Richmond was supposed to have somewhere to buy a donut at 3 am by now.
Well, it’s not happening anytime soon.
Breka Bakery and Café, the popular 24 hour Vancouver chain opening up at CF Richmond Centre, has confirmed the delay to Noms Magazine.
A screenshot first posted to Reddit on August 15 showed the bakery telling a customer the Richmond store had slipped to 2027.
We asked Breka whether it was true.
“Yes, likely closer to January 2027,” the bakery told Noms Magazine.
We then asked whether permitting was behind it, since we had watched both Marugame Udon and Kokoro Tokyo Mazesoba sit on their own Park Road units for about half a year before any build-out started.
“Yes! Due to permitting delays out of our control,” Breka said.
The original timeline was the tail end of summer 2026, which is the window closing right now.
January 2027 makes the slip roughly five months.
The store is a 2,500 square foot unit in the Park Plaza development going up on the Richmond Centre property, and it would be Breka’s ninth in the province.
Like every other Breka, it is meant to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the same case of cakes, donuts, apple strudel, Bienenstich, rye breads, sandwiches, and coffee.
That is the part Richmond does not currently have.
There is no true all-hours bakery in the city centre, which is why this one has been tracked so closely.
Park Road is meant to become one of the new food strips in Richmond, and almost none of it is open.
But are we actually surprised?
Not really.
Permitting in Vancouver and Richmond is notoriously LONG.
We’ve heard nightmares from more than one owner about waiting a year long on for the approvals.
Fingers crossed that it doesn’t go beyond January!
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