Hiyori Coffee opens Vancouver cafe focused on calm, slow brewing
Hiyori Coffee’s first Vancouver cafe pairs a no-laptop rule with AeroPress-only filter service, Japanese tea-house cues and a tiny Mount Pleasant footprint.
Hiyori Coffee softly opened its first brick-and-mortar cafe at 279 E. 6th Ave. in Mount Pleasant, turning two years of pop-ups, bean sales and competition results into a permanent room. The Vancouver micro-roastery, founded in 2024 by Shinya Furue and Eri Horie, is betting that calm, focus and a tightly edited service model can stand out in a city packed with cafes that usually double as workspaces.
That bet shows up in the room as much as it does on the counter. The cafe leans on Japanese tea-house references and the idea of ma, or meaningful empty space, with minimalist surfaces, handmade clay cups imported from Japan and bench seating inspired by engawa. Hiyori has also put a no-laptop policy in place, which strips out the glow of screens and keeps the emphasis on lingering rather than clearing tables quickly.
The drink program is just as deliberate. AeroPress is the only filter method on offer, with single-dose grinding handled by a compact Femobook A68. Espresso is pulled on a La Marzocco Strada X with a Mazzer Kony S, while the roasting side runs through shared facilities equipped with a Loring S15 Falcon, a Diedrich IR-12 and a Stronghold S7 Pro. Hiyori says it is chasing flavor clarity and balanced sweetness, and it sells beans in 150g bags, a size the company says helps customers hit the sweet spot about two to three weeks after roasting.
Furue and Horie brought real competition weight into the opening. Furue won the 2023 Canadian AeroPress Championship, Horie placed second in 2024 and Furue finished third in 2025, a run that helped build a following before the storefront ever opened. Hiyori’s name comes from a Japanese word for a perfect day or ideal weather for doing something, and the cafe now reads like a retail version of that idea: compact, exacting and built for people who want their coffee served slowly, not rushed through the line.
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