Strange Fellows Brewing has a redesigned tasting room on Clark Drive in East Vancouver, with a new kitchen serving Roman-style pizza and a café that opens well before the first beer is poured. The café, Creatures Coffee, also sells freshly roasted beans in reusable tins that customers can bring back for refills.
Creatures Coffee opens at 7 a.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. on weekends. The café serves espresso drinks, batch coffee, tea and nitro cold brew, with rotating roasts and fresh pastries from ExAnimo Baked Goods. The brewery developed the coffee program with Home Island Coffee Partners.
The refill program borrows an idea familiar to brewery customers. As with a beer growler, customers bring their container back when it’s empty. In this case, the tin is topped up with freshly roasted coffee beans to brew at home.
Beer and food service starts at noon. The kitchen makes Rustic Roman-Style Pizza with a slow-fermented focaccia dough, while Loaded Nachos and Talisman-Marinated Chicken Wings offer options for sharing over a beer. The expanded menu makes the tasting room a lunch stop as well as a place for an after-work pint.
