In the winter of 1993, we tested our concept on the streets of Vancouver, working out of a small roadside kiosk that was no more than 200 square feet. We made and served coffee by day and did our baking at night.

The Sylvia Hotel is a historic Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada landmark. Located at 1154 Gilford Street on English Bay near Stanley Park. Constructed in 1912, the Sylvia was designed as an apartment building by Mr. W.P. White, a Seattle architect. It was built by Booker, Campbell and Whipple Construction Company for a Mr. Goldstein, who had a daughter named Sylvia.

Nat's New York Pizzeria's thin-crust, Neapolitan-style pizza originated in Nat and Franco's Great, Great, Great Grandmother's kitchens in Naples, Italy, in the 1900's. Eventually, the pizza made its way, as many Italians did, to the Big Apple — New York City, New York.

With love and humble beginnings in Whistler…..An Aussie girl who grew up surfing the waves of Newcastle, Australia went on a school ski trip to “the snow” and fell in love with snowboarding. Year after year she went on her winter pilgrimage with her mates down to the Aussie Ski Fields BUT she yearned for the Mountains, and the biggest and best mountain she had heard of was Whistler…