Garden-Patio Coffee at Cafe Lokal

A leafy West End corner cafe two blocks from Stanley Park, with actual seating, an upstairs record shop, and the best built-in second act in the city.

A husband-and-wife Italian bakery-cafe on the Drive where a morning cornetto and an evening aperitivo are the same great date, twice.

A warm, cabin-feel cafe on Deep Cove's main street, purpose-built for the coffee you earn after Quarry Rock.

A century-old Port Moody building reborn as a cafe-slash-art-gallery, with vinyl, plants, cortados and a built-in conversation starter on every wall.

Vancouver's original multi-roaster, where the coffee list rotates weekly and the baristas take your pour-over more seriously than you take most things.

A flower-strewn cafe in Gastown's flatiron that pours espresso by day and natural wine by night, so one date can quietly become three.

An award-winning Swiss chocolatier-patisserie in Burnaby Heights where the espresso is merely the excuse and the cube croissant is the reason.

An award-winning timber pavilion shaped like a flower, where the room is so good the coffee almost has to apologize for stealing focus.

Chinatown's most serious coffee program in its most serene room, rotating Canada's best roasters through a space built for quiet talk.

A cosy Yaletown roastery with the one thing Yaletown rarely offers a coffee date: enough seats to actually settle in and talk.

A 4.9 rated bakery on Sixth Street where the laminated pastry is the reason and the flat white is the excuse.

A tiny Turkish-run cafe on a tucked-away downtown Langley lane, where sweet and savoury crepes meet a proper Turkish coffee.

A tiny French pastry counter in Ladner Village where the macarons and the croissants are the reason people drive out here.

The caffeinated heart of historic Cloverdale, roasting its own beans a few doors from Main Street's heritage storefronts.