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    Discovery Coffee

    4.3 (56 reviews)
    ModerateCoffee & Tea
    Open 7:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Outdoor seating
    Good for working
    Dogs allowed

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    Interior of main store. There is another space next door available.
    Jeff B.

    4.5 stars overall. Grungy yet clean, funky, with good 60ish modern music. COFFEE: 4.5 - 5.0: House Coffee. Medium roast. Smooth. - 3.0: Decaf. - 4.0: Boston crème roll. White cream filling with dark chocolate topping. - 4.0: muffin. . SERVICE: 3.5. AMBIANCE: 5.0. As comfortable as a broken-in warm leather jacket. Re-purposed antique Singer sewing machines, skylight, and well-used wooden flooring. Artwork for sale. Outdoor seating faces south. Many regulars of diverse age and atmosphere came in during our visit.

    a glazed donut and a cup of coffee
    Judy D.

    Good service, typical coffee house vibes - excellent donut! Their Vegan one is delicious!

    Discovery Coffee, Victoria BC from website
    Peter S.

    Best latte EVER. I love Discovery. The interior reminded me of the house I grew up in way up north. Old hardwood floors, skylight, with a warm and cozy feel. I bought a couple bags of their special roasts for a true coffee connoisseur. My Mom. The next time I am anywhere near Victoria I will detour here for another hit. Discovery, please don't change anything! You are perfect.

    Cute, but very busy coffee place. I got a chai tea and it tasted just right.
    Super S.

    Fast paced and busy coffee place. Everything is delicious, but gets a little loud to do work.

    Adorable cream and sugar station
    Monika C.

    I'm not a huge coffee drinker, that's more up my husband's alley, so I tried out their homemade donuts while my hubs got an americano. According to him, it was clean and light but it didn't astound him in terms of flavour or anything. There was a wide variety of beans to choose from and we picked up some for a gift. I thought it tasted pretty standard but without the citrus aftertaste which I enjoyed. The old fashioned donut we got was a bit dry, not surprising since we got there around 4, but was fine with a mouthful of coffee to wash it all down. The honey cruller on the other hand was delicious! The glaze had a nice subtle crispness and the insides were buttery and cool. I'm not usually a fan of the cruller but this one was incredible!! I loved the moistness and the sweetness level was PERFECT!

    Wonderful idea of reusing Singer sewing machine "desks"
    Andrea R.

    Nice atmosphere, with Singer machines adapted to be coffee tables, gives a wonderful touch to this nice café. The other magic touch, which I really appreciate being from the country of cappuccino, was that they ask you if you would rather get the "traditional" size. Feels like home again.

    Boston creme donut and cold brew

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    Had a really nice blueberry muffin and flat white here. Nice atmosphere and very friendly service.

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    i can't drink coffee anymore sadly but I tell everyone to come here when they're visiting for some delicious local roasted coffee

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    Only recommended if you like extremely rude and pretentious baristas. Otherwise, I recommend finding another coffee shop.

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    Sat in the sunshine waiting for our iPad to be repaired nearby. Funky cafe with great coffee and pleasant service. Highly recommend.

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    Cozy! Great coffee! Wide variety of Brewing techniques. Yummy Pastries. Friendly servers!

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    hey happy has chill vibes from the moment you walk in. exposed brick, big front windows, and fun…read moretiered wooden seating give it a cosy but open feel. there's a steady rhythm of quiet chatter and keyboard tapping, lots of beanies and toques, plenty of laptops out, and a young hipster crowd settling in for long stretches. i grabbed a table with a little card that read "sanitized," which was a small but appreciated touch. i ordered the apple pie matcha, house apple pie syrup, ceremonial grade matcha, topped with cinnamon sugar dust. honestly, i wasn't a fan of the apple pie syrup. it leaned a bit artificial, sweetened with honey and overpowered the drink for me. that said, the matcha itself tasted good, but subtle, smooth, earthy, and decent quality. temperature wise it was more on the tepid side than properly warm, which didn't help. i'd probably try their strawberry matcha latte next time. i also got the hashbrown with herb mayo and added a soft poached egg. it comes as a tiny square, hard and crunchy on the outside with a solid crisp. when cut into, the yolk was cooked nicely with a soft jammy ooze that coated the hashbrown. the herb mayo added a creamy, savoury boost and brought extra flavour to each bite. overall, hey happy is a solid place to hang or work for a few hours. great seating setup options, relaxed atmosphere, and a crowd that makes it feel effortlessly cool.

