{"id":2510,"date":"2015-03-30T01:18:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T01:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2015-07-08T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T01:32:45","slug":"pallet-coffee-roasters-east-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"Review – Pallet Coffee Roasters – East Van"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Something I avoid is a packed eatery. Crowded restaurants seem more trouble than their worth for me: Congee Noodle House on Broadway, Sentouka Ramen on Robson, and Rangoli on West 11th (Is Vij`s any better?) to name a few. I`ve been to all these places when less busy and after the experience can`t understand where all that hype comes from.<\/span><\/p>\n

Typically, I`ll turn at the sight of a line. Basho Cafe was my most recent experience with this. A silver lining, though, is that sometimes in my walk away in frustration, I initiate Plan B hatched on the spot and check out a nearby alternative. When Basho annoyed, Pallet Coffee Roasters<\/a> entered and catapulted itself into my upper quartile of cafe rankings.<\/p>\n

Pallet Coffee Roasters (323 Semlin Drive, Vancouver) opened its doors in summer 2014 and is just off Hastings St. across from Vancouver institution, On Lok Wuntun House<\/a>. It was founded by Sharif Sharifi and Shane Dehkodaei and is named after that well-known transport tool<\/a> vital to logistics and the delivery of so many things we know and love like coffee beans and tea leaves.<\/p>\n

Pallet isn`t just another modern, good looking food-stop with tasteful wood finishings. What sets its look apart from others is the glass wall partition between the roastery\/lab\/kitchen and main seating space\/service counter. With this added complimentary view into operations, there are no secrets and I don`t worry (some of us do if even a little) about shady practices behind closed doors. Combine that with a cool second level mezzanine with seating overlooking the roastery, a diggin` soundtrack<\/a> put together by employees with good musical taste<\/a>, and accessible parking, I was happy to have accidentally found a nice cafe to go to in that community gaining more attention as the colourful East Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image Credits: (1,7) Yelp (2,4,5,6,8) cafeyvr.com (3) images.keizai.biz <\/p>\n

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| Image Credit – Urban Spoon | Something I avoid is a packed eatery. Crowded restaurants seem more trouble than their worth for me: Congee Noodle House on Broadway, Sentouka Ramen on Robson, and Rangoli on West 11th (Is Vij`s any better?) to name a few. I`ve been to all these places when less busy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,26],"tags":[232,235,233,236,234,38],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-food","tag-cafe","tag-coffee","tag-pallet-coffee-roasters","tag-tea","tag-the-east-village","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weshareinterests.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}