Reviews of The Anchor Eatery (Bowling Alley)

Megan Steffens

Wonderful, healthy selection with helpful and friendly staff.

Saei Ranjbar

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Patti Allen

Trendy and fun

Vanessa Schmidt

This is one of my favourite places to eat! Great vibes awesome acai bowls and juices!

Sheereen Price

Funky monkey, green machine, buckwheat tuna diablo, vice bowl, brownie cubs, squirrel balls! The list of delicious food goes on. Best place in West van if you want to feel good about yourself after a meal.

Kimia Barkam

This place has a lot of healthy options including juices, smoothies, acai bowls and more. One of the best things about this place is that it also has a lot of vegan options! Great cozy atmosphere too.

Amid Sedghi

My new favourite spot for açai bowls. I love the place, energy, and atmosphere. Food is quality. They care about the little things and that’s what matters the most when it comes to healthy food. As much as I love the place, prices can be lower.

Sasha M

They have the best açai bowls ever! They're super thick and so delicious. The location is cute and super close to the beach, they've also got a nice little patio out around the back. Also, the staff are so sweet! Love this place.

Nicole Jenna Dhaliwal

Just your ordinary smoothie plus coffee! Ooo carrot cake is amazing! Replying to you: Yes you do. Next door. Your place is split. So unprofessional! Is correcting and second doubting the customer's feedback a trend now??? Management seems shallow here. Here is your two star from three. Everyone go to body energy club they have best acai bowls and smoothies Bye felicia

Gabrielle Mustapich

Best part of Ambleside

Heather Brodie

Great selection of fresh and delicious smoothies and bowls. And friendly service. Great place to grab a refreshing takeaway for the beach, park, or home.

Jamie Learning

Delicious healthy and good for your tastebuds!! The Anchor takes plant based eating to a whole other level. The Toast Bar is where it's at, Smoochies on a hot day is refreshing and lite, and the brownie cubs are real brownies! Will be back, I bring everyone here for a snack to take to the beach ????

Travis Booth

Best sandwiches and smoothies

Alex Montoya

Another all-day breakfast place. Love em! In this case, I really like the vegetable sandwich. Even though it's not a breakfast item. Yum!

Jesse Olivier

Amazing juices, smoothies and sandwiches. I even buy their home made granola because its so good. Overpriced but thats just west van for you. The staff is really nice and friendly, always busy at work making everything from raw, natural ingredients! I love feeling like I am eating something healthy every time I go here. Being one of my go-to breakfast spots I wish they had better seating but they make do with the space they have. Being such a health conscious place I think its really important they get a recycling program going, I cringe every time I have to throw plastic or a bottle in the one trash can!!

Oleg Ivanov

Good place, awesome atmosphere and friendly staff, but poke tuna wasn't good as it should be. Was way over salty. If you tried poke tuna somewhere in Hawaii or Mexico, don't even order it.

Laura Flynn

A great little place with wonderful food.

Richard Loat

Love their juices. Always made fresh to order and they have a great set of gluten free and vegan options. The fresh baking every morning is fantastic. Great for a quick coffee or a lazy lunch. There's not much parking but if you're looking for a spot there are a few sneaky spots at the back!

Brookie The Cookie

I love love LOVE this place so so much. The food is so good the avo toast is amazing. They need to SWEETEN THE LEMONADE MORE because it tastes like lemon water and be a little quicker at making it but overall great and delicious! (Prices)- please never change them they are perfect. If you haven’t tried it TRY IT NOW!!

Emily L

Love coming here in the mornings for their vegan samosas. They have a wide selection of juices that I love as well.

Doris North Ohler

Nice gluten free choices.

Adventure A.Waits

Wonderful customer service and knowledgeable staff. Our family of 7 including people who would never think of going to a vegan eatery enjoyed the food. We had a variety of smoothies, oatmeal, and a salmon lox bagel. (Yes there are some non-vegan choices). Wonderful way to start the day!

Suzanne Hart

amazing food and good prices. best acai bowls ever !

Skye Peterson

The vegan,gluten free cornmeal muffin was so good!!! I need to come back just for that ????

