A Swiss chocolatier breaking slabs by hand at Pacific Centre, a Montreal salad chain with a salmon salad sold only in Kits, and a New York-style pizza shop that found a new Kingsway home after a year away.
Ten Vancouver food spots opened between the last day of August and the end of September, and here is what each one is doing.
1. Läderach
The Swiss chocolatier founded in 1962 opened its second BC store inside CF Pacific Centre on September 5, a year after its Richmond Centre debut.
The draw is FrischSchoggi, fresh chocolate slabs that staff break by hand and weigh to order, from macadamia to raspberry blackberry. It took the former Nespresso unit.
Address: CF Pacific Centre, 701 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
2. Mandy’s Gourmet Salads
Sisters Mandy and Rebecca Wolfe started Montreal’s first create-your-own salad bar in the back of a women’s clothing store in 2004. Their chain opened its first Vancouver shop on September 23, an express takeout format with a 16-seat patio.
The Salmon by the Sea salad is sold only here, and Coal Harbour is next.
Address: 2202 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver
Read the Mandy’s Kitsilano story
3. Honest to Pete Coffee Roasters
The wooden coffee shack beside the CBC that JJ Bean left in November 2024 is pouring again. Mount Pleasant roaster Honest to Pete soft opened it on August 31, serving its Retrospresso blend at the front window, plus new breakfast and lunch sandwiches grilled on a panini press.
Address: 740 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
Who took over the CBC coffee shack
4. Zab Bite Thai Express
The fast-casual counter from Zab Bite, the Fraser Street E-Sarn restaurant with a Michelin Guide recommendation since 2024, soft opened September 9 in Bentall Centre’s rebuilt Burrard Food Court.
Orders go through a touchscreen, and the short menu runs pad see ew, Thai fried chicken bowls and holy basil over rice.
Address: Burrard Food Court, Bentall Centre, 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Inside the Zab Bite express counter
5. Four Bite Burger
Jeremy Lau and Peter Yau, the owners of Bovine Rice Bowls, opened this slider counter on September 24, the last of the five new counters in the same Bentall food court.
Sliders come in packs of two, three or four on steamed potato rolls with curly fries, and it runs weekday lunch only, 11am to 3pm.
Address: Suite 105, Bentall Centre, 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver
6. TurF
Lululemon veterans Deanne and Delaney Schweitzer have run their fitness studio, cafe and apparel shop on West 4th since 2017. Their Mount Pleasant location opened September 2, the sisters’ second try at expanding after a downtown studio that opened in 2020 closed.
The cafe pours Moja coffee alongside toasts and protein pancakes.
Address: 3988 Main Street, Vancouver
7. CoCo Bubble Tea
The bubble tea chain with more than 5,000 stores worldwide left SW Marine Drive at the end of August for a small grab-and-go shop on Cambie Street. It sits next to Chi Cha San Chen, with Chatime across the street, putting three tea counters within steps of each other by Langara.
Address: 6350 Cambie Street, Vancouver
8. Ninth Cup
A matcha team that started with pop-ups in November 2025 opened its first storefront on September 5, in the West Broadway unit 7-Inch Waffle House left in 2024.
The short menu sticks to ceremonial matcha and hojicha lattes, $8 each, with fruit and seasonal versions on top.
Address: 107 to 223 West Broadway, Vancouver
From pop-up to Broadway storefront
9. Duchess Cafe
The bottled cocktail brand behind what it calls BC’s best-selling Cosmopolitan opened a pink cafe on September 3, in the street-facing half of its own Adanac Street factory.
It runs a full espresso bar with coffee and pastries from Ex-Animo, a custom Duchess cookie and a no-tipping model.
Address: 1249 Adanac Street, Vancouver
Inside the Duchess factory cafe
10. Straight Outta Brooklyn
Pushed off Kingsway when its plaza near Fraser was set for redevelopment in June 2025, the New York-style pizza shop opened a new 16-seat spot on the same street on September 25. Every pie is 15 inches and cut into four XL slices, and this is the brand’s sixth location.
Address: 918 Kingsway, Vancouver
Straight Outta Brooklyn’s new Kingsway shop
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