Bean Around The World — Restaurant in White Rock

It's okay. Some of the customers are wonderful! The best part (as I write this in 2024 at least). Many are still local actual Canadians so it has that environment with the customers. The people working there are a little spaced though. Probably not people people, not the most open sociable types. I ordered a baked good the last time I was in and the young guy working there after I purchased it, expecting me to have already done it, says I can just grab one myself. It's just there on the counter wrapped in plastic. So I do that and I sit and grab my own napkin at a different station and eat it over plastic and napkin over the table, surely crumbs getting spread out. I said it was for here. What am I paying for exactly? Is this a little newsstand at a bus station where I get a snack for 50 cents? Is this not a place to spend a bit of time since there are seats inside? Just weird. And how the staff communicates is off. Not how I grew up to socialize but then I grew up in White Rock before it became this strange tower filled foreign population place. So the café is okay. The people working there aren't the worst with customer service. But...

Edit 2: Second weekend in a row, no dark roast coffee at 3:30pm. It wasn't an anomaly last week. I spend about $450 / mo at this shop. If just ten people like me decide to take our business elsewhere, that's a $4500 monthly loss to their business. Too busy pinching pennies and missing the bigger picture. Really sad, they are nice folks.

Edited: very disappointed in the business decisions of this location. Open until 5pm but at 3:40pm on a weekend, they don't serve dark roast coffee. It's a COFFEE SHOP! Why would they not brew coffee to sell? The excuse is, it would go to waste. I think that's rediculous, brew half as much then or anticipate better. Offer to make an Americano is not the same. Looking for another coffee shop to visit daily and often twice. Too bad, they have good coffee.

Original review: For bold coffee lovers, this is the place. The dark roast is very good. Take beans to go or hang out with a barista drink. Casual atmosphere, nice patio when weather permits. It's the only place I'll get coffee from...

We've been to Bean Around The World in White Rock at least a dozen times. Their hot coffee has always been good and the outdoor seating is wonderful on a sunny day.

Today, however, my husband and I decided to up our order and try one of their fancy drinks, two caramel frappaccinos and a couple of baked goods. At a hefty $4.55 a drink, with the bill total coming to almost $15 dollars, our drink choices left us seriously wanting.

I watched the girl make our drinks, and quickly realized, we were paying for a 12oz cup of crushed ice with a bit of flavouring.

Have to say, at least when Starbucks charges you a premium $4.55 for a special drink, you actually feel like you're getting your money's worth. I know this seems like alot of trivial piffle, but it's the value for expense that compelled me to write this review, and to warn other unsuspecting patrons.

My hope is that someone from Bean Around the World will read this and it will compel them to up their game in the premium drink category, 'cause the place and atmosphere...