Today I sampled a local coffee house - JJ Bean. JJ Bean is a Vancouver based micro roaster that provides beans to restaurants around the city and also has several retail coffee outlets, including a small kiosk at Granville Island. I don't really know anything about the business - who owns it, when it started, etc. - but I do know they make great coffee. I usually buy a pound of JJ Espresso beans for home. JJ Bean is one of the last places around that will give you a free coffee when you buy a pound of beans.
Interestingly, JJ Bean is one of the most expensive drip coffees in town at $2.10 for a large. Interesting because most of their outlets are on the less affluent east side of Vancouver. If you stop for a cup of joe on the way to work with your tie on, you're sure to get attitude from the bohemian crowd and servers. In the summer, you can often smell marijuana wafting from the patio at the Commercial Drive location.
JJ Bean makes GREAT coffee. Strong and flavourful but not stinkface bitter like Starbucks. And they have sleeves for their cups. And you can usually find parking. The downside is that the price is high and there's only a few locations to choose from. Overall, I'll give it 4.5 beans out of 5. Delicious coffee, served hot, JJ Bean is a refreshing change from the major chains.
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