Cafe restaurants in Vancouver
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Finch's
If you want a seat at one of the dinged old dining tables, arrive off-peak at this ever-buzzing, often sunny corner cafe that has a 'granny-chic' look combining creaky wooden floors and junkshop bric-a-brac. You'll be joining in-the-know hipsters and creative-types who've been calling this their local for years. They come for the well-priced breakfasts (egg and soldiers is from $2.50) and a range of fresh-prepared baguette sandwiches and house-made soups. A quirky little hangout, this is a great spot for an afternoon cake and coffee, but be prepared to wait for a perch to call your own.
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Everything Café
Exemplifying Chinatown's rapid gentrification, this cool, recently opened pit stop would easily be at home on hipster-hugging South Main. Snag a perch at the window to watch the world go by, or sink into the studded leather bench running the length of one wall. A small but well-prepared array of coffees is available and there's an ever-growing menu of hunky sandwiches leaning heavily toward meat: the cold cuts are locally sourced. Cakes like the excellent chocolate banana bread pudding will lure your sweet tooth. Cooked lunches are available from 11am to 3pm.
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Au Petit Chavignol
Oddly located on a humdrum strip of scruffy neighborhood shops, this exemplary cheese and wine restaurant is the best place in town to indulge your curd addiction. Twinned with the top-notch cheese shop next door, it's a loungey but unpretentious little room where the friendly staffers happily guide you through an eye-popping array of local and international cheese and charcuterie, available per-selection or in 'flights' of three or five. Expert wine accompaniments – Rieslings are favored – are also offered.
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Grind Cafe
If all you really want is a fresh-prepared sandwich, with a hearty bowl of soup or a crispy green salad, this unpretentious locals-secret is recommended. The service here is excellent and the generously filled sarnies – bulging wraps or thick-cut doorstoppers – are great value: check the blackboard when you walk in for the day's combo special. A good spot for a cake and coffee pit stop, also consider collecting a bag lunch here for a picnic in Stanley Park a few minutes walk away.
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Picnic
Adjacent to Meinhardt Fine Foods, this easy-to-miss little storefront opens into a long and slender interior dominated by a giant communal table. Pick up a breakfast muffin and coffee at the front then join the South Granvillites hunched over their newspapers at the big table. The delectable cake selection you noticed on your way in will likely lure you back later in the day. A good spot to fuel-up before a stroll around the heritage mansions of nearby Shaughnessy Heights.
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Agro Café
Seemingly known only to locals and Emily Carr Uni students, this slightly hidden cafe on Railspur Alley is a smashing coffee stop with a fair-trade commitment. But there's much more on offer here: tuck into a BC-brewed Back Hand of God Stout or a bulging ciabatta sandwich. And if you're hungry for a good start to the day, the heaping brekkies are a great fill-up (and a genuine good deal). In summer, sip your Americano outside and watch the Granville Island world go by.
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Gallery Café
The mezzanine level of the Vancouver Art Gallery is home to a chatty indoor dining area complemented by one of downtown's best and biggest outdoor patios. The food is generally of the salad and sandwiches variety, but it's well worth stopping in for a drink, especially if you take your coffee (or bottled beer) out to the parasol-forested outdoor area, where you can top up your tan and watch over the Robson St clamor.
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