by Angela V 
My husband is a coffee lover and as many of you other coffee lovers around know he needs a cup of coffee first thing in the morning to start his day. So when I was asked to review a couple of bags of Granville Island Coffee Company’s coffee I knew I had to say yes! I am not a coffee drinker myself but my husband sure appreciates trying out new high quality coffee for me.
Granville Island Coffee offers fair trade certified and organic coffee that is packaged and roasted in Metro Vancouver – they also have the following three roasts available (from their site):
Signature Roast
This Peruvian Gourmet Organic Fair Trade coffe, grown in the Chanchamayo Valley, is a connoisseur’s delight with a perfect balance of flavour, body, and aroma.
Kitsilano Roast
This beautiful Fair Trade Organic coffee is shade grown in the mountains region in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Combining nature’s setting of high mountain ranges, rich volcanic soil, witha a fine balance of sun and clouded rain forest, conditions are ideal for cultivating one of the world’s finest coffees.
Yaletown Roast
Experience the sweet fruity notes of this Fair Trade Organic coffee grown in Guatemala’s oldest and most famous coffee growing region of Antigua.
We received their Kitsilano Roast and Signature Roast (both ground) and my husband was excited to try them out. Here is what he had to say about Granville Island Coffee:
“I am by no means an expert on coffee but I know what l like and what I don’t like and have had the chance to try coffees all over the world (including Colombia). It should be noted that I prepared these coffees using the highly recommended Aeropress system which in my experience allows you to experience any type of coffee at its best. I usually prefer medium roast coffees and the West Coast Blend certainly did not disappoint. It has a really smooth taste that I have especially enjoyed in the mornings, not too bitter or acidic but still full of flavour. The Yaletown roast is much darker and has a bolder flavour that I have also really enjoyed. It is perfect for later in the day or after a nice meal. Both coffees tasted really fresh and can easily compete with any of the other premium international coffees I have tried.”
Even though I don’t drink it I personally love the scent of a cup of coffee that was just brewed. I noticed the Granville Island Coffee had a fabulous strong scent and you could smell the coffee even when the packaging was closed!
Buy it: ($11.99 for 340g bag) Granville Island Coffee can be purchased online on their website HERE or at Save on Foods, Urban Fare, IGA Marketplace, Nesters Markets and Donald’s Markets in BC. These will also be on sale at Save on Foods for just $9.99 from Aug 31-Sept 27, don’t miss it!
Win it: One very lucky US/CAN reader will win two bags of Organic Granville Island Coffee (Choice of roast). Enter to win below via Rafflecopter.
Disclosure: I received a sample of a product to facilitate this post. No other compensation was provided and all views and opinions stated on this post are 100% my own.
157 Comments on “Granville Island Coffee Company Review”
I would love to try the Yaletown roast
I’d love to try the Kitsilano Roast – Dark
signature roast medium
Yaletown roast for my hubby
yaletown roast! Me and hubby can fight over it!
The Kitsilano roast – dark, sounds very yummy! I would love to try it. 🙂
I wanna try!!!
I’d really like to try the Kitsilano Roast – Dark.
rafflecopter name: Lisa K
I’d like to try the Signature Roast – Dark
Signature Roast
A hopeless insomniac dark coffee would keep me up all night like a vampire. Opt for Signature Roast – Medium
Signature Roast
Signature Toast!
I would like to try Granville Island’s Yaletown Roast coffee
Yaletown roast sounds awesome!
I’d like to try the Yaletown Roast
I would like to try the Signature Roast – Dark
I would like to try the Signature Roast – Medium
i would like to try Signature Roast – Medium
The Yaletown Roast.
I’d love to try the Signature Roast – Dark
I’d like to try Yaletown Roast – Dark
Yaletown Roast – Dark
sounds interesting.
signature roast medium!
signature roast dark
Signature Roast
Signature Roast – Medium for me!
Kitsilano Roast – Dark
I’d like to try the Kitsilano Roast.
Signature Roast – Dark for me please.
Kitsilano Roast – Dark
Signature Roast.
Signature Roast – Dark : I do love my coffee…
I love Yaletown and went for a visit not too long ago. In memory of the good day that I spent there I would have to choose the Yaletown blend.
Besides all of them?? I would like to try the Yaletown Roast – Dark first.
Mmmmmmm, Yaletown Roast sounds good ‘n rich. I’m kind of a coffee addict Thanks for the Giveaway.=)
I would love to try the Yaletown Roast – Dark
I think I would choose the Medium Signature Roast.
Kitsilano Roast – Dark
I would like to try the Signature Roast – Dark
Signature Roast – Dark
This roast, which also uses a Peruvian Fair Trade Organic bean, has a heavier body and lower acidity, and accentuates the nuances of this ineffable bean. Sounds like the perfect coffee for me!!!
I’d like to try the Signature Medium roast.
I would like to try the Yaletown Roast – Dark.
I would love to try the signature roast.
I would like to try the Yaletown roast.
