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The Curious café
About The Curious café
Finding a room that works equally well for a mid-morning coffee and an evening meal is not a given downtown, but The Curious Cafe manages both from 1423 Ellis Street, among the offices and venues that fill the middle of the city a little back from the water. Downtown is compact once the car is parked, which keeps a spot like this workable for a daytime meeting or a dinner alike.
Places that sit between a cafe and a full restaurant tend to shift character across the day, and it is worth knowing which version you are walking into. Mornings usually mean counter service, coffee and something quick, while later hours can bring table service, a longer menu and a licence. The practical questions follow from that: whether a table can be held, whether a laptop is welcome at a busy hour, and how the room handles a party of six rather than a pair. Dietary requirements are easier to accommodate with a little notice in kitchens of this size.
You can call +1-778-484-0490, and the website is thecurious.ca. The centre of town fills through the hot dry summer months as visitors head for the waterfront parks and the beaches, and the blocks nearest the lake feel it first, so an early start or a midweek visit avoids the worst of the crush. Winters here are short and mostly grey rather than snowy, which keeps the same walk pleasant for most of the year. Travelling in from Rutland or the Upper Mission, budget for the drive both ways.
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