There’s no doubt that all-day Hong Kong-style cafe breakfast has quietly become the hottest ticket in Richmond’s food courts in the last few years.
And one of its fastest-expanding name just set a date for address number three.
One Cafe 正斗茶記 told Noms Magazine that they will be soft opening its Lansdowne Centre food court stall this Thursday, July 16th.
The stall takes over the unit that used to be Villa Vietnamese, a spot we covered when the coming-soon signage first went up earlier this year.
It makes Lansdowne the cha chaan teng chain’s third Richmond location, joining the original Parker Place food court stall and its Empire Centre sibling, both also on No. 3 Road.
That’s a quick climb for a stall that started at Parker Place in 2023.
The expansion tear doesn’t stop at the city line either.
One Cafe recently soft opened its first Burnaby stall at Crystal Mall, its first address outside Richmond, and a second stall in that same food court is already in the works in the former Kingspark Good Food unit.
Count them all and Lansdowne is stall number five, with a sixth on deck.
The draw is a formula that barely needs explaining if you grew up with it.
A cha chaan teng is Hong Kong’s version of the all-day diner, and the food court stall edition runs on the same logic: fast, familiar comfort orders at prices that don’t sting.
HK-style cafe stalls like this one have been pulling long daily lines lately, built on all-day breakfast sets that land around $15 for a main, toast, eggs, and a drink.
In a food court economy where a solo lunch creeps past $20, that math travels fast.
It’s the same current that carried CK Tea C into Pacific Plaza last month, run by the team behind Ming Tak, the Granville Street HK-style spot that lasted 24 years.
One Cafe’s new home has seen turnover from the other direction too: the Lansdowne food court said goodbye to My Coffee, its coffee stall of 15 years, earlier in 2026.
Meanwhile, Roastory Asian BBQ and Freshly Squeezed, a 50-year-old Ontario juice and bubble tea chain, are both on the way in.
Zoom out and Richmond’s new-opening list keeps stacking: Taoke’s hot pot and sizzling plates at Aberdeen Centre, CK Tea C reviving the old Ming Tak team at Pacific Plaza, and Jiawei Big Bowl’s rice noodles at Richmond Public Market.
One Cafe Lansdowne joins that list on July 16.
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Address: Lansdowne Centre food court, Richmond, BC