every other? No, not actually. While the general branding is the same, the layout of most Starbucks locations seems to vary - and the one at the heart of Yaletown is simply great.
Yaletown is host to a number of Starbucks shops, and they are very, very good. […]

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O-Cha Tea Bar

Tucked away in Yaletown is the very tiny O-Cha tea bar. Should the selection of tea and coffees provided there become even slightly larger (it already serves over thirty types of tea), it will almost certainly burst at the seams and have to move.
The small size of this unassuming coffee/tea/sandwich bar does not at all […]

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Melriches on Mainland

We have a tradition of eating a super greasy brunch each day on the weekend. Usually we hit up Denny’s because we are clearly uncreative and like love handles, but my favourite place to go is Melriches in Yaletown.
Anything with the word ‘Yaletown’ in it sort of automatically cancels out the possibility of it being […]

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