City Cafe Bakery

[Spokes]

Their location at Charles and Ottawa is now open (looks like it at least, if not its close)

Great news about their new location, less great news about the redoing of that building there. Ahh stucco and metal paneling.

Here's the article:

Café to be housed in renovated factory

September 10, 2009

KITCHENER – The City Café and Bakery is opening a third shop in Waterloo Region, but this time the outlet won’t be located in a renovated gas station.

The café is moving into a section of the former Canada Cordage plant at Ottawa and Charles streets.

The company has leased 2,000 square feet of space and is renovating the premises for a December opening, said John Bergen, one of the firm’s two majority owners.

The new café will be slightly larger than the existing shops at Victoria Street South in Kitchener and King Street in Cambridge, but it will feature the same product mix, large wood-burning oven and self-payment system using an old transit-bus fare box.

The café will employ six people full-time.

http://news.therecord.com/article/595518

[UrbanWaterloo]

Yeah the building looks awful, at least the Charles Street side taken from the iXpress.

February 5, 2010

[Spokes]

The Ottawa Street side looks just as bad.

I wish they wouldn't have touched this and waited until LRT was underway and then built some sort of mixed use project here. Although you'll never hear me complain about another location for City Cafe.

[RangersFan]

You never know what the future may bring, maybe someday they will incorporate a city cafe in the lobby of small a LRT station at that corner, or do something similar to what 247 King st north is promising to do build a large development and then bring the existing retail tenants back to fill the base of the building.

[RangersFan]

I visited City Cafe Bakery for the first time today (the victoria and strange location), I have to say I was very impressed with the enviroment, very urban, I think a downtown/uptown location would do wonders. I could see something like this being very successfully at a large transit station.

[mpd618]

I visited City Cafe Bakery for the first time today (the victoria and strange location), I have to say I was very impressed with the enviroment, very urban, I think a downtown/uptown location would do wonders.

Apparently the rent in Waterloo is just too high, according to one of the bakers.

[Spokes]

I visited City Cafe Bakery for the first time today (the victoria and strange location), I have to say I was very impressed with the enviroment, very urban, I think a downtown/uptown location would do wonders. I could see something like this being very successfully at a large transit station.

Ya I can see them being very successful in that location, now, and even more when LRT starts up. It's just too bad it's not in a better development.