#160 - 5620 152nd Street, Surrey
I finally found some super cute coffee shops in Surrey! Eleanor and I went to West Village Cafe in the Panaorama Heights part of Surrey. Situated by a very busy intersection and close to many businesses and nearby residential area, West Village is the perfect full-service, community coffee shop. What they have going on there is perfect and special. I had high expectations for West Village, and they did not disappoint. Upon entering into the cafe, I fell in love with the decor. Wooden tables, long marble counters, and comfy couches with tons of natural light streaming in through the wooden blinds made me feel like I was in California - forget the Vancouver coffee shop vibe! You can peer into the kitchen area where they make the drinks as well as the various food items. Seeing as this was a snack, Eleanor and I both had their cinnamon sugar waffles, a macaron each, and coffee for myself and a London Fog for her. Since Eleanor had her camera with her, we got some pretty aesthetic shots of our food before actually digging into it. Everything tasted as good as it looked. The cinnamon sugar waffles came with whipped cream and a choice of topping, of which I had the mango mint & apple compote and Eleanor had the salted caramel sauce. The waffles were crunchy and just the right amount of sweetness, definitely rivaling the waffles from Cafe Medina. The macarons that we had were okay, but definitely really tiny for the price that was paid. The drinks were good too! All in all, West Village is the perfect response to Surrey's lack of coffee shops, though it is still a bit of a distance for me to get there from where I live. Nonetheless, it is an incredible place that has so much to offer, like lunch items and other fantastic drinks, and even beer and wine!
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221 Abbott Street, Vancouver (Gastown) I had the opportunity to check out this beautiful tea house the other day with my friend Erika. Gastown is dominated with coffee roasters and shops, but on Abbott Street there is the lovely Capilano Tea House that serves up organic teas and house made, small batch botanical sodas along with traditional savoury and sweet food offerings - a refreshing and delicious alternative if you aren't feeling coffee! The interior of the store is, in a word, adorable: strong brick walls with wooden and clean white furniture. There are lovely flowers and packs of tea for sale sitting on the shelves that line the store. It is a tiny store that could potentially seat just under 20 cozily packed people, with one long wooden table and a little window side bench. I went on a hot day, and Erika and I enjoyed the refreshing and cool taste of their rose lemonade - it was refreshing, light, and a gorgeous baby pink colour. Topped with rose petals, it was an interesting twist to traditional lemonade that was in no way sour - it was great. Along with that, I had a mini mixed berry crumble in a jar, which was so, so good! I really loved the tartness of the berries and the cute portion size. The only downside is that they don't list out prices for their drink/food items, so you have no idea how much you have spent until it is rung up for you. The rose lemonade and the berry crumble came to just over $13 together, which was a shock to me. Since it was a first time, I decided to just suck it up, though next time I probably will just stick to drinks and maybe have food if I am really, really desperate or intrigued. All in all, if you aren't into having coffee that day, go check out Capilano Tea House and have one of their teas. It's a super cute place, so get ready to take tons of pictures! ***** OCTOBER 1, 2016 UPDATE: Due to high rent, Capilano Tea House is closing their Gastown location down. Sad to see such a unique place go because of high rent costs. ***** |
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