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VANCOUVER: Joe's Cafe

Joe’s Cafe is an institution on the Commercial Drive strip. There’s actually a Joe. He and his brother opened the place in 1974.

Joe’s is packed during the World Cup, especially and obviously when Portugal is playing. There was a bit of misunderstanding with some lesbians in 1991 but for the most part, [...]

CHILLIWACK: Airport Coffee Shop

“I fly for pie,” says the sign in front of the Chilliwack Airport. A rhyming sign for pie? It was calling out to me, so I convinced my co-workers they HAD to stop for refreshments.

Run by three sisters, the Airport Coffee Shop is a friendly place frequented by regulars. “I fly for pie” alludes [...]

VANCOUVER: Kokopelli kid-friendly cafe

Now that I’m a parent, Kokopelli Cafe is the kind of place I wish existed in every neighborhood.

It’s a sweet cafe that bakes fresh pastries, makes healthy light meals and offers kids’ treats like macaroni and cheese, packages of Cheerios and 100% natural fruit popsicles. Even Mum-mums are available for sale if [...]

RICHMOND: Aoyama Cafe Japanese pasta

AoYama Cafe is associated with UCC Cafe, a popular coffee chain in the Philippines and other Asian countries. Its big sell is siphon coffee. However, I was focused more on the food than the coffee on the day I visited, so here’s a better writeup of their coffee system.

Located on the ground floor of Aberdeen [...]

CALGARY: Kol3 Vietnamese

UPDATE – December 2010: Kol3 took their subs and shu mai balls off the menu because they weren’t selling enough to ensure they were fresh all the time. Sadness. However, they have added a basa banh xeo. They also make a really good sate pho noodle soup. Banh xeo portions have also gotten much bigger [...]

CALGARY: Higher Ground vegetarian dinner

My biggest fears about vegetarian food is that it will be bland and I’ll still be starving afterward. But the three-course vegetarian dinner ($19) at Higher Ground totally dispelled that.

The licensed coffee house offers Global Vegetarian Night every Wednesday from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Each month’s menus are posted on their Facebook page. Reservations are [...]

CALGARY: Perkins

In honour of our larger-than-life American cousins, we hit up Perkins Family Restaurant for a Fourth of July breakfast. Perkins is a chain that started as a pancake house in Ohio, and now has 400 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada.

To be honest, we didn’t really wake up and say, “Hey, it’s July 4th, [...]

CALGARY: Vendome Cafe

I have a new favourite coffee shop. The Vendome Cafe is in the Sunnyside heritage building where Heartland Cafe used to be, behind the LRT station. The owners of Teatro run it now.

The Vendome has some of the friendliest staff I’ve ever met at a coffee place, even when the lineup stretches to the [...]