Cozy & Intimate
Coffee and Books at Bean Around Books & Tea
Secondhand shelves, Colombian coffee from Huila, and a nonprofit backbone that makes your latte feel genuinely virtuous.
Lougheed Highway, downtown
More infoCozy & Intimate
Secondhand shelves, Colombian coffee from Huila, and a nonprofit backbone that makes your latte feel genuinely virtuous.
Lougheed Highway, downtown
More infoBean Around Books hands you a date agenda the moment you walk in: shelves of secondhand books, serious coffee from Huila, Colombia, and a warm room that refuses to let you leave. It's run by the nonprofit Pathfinder Youth Centre Society, so your latte is quietly doing good while you clock what your date gravitates toward on the shelves. You learn a lot about someone in a secondhand bookshop.
Come on the early side, it closes at 5pm on weekdays, 3pm Saturday, and is shut Sunday, so this is a daytime date, not an after-dinner one. Order the coffee (it's sourced from Huila, Colombia, and is the genuine draw, not an afterthought) and grab a cozy corner before the regulars claim them. The actual date mechanic is the books: it's a bookshop as much as a cafe, so make a game of pulling a title off the shelf you think the other person should read, it tells you more about someone than an hour of small talk. Don't miss the fact that it's run by the nonprofit Pathfinder Youth Centre Society, so buying a book or a second round is the easy feel-good move. Timing trick: it's right on the downtown Lougheed strip, so pair a rainy-day browse here with a wander to The ACT gallery a few blocks over for a no-cost double-feature.
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