Greggs or Tim Hortons?
Mar 25th 2019 | 7:13 am
#16
Bex in the city
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 3,900
From: Vancouver, BC
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
That vegan one is being talked about a lot, but to me it seems like what's the point. With a real sausage roll at least you are getting some meat with the unhealthy pastry, but with a vegan one it's just some ground up mush and unhealthy pastry. What kind of food is that ?!
Mar 25th 2019 | 7:51 am
#19
Account Closed
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 0
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
Duffin's has the best I have found in Vancouver, never been to Cartems, no idea how they taste, Krispy Kreme are not great, okay but not great.
Last edited by scrubbedexpat091; Mar 25th 2019 at 7:57 am.
Mar 25th 2019 | 7:57 am
#20
Bex in the city
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 3,900
From: Vancouver, BC
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
That is an opinion, I dont even know where else in Vancouver sells decent donuts
Mar 25th 2019 | 8:03 am
#21
Account Closed
Joined: Mar 2017
Posts: 0
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
A "frothy coffee" in the Wimpy Bar in Cheltenham was always nice, but that was 50 odd years ago.
Mar 25th 2019 | 8:10 am
#23
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 3,876
From: BC, Canada
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
Never been to Greggs
Don't like Tim's except in an emergency when tehre is nowhere else, and even then I don't drink their coffee .................. bottle of juice is all.
Much prefer independent coffee shops, and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of them around. All well worth supporting, and with much better coffee and choice of things to eat than any mass-produced food from a chain.
Blenz or Bean Around The World are OK-ish for coffee, not so good for food.
Best 3 in BC?? All have great coffee and delicious food, mostly prepared to order. But NO doughnuts
Wick's in Vancouver .....
Chartreuse Moose in 100 Mile House
Blue Moose in Hope.
Don't like Tim's except in an emergency when tehre is nowhere else, and even then I don't drink their coffee .................. bottle of juice is all.
Much prefer independent coffee shops, and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of them around. All well worth supporting, and with much better coffee and choice of things to eat than any mass-produced food from a chain.
Blenz or Bean Around The World are OK-ish for coffee, not so good for food.
Best 3 in BC?? All have great coffee and delicious food, mostly prepared to order. But NO doughnuts
Wick's in Vancouver .....
Chartreuse Moose in 100 Mile House
Blue Moose in Hope.
Mar 25th 2019 | 8:40 am
#26
Bex in the city
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 3,900
From: Vancouver, BC
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
Funnily enough have not really found any decent independent coffee shops in Vancouver or around. Elysian is ok by Cambie and Broadway but I don't know if you class that as a chain.
Mar 25th 2019 | 8:54 am
#27
BE user by choice
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 4,854
From: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
Cornish Pasty...any savoury pie...sausage rolls...guess which one I'm voting for? Canadian pastry always looks anemic...
Now you've got me thinking hard about food and I've got salad tonight
Now you've got me thinking hard about food and I've got salad tonight
Mar 25th 2019 | 9:16 am
#28
BE Forum Addict
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 3,366
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
MENU – La Maison du Kouignamann
My favourite of all time was in Nice
https://goo.gl/maps/PSHb9KELTFx
Mar 25th 2019 | 10:53 am
#29
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 3,876
From: BC, Canada
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
I agree Two If By The Sea is good ....... though I haven't tried the almond croissant ........... one of the many things I can't eat!
I haven't heard of Elysian
Have you tried Caffe Artigiano? It's a small chain started in Vancouver, think most (if not all) of their ca 20 locations are in Metro. I think their first one was the one on Hornby Street, next to the Hotel Vancouver.
The Other Paw Bakery Cafe is good if you're ever in Jasper, or the SnowDome Coffee bar in the laundromat, again in Jasper.
Last edited by scilly; Mar 25th 2019 at 10:58 am.
Mar 25th 2019 | 11:19 am
#30
Thread Starter
Oscar nominated
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 55,309
From: Moncton, NB, CANADA
Re: Greggs or Tim Hortons?
It was a bit like this brown derby
Doughnut with a hole filled with ice cream - firm not whipped - and chocolate sauce.
And that weird thing they did with a sausage
Wimpy Bars were fantastic. We had an alternative office Christmas dinner in one once cos the price of the one in the canteen was outrageous.
