Cafés
Smoking Gun Coffee Roasters
About Smoking Gun Coffee Roasters
An independent coffee shop in the downtown, within walking distance of Five Corners.
Heritage buildings with high ceilings are the downtown's contribution to the coffee trade, and there are several of them around Five Corners and Wellington Avenue. Those rooms are the ones built for sitting still, and the wifi in them tends to be an afterthought. Vedder Road serves traffic instead of lingerers. Garrison Crossing has the walkable version, which is what that neighborhood was laid out for in the first place. And there is a rural strand, a counter at the back of a nursery or a farm shop with an espresso machine, which only makes sense in a city where two thirds of the land is under crop.
Smoking Gun Coffee Roasters sits in the first of those groups, in the downtown, close enough to Five Corners to walk. Its name points at roasting rather than just pouring, which in a city this size is worth noting: the number of places between the Fraser and the mountains that take green beans and do something with them is small. Roasting and serving are related trades but not the same one, and being filed under cafes does not settle which side of the line this one mostly sits on. Whether there is a counter to drink at, a wholesale operation behind it, or both, there is no way to say.
Contact detail here is thin. No street address, no phone number and no website are published, which leaves the postal code and the map pin as the way to find the door. That is not unusual for a small operation, and it is not a mark against it, but it does mean turning up is the only way to check anything. Anyone making a specific trip, for beans by the bag rather than a cup to drink there, would do well to confirm first through whatever the business runs by way of social media, none of which is captured here.
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In the Chilliwack Proper neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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