Gracing Granville
21 03 2008Posted by Robert @ 10:40 pm
Trees Coffee on Granville
I am currently doing a practicum at Creative Spirit Communications, it’s been great fun and I am learning a lot. Other than my bosses love of Starbucks it was a great place to learn.
I am also learning about the cafes that grace Granville. I decided to take my friend, Laura Leyshon, out for a coffee at Trees Organic Coffee and try some of their cheesecake that people are talking about.
Let them eat cake
Trees Coffee was started in 1996 and is just one block from the Hastings and Granville Intersection. When you walk in you’re greeted with a great wooden atmosphere and tile floors.
We picked our sinful treats and we both chose the cherry and chocolate cheesecake. We went to pay for our tasty desserts and the total $20 cheesecake bill was really quite shocking. My mind did wonder, “Hey couldn’t I feed an entire village in Africa for the price of this cheese cake?” I felt more guilty for that than for the amount of calories I was consuming. Was the cheesecake the best I have ever tasted? Oh yes. . . .
Walk in the woods?
Laura got herself a latte and I went with the tried and true double shot Americano. Both were quite good and Laura really liked the free pour art she received on her drink.
My Americano was also a nice pull. Since starting my practicum a couple weeks ago, I have gone to Trees on a weekly basis and found that most products were of fair and decent quality.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
The beans are organic, fair trade and are roasted in the back. They roast in the off hours and the beans that sit there are the ones roasted. The only question I have is: Why have so many types of roasted beans sitting there? And how fast do they go through that production? It is nice to see all the different type of beans displayed, but the oxidation of the bean would degrade the quality of the roast. But with that said, I give my full approval to Trees Coffee and its sinful cheesecake.
Faces and Places
Where blog was written: Trees Organic Coffee
Drinks ordered: Medium latte and Americano
Discount of own to-go cup: large for price of a small
Barista Knowledge: dependable
Barista’s Friendliness: sincere
Website: http://www.treescoffee.com/
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Mmm. Looks so good! I’ll need to make a note to myself to visit.
Jane
http://mywoodenrobot.org
I am the International Marketing Manager at Vancouver Community College and I am looking for a guest speaker on fair trade coffee as part of an upcoming “international” event on both of our campuses. The theme of the event is about promoting global citizenship.
We were thinking that Fair Trade is an important aspect of this theme and we would be interested in knowing if there is anyone out there would do two presentations on Fair Trade coffee (one at each campus). This should be an opportunity for the presenter(s) to promote their cafe to hundreds of international and Canadian students as well as hundreds of instructors and staff.
To supplement this presentation we are also planning on showing the short documentary “Cafe Femenino” which explores the lives of Northern Peruvian co-op of female coffee producers.
All expressions of interest may reply to me personally at ndodd@vcc.ca
Thank-you!