Co-Zi on Fraser Cafe

2 days ago, on a rainy Vancouver day, Bryan and I made our way to Co-Zi Cafe for a late afternoon snack. Located at 4376 Fraser Street, this cafe is a 5 minute walk from our place. 
This place is new to the neighbourhood, opening its doors earlier this month of October.
Like their name, this place is small and cozy, almost a bit cramped. If there was a morning rush of people I could see it getting a tad too tight in there. There's seating for about 16 people more or less. We ordered at the front, and the friendly server brought the food/drinks to our table.

It was cold out so we had some warm drinks. I chose the organic peppermint tea. It's cute how they serve it in a mini teapot. For $1.85 it filled up my teacup of a generous size 3 times.

 And we also chose to share a cinnamon bun. He was nice to ask us if we wanted it warmed up and of course we wanted a warm gooey cinnamon bun. For $2.95, it was an OK cinnamon bun. The size was big enough to share, but I don't know what the server thinks the definition of "warm-up" is, because it wasn't warm at all..

The taste was satisfying enough though, not dry and even had raisins in it. 

Bryan ordered a medium sized Mocha. $3.85. He said it tasted average. It would've been nice to see a design on top.

 The seating was comfy with modern decor and an almost elegant look. I like the design on the cushioned booth type seating as you can see in the picture above.

p.s. the sun was coming out! but as you can expect in Vancouver, the rain came back quick minutes later..

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There's a tv in the corner too.

The music they played was nice too - a sort of modern hip jazz with a touch of pop. haha if that makes any sense!

We might come back here another time, but we'd be more inclined to if they have wi-fi, which we're unsure of.

Co-Zi gets a 7 out of 10. 

It'll be interesting to see how well this business turns out.

Happy Eating! xoxo,

Bryan & Dina

Marulilu Cafe

Last month, my lovely took me to a new Japanese breakfast place. Marulilu Cafe is on the corner of Cambie and Broadway (451 West Broadway). It's very accessible as it is right across from the Broadway-City Hall skytrain station.

When she said, Japanese breakfast, I didn't really know what to expect. I was like, sushi for breakfast?? hahaha but I was pleasantly surprised, we were promptly greeted by 2 very friendly staff. We order at the counter and then they bring you your order. The place isn't huge either, it could probably seat about 25 - 30 people.
Everything on the menu was reasonably priced.
Here is my order:

Eggs Benny with one hashbrown with my choice of ham

I must say these are the best tasting eggs benny I've ever had. I've only had eggs benny maybe 5 times in my life, but this one tops them all.

Presentation is superb and the taste was very delicious, served warm as it should be.

I believe my dish was just under $8.

Here is Hambie's order: a Japanese style Breakfast

It came with a bowl of steamed white rice, miso soup, tofu, plain egg omelet and her choice of salmon. I believe everything was tasty, but I do recall her mentioning that the tofu was kind of dry and would've been nice with a sauce.

Well presented dish as well

We are happy happy! and so are our tummies! :)

The only concern I had was that I don't think there was air conditioning, it was pretty stuffy inside especially with the sun shining through the window.

I know that my opinions on this place aren't fresh, seeing as I'm writing this post almost 2 months later, but it's to the best that I can remember.

All in all, I give Marulilu Cafe an 8.5 out of 10 and will definitely come back again to try some other items on the menu.

Bon Chaz Bakery Cafe

I know it's been a looong while since our last post, but we've superduper busy. But we're here now :)
Our next stop is at Bon Chaz on 426 West Hastings Street downtown Vancouver. We've been here a few times now and also their other location on the corner of Main St and Broadway.

It's a cute little place to grab a warm drink and a treat or even some lunch. Aside from baked pastries, they also serve daily soups, sandwiches and pastas.
There was a bunch to choose from on our first visit, but we were definitely going to satisfy our sweet tooth.
Their 'bonchaz" buns are made of buttery goodness and you can choose from original and other flavors depending on the day, like matcha or chocolate. We had a coupon for a free one (which is also what led us to this place!) so we tried an original.

It's a cute little bun regularly $1.95. It was so-so for me, but it definitely was moist and just the right amount of sweet.

I was more excited when we also got these!

Oh.My. Gosh. Bryan and I could not get over how good the chocolate croissant is!!! Heaven! The croissant is so soft and buttery and with the chocolate baked into the inside as well, you can't not like it! definitely worth the $3.95

Next up, we had the pecan and brown sugar cupcake. I believe every day they have a different cupcake. It's a regular sized cupcake and we thought it was a little expensive for $3.95, but we wanted to go for it anyways. wow, is that ever sweet. The brown sugar was a little overwhelming actually. You couldn't really enjoy it much because it was overly sweet. 

And lastly, the black and white cookie. It's a pretty big double chocolate cookie. The texture is more of a cake to us, but nonetheless, deeelicious. This one is definitely a winner.

 

The prices are little up there for us, although they do have a different deal every day. For example, every Friday, pastries are 10% off. The people that work there are really nice too, very friendly.

We give BonChaz an 8 out of 10 overall. The croissant gets an 11 out of 10 ;)

*we went back to BonChaz specifically for a chocolate croissant the other day only to find out that they wont be making them anymore :( 

Happy Eating, xoxo

Dina & Bryan