Pick up
M0n-Fri from 8am - 3pm & Sat-Sun and Holidays 9am - 3pm.
Call us
Call us directly to place your order at 604-879-3114. Our pick up menu can be found here.
Medina at Night
Boasting high ceilings, up-cycled lighting fixtures, antique mirrors and traditional deco panel moulding, Café Medina’s expansive dining room marries the romance of 1920s Paris and the utilitarian sensibilities of a working person’s café, offering a truly unique and instantly memorable setting for celebrations, gatherings, intimate wedding receptions and rehearsal dinners for up to 55 guests seated. Our room is also designed for presentations and corporate gatherings and is equipped with multimedia capabilities including a projector
Private Events
Evening
Whether it’s a grazing-style event or a multi-course dinner service, we have designed an array of seasonal menu options featuring our signature rustic, Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. All of our canapé selections, platters and stations and our family-style menus can also be paired with a variety of custom cocktail creations, wine or beer.
Daytime
Our room is available to be booked for private daytime events, photoshoots and filming. Please note, daytime events can only be accommodated for buy-out scenarios.
Inquiries
“The care, vibrancy and genuine excitement from everyone made our guests feel comfortable, and more importantly welcomed as if at a friend’s home. We received countless compliments on the space, the food, the bar, and the team.
We look forward to many more years of celebrating with the entire Cafe Medina team.
Thank you all again for being such awesome people! ”
“I wanted to extend my sincerest thank you for the event you organized...The food was was amazing, the staff was well informed and organized, the hosts and the kitchen staff we had were fantastic. We all had a wonderful time and I would definitely book again with Medina in the future. If anyone asks, I’ll also pass along my recommendations and praise for the great job you guys all did. Thanks again. It made my wife’s birthday celebration memorable.
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Reservation by Donation
Book a table and imagine an even better world with us.
Inspired by our industry peers, Café Medina is adopting the reservation by donation model in hopes to continue to contribute to our community. Guests will have an option to reserve a table (of up to 8 guests, up to 3 weeks in advance) by donating $10 per person to the charity we have partnered with for the quarter. Each quarter the Medina Team will profile a worthy cause in hopes of bringing to light their contribution to our greater community. Reservations are optional, we happily accept walk ins on a first come first served basis.
All proceeds go directly to our charity partner. To reserve a table, please book online, choose a date, time, and donate $10 per person. Please note there are NO refunds and all bookings are taken exclusively through the website (no email or over the phone). Only a small portion of our seating is available for reservations, as the rest will be held for walk-in dining guests. If your desired date and time are not available, please join us by walking in.
Should you have any questions about an existing reservation or want to make any changes please contact us via email at reservations@medinacafe.com
A NOTE FROM THE ACCOUNTANT:
Café Medina recognizes the reservation fees when it collects the funds and reports it on the T2 corporation tax return. The restaurant then donates the received amounts from the reservation fee its partner charity. Only when the donation is made out to the charity is the donation expense claimed. As all of the monies are donated to charity, this arrangement results in no financial gain for the company. This arrangement is very similar to retailers selling a product in which the monies from the sale of the product are donated to a charity.
Donation receipts are issued by the registered charities in which the donations are made out to. Therefore our customers are not given donation receipts as the registered charities can only issue these receipts to the donor that they receive the funds directly from. You can choose to donate to one of the select charities and show proof of donation to book a table with Café Medina.
Vancouver Brunch
locally sourced × crafted with love
Located in the Library District, Café Medina is a purveyor of fine Mediterranean-inspired cuisine, connoisseur-savvy coffee and sweet sustenance via the city’s best Belgian waffles.
Since opening in 2008, Café Medina has carved out a niche as a truly exceptional breakfast, lunch and weekend-brunch destination that effortlessly blends eclectic bistro fare, connoisseur-savvy coffee and sweet nourishment via the city’s best Belgian waffles.
While the name Medina has many interpretations, it was selected for its connotation to “radiant or enlightened city”. Indeed, this unique café quickly shone as one of the city’s most stylish additions, thanks to owner Robbie Kane’s pioneering attitude towards café culture and distinctive brand of enlightened hospitality — an ideal complement for the café’s instantly memorable, Mediterranean-inspired cuisine.
Café Medina doesn’t simply serve food — Kane and his staff pride themselves on feeding the soul of each and every guest and providing them with sustenance in every way, shape and form.
It's this signature Medina mystique that has made the café a Vancouver institution, and is the reason its guests keep returning again and again.
After six years in its original location in Crosstown, Café Medina moved to a bright and spacious new home at 780 Richards Street in Vancouver in August 2014. And while the café’s new location boasts a number of upgrades, Kane has also gone to great lengths to migrate and preserve the same quaint touches, fine details and old-world charm that made the café such a beloved staple of the local restaurant scene in its former site.
The café’s new quarters not only allow for increased seating capacity, an expanded bar, open kitchen, high ceilings and plenty of natural light, but also serve as an ideal evening venue for private functions and special events.
Phone
Location
780 Richards St.
Vancouver, BC
V6B 3A4
Hours
Monday - Friday 8am - 3pm
Weekends & Holidays 9am - 3pm