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    2.9 km
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    White Heather Tea Room is the highest rated Afternoon Tea in Victoria and came highly recommended…read moreon social media. We decided to visit for the special meal of our recent trip to Victoria, making a reservation at opening on a Thursday morning. It turns out in the off season a reservation isn't necessary - it never got too full during our 2 hours lounging around and slowly nibbling on food and sipping on tea. The staff are exceptionally pleasant and attentive, constantly refilling teapots and checking on customers. I especially love that when they bring out the tiered tray, they automatically ask for a phone to take a photo! Signature Muckle Tea ($66 CAD per person) - This firstly comes with three tea choices. Given how Brits traditionally drink tea (e.g. with a lot of sugar and cream), we were a bit skeptical with how this afternoon tea would work. We wanted three vastly different types of non-blended teas (ideally a selection of green, black, white, oolong, and puerh). White Heather does serve the first three types of tea. We figured black teas would be safest given brewing temperatures and times. Pai Mu Tan - Very, very subtle flavor. In fact I would say that even after several minutes of brew time, it only tastes like boiled water with slight astringency. But then after another couple of minutes becomes exceptionally astringent and very difficult to drink. A very finicky tea that probably isn't a good choice for afternoon tea. Orange Pekoe - Strong bold malty flavor without much in terms of fruitiness. Does become quite astringent as it becomes more overbrewed, but it takes a while before getting to that point (we also lifted the tea bags as much as possible out of the water to prevent overbrewing in the first place) Sencha - Exceptionally grassy fragrance making it very pleasant to drink. It holds up very well and never becomes too astringent or unpleasant. Surprising given how bitter it gets at home when I brew it at too high temperatures or for too long. Second brew doesn't give much flavor though. Given how many bites came on the three layer tower, I'll only be giving sparknotes rather than my usual full analysis. The waitress recommended eating from bottom tier up. Plain Scone + Raisin Scone - Both exceptionally fluffy and tender, easy to split in half. Served nice and warm with cream, lemon curd, and berry jam. Cheese Croustades - Interestingly different colors on the shell, one being much darker than the other. Both tastes and textures are the same though, being flaky but very hard and almost crunchy. Inside is a cheese mixture, tasting mostly of cheddar with mayo (similar to pimento cheese sans pimento). Some slivers of almonds on top. Mini Quiche - Really soft and buttery tart filled with sun dried tomato and topped with red bell pepper and what seems to be ricotta cheese, although given it's quiche is probably egg. Ham Pinwheel - Simple ham salad flecked with celery, red bell pepper, and pickles on flattened and rolled up sandwich bread. Not salty. Egg Salad Pinwheel - Similar to above, but with egg salad and pimento stuffed olives. The olive gives a welcome hit of salinity. Salmon Sconewich - Really sweet, possibly brown sugar glazed smoked salmon in a somewhat cheesy herbaly scone, tender and spread with cream cheese. Too sweet for a savory dish in my opinion, even with the stuffed olive on top. Cucumber Sandwich - Double decker sandwich, thinly sliced cucumber, tangy cream cheese spread on rye. Soft and fluffy, cucumber almost melts in the mouth. Chocolate Mousse - Delightfully rich and thick, definitely a high quality chocolate mouse given the texture and depth of chocolate flavor, graced with half a raspberry. At this point I was so stuffed that I couldn't eat another bite. I left the rest of the desserts for later (ended up eating them for dinner). Macaron - Really sweet and raspberry fruity, super soft, fingers easily break the surface with a light touch. Raspberry jam in the center of an Earl Grey cream, very sweet so my first few bites I couldn't get the bergamot flavor, but it comes out eating the frosting in isolation. Carrot Cake - Super dense, moist crumb with plenty of carrot flavor and some crushed walnut to break things up. Not too sweet. Tangy whipped cream cheese topping, light not heavy. Caramel Mini Cupcake - Denser bake but moist crumb, tastes more like vanilla than caramel to me. The cream on top perhaps has a hint of caramel? At least, it doesn't seem to be straight sugar. Lemon Tart - Super soft pastry shell with the same lemon curd as with the scones, then topped with cream. Scottish Shortbread - Very crumbly and buttery sweet dessert. Rich and delicious. I'm at the character limit so I'll just say this - White Heather gives a fantastic Afternoon Tea experience. It's a splurge that I certainly think was worth taking. Bathrooms - Two unisex rooms

    The staff were very friendly, and generally service was good…read more The interior is well decorated, but there's no hiding the fact that it's on a busy street, making it one of the tea rooms with the least interesting views. Good selection of tea and it was fine. They seemed average, not bad, but don't really stand out either. I appreciated that they had a variety of choices for food including a gluten-free option. The quality of food was again okay. Nothing was bad, but nothing was great either. They toast the bread for the sandwiches is I personally don't like because by the time you get to it, it's cooled down, so it's a little hard without being freshly toasted. It's also a bit messy to eat open faced sandwiches that have a fair amount of toppings. Afternoon tea is not supposed to be messy. Overall, not bad, but also there are better places.

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    White Heather Tea Room - Three tier Muckle Tea for Two. Chef trained at Le Cordon Bleu. Outstanding!

    Three tier Muckle Tea for Two. Chef trained at Le Cordon Bleu. Outstanding!

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