Bakery cafés in Vancouver

Lucky’s Doughnuts and Lee’s Honey Dip

Lucky’s Doughnuts is a sub-brand of 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters.² The doughnuts are made from scratch through the day, with no frozen dough and nothing trucked in, and the first shop opened on Main Street in 2012.² In fall 2017 the team opened its third café, at West Georgia and Thurlow Streets, with a small kitchen for breakfast sandwiches and brunch plates.²

My Honey’s Buns, also on West Georgia Street at number 925, opens at 07:00 on weekdays, and Le Petit Belge at 340 Robson Street serves 08:00–15:00 on weekdays and 08:00–16:00 at weekends.

Lee’s Donuts has sold its Honey Dip and other classic recipes since 1979.³ Besides the market stall, Lee’s has a Gastown shop at 199 Water Street, open until 20:00 every day.

Granville Island Public Market bakers

The Public Market opened in 1979, when the federal and provincial governments converted a 50,000-square-foot industrial building on Granville Island. It holds about 50 vendors, and False Creek Ferries and Aquabus boats link the island with downtown, Yaletown and the West End.⁴ The market opens daily 09:00–18:00, closes on December 25, December 26 and January 1, and shuts on Mondays in January for maintenance.⁵

Terra Breads has baked since 1993 using traditional fermentation, and its market stall shares 1689 Johnston Street with Lee’s.⁶³ Terra Breads also runs a café at 1605 Manitoba Street, open 07:30–17:00 daily. Off the Tracks, on Railspur Alley, serves brunch from 09:00 every day.

French pastry and West Side bakeries

Thierry Busset, born in the Auvergne, was pastry chef for three Michelin three-star restaurants in London, among them Le Gavroche, before leading the pastry kitchens at CinCin and West in Vancouver.⁷ His cafés sell éclairs, tarts, macarons and chocolates at 1059 Alberni Street and 265 East 10th Avenue in Mount Pleasant.⁷

In Kitsilano, bakery cafés run along West Broadway and West 4th Avenue: Virtue Natural Bakery at 2245 West Broadway (08:30–16:30 daily), Livni Café & Bakery at 2213 West Broadway and OOHLALA Donuts at 1818 West 4th. Pâtisserie Lebeau, at 1728 West 2nd Avenue, opens Tuesday to Saturday, 07:30–16:00. On the southern edge of Kitsilano, Wicked Cafe & Bakery on West 16th Avenue serves daily from 09:00 to 17:00.

For a pastry price, Nemesis lists a lemon poppy seed bun at C$6.50 and an apple pecan danish at C$7.50 as of 2026.⁸ Avik Bakery at 682 West Broadway bakes until 22:00, and The Golden Horn Turkish Bakery & Cafe at 2857 Cambie Street until 21:30.