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A Bread Affair

4.1 (131 reviews)
InexpensiveBakeries, Sandwiches
Open • 9:00 am - 6:30 pm

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Moderate noise
Classy
Good for kids
Dogs allowed

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Maya Mayuko T.

My favorite season has arrived -- the Vancouver Croissant Crawl Festival! I visited Bread Affair in Granville island. What I got: Campfire S'Mores Croissant Dressed in a craqueline coat with a molten love affair of smoky chocolate and gooey vanilla bean marshmallow. Staff warmed up croissant, so, marshmallow and chocolate melted, it was such a guilty pleasure item. Very impactful! Dough was so crispy and buttery inside, Croissant , marshmallow and chocolate paired so well, I could not stop having it. Very delicious. After I had one, I was completely satisfied. Very good and unique item for 2025!

Ham crossiant, chocolate crossiant
Tiff R.

Such a cute bakery hidden in Granville island. We love it pick up pastries from here and walk around the island. Their sourdough bread is also really good. Everything is fresh and baked (you can smell the baked goods as you enter their store). We frequent here alot, this time we picked up the savoury ham crossiant and chocolate crossiant. The crossiants were quite big in size. The cookies are also really good, haven't tried a bad item yet here.

The Affair Club
Sherry T.

Food: The Affair Club sandwich: get it. Just do it. When you take a bite, you will hear angels sing. Service: friendly and fast enough Ambiance: it's in the Granville Market area, so it's easy to access.

Ham and Edam sandwich
Adam C.

I've been wanting to try this place since we pass it so often while walking around Granville Island. I got myself a ham and edam sandwich while mom got the brioche pizza and an all butter croissant. First off, the bread on my sandwich was incredibly fresh and tasted amazing. Super soft center while the crust was hard but I kind of like that! The actual sandwich was filling and tasty, and I think there was a normal amount of ham and cheese and lettuce but there was only one tomato which was a bit disappointing. The sandwich could have definitely used 2 slices so the tomato would actually fill the entire thing. But besides that I really enjoyed it! We got there around 10:30am and I just loved how fresh it tasted. Great way to start the day! I had a bite of mom's brioche pizza and it was good but nothing super special. It tasted like a cold piece of thin crust pizza. The croissant was huge and since mom had gotten a croissant from Terra Breads it was fun to compare the two. The croissant at A Bread Affair was definitely larger but when you open it up, it has less layers inside. The outer shell was crisper as well. The croissant from Terra Breads was smaller but it had many more layers when you ripped it in half. And the outside was also a bit softer. Also keep in mind we ate these in the evening, about 7 hours after buying them. I think what you'd prefer all comes down to personal preference. Mom and I felt like we enjoyed the croissant from Terra Breads just a little more, mostly because it had more layers to bite into. But the croissant here was still tasty! Overall I'm really glad we finally ate here. A fresh and filling option for food if you're walking around Granville Island. And I'd be curious to try a few other options here next time I'm in the area!

Monica M.

The organic bakery is a dream! I wish we had more time and luggage space so I could buy one of everything. I did buy the cheese sables/cheese shortbread and it is exactly what I've been searching for the past decade. (Why is it so hard to find a good cheese sable??) I should have bought 3. The sandwich menu looked awesome and we will need to come back for lunch on our next trip to Granville Island!

Raymond G.

This was a cool pastry shop right in the heart of Granville Island Public Market. We went here last week as part of our family vacation. It was nice to run across this place as my older daughter and her husband were looking for a snack for my two granddaughters, and my younger daughter and I were looking for something to share as well. It was a very beautiful day outside. We just had a simple order. The man inside who served us was very nice at the front counter. We got a $2.00 bottle of water and a Pain au chocolat (chocolate croissant) warmed up. The pastry was so fresh and super tasty!!! While we were enjoying our snacks outside, a guy was in the courtyard singing. It was just a really good way to start out at Granville Island!!! We definitely would come back and highly recommend this bread shop!!!

An Affair Club
Michael G.

This place has a great location. It's near the water and there is outdoor seating in the area. There was live music playing right near the bakery. I didn't have any expectations for my sandwich. I bought it out of convenience. The staff was friendly. They announce your order from the window once it's ready. I had An Affair Club and some sort of homemade soda. The soda was refreshing and not super sweet. The sandwich... I still think about this sandwich. Every time I see a picture of it, I want another one. The focaccia was UNREAL. It was perfect-- fluffy, warm, and full of flavor. The meat and veggies on it tasted so fresh. It was a quality sandwich with quality ingredients. If I'm ever in town again, you can count on me getting another of them.

Pain au chocolat
Carrie M.

This bakery on Granville Island has an assortment of bread, pastries, and cookies with raunchy names that are puns of love/affairs. The cookies are all called "thicc." I got the pain au chocolat. The dough was fragrant and flavourful. However, there was very little chocolate inside, which I think is important. Still very good though.

Cheyenne T.

Absolutely amazing croissants! So buttery and moist with the perfect amount of flakiness. The service was very friendly and helpful! All the different flavors provide a great selection and the ones we tried were so delicious. They have the bakery section and then a counter that sells sandwiches and drinks. No indoor seating but there are benches right outside that people enjoy their pastries on.

