Prado Café at Commercial and 4th: the original café of Sammy Piccolo’s homegrown brand, with house coffee, scratch-made mochas and big windows.
Browsing: best cafes
Livia at Commercial and Kitchener: a bakery café by day with excellent coffee, bread and pastries, and an intimate pasta spot at night. What to order.
Turk’s Coffee Bar on Commercial Drive: a cozy, funky espresso bar from Milano’s Brian Turko, known for great service, latte art and the hedgehog mocha.
Continental Coffee at Commercial and 2nd: a family café and roaster since 1979 with six generations of coffee history, great lattes and beans to take home.
49th Parallel Café & Lucky’s Doughnuts on West 4th at Yew: the roaster’s first café, with a sunny patio, house coffee and doughnuts near Kits Beach.
Arbutus Coffee at Arbutus and West 6th: a quaint neighbourhood café in a heritage corner-store building in Kitsilano. What it’s like and what to order.
Lumine Coffee on West 4th in Kitsilano: a husband-and-wife café pairing multi-roaster specialty coffee with outstanding house-made baking.
Perfecto Cafe on Davie St: a European-style bakery café with espresso, gelato, panini and its Campfire S’more Latte, open from early morning to evening.
Ladurée Vancouver on Robson St: Canada’s first Ladurée, with Parisian macarons, afternoon tea, French toast and a jewel-box tea salon. What to order.
Moja Coffee on Commercial Drive: the BC roaster’s café for single-origin coffee, careful espresso and brewing options from AeroPress to Chemex.