Our small and hidden café has evolved over the years and we did not always have a store front, in fact we had started very small. The family business started in 2011, at first by renting other baking facilities by hour, usually at nights, and completing small orders. My wife and I both worked full time at a software company and drove all the way from Vancouver to Surrey (to a bakery that we rented out on an hourly basis) at around 4 am, a few times a week to bake our products that we would then sell to our community members at two Armenian Churches. The idea of baking came to us when we had learned how far people would go to order Lamajoun (our signature, thin dough pizza). Our fellow Vancouverites would order Lamajouns from a large company in Montreal and pay high shipping prices for overnight shipping. Vancouver’s population is very multicultural, bringing many different people together into one city, and many of those people, including us, are immigrants. We know first hand how tough it is to be far away from home and your native cultures, and so we wanted to bring some of it back here. Food brings people together, especially when it is food that people miss.
In 2017 we opened up our own production location on River Road in Richmond with the main goal to produce, cater and sell our products wholesale. We also set up a few small tables inside of our cafe, and seating outside for summertime. Our main goal was and always will be to bring a bit of home to our city and provide people with healthy, simple, local, fresh and also affordable food, and bring people together.