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Chocolate & Pastries at Thierry
Rainy Day
Paint Pottery at Café au Clay
A Kitsilano studio-and-coffee-shop where you drop in, paint a bisque mug badly over flat whites, and collect it fired and finished a few days later.
Rainy Day
A Kitsilano studio-and-coffee-shop where you drop in, paint a bisque mug badly over flat whites, and collect it fired and finished a few days later.
There is exactly one activity on a grey Sunday afternoon that results in you getting glaze on your sleeves while holding a flat white, and it is Café au Clay. This tiny Kitsilano studio-and-coffee-shop combo lets you drop in, pick a bisque mug or bowl off the shelf, and paint it however you like over the next couple of hours. No skill is required. No skill is expected. The whole charm is the comfortable chaos of two people quietly competing to produce the less hideous piece while their coffees go cold. Your ceramic goes off to be fired, you come back a few days later, and you pick up a hand-painted mug you will use every morning and think about. It is cheap, it is cosy, and it is more romantic than it has any right to be.
