Oldhand Cafe & Bakery

The best Americano in Abbotsford. Hands down. Great place to sit and sip a coffee and have a tasty treat.

Excellent coffee! Excellent service! They’re passionate about their coffee. No other coffee shops in Abbotsford come close to this place.

A wonderful coffee shop in Abbotsford! Coffee is great and baked goods are all done in house in small batches. What a gem in Abbotsford. Well worth detouring for!

Good coffee is hard to find and these guys have got it right. Exceptional double espresso, no water needed. And, the chocolate chip cookie was rather decadent.

You need to try this place! I am so happy to finally have real coffee in Abbotsford, typically you have to venture to vancouver to get espresso of this quality. I went in with high expectations and they were exceeded. Every treat I have had so far is just perfect, and I could go on for days about the coffee and espresso. It’s 20mins out of my way, but I still make the stop, well worth it. I will recommend this place to everyone, I want them to be around for a long time to come!

Good staff, great service, excellent espresso. The espresso has a very smooth to sweet taste. Not bitter what so ever. Their pastries are the bomb… yep I said it…“the bomb”
Treat yourself and try this place out.

WONDERFUL coffee shop! Simply & tastefully decorated. Great atmosphere. Friendly staff. Amazing scones & almond croissants. Serves a delicious lunch too.

Yum! Amazing little bakery!!! Had an espresso milkshake and an warm egg pastry thing which was so delish!!!
Cute quaint little place with antique décor and great service:)
Loved this place… Wish it wasn’t so far away from White Rock!

Haiku Review
Abbotsford Coffee.
Tim Hortons? Maybe Starbucks?
No! Come here! Right now!
Abbotsford has been
waiting many, many years
for a place like this.
They’d be coffee snobs
if they weren’t so friendly and
down to earth. Earthy.
These people live, breath
good coffee and fine baking.
Ask them anything.
The baked goods are like:
If your grandma teamed up with
Frank Payard. So yum yum.

Delightful and unexpected surprise in Abbotsford.
It’s hard to find (it’s in the coin laundry building, facing the highway).
Inside it’s open, airy, and drenched in sunlight.
Bows & Arrows espresso — well made cappuccinos.

Finally a quality espresso bar in Abbotsford. Amazing pastries too. Love the décor and atmosphere too. P

When I saw a new independent coffee place had opened near my house, I was anxious to try it, so last Saturday, in need of a snack and a little caffeine, I took some of my family (the ones that weren’t off doing Important Teenage Things) in to see what was what.
The décor is warm and hip, if a bit spare. The interior is bright with modern raw steel accents — ‘Urban Machinist’, I guess.
To drink, we had a latte, a cappuccino, and a bottle of cola. To eat, we had a pain chocolate, a chocolate chip cookie, and a huge oreo. The baked goods were… well, superb. Really REALLY good. The huge oreo was two thin disks of what looked and tasted like dark chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream between them. Delicious. The chocolate chip cookie was a hefty thing packed with chocolate, soft on the inside, but with a thin sweet crust. I didn’t get a chance to try the pain chocolate, as that disappeared inside the youngest of our group in such short order that I didn’t get a chance.
I’m not much of a coffee snob — to me, coffee falls into three categories: good, drinkable, and bad. This was good — my cappuccino had just the right amount of creamyness, with lovely round coffee flavour, the sort of coffee one should drink while eating absolutely first rate bakery products.
Highly recommended. So glad this place opened up, and it is close to my house!
Warning: the parking lot directly in front of Old Hand is a minivan trap. Even small cars can find getting in and out of it a bit challenging. Park in the shopping plaza parking outside the fence.
Update 26÷9÷2015: Had a ham and cheese croissant and a cappuccino — delicious. More importantly, the shopping plaza has upgraded the fencing beside Old Hand. It is now going to be much more difficult to park in the plaza on the east side of Old Hand. Please, don’t let it deter you from patronizing this gem of a coffee shop.

I came to the place with standard to low expectations, hoping that the they can make a half decent latte and had my mind blown by how good it was.
I was cautiously watching then make the espresso looking for the signs of a skilled barrista but couldn’t see either way immediately. I was then stunned to see an aeropress which is highly regarded by coffee snobs online. Then another surprise was the porlex grinder I have which is also highly regarded as rivalling coffee graders several times more expensive with the one drawback of it being hand powered.
I got the first flat white that I have gotten. that is an Australian drink that I saw on a Starbucks sign once. it was a short little drink that was one of the best coffees I’ve had in Vancouver on par with elysian, parallel 49, and moja.
they truly have the love of coffee that you hope to see in every coffee shop you go into.

Beautiful pastries and baked goods, excellent, expertly crafted coffee! Thank you for letting me find something other than Starbucks in Abbotsford!

Love the Oldhand kids & learned pretty much everything I know about coffee from these two. Hand-​pressed aeropress coffee with perfect temp and perfectly WEIGHED water – yes, Jo weighs his water so it’s a perfect press every time.
And the food! You know how Starbucks has packaged stuff from… somewhere at all their stores? Yeah, this is the opposite. Baked onsite every morning and you can taste every mile it DIDN’T travel to get to your plate.
Seriously, just go – you’ll love it.