Buzzy

A sweet bee mural decorates the sidewalk seating area of a coffee shop at Fulford Harbor,  Salt Spring Island, posing the question, "Why are bees so important to our planet?" (Do you know the answer?)

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Papa's Pizza

A little calligraphy and greenery to welcome you in. 

Japanese style

This colorful nature mural is a beautiful draw for Japanese Noodle.

Comfort food

Mural on the Burgoo Bistro - Main Street (Vancouver) location

smooth and sweet

Mural on the wall of the Washington Avenue Grill - White Rock B.C.

Ethnic food comes alive

Mural on the wall of Kostas Greek Restaurant - Langley, B.C.

Enjoy your pita, tzatziki, spanokapita, souvlaki and calamari against the backdrop of a Greek villa. 

Eatery scenery

Water and sky brighten the walls of this Vancouver eatery.

All that jazz

This fabulous mural is on the wall of a coffee shop just down the street from me. I just love it!

Beach tapas

This mural gives even those guests seated by the wall a view on the patio of a little tapas restaurant - in White Rock.

Ethnic ambience

If you do any amount of eating out, you're sure to find restaurants where murals are part of the decor. This beautiful 3-D mural graced the wall of a Chinese restaurant we visited last December.

 

Dutch Mother's Restaurant

The street wasn't the only place we found murals in Lynden.

We had lunch at the Dutch Mother's Restaurant. Our table was in a room with this streetscape mural.


These fine folk keep an eye on the clientele in the buffet area.

Murals of ambience

Restaurant murals add to the ambience. These aren't great shots, but you get the idea.

This street-front mural covers a wall of Dadeo's, a Cajun restaurant in Edmonton Alberta.

This pastoral / architectural ruins scene is from Stella's Tap and Tapas Bar on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. (Not sure what the guy on the left is doing - harvesting some of his brewsky?)

McBurney's Coffee and Tea House

If you read my other blog, you will know we're moving to the city of Langley in less than a month. This is a place we're not unfamiliar with, but neither do we know it well. It's where our church is so we've made multi trips through town but never spent much time in it. Our new home is walking distance from church and is a few minutes' drive from Langley's downtown.

Langley has more of a small town feeling to it than Surrey (the sprawling city we live in now, which really doesn't have one downtown, but four or five business centers -- like Cloverdale, Ocean Park, Guildford and Newton -- which used to be the centers of small towns or settlements )

We really noticed the change in ambience when we drove out to Langley in early July to show some friends the property we had bought. After that we went downtown to where there is still angle parking on some of the streets. We browsed in a few shops, then went for a coffee at McBurney's Coffee and Tea House. (In the virtual tour - link above - McBurney's Coffee House is right of the McBurney Lane sign.) Apparently they have regular live music evenings there - like jazz and such. Judging from the mural on the wall (photo above), one should expect a good time!