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3.8(16 reviews)
0.9 km•Kitsilano

I really enjoy this restaurant. The ambiance is bright, modern, and welcoming, the food is…read moreconsistently delicious, and the prices are quite reasonable for the quality you receive. I've visited twice--once for a weekday lunch and again for weekend brunch to celebrate completing my doctorate. During my first visit, I ordered the burger, which was juicy, flavourful, and exceeded my expectations. On my second visit, we both ordered the eggs Benedict, and they were just as impressive. I'm glad I had the chance to experience both the lunch and brunch menus. The space itself is one of the restaurant's strengths. I love the open-concept design, the clean and contemporary interior, and the inviting patio, which would be perfect on a sunny day. Unfortunately, the service was inconsistent. My first visit was perfectly fine, but during brunch the service fell short. It took an unusually long time to receive our bill, and throughout the meal it felt like our table was largely forgotten. Eventually, we had to flag down another server for assistance. To make matters more confusing, our original server brought the cheque only after we had already paid through the other staff member. While the service could definitely be more attentive, the excellent food, pleasant atmosphere, and reasonable prices are enough to make me want to return. I hope the service becomes more consistent because this restaurant has all the ingredients to be a standout dining destination.

We wandered into this Kitsilano spot on a sunny Saturday afternoon and sat outside in their covered…read morepatio. It's casual, bright, and very much built around sharing a few plates and seeing where the meal takes you. Service from my visit matched the vibe. Relaxed, friendly, and efficient without hovering. We shared a few plates and grabbed a couple of their drinks as well. I went with the anchovy toast and tuna tostada. Both were delicious but the anchovy toast was my personal favorite. Salty, rich, and super savory, but balanced enough that you keep going back for another bite. The tuna tostada was light, fresh, and sitting on a crisp base that gave it that addictive crunch.

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Lucifer's House of Heat

4.8(19 reviews)
1.5 km•West End

I have walked by this place for so long, not realizing it's a restaurant and bar! Yes, of course…read moreyou have your wall(s) of hot sauce, and offerings of the Hot Ones challenge, but more importantly, they have put their hot sauces to test, pairing them with their huge line up of dishes. I came in to check for a sauce my friend asked for but stayed for a bite! Did I mention that this place is cheap AF!? I don't know how they do it but it's incredibly affordable and the quality of food is impressive! I got their Veggies on Fire (Cheddar, lettuce, sprouts, tomato, cucumber, green pepper, pickles, red onion, banana peppers, Dijon, spicy mayo - Hot Sauce: Dawson's Shawarma). This was $8. Plus I added waffle fries, which I don't even care for. But these were heavily seasoned and cooked to perfection. The sandwiches come with chips but you can't miss the fries. You can choose which breads you want and I choose sourdough. Highly recommend that you toast that bread. The sandwich was huge and staked with so many veggies. The hot sauce was very mild but paired so well. The service was phenomenal! Above and beyond and so friendly. The place gets quite busy, understandable, and they are still so patient and friendly. I can't wait to try their extensive menu and order their veggie friendly menu options! And, obvy, their 1000 hot sauces!

This was quite the find and I'm still sort of processing it all. It's a hot sauce specialty shop,…read morebar, lounge and restaurant, but they don't have a proper kitchen. We found this as our initial destination had an absurd wait, and we left satisfied and pleasantly surprised. I saw pics online of what appeared to be large, juicy, and crispy fried chicken sandwiches sporting local hot sauces as the secret ingredients, and that's what brought us in. We ordered the crispy chicken sandwich with the Hot Duck chili crisp on it. Upon the bartenders rec we opted for the extra hot, which was a good call because it didn't really pack a punch to us chili heads, but had great flavor. The chicken was juicy and crispy, and the brioche bun was so soft and fluffy. All around a good sandwich, but we found it strange that they only offered it with chips, and no upgrade to fries, which were available as an add on order. As we ate our sandwich and waffle fries we realized there was no smell of oil in the air or sounds of a fryer, which had us scratching our heads. We looked for a hood too and noticed none. Eventually we realized that everything here is commercially air fried, which was both fun to learn and somewhat surprising. If this place had a fryer, it would be SO much better, but considering this limitation, it was solid. The sauce selection was huge too. I loved that you could taste them all and that they offered some amazing deals too. We found a few that warranted us checking a bag on the way back so we could enjoy them on the other side of the border, and I'm stoked they offer online ordering and shipping so we can get some more when they run out. All in all a solid experience. Staff was so friendly and accommodating. As a hot sauce store, this is a 5 star experience, as a restaurant, also good but just have the right expectations.

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Mangia's Sandwiches

Mangia's Sandwiches

2.8(25 reviews)
1.2 km•South Granville, Fairview Slopes

I've been seeing this pop up more and more so I had to go in! This place is busy but they are so…read moreefficient! I ordered the Breaded Eggplant (Tomato Sauce, Provolone Cheese, Pesto). The portion is huge and the bread was super fresh. The eggplant needed salt and there was not enough pesto. Or it was mild. Either way, it was lost. And I should have subbed for mozz as I think it would have been better with this. Sandwich was good but the city has a lot of options that outshine this place!

I was soooo hungry and could smell something delicious coming from this little shop at Granville St…read moreand 11th. It was around 1pm on a Friday, it was very quiet. Found a table right away. There are some small tables for two along with high tables. I ordered the 'hot' sandwich, chicken parm. I was expecting crispy chicken parm with yummy cheese and rich tomatoe sauce. Let's be honest, the star of this show is the bread! The baguette was warm, soft and so delicious. However, that's where the excitement stopped for me. The chicken with breading was soggy and the pesto and mozzarella was such a small amount, it felt like a soggy chicken sandwich with lots of bread. If they put more pesto dressing, more mozzarella cheese and more tomatoe sauce, I could have looked past the soggy chicken. All in all, I'm glad it tried it, the bread is amazing, and I'll come back to try a 'cold' sandwich to see if the other options are better!

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