It has coffee, bicycles and retro furniture — all Musette Café needs now is sushi and yoga classes, and it will have all of Vancouver’s obsessions in one place.
The new café, which opened last Saturday in an alley near Davie and Burrard, is trying to capitalize on the popularity of the Hornby bike lane, and of cycling as a mode of transportation and as a sport.
The walls of Musette Café are lined with cycling memorabilia, from bikes to jerseys and even tiny cyclist figurines.
The café walls also feature a wide array of branded musettes, the eponymous cotton cyclist bag.
“A musette holds everything a cyclist needs,” said manager Dave Vukets. “That’s what we want to do as well.”
The café is looking to satisfy the niche cycling market by supplying easy bike lockup, free access to a variety of tools and all the portable, high-energy snacks a cyclist needs.
They also have an arrangement whereby the adjacent crepe shop will cook crepes to order for Musette customers.
“In this city, it’s all hockey,” said Vukets. “We want to be a place that shows all the big events in our sport.”
Musette Café can be a bit difficult to find, especially with its Burrard address (1262 Burrard St.), but its location allows plenty of bike space, making it an easy detour from the Hornby bike lane.
“People ask why we’d set up in an alley,” Vukets laughed. “But to cyclists, I think it makes perfect sense.”
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