Yaletown dark roast sounds great!
like to try the Kitsilano Roast
Love to try the Kitsilano Roast – dark
I would like to try the Yaletown Roast – Dark
Signature Roast medium
The signature roast
I would like to try the signature roast dark.
I agree – the Signature Roast would be my choice to try!
Signature Roast – Medium would be the roast I’d like to try. Thanks 🙂
I would like to try the Kitsilano Roast.
Signature Roast – Dark
The Medium roast
I would love to try the Yaletown Roast – Dark coffee
I would like to try the Signature Roast.
(entered as Jennifer)
I would like to try the Signature Roast – Medium coffee
Signature Roast – Medium
signature roast dark
I would love to try the Signature Roast – Medium
i would love to try their dark signature roast blend
Signature Roast – Medium
Signature Roast
LOVE to try their Signature Roast – Medium
signature roast
Signature Roast for me!
Signature Roast – Medium
I would love to try Kitsilano Roast – Dark
callawishes(at)hotmail(dot)com
like to try the medium signature roast
I’d like to try the Signature Roast – Medium.
I would like Signature Roast – Medium
September 8-If I were lucky enough to win, I would like to try the ‘Signature Roast Dark.’-el03ro
September 8-If I were lucky enough to win, I would like to try the ‘Signature Roast Dak. All the flavors sound elicious!-el03ro
If I won I would like the Signature Roast Dark please!
Kitsilano Roast!
Signature Roast!
I’d like to try the Signature Roast — Medium.
signature roast dark!
Kitslano for me if I won.
signature roast medium
Kitsilano Roast – Dark
The Signature Roast sounds best for me.
Kitsilano Roast – Dark
Yaletown Roast – Dark sounds like my kind of coffee.
I want to try the dark roast
Terri P
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i would love to try their dark signature roast blend
Yaletown roast is good!
I would love to try the Signature Roast Medium. I always go for medium roast, thanks!
The Signature Roast – Medium
I would like to try the signature roast dark
Medium signature roast
Signature Roast – Medium
I like this – Yaletown Roast – Dark
Thank you.
the kitsilano roast sounds yum!
I was just at Granville Island this summer- it’s such a beautiful place
A marie hj saver
the Yaletown Roast – Dark
Signature Roast – Dark
I would love to try the Signature roast med , If coffee was a man I would marry it!
I prefer the medium roast
I love a good bold coffee and try to seek out fair trade coffees. Would love the opportunity to broaden my horizons!
I’d love to try the Signature Roast – Medium
I would like to try their Signature Roast – Medium
I love Granville coffee have had it before in Vancouver @tomgirlbc
hubby is the coffee drinker and he likes dark so I think the Kitsilano would be best
I’d like to try the Signature Roast – Dark
Would like to try
Signature Roast – Medium
since hubby is Guatemalan the Yaletown roast is appropriate!
The Signarture DARK roast would be my face 🙂
We love dark, rich roasts here – so I think I’d go for the Kitsilano, or maybe the Yaletown
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Kitsilano or the yaletown – dark roasts!
I would like to try the signature roast
We like dark, rich coffee, so the Signature Roast sounds delish!
Signature Roast – Dark
Thanks for the giveaway.
I’d like to try their Signature Roast – Medium.
Thanks!
I would like to try the Signatyre roast.
I’d like the Signature Dark Roast
I would like to try the signature roast-medium
I’d like to try theYaletown Roast – Dark
Their Signature Roast.
Signature Roast – Medium
I would love to try the Signature Roast- Medium.
signature medium roast please~
I love a good bold roast
The signature roast in medium sounds awesome!
I would choose the signature roast in the medium
I’d love to try the kits roast.. being from vancouver makes me appreciate this so much more! <3
mmm coffee.. I love local coffee even more!
would like to try the dark signature roast
I think the Kitsilano Roast sounds yummy!
I like a medium roast coffee. Grandville Island is not too far from where I live, and I have never tried the coffee.
I’d like Yaletown Roast. Thanks for the giveaway.
I’d like to try the Signature Roast – Medium 🙂
The Kitsilano Roast sounds good!
Dark roast is my thang.
The Kitsilano roast looks yummy!
This would be great to win.
id love to try the signature roast dark
I would like to try the Kitsalno Roast
I want to try the Kitsilano Roast – Dark.
I would try Signature Roast!
medium roast please
The Medium Signature Roast is my coffee of choice!
I would prefer the signature roast.
I would love to try the Signature Roast.
Would love to try the Kitsilano roast!
Signature Roast – Medium.
I’d love to try the Yaletown Roast!!
I would like to try the Signature Roast-Dark.
I’d like Yaletown Roast – Dark
Signature Roast – Medium
I would like to try the Kitsalano Roast – Dark.
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I’d like to try the signature dark roast
I like coffee in the evening. If one love to drink coffee they should select perfect coffee with quality. And here is the coffee.
The above named “Granville Island Coffee Company”has a big secret. Coffee is roasted by a coffee roaster in Ontario named “Heritage Coffee”. Heritage produces office coffee mainly. Not a specialty producer. This company is good at using our local landmarks to market their coffee, but should not be a local.