I have an announcement to make: the Arbutus Coffee rocks!

I was in my house on Sunday driving myself crazy. Before I reached the point of nervous fit I took Girlyman (that’s my computer) and jumped on my bike.

I have been avoiding coming to the Arbutus Coffee to work because as far as I knew, they didn’t have WiFi and they closed at 6pm, which is the time when my brain generally starts waking up. But they have this delicious vegan brownie and I really needed one at that point so I compromised and turned up determined to work offline.

As I got there I noticed that the place was full of people with laptops. I looked on some dude’s computer and I saw his network connection had all the bars… I asked him and he confirmed that Arbutus Coffee had invested in a connection and a wireless router. I ordered my (well deserved) brownie and tea, sat down and moments later this woman walked in and asked how late they were opened, ” 8pm on the week end and 9pm on the week days…”. I swear my brain started internal fireworks! Although it might have been the sugar from the brownie.

So there you go, if you are in need of a place to work late, the Arbutus Coffee is in Kitsilano, Arbutus@W. 6th Av.

PS: they also play some wicked music from 70s soft disco to soul and funk…