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Yoka's Coffee - CLOSED
Category: Food Coffee & Tea Coffee & Tea [Edit]
3171 Broadway WVancouver, BC V6K 2H2
Neighbourhood: Kitsilano
(604) 738-0905
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
11 reviews for Yoka's Coffee
11 reviews in English
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Review from Crystal H.
Vancouver, BC
5/2/2009 1 Check-in Here
Oh - Yoka- I could not start my day without you and your delivery of my first dose of daily caffeine!
What I can't believe I have never tried until yesterday is the chocolate. It sits there - taunting me every time I go in, and yet I've resisted for years. Until the yelpers started opening their mouths and telling tales of chocolate goodness (thank you, thank you, thank you)
OMG - it's amazing - the Callebaut Giandula is like the centre of a Purdy's hedgehog - but fricking-fan-tabulous! And I'm a chocoholic! Oops... I must clean my keyboard - I just drooled! -
Review from Herman E.
12/7/2011
It is here that I got my Zassenhaus manual grinder in 2008. So sad when I found out that they were closing and moving.
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Review from Marc D.
Vancouver, BC
12/30/2008
**** WARNING: If you read this through to the end you may become an addict. ****
This spot really feels like you are going back in time to the hippy days of Kitsilano that I've only heard about before it became overrun with DINKs and DIKs. The couple that runs the place is so friendly, in an aging hippy kind of way that it just feels comfortable. They clearly have a love for their coffee and honey products and always give a warm welcome.
But my favourite reason to visit is that it is a wonderful spot to pick up Callebaut chocolate reasonably priced by the chunk (or by the kilo if you want). This is not Bernard Callebaut (he is an offspring of the same chocolate dynasty that opened up his own line of chocolates in Canada). This stuff is the original Callebaut from Belgium and is the professional use imported chocolate used by many high end chocolatiers as a raw ingredient for their work.
The Callebaut gianduia is always a favourite - it tastes like a hazelnut truffle, but comes in bulk blocks (it is used by many chocolatiers as the base for filling their truffles)!
Careful. If you get a small portion of this milk chocolate that is laced with real hazelnut paste you will be back for more. I warned you. Don't blame me if you start begging friends for money so you can buy a kilo of the good stuff. -
Review from Adam K.
Vancouver, BC
4/22/2009
Yokas is a quirky coffee shop in kitslano that specializes in roasted coffee beans (roaster is in the shop, probably why its so hot in there), teas, chocolates and honey. The people that run the place are extremely friendly and happy to help.
I came here for the Callebaut gianduia, recommended by Marc D. I probably shouldn't even tell anybody about this and try to keep this to myself but I guess its already out in the open.
I'm not an expert on chocolate but this stuff is good. Its basically like eating nutella, but nutella with an INTENSE chocolate / cocoa flavour thats layered with hazelnut. I cut myself a thin slice (its the same consistency as cold butter) and just let it melt in my mouth slowly and lingers. Basically, buy as much as you want to eat in one day because its impossible to stop.
This stuff is absolutely amazing. They have it in jars at the front for $3.40 for 100g. For that price, I'm confident in saying that this is as good as it gets. I think cadbury chocolate at safeway goes for slightly under that so for the kind of quality your getting, its really not a bad deal.
I'm going to go back to try some of their other chocolates and their coffees / teas, all of which look very reasonably priced and freshly roasted / made. Otherwise, with the hazelnut chocolate alone, I'm confident in saying that this is as good as it gets. -
Review from Natasha L.
11/6/2009 ROTD 12/31/2009
The place can be deceptive from the outside, but inside it's like a coffee, chocolate, and tea lover dreamland rolled into one.
Just bought their Sumatra coffee and the smell still permeates inside my car.
Don't get me started on their Giandula, a grown up, more portable form of Nutella. -
Review from Noa G.
Vancouver, BC
9/26/2008
Whether you drink coffee or not, treat yourself to a trip to Yoka's Coffee & Honey on West Broadway, where a beautiful aroma hits you as soon as you walk through the door.
Yoka's java offerings are fresh, varied, and delicious, and you would be hard pressed to find fresher, tastier honey without going straight to the hive. Also, try the yummy chocolate-covered coffee beans for $2.50.Listed in: Give Good Gift!, Coffee Crazy
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Review from Peter S.
4/13/2009
So far this is the best place I have found to buy quality loose teas in Vancouver. I spend about $20 on Organic Tanzania and Earl Grey teas, which lasts us about four months. We drink it every morning!
I do wish they would bring in a couple of new black teas, as I am getting a bit bored of my old faithfuls.
I have always ignored the massive blocks of Callebaut and Vanilla beans, but I doubt I can hold out much longer.
Yoka's is an absolute delight! No BS, just proper tea and coffee.Listed in: Tea. I am addicted!
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Review from Chloë E.
Vancouver, BC
11/11/2008
Walking into Yoka's and you get the feel that not much has changed in the past 15 years here. The inside of the store is quite sparse, but head straight back to the counter.
I usually just pop in for a coffee, which is always strongly brewed. The roasting happens on-site with the coffee roaster sitting under a huge air-ventilation hood in the back corner. Yoka's also sells green beans for home-roasters.
I've never actually seen any other customers in the store, and occasionally service feels like there aren't too many. But order a coffee, fill the cup yourself, then select an adorable mini creamer jug from the fridge below. I like the balance in Yoka's--that nothing is overdone and run past a focus group first. We've bought good beans here to have at home.Listed in: No Starbucks here: Cafés and…
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Review from Brian S.
Richmond, BC
2/27/2009
Although I seldom trek into Vancouver anymore, I go at least once a month to buy a couple of pounds the most awesome coffee beans from Yoka. The House espresso blend is amazing and I've yet to find better. This isn't really a place to hangout to sip coffee and see and be seen although the half dozen or so seats there can be relaxing, but their coffee beans, honey and chocolate are unbeatable.
By he way, the main heading says they take credit cards, but they don't even take debit. This is a cash only place. -
Review from Roanna Z.
4/23/2009
THREE WORDS:
Dairy Lover's Dream.
Each time I go here, I feel so sad and have to leave because they do NOT offer any non dairy alternatives.
Just for the record, I am NOT vegan, I am allergic.
It's just not fair.
whaa-a-a-a-h-h-h ! -
Review from James P.
Vancouver, BC
5/18/2010
Yoka's is closing at the end of June and moving to Victoria - 1046 Mason Street, near Cook and Pandora... :-( They will do mail orders.
