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Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/06/16 16:36We have readers all over Canada - please enter your favorite community espresso - coffee place here please.
For Victoria: Discovery Coffee, Buon Amicis, Cafe Fantastico etc For Vancouver: Elysian room, Artigiano, etc etc etc
Always looking for hot tips for Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, etc etc... all the way out to St. Johns please.
Thanks!Colin is the Senior editor and creator of the CoffeeCrew.Com Website
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/06/17 13:56We're talking a whole different world in coffee culture over here, but in Ottawa the best straight shot I have seen came from i deal Coffee in the market. Next bet would probably be Caffe Mio on Wellington, though I haven't been back in a while, nor since their renovation.
For an active community, Mio has a good following I understand. i deal is a relative newcomer, but they've got the roaster out in prominence and a waiting Ms. Pacman table machine. I daresay you will find open room to sit, meet, read, or think in this establishment, not to mention the presence of a roastmistress that takes her coffee seriously.
Someone else had good things to say about Jazzoo in New Edinburgh, but I cannot agree from my one(!) visit.
Very few places in Ottawa have a clue about espresso. We must cherish what we have; the beacons of the Ottawa coffee scene are so in part for their appreciation of coffee and their genuine desire to improve and step above in a market where coffee is bucks and seconds. You have to include Francescos in this list as a roaster, along with Equator Coffee in Almonte/Arnprior and Greg Stevenson roasting his heart out down in Winchester at Something's Brewing.
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/06/20 17:25Birds and Beans in Etobicoke was really neat. I stopped by to pick up a tamper and an americano. Got to talking with the owner, Madeline if I recall correctly, and she gave me a tour of their backroom roasting facility. It was very cool considering that was my very first time in the shop. I make a living in the control industry (PID is my friend) and it made my day seeing the control software used for roasting batches.
The americano was most excellent by the way.
I don't get out much but it seems to me that the coffee scene in the GTA is slowly but surely starting to pick up.
Kai.
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colin (editor dude)
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/06/22 10:43Thank you Kai - I appreciate that.
So far, I have resources on this site for the best espresso places in: Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Toronto and parts of Southern Ontario and, oh yes, Halifax.
Still looking for hot tips for Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina, Montreal, Quebec City and St. Johns Newfoundland.
Come on Frederick! Where are Montreal`s classic cafes?
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colin (editor dude)
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/07/17 09:52Wow -- 600 views of this posting and no opinions!
Is coffee that bad in Canada?
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deaflegacy
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/08/14 17:12Nah, the coffee is as good in Canada as it is in America.
I would recommend an excellent cafe but it's in Langley, British Columbia, I'm not sure if you'd welcome the tip.
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/08/14 20:17deaflegacy wrote: I would recommend an excellent cafe but it's in Langley, British Columbia, I'm not sure if you'd welcome the tip.
Sure we would! Please, let us know.
The CoffeeCrew site is based in Victoria, though we reach a fairly wide audience (I'm out in Ottawa; we also get a lot of readers from the States; some from further still, including Australia and New Zealand).
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/08/15 08:49For Montreal, I really like Caffe Art Java, located at 837 Mont-Royal Est. My son starts at Concordia in September, and I am looking forward to the excuse to drive in from Montreal and take him there for lunch on a regular basis.
I tried a place on Jasper Avenue in downtown Edmonton that was fantastic. If I was back there I know I could find it. But do you think I can remember the name? They didn't roast their own beans, but had them shipped in daily from a BC roaster.
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/08/15 09:30I am in Regina for 5 days - Espresso here is a slight challenge - but they are way more evolved that I would have expected.
Top draw so far is the 13th Street Coffeehouse in Regina... then again, I have not been really brave enough to tackle them all yet!Colin is the Senior editor and creator of the CoffeeCrew.Com Website
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Re:Best Cafes by Canadian Cities - 2006/08/18 13:57Hi it's me who had posted earlier by name "deaflegacy".
The cafe in Langley, British Columbia, that I recommend is The Wired Monk. They serve wonderful coffee!
I am still going to go there because it's not far and hey, I like being there with a really good cup of coffee.
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