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AGRO Cafe's Granville Island location is a licensed cafe and bistro, featuring a full kitchen, spacious seating on the cafe floor and upstairs mezzanine, and cozy patio space perfect for leaning back with a hot cup of coffee, a meal, and a spot of people watching.
Limited but solid selection of food, with vegetarian options. The coffee was excellent and the ambience was outstanding (Granville Island, what can be better). There was no table service but the food was quite good so it was worth going to the counter to pick it up. Agro Cafe displays a real committment to organic, fair trade, coffees and organic food. For sure, my wife and I will go again.
My friend and I dropped in to fix a sugar low at 4pm last weekend. The folks in line in front of us placed their order, but when we got to the the cashier, she hummed and hahhed vaguely mentioning there was no food available, in fact the kitchen was closed. We could order anything else. I asked if we had to leave or could we stay to have our drinks, we could stay. We ordered a small mocha and cocoa. Delicious but it cost almost $8, a bit steep for the smallest size and they were in paper cups; for a place that was trying to be earth friendly, I thought was odd. Not going back.
Having lived in Vienna, Austria, for over 4 years before coming to Vancouver, we really miss good coffee houses. Not the boring, all identical Starbucks and look alikes but a real coffee house with a good selection of coffee, some food (not only sweets) and a nice, relaxing ambiance. AGRO café on Granville island is what I found to come closest to this dream so far.
The espresso was hot, extremely good and served in a real espresso cup - what a relief from all the crappy, oversized plastic and paper cups you get almost everywhere else. My partner had a chai latte that was excellent as well. Even our little one liked it, and he is usually really picky. He had a cheese sandwich which was based on good multigrain bread and seemed to be excellent - he ate it all in no time. As a treat we tried the homemade brownies and found them to be excellent as well. The incredible food goes to the super quality coffee, rather than the food, however.
Service was friendly and just what you expect from a café like this, but the poor girl at the cash, coffee machine and counter was a little overwhelmed by the massive amount of people on a Saturday evening (!). I did not really understand why none of the 3 (!) young man in the back could help her out preparing coffee but were idling and waiting for a food order. There were also two tables to be cleaned for about 30 minutes...
What I really liked was the ambiance. The café has a lower and a 'mezzanine' (upper) floor where a couple of tables are distributed, some 4 or 5 tables outside and two leather couches with a little couch table. Decent music in the back (not too loud for having a conversation) and a mixed crowd of interestingly looking people sitting at the other tables make the AGRO café a really nice place to have a coffee and take some time to chat, read a newspaper or probably even work.
If the furniture had some patina (ie. was about 30 years older ;-) and the interior was a little darker with some huge mirrors to make the room look bigger, the AGRO café could be somewhere in Vienna. Great. Now just open up one on SFU campus and I will come every day!
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