We had a lot of fun chatting the other day with the radio guys from Evolution 107.9FM about what makes organic coffee awesome and how you feel after you’ve had a slice of our famous cheesecake. Have a quick listen to our interview below!
Here’s our favorite part, right near the end, with Trees Organic owner Doron Levy giving his impression after the interviewer bites into his cheesecake:
“That is Belgian chocolate… Now you are in heaven. For one hour at least, you can’t stop smiling.”
Cinco de Mayo is a day of celebration of Mexican heritage. It evokes pride over a great victory early in the nation’s history. Today, this holiday is celebrated throughout North America. It is a happy time to savor great food and drink and good company. This week, we’re joining in the celebration.
From April 30 to May 6, you can purchase a 200g bag of Single Origin Organic Mexico Coffee for just $6.99! This a great deal for a coffee with great flavor; this coffee boasts a dark to medium body with a unique dry chocolate taste.
These Mexican coffee beans are already fan favorites among our cafe aficionados and we know you’re going to love it. Join in the celebration at our cafes!
Last night, I heard a line on TV that made me laugh out loud: “No one under 25 drinks coffee anymore,” says a 1960s-era accounts executive in the second season of Mad Men (I’m just catching up on DVD). “Just Pepsi. They pour it on their Frosted Flakes.”
How times have changed.
It’s hard to believe that there was a time when coffee and café culture wasn’t part of the overall cultural bedrock of our society. According to a 2010 Ipsos Reid study on coffee consumption trends, “88% of Canadians surveyed claim that they drink at least 1 cup of coffee in a typical day, with those coffee drinkers averaging 3.2 cups per day.” (more…)
Ever been on an Easter Egg hunt? The upcoming Easter holiday is a time of rebirth and renewal where Canadians spend with family; many of us have enjoyed the more fun traditions we now associate with this time of year; egg-decorating, eating chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs and – maybe the most popular part for the kids – the famous Easter Egg hunt, which often includes a special “golden egg”.
In the spirit of the Easter Egg Hunt tradition, we’d like to invite you to our Golden Bean Easter Hunt.
Find and click on three golden beans and enter our draw for a gift card and some great treats!
Cool Prizes You Could Win for finding the Golden Beans
Online Prizes include a Trees Gift Card for $25, and 2 Vouchers for 2 FREE slices of cheesecake for you and friend to enjoy at any of the Trees Organic Stores.
Rules of the Golden Bean Easter Hunt
One entry per person.
Contest closes on April 9, we will advise all winners by email.
May the hunt for the Golden Bean begin!
Having an Easter Celebration?
Pre-Order an Almond Marzipan Cheesecake
Easter’s a sweet time of year and we’re happy to introduce our featured April Cheesecake, Almond Marzipan: Sweet almond taste with a pleasant tang.
You can pre-order your cheesecake (Almond Marzipan, or one of our other perennial favorites like the Sin (Chocolate and Cherry), Blueberry, Mocha, Key Lime or New York Style, to make sure we have your favorite ready to take home. Just ask our staff or contact your nearest Trees café location (Granville, Gastown, Yaletown or Richmond) for pricing, availability and ordering.
A fabulously creative customer decided to create a short fast-motion film of enjoying a cheesecake at Trees cafe on Granville. “Cheesecake gobble, gobble cheesecake, munchin’ on a cheesecake.”
In case you were curious, here’s the original for that tune, courtesy of the immortal Louis Armstrong:
Vancouver is a cold, cliquey kind of town? Really? Don’t believe it. There are 713 groups on Meetup.com in the Vancouver area alone, along with dozens of events listed on Facebook and over 1,000 local professional networking groups on LinkedIn. Our Yaletown, Gastown, Richmond and Granville cafes are the perfect cozy locations for your next friendly gathering.
The Vancouver Blogger Meetup is one group that has decided to try us out. They’re coming down to our Yaletown café on the afternoon of Saturday, March 24 (and if you’re a blogger – or prospective blogger – in Vancouver, you’ll want to check this out):
This sociable blogger meetup will be for food bloggers to mingle with the rest of the bloggeratti, while we taste some cheesecake and try three different types of special coffee flavors. Aaahhhh… Caffeinated good times.
