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Chocolate & Pastries at Thierry
Broke & Bougie
A Cheap Date Down The Drive
Walk The Drive end to end, argue soccer pennants over a cappuccino at Vancouver's oldest Italian coffee shop, and spend nothing.
Broke & Bougie
Walk The Drive end to end, argue soccer pennants over a cappuccino at Vancouver's oldest Italian coffee shop, and spend nothing.
Cafe Calabria has been slinging espresso on Commercial Drive long enough to earn the title of Vancouver's oldest Italian coffee shop, and a strong cappuccino there costs roughly what it always has. That's the starting pistol for a classic Drive afternoon. Walk the street end to end through Little Italy's delis, record shops, indie bookstores and produce stands, veer into the patios spilling onto the sidewalk, and discover how much of the entertainment is simply watching what happens on The Drive. A split pastry keeps the whole date under ten dollars. Come back to Calabria to settle the debate over which soccer pennant belongs to which club. The Drive will have opinions about the answer, and so will everyone at the next table.
