Coffee Shops in Vancouver
Vancouver is all-in on specialty coffee: two decades of home-grown roasters, more microroasters than you can count, and a standard for flat whites and single-origin pour-overs that rivals anywhere in North America.
Coffee roasters in Vancouver
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Coffee areas in Vancouver
Gastown & Railtown
Revolver anchors Gastown, while Pallet Coffee Roasters’ industrial HQ lets you watch beans being roasted over a precision pour-over.
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Mount Pleasant
One of the city’s densest specialty pockets, home to Elysian Coffee’s sun-filled East Van space with house-roasted beans.
Commercial Drive
The heart of Vancouver’s Italian community in the 1970s, where locals chatted over espressos at cafés like Café Calabria, founded in 1976.
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South Main
49th Parallel’s roastery café on Main Street showcases direct-trade coffees alongside Lucky’s sourdough doughnuts.
Kitsilano
A dense specialty pocket where Sweet Barrel pairs an in-house coffee roastery with its own ice cream creamery.
Downtown & Nemesis
Each Nemesis location offers a prime photo moment, part of a wave of finely curated cafés replacing the era of chain coffee on every corner.
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Coffee drinks in Vancouver
Milano espresso
Milano’s espressos blend up to 13 origin coffees, with up to 70% organically grown beans; the roastery traces back to Francesco Curatolo in 1974.
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Single-origin pour-over
Vancouver is all-in on lighter roasts and micro lots, with too many microroasters doing interesting things to count.
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JJ Bean seasonal single origin
JJ Bean, Vancouver’s independent roaster, serves seasonal single origins and espresso blends with a focus on terroir-driven coffee.
Ethical Bean fair-trade cup
Ethical Bean has offered 100% certified organic, fair-trade coffee since 2003, after its co-founders fell in love with coffee in Guatemala.