Nicole

I had the vegetarian lox toast and it was amazing! Professional and friendly service, I will definitely be back.

Hannah Voros

Had the Hana smoochie and it was DELISH. If you love kombucha it’s a must!

Glenn Redbear

Limited menu for vegetarian eating. Friendly staff.

Christina Brock

Healthy and delicious.

Cam O’Brien

We’re vegan. And this is hands down the best breakfast wrap I’ve had in a long while. The lemon blueberry muffin was also awesome. Thanks for the great service too!

Connor Brown

This place is amazing, food is delicious and the staff are pretty rad as well

Laura Rodriguez

Sooo good

Salil Shah

Their menu and everything else is great, but on my last visit I saw the staff prepare the Nula bowl with bare hands. No gloves, nothing, and not sure if they washed hands before putting the strawberries and bananas in the bowl. And this was also the same person who took my order and was answer phone calls while preparing the dish. Too bad coz I kind of like the place but question their hygiene standards.

Troy Tyrell

It's a good little place

flora michaels

a little expensive in my opinion, but they always have great kombucha and i LOVE their veggie samosas and the mexi wrap

Carly Overman

Really good coffee and a few nice vegan options like the tofu breakfast burrito!

Joanne Argatoff, RMT

I've tried and love the smoothies, buckwheat tuna sandwich, lox bagel, chia pudding, and french toast!

Suzanne Rowell

I wasn't expecting to receive "fast food" convenience, but I would expect that a simple smoothie (which isn't very good BTW, and I think she forgot the frozen part of it because its warm, and she was even reading the recipe! ) should not take more than 2 minutes especially since there weren't any other customers in front of me. If I could take back my tip I would! After taking my order, the person who served me this morning carried on a conversation with a co-worker, jumped to answer the phone and take a Door Dash order - when the co-worker could have answered the phone and then when the Door Dash guy came in proceeded to converse with him....THEN she made my warm smoothie. If I could I wouldn't give you any stars, but I have to at least give you one to post this :(

Amirhossein Dehnadi

Try Açai bowl here ! You never regret

Karen Gerbrecht

The food was super lame. We tried two vegan options and they were (1) inedible -- we literally threw it in the garbage in the place and (2) edible but just barely. Just a big nope from me.

Jason Mackay

$20 poke bowl :/ Nice enough staff but $20 for a salty bland ass poke bowl gimme a break

Eric Sorenson

Excellent butter chicken wrap.

Julia Cedar

So tasty, fun and nourishing. I would have lunch there all the time if I could.

Armita Payombarnia

Amazing acai bowls, smoothie bowls, and smoothies but very few seats.

Gee

Delicious locally ran eatery offering a variety of healthy alternatives. Quality options from breakfast wraps, fruit bowls, fresh juice/ smoothies to superfood smoothies, and delicious baked goods. Great location, tuna poke bowls now offered as well!

Adam Dobiáš

Love the breakfasts at this place!

Fadi D.

Good stuff but over priced. Typical west van. they close early usually especially on weekends, which I think for their juices and acai bowls is lost business in this heat

Laura M

Healthy and delicious. Great for a quick bite or to eat on the cute deck around the back.

Alex Storie

Yummy food & excellent quality?!!

Neil Carroll

I bought a tuna bowl for my daughter and ordered a spinach wrap for lunch on 27th Dec. The $18 tuna with avocado was passable but my $10 wrap lunch was awful - totally tasteless stodge. Couldn't finish it Never again.

leo ming

Excellent food. Excellent coffee. Best little neighbour joint.

Brent Winterton

Service with a smile. Nice locally run breakfast and lunch spot. Food quality is high and I can always rely on them to get a quality meal on a busy day. Acai bowls are amazing.

Amir Miri Personal Real Estate Corporation

I asked for a drink with ginger, they told me they can add ginger to the green juice. 5 minutes later another person came to my table and gave me the juice and said: we are out of ginger from this morning. Is that ok with you? Couldn’t they ask me before giving me the juice that they were out of ginger? I paid for something that I didn’t get. This is what happens when a manager or owner takes off for weekend to enjoy the sunshine and leaves some students to manage the business. Will never go back....

