Planet Organic Market is proud to be Canada's largest natural food retailer. You'll find ten Planet Organic locations across this fine country, from coast to coast. At Planet Organic, we want to provide shoppers with a satisfying, healthy alternative. We've created a place that is pleasant to be in, where the staff is knowledgeable and friendly, and where you can find delicious and healthy food choices. Food that not only tastes great, but is good for you, and good for the earth.
What have you felt when you visited your grandmother's home? Most of us recall love, warmth and good food. Security perhaps, and a sense of family. This is what we, at Bubby Rose's Bakery, call Bubby Essence. It is our goal to impart a little bit of this essential wonder to everyone who enters through our door, into our home.
Murchies
With its head office in Richmond, BC, Murchies Tea & Coffee began its Tradition of Excellence in 1894. From the beginning, John Murchie, our founder, firmly established Murchie's unique craft in the superior selection, blending and preparation of choice teas and coffees. Murchie's name is synonymous with quality and excellence of all their products including teas, coffees, spices, spice blends, gourmet condiments, preserves and delicious baked goods.. The philosophy at Murchie's is grounded in purchasing their products only from growers that contribute to requisite wages, schools, and medical facilities for their workers.
Victoria Conference Centre - Crystal Garden
In the heart of downtown Victoria, by the spectacular Inner Harbour is the Victoria Conference Centre facilities; a bright, modern and technically advanced meeting place that is most inviting. Here, you can defy convention within the environs of an historic city and one of the world's top travel destinations. It's business, in the most pleasurable surroundings possible.
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Victoria is known as the "City of Gardens" and during the spring it's obvious why! New growth is creeping forth from the ground in sprigs of delicate green, blossoms are starting to bud and life is unfurling all around us - while much of the rest of the country is covered in ice and snow. Downtown Victoria's many districts are blossoming and revitalizing the downtown as surely as spring is revitalizing the earth. Victoria is built on the site of the original Fort Victoria, and welcomes all downtown to the heart of the excitement.
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Serious Coffee at the Tea Festival???
While most people know us for our fresh, outstandingly superior coffee, we also carry an equally outstanding line of coffee alternatives. From our famous Chai lattes to our long-enjoyed bagged teas, our products extend beyond great coffee. Serious Coffee is locally-owned and operated. All of our stores are owned by local folks, most of whom work right in the store. They choose Serious Coffee because they enjoy interacting with people and they believe in our products. They are a big part of Serious Coffee's success.
One of the advantages to this type of situation is that we hear what our customers are saying. And you've told us you always enjoy coming into our stores for a fresh Brioche or other baked goodies, but you don't drink coffee and want something else to linger over. We've listened and have been on a worldwide quest and found what you're looking for! Now in addition to our steamers, bagged teas, and Chai lattes, we have Maccha teas, loose teas, and the amazing Blossoming teas. What better place to showcase them than at the Victoria Tea Festival? That, my friends, is why we'll be there and we hope to see you there too!
Butchart Gardens
Benvenuto, Italian for 'welcome', is the name the Butcharts used for their original estate, now a National Historic Site of Canada, and still owned by family descendants. The Butchart Gardens offers 22 ha (55 acres) of wonderful floral display located in Greater Victoria on Vancouver Island. You will find spectacular views as you stroll along meandering paths and expansive lawns. In 1904, Jennie Butchart began to beautify a worked-out quarry site left behind from her husband's pioneering efforts in the manufacture of Portland cement at nearby Tod Inlet. Her venture remains a family commitment to horticulture and hospitality spanning over 100 years.
Inn at Laurel Point
There is nothing to do here or everything you'd hoped.
Nothing at all to do but relax and drink tea, take in the view, and drink tea...and contemplate the sweeping architecture, design and ocean front. From the moment you step inside, prepare to be hypnotized by the spectacular harbour views just off your balcony, and soothed by the privacy of your quiet retreat. Decks give way to gardens. Glass walls invite natural light. Museum-quality art graces hallways, and wide-open space gives you room to breathe and perhaps drink tea. Not a place to sleep, this is a place to stay.
Special Teas
Our first store opened in 1997 in beautiful downtown Victoria. Later, we expanded our sales to the internet and have been selling teas online since the fall of 1998. Our downtown store has been expanded into a tea room with gallery. We specialize in a wide variety of loose teas from black, green, oolong, rooibos, honeybush, yerba mate and blends of them all. In the last few years, we have started to flavour and blend all our teas from natural ingredients such as dried fruit and flowers. As all our blending is done in house, we can control the quality of our teas and make sure the blend is always fresh and perfect!
JagaSilk
As specialty importers of maccha green tea and its tools, JagaSilk's goal is to act as nodes of knowledge for the maccha world outside of Japan. Just like fine wine uses the best grapes, fine maccha uses the best leaves. At JagaSilk, the best leaves (and consequently, finest maccha) is imported from the Harimean Estate Tea Garden in Kyoto, Japan. Join Jared & Miyu at their exhibit to sample this fine brew and see the maccha artists at work!
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