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Steveston's quietly famous little spa, voted best in Richmond seventeen years running, doing organic facials and Thai aromatherapy massage a block off the boardwalk.
More infoTao occupies a small suite on Bayview Street, a block from the Steveston boardwalk, and has taken Richmond's best-spa vote seventeen years in a row without ever making much noise about it. The menu is properly organic rather than decoratively so: Eminence facials built on blueberry, pumpkin and arctic berry, alongside Thai aromatherapy massage and a hot herbal compress treatment that leaves you pleasantly useless. Rooms are booked one at a time, and there is no walk-in desk, so this is a planned stop rather than a wander-in one. They ask for four to six weeks of notice, which tells you exactly how well kept the secret is.