Genesis Mcfee

Arrived 1632hrs, older lady wouldn't serve us as closed at 1630hrs. Still making smoothies until 1639hrs. Very pompous attitude and guess she didn't want then $20 . Will go to SAVERY Island who are always happy to serve.

Scott Barrow

Great smoothie bowls, good prices and thoughtful ingredients

Casey Cartwright

Best açai bowls around

Sara Mokhtar

I ordered Mana bowl and it felt like I throw away 17 bucks in trash. The fruits for the toppings (the banana and strawberries) were definitely unripe. The frozen mangoes in the smoothie part of it wasn’t mixed properly so the smoothie didn’t have the smooth texture. There were like chunks of frozen mangoes in the middle of it. Very disappointing overall. Would not order again.

Joshua

Good food, okay prices.

Ryan Greer

Delicious shakes and poke bowls

Alison Coupe

Ive been there few times and never been disappointed. The staff is extremely helpful and friendly, I also highly recommend the Açaì bowl +++

Eric Jorgens

Cozy place with nice staff and genuine, delicious food.

Zdravko Siklic

Simply the best. Period. I want a t-shirt!

William Henderson

Would rather go to McDonalds

Fannie Farmer

Going out for vegan lunch usually means settling for a veggie burger, a veggie sandwich (cucumber, tomato, lettuce, hold the cheese), or some other unimaginative, hold the meat and cheese but pay full price, dish. Not awesome. I usually opt for Indian or Chinese instead, or simply skip it all together. And then I stopped in at The Anchor Eatery in West Van. I could not believe how good my Avocado toast (with sauerkraut), and the big bang salad bowl were. Simple ingredients, expertly and imaginatively combined, made for a truly memorable lunch. It was so good I was even moved to take a couple of photos, which I rarely do. The staff were excellent and really seemed to care about what they were doing. Kudos and thanks! I will be back!

Mustafa Kaymakci

Amazing place

Cayla Sallstrom

Fun place, great staff, good food and cute merchandise!

John Whang

Great place to start a day!

Jamie Perchie

Amazing food, juices and smoothies run by two passionate women.

Anita Ngai

The quality of food is generally good. But the staff seems to be nice to people they know but hit or miss with new customers. Prices are high, especially the smoothies

Mariyah Ali

My best friend showed me this place a couple weeks ago! And the smoothie bowls are incredible. They are so refreshing and filling that I generally don’t need to eat for many hours after I have one of them!

Inbal Shaked

I mistakenly placed an order at another restaurant and walked in to pick it up as Anchor Eatery was closing up, but the owner was so kind and made me my sandwich anyway. They are always so accommodating and dedicated to customer satisfaction. Highly recommend.

Jim Otoole

Great staff and good quality food.

lawson mandy

I love The Anchor! I stop by everytime in West Van or driving by to catch the ferry to or from Nanaimo. I love that you can swing by and order super healthy, delicious eats on the quick like and keep on going on your way. The chia pudding is unlike any I've had before and I've been known to double fist it- that's the level of delicious I'm talking about people!I've been visiting since they opened and have always been friendly and gone over & above the call.of duty to ensure I've had a pleasant experience. Thanks Anchor, cant wait to visit again!

Mirjam Maasberg

Such a nice place!Everything fresh and delicious.

W X

While we line up, a customer came to the cashier and told and showed the staff her bowl has hair in it... We ordered and paid for our tuna bowls and we were later told they were out of tuna.. but it was only 2pm in the afternoon. We drove there just because of their good customer review on the tuna bowl. A bit disappointed that we didn't get to try it.

Codyyao604@gmail.com Yao

(Translated) All-Western dining, but currently only limited to take-out and outside dining; the hall does not accept it, there are shortcomings! (Original) 全西式餐飲，但目前只限外卖兼堂外飲食；堂内恕不接待，有啲美中不足！

Ty

I can’t be too critical of this place because the good does outweigh the bad. However, prices are on the high side for relatively reasonable food offerings that aren’t particularly stand out. The location and venue is good and the back patio is amazing in the spring and summer. Definitely bring your wallet and be prepared for some entitled west Vancouver locals.