Copa Cafe is a popular Hong Kong style restaurant chain in Vancouver. They have 3 locations in Vancouver, Coquitlam, and Richmond. This post will focus on the Vancouver location on Cambie Street!
This is a Hong Kong style cafe located on Cambie, near the King Edward Skytrain station. They have a pretty clean and comfortable interior with a fair number of seats available for both single diners and larger groups. I visited them during breakfast, which is available from 8:00 - 11:30 am. I had one of their combos, which came which came with your choice of two meats, toast and drink. The food arrives quickly, was quite tasty, and also very reasonably priced. The service wasn't great, which is generally expected of most Asian joints. All in all, this is a solid joint that I'd recommend visiting.
House Special Combo A+B ($11 + 0.75):
4/5
This comes with your choice of a Main A along with a Side Ingredient B, and comes with thick toast or French toast for an extra $0.75, as well as your choice of coffee or tea. I had Pork Chop, 2 Eggs, and substituted my toast for French toast. The pork chop was tender and juicy and nicely seasoned. The eggs were standard; a tad bland. I really enjoyed the French toast, which was crispy on the outside and had a great coconut filling.
Summary:
Food: 4/5
Price: 4/5
Service: 2.5/5
Overall: 3.5/5
Recommendations: French toast, Pork Chop
One of the 3 Copa cafes in greater Vancouver. I am rating the one on Cambie street in Vancouver. I love that it is located near the King Edward skytrain station. I usually go during my lunch break. I've tried their breakfast as well as lunch menu. Breakfast stops at around 11:30am. I like their set Hong Kong style breakfast which comes in western style or the Chinese style of congee and noodles etc. If you don't get the combo set, the price is even cheaper otherwise the combo breakfast will cost around 10cad. Food is nicely presented and size is definitely enough and comes with a drink. Service is quick and efficient with more than enough waitresses. They take cash and above all, they take both debits and credits, unlike a lot of Asian food establishment. Lunch menu starts at 11:30am and they also have a wide selection of items. I recommend getting items from their mini set menu. It's a laminated piece of menu. Items are smaller, cheaper and comes with a drink too. Cold drink is extra btw. All in all a good HK style restaurant or "cha chan teng".
I love love love Chinese HK breakfast. I love my sleep but I would wake up early just for it.. now that's commitment. Copa Cafe has a big menu to choose from but I always order the same... you know if you already follow my eats. I always get preserved veggie pork and noodle soup combo which comes with 2 eggs ham and toast. Oh and a milk tea of course. Both of our meals was about 25$ which is not bad for West end eats ;)
So school started on Tuesday. *cue the moans* I really hate having to get up so early because on Tues & Thurs, my class starts at 9:30. And then there's the dreadful morning commute. I really wished I lived on campus. But then again, I would rather put that money towards food heheh. . One of my classes start at 3 pm, so before class, I went to Copa Cafe for lunch! I took the Canada line from Broadway to King Edward - Copa is right across the street from King Edward Station, super convenient!!
Very Consistent between the locations. Visit both locations frequently as I live around the Vancouver location and go to school around the Coquitlam location. Good consistency in terms of food and service between locations. Especially for the Cambie location, WAAAAAAYYY better service compared to Soho Tea Room down a few blocks.
That almost all of the reviews are written by likely English-only speakers, probably explains something of the service reviews. My guess is that the English of the staff is limited. Take that in stride, enunciate clearly, and this place is great. The French toast is really good. The menu is Hong Kong-tastic. Fun adventure. Only went for breakfast but I'd go back for dinner. Very affordable.
My first HK French toast. I passed by Copa uncountable times during the four years I've lived in the neighbourhood, but I never stopped in because it's too close to home. Why eat out when there's food already paid for a few blocks away? Urbanspoon reviews about bad service also put me off. But I've been intrigued by the red-nosed chef Copa has on its sign, and the fact that they serve Hong Kong French toast. So when the movers were packing up my household goods to ship to Australia, I dashed here for a quick breakfast.
I thought the service was great. I was seated instantly, had a menu in hand within a minute, order placed in less than 5. I barely had time to wash my hands before the food was on my table. Sure, the staff weren't fawning on me with "Oh, how do you like your food?" but I came to eat, not chat. Plus, as an English-speaking gweilo, I was out of place linguistically.
Copa is a great place for a cheap brekky. You can get a Western plate PLUS an Asian one for $7.25, including brewed coffee. I had Copa's version of satay beef (very different to Indonesian satay, tender strips with some pineapple and red Bell pepper) on vermicelli in soup. Not bad. The bacon was crisp, eggs were cooked over easy as I ordered. HK French toast only costs 50¢ extra, and I was glad to finally try some. Double-thickness French toast with sweetened condensed milk in the middle -- FTW! I am SO making this at home, whenever I land in a new home Down Under.
I like it here. Food is ok, price is excellent. The people who don't know what to expect are likely to rant about this place. I came from Hong Kong. The service is definetly cold hard Hong Kong style. But u know what, I come here for a quick meal, 16 dollars gets me soup, drink, entree and good portions too. I will pick here over any "boutique" restaurant anyday. Honestly, I don't appreciate fake smiles and expensive booze. I could care less about the waitress pretending to care about how I like my food.
Good value, consistent quality is what I'm after, if u like being pampered,, pay twice as much then 15 percent gratitude.
We went there for girls get together at copa on cambie. the food was good with big portions. The service was great too. We didn't feel like the push to need to leave. I will definitely come back again. Thank you.
An error has occurred! Please try again in a few minutes