Ocean Island Victoria Guide

We love Thrifty Foods! It’s big but not too big and brightly lit but not so much that your eyes burn and the aisles are wide but not too… oh nevermind. It’s got a bulk section, an organic selection, you can pick up a pamphlet advertising all their deals and their deli salads rock. The [...]

Everyone loves the Market. It’s open ’till 11. Everyone knows someone who works there. It’s small but it has everything. It’s well-lit and somewhat upscale. You’ll run into Ocean Islander staff. Things to get: their starving student salad, cheap tofu, hemp hearts, kettle corn, great bread, organic Denman island chocolate bars, ancient-style Greek soaps. Don’t [...]

The family that owns this small bakery uses old-school baking methods with high quality, local ingredients. They serve all sorts of organic leaven breads baked in a wood fired oven and fresh all-organic pastry.

The food: authentic. The prices: reasonable. The atmosphere: kinda stuffy. The sweets: out-of-this-world!

This cool little cafe on Government St. is famous for its excellent baked goods and good coffee. Their bread is amazing, healthy, and did I mention amazing?

If you hang around in Victoria for more than a couple months, this is one of the places you’ll end up running into people. QV’s has nice tea and coffee, as well as an impressive selection of vegetarian food. For the most part though, their food and sweets aren’t the best but their sandwiches made [...]