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Category: Coffee & Tea [Edit]
1002 Mainland StVancouver, BC V6B 2T4
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Yaletown
(604) 685-9929
6 reviews for Bean Around the World Coffees
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Bean Around the World Coffees
7/9/2009
Whenever I meet a friend for lunch in Yaletown, I suggest Bean around the World. I love their food selection, and the price is always right! Nowhere in Yaletown (that I've discovered, anyway) can you get food of this quality that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
The only thing preventing me from giving 5 stars - because I am a fan - is that the service is not always consistent. Sometimes, I am greeted with friendly, welcoming smiles. At other times, I feel like I am burdening the staff with my business. I know we all have 'those days', but don't take it out on your loyal customers!
Nevertheless, I will keep going back, and look forward to my next visit.
Bean Around the World Coffees
Updated - 8/6/2010
This has been my 'go-to' for breakfast and lunch at work. I still love their food and think it's a really great place, but I felt I needed to comment about the service. It's hit or miss here. The staff are regulars, and sometimes they greet you with a smile, other days they actually ignore you. You order from them and they make no eye contact, looking straight at the cashier, and don't use even the most basic of human civilities.
In addition, they have a coffee punch card (10 coffees, 1 free), and they make no effort to promote it to people whenever someone buys a coffee, and actually look at you begrudgingly when you ask them to stamp it.
Some of the staff here are always pleasant - but the majority have mood swings that make me wonder if a cafe can be diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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3/17/2010
I work right above this cafe so it's my "Go-To" - breakfast, lunch, snacks galore!
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Bean Around the World Coffees
6/19/2009
I should've gotten a latte... they looked soooooo good! but I was hungry.. and didn't feel like coffee. There is a huge food selection.. and I remember my roomate saying how he hadn't had a jamaican pattie in so long... and then i saw it:
Jamaican Vegetable Pattie. SOLD. It had beans, chickpeas, potatos, spices etc etc... I was warned it was spicy and it WAS!... once grilled, it looked a lot smaller and a lot less filling.. but I still enjoyed it when I got back to work.
Their sandwiches and and paninis look delicious and you can get a half portion as well...
The space looked nice.. it was big too... the service was a little slow and there were a lot of people working.. but I guess you can't control the speed of a grill and a steaming pitcher...
I want a cup of coffee now... I am sure this 3 - star rating would be better.
Listed in: World away from Starbucks..
Bean Around the World Coffees
8/8/2008
Top 3 things that I do NOT miss from frequent business trips to Vancouver:
3) 30% chance of flight delays - damn Air Alaska!
2) Seeing the depressing "Rain / Sleet" weather prediction in the elevator hall of Sheraton Wall Center every January and February morning
1) On most days - getting to work at 8 AM, working through lunch til 8PM, grabbing Subway sandwich on the way back to the hotel, AND resuming work again.
Top 3 things that I missed from frequent business trips to Vancouver:
3) Being able to expense awesome meals and hotel stays that would've otherwise broken the bank a long time ago.
2) Being able to accumulate mileage and credit card points courtesy of the firm
1) Morning cafe mocha and giant oatmeal raisin cookies from Bean Around The World.
Having spent almost a third of my year in Vancouver, working about 10 steps away from Bean Around The World in one direction, and another 10 steps away from Starbucks in another, never once did I ever step foot in the latter.
Bean Around The World serves the best cafe mocha in Vancouver. Or maybe, because my options are limited, having no car and no time to spare in between conference calls / working furiously to get things out of the door / much-needed shut-eye / fire drills, I have never had a chance to stumble across other coffee shops.
That being said, I don't mind it. I would rather live in blissful ignorance knowing that Bean Around The World, with its superior-tasting coffee beans, giant cookies and tasty lunch options fully satisfies my need for my morning and afternoon caffeine and sugar fixes and my noon chow-in-front-of-computer-screen.
Bean Around the World Coffees
11/13/2009
I like this little cafe in Yaletown, good prices and decent selection of sandwiches. There's also a great variety of wraps, rotis and the like. I've been slowly working through the variety they have and have yet to be disappointed. If you're in Yaletown and are sick of the chain restaurants and pricy alternatives this is a good bet for a simple, honest lunch. Don't miss the decent selection of cookies and pastries as well.
Bean Around the World Coffees
12/3/2008
Love the marble pound cake here.
Love the amount of seating here.
Love the friendly staff.
Love the hot chocolate- very chocolaty!
Love that this is on my way to the bank, and I can easily step in for a snack.
Don't love the comfort of the chairs (or lack there of)
Don't love the music (sometimes none)
Don't love the guy at the next table who kept clearing his throat every 5 seconds (but he's not always here)
I'm not sure that I'd go out of my way for this place, but it is a nice change when you're desperate to avoid the StarLenz takeover of Vancouver.