Every Thursday and Friday night on Trees Café in Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, local musical greats sing and play their hearts out on a very intimate live music stage. Musician John Pippus rounds up the talent for these evenings of coffeehouse revelry and occasionally takes a spot on stage himself to entertain the caffeinated masses with his blues-acoustic style.
We caught up with John last week as he made an appearance on stage alongside Beth Leonard, on a night that also featured Short of Able and The Tree Shepherds. We thought it was time to find out what inspires John’s music and his thoughts on Vancouver’s music scene.
You’ve just released your third full-length album, “Wrapped Up In The Blues”. How has your music evolved and where is it headed? (more…)
Have you tried any of our teas from around the world at our cafes? Or to put it another way, did you know we even served all kinds of great teas from around the world?
There’s a great scene from the delightful film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World that portrays very well the gulf of understanding between tea drinkers and, um, people who don’t drink tea (yet):
Ramona V. Flowers: What kind of tea do you want?
Scott Pilgrim:There’s more than one kind?
Ramona V. Flowers: We have blueberry, raspberry, ginseng, sleepy time, green tea, green tea with lemon, green tea with lemon and honey, liver disaster, ginger with honey, ginger without honey, vanilla almond, white truffel, blueberry chamomile, vanilla walnut, constant comment and… Earl Grey.
Scott Pilgrim:Did you make some of those up?
Don’t get us wrong. We enjoy our coffee. Latte, espresso or just a regular drip cup of coffee gets us going in the morning and helps us get through the rest of the day. But tea takes a backseat to no vector of caffeine and health benefits.
Here are some of our favorite exotic kinds of tea:
Moroccan Madness Tea. Black tea with a refreshing and invigorating touch of Moroccan peppermint. This one’s tasty. We could have called it our Moroccan Insanely Awesome Tea, but we wanted to keep the M-M thing going.
Sencha Kyoto Cherry Rose Tea. A blend of high quality green tea, sweet cherry blossom and morning rose flavour. It’s like you just woke up in a Japanese garden. Serenity now.
Vanilla Rooibos Tea (herbal). Sweet vanilla notes. Mmmmm. Vanilla. Enriched with nutrients such as iron, potassium, calcium and fluoride. And there’s no caffeine with this beverage, so this is a good, aromatic tea for when you just want to mellow out.
What’s your favorite kind of tea? Take our poll and let us know.
Trees Organic Coffee and Roasting House is taking part in the Taste BC Fundraiser for BC Children’s Hospital. Take a quick poll on Facebook and you could win tickets to the big event! We’re giving away two sets of two tickets worth $100 each. (One entry per person).
At Taste BC, you can experience BC wine, beer and spirits and delicious food from our best local restaurants. You’ll be entertained by live music. There are great door prizes and a silent auction that features great BC products and destination packages. It’s going to be a great night – and you could be there.
Taste BC Event Details
Four Seasons Hotel
791 Georgia Street, Vancouver
Tuesday January 24, 4:30-7:30 pm
What is Does Taste BC Support?
Taste BC is a great local event to benefit one of British Columbia’s most vital medical institutions, which treats about 700 sick and injured children every day. Taste BC has raised $186,336 for BC Children’s Hospital’s Oak Tree Clinic so far. On its busiest day, BC Children’s Hospital treats almost 1,100 individual children.
This is a great cause and as a local Vancouver company, we’re proud to take part. We’re looking forward to this special evening featuring some of the province’s most well known food and beverage companies, raising funds for an important facility.
Interested in bringing your friends to Taste BC?
Get more information about the event at the official Taste BC website. You can also purchase tickets for Taste BC from event sponsors Liberty Wine Merchants at their locations.
The holiday season is a time of good cheer, but those in Vancouver who are living on the margins still need the help of their neighbors. Trees Organic café was proud to provide cheesecake dessert and coffee for the Christmas dinner of La Bousolle (The Compass), a Vancouver-based community support and welfare center serving francophones who are poor and facing multiple barriers.
This organization is the only francophone non-profit in Vancouver serving those in need of housing, legal aid, employment, social intervention and mental health supports. Thanks again to everyone who volunteered to help make the holiday season in Vancouver a great time for everyone.
The holiday season is a time of good cheer, but those in Vancouver who are living on the margins still need the help of their neighbors. Trees Organic café was proud to provide cheesecake dessert and coffee for the Christmas dinner of 
