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Cherry Hill Coffee – Celebrating over 25 years in the Okanagan
Add artisan coffee roasters to the list of good things happening in the Okanagan. One of the first, Kelowna’s Cherry Hill Coffee has been hand-roasting coffee beans since 1986, and provides many of the Okanagan’s best independent coffee shops, bakeries and restaurants with their custom ...
Coffee – An Essay
“Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water” —The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, London (1674) The women, happily, have left coffee alone and moved ...
Searching for Victoria’s Coziest Café: Wild Coffee
Even though Victorians generally don’t experience the sub-zero temperatures and snowstorms that most of Canada is accustomed to at this time of year, you still can’t help but yearn for snugly environments during mid winter days. This may be especially true as you run around ...
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Rise of the dark horse: Fernwood Coffee Company
One morning about five years ago, Ben Cram and wife Terra Ogawa stopped by The Parsonage Cafe for their usual morning coffee. Having recently resigned as Chef at Pescatore’s, Ben was looking for a change, but didn’t know what. It was that nondescript yet fateful ...
First Look: Sitka Cafe
With all the recently opened shops popping up along gentrified lower Yates, it’s hard to keep up with what’s new. For those of us who watched Steamer’s close its doors a couple of years ago and wondered when the space would again be occupied, that ...
Oughtred Coffee and Tea
Oughtred Coffee and Tea has been supplying British Columbians with quality products for almost 40 years. And while they still maintain some of the key principals of good local business that the company established when it first began, much has changed in their near four ...
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Opened: Spiced Water
Tea and coffee geeks rejoice! Spiced Water’s had it’s Grand Opening at 727 Courtney Street in downtown Victoria Thursday. Check out the new location, take part in special pairings, sample a variety of multi-roaster coffee and single origin teas, and meet exuberant new owners, Jared ...
First Look: Discovery Coffee & Hudson Jones Baking
The cooler weather is a sure sign that fall is upon us. Luckily, our options for comfort food when the weather outside is frightful have increased just in time with the opening of combined Discovery Coffee/Hudson Jones Baking in James Bay. Not only can ...
Discovery Coffee Set to Open Third Location this Summer
Discovery Coffee is teaming up with Hudson Jones Baking to bring local coffee, homemade food and fresh baked goods to James Bay. The new location is situated at the corner of Michigan and Menzies, taking over the space from the former Café Mulatta and adjacent ...
