Terra Breads, one of Vancouver’s most successful independent bakeries and bakery cafés is pleased to announce it will open its fourth location and first licensed café on Saturday, September 24, 2011 in the Village on False Creek. Doors open at 8 am.
Terra Breads is located on the plaza at the Shops at the Village on False Creek – home of the Olympic and Paralympic Athletes’ Village during the 2010 Winter Games, and Vancouver’s newest community.
“We believe in this neighbourhood, the same way we believed in Kitsilano, Granville Island and Mount Pleasant, and it’s important to us to open in a neighbourhood where we can be part of the community,” said Terra Breads owner Michael Lansky. “We’re delighted to be part of the Village – it’s a perfect spot to gather as neighbours”.
Producing artisan breads for customers, restaurants and grocery stores, locally owned Terra Breads has been a part of Vancouver’s community for 18 years. Growing from its first bakery café in the heart of Kitsilano in 1993 to Granville Island Market in 1995, and then across the city to West 5th Avenue near Main Street in 2005, Terra Breads has been part of Vancouver’s healthy lifestyle, and is committed to using local, natural ingredients and shopping and eating locally.
Terra Breads has grown carefully, maintaining standards of quality and customer service and using the same artisan methods it started with 18 years ago. Now, six years after the last bakery café opened, Terra Breads is joining an exciting new neighbourhood on False Creek’s waterfront. Lansky says the Village is the perfect location, and that it’s the right time to expand once again, opening their first licensed café and offering dinner entrees for the first time.
Lansky opened Terra Breads in Vancouver because he loves food and saw a revival of traditional artisan methods of creating great food. Bread is at the very heart of a meal and was the perfect place to start. Terra Breads back-to-basics artisan bread rises for three days using the original “mother” (organic starter) from its beginning. Since then, the company has grown to include bakery cafes that create fresh sandwiches using its famous bread, and adding sweets, desserts and meals made with the freshest local ingredients.
Terra Breads Café in the Village is offering an all-day menu that includes breakfast, lunch and, for the first time, light dinners. Visitors to the new location can pick up artisan breads, linger over a coffee or stay later into the evening to enjoy one of Head Baker Mary MacKay’s new artisan pizzas, grilled wild salmon, flat iron steak, portobello mushrooms or entrée salads, alongside a glass of BC wine, cider or craft beer.
Set on the European-style Olympic Village Plaza on the waterfront, Terra Bread’s modern, fresh room uses BC fir in a soaring design element; fresh colours cover the walls and a heated year-round covered patio surrounds the café.
Terra Breads Café is part of a growing business community at the Village on False Creek. Village homes are over 65 per cent occupied, with more homes rented and sold every day, busy office towers and condominiums just to the east at Main and Terminal, and smaller commercial businesses surround the Village. Legacy Liquor Store and TD Canada Trust are already open. A busy community centre and day care keep things lively and other BC businesses, like London Drugs and Urban Fare will open in late Spring 2012.
Terra Breads Café – Hours of operation
Opening hours Saturday, September 24th, Sunday September 25th – 8 am to 5 pm
Regular hours as of Monday, September 26th – 8 am to 8 pm
Terra Breads Café
The Village on False Creek
1605 Manitoba Street
Vancouver, BC V5Y 0B8
604-877-1183
