Cafe Blanca

Remember what Eau Claire used to be like? It was a bustling community space with artists, musicians and a diverse community of people enjoying their day. Café Blanca reignites this community focus in the Eau Claire Area — this time, with a focus on Coffee.
They love coffee. They love coffee more than you love coffee. You might have thought you loved coffee, but they take it to a level that honestly, you probably won’t every care to know. This is good, because the result of which for your average coffee loving Joe, is a very delicious cup of joe.
There’s a few kind of seating arrangements, whether you’re looking for a quick bite or looking to get social with some friends, a date, and interview, or cozy up and get social online with your email in a corner somewhere. It’s a good space if you need some focus time because it’s somewhat quiet right now, but it’s really quite great so if this review has anything to do with it, I hope to see a little more bustle in the near future. :)
If you’re looking at staying even a little longer there’s a detached back room complete with TV if you wanted to host a large meeting, or some boardgames if you feel like hanging out next to the sunny windows.
The food is fresh tasting and quite healthy. As coffee shops become a big part of my work day, it’s nice to be able to find a meal that is both tastes good and is healthy at the same time.
A very welcome addition to the Eau Claire Area. Make sure you make this your summer bike path ride coffee stop!

Love this spot.
Been here a few times already and we are always greeted by the friendliest baristas. Best of all, they have a piano and some guitars too which is very conducive to live jam sessions with friends.
The last time we came in, there was an art show setting up, which we thought was super neat. Also found out that they have a packed events calendar and are very open to hosting events, which is the best part about Café Blanca. It’s quite rare to find a business with such a community minded focus and can actually back up its words with actions.
This is a great hangout spot to catch up with friends too. Will be back again and again.

If I were on a sitcom, Café Blanca would be my Central Perk.
I was at Café Blanca for a workshop on Saturday morning. And I gotta say I am absolutely in love with this place.
It’s located right across from Eau Claire Market, so the location is awesome! Café Blanca’s atmosphere is a more chill than other trendy coffee shops. The crowd (when I was there) were young couples, young parents, older couples and the «run in and out, got places to go» crowd.
The vibes are calm too. You’re surrounded by inspiring quotes where your eyes are naturally drawn to. There is a piano (I hope a pianist stops by once in awhile or better yet, I wonder if anyone could just jam out on it?) There is a section with floor pillows! Like c’mon! This is a dream coffee shop. Wait, it gets better!
There is a boardgame room! Café Blanca is the perfect spot for every kind of crowd. You must check it out!

I didn’t really know this was here until they were home of a coffee house play that had actors around the room, the audience and the public just popping in and out for a cup of coffee. While here I also noticed they do paintnites and it would be a great lit venue for those!
Anyway, this coffee house is right next to Eau Claire in the bottom of what I’d say is going to be a condo building. I haven’t figured out what some of their contraptions do to make drinks — I get some flash backs of chemistry class when I look at the flasks and little burners they have to one side. I will have to explore the science of coffee but this trip I had an ice tea and a slice of red velvet cake. The ice tea was great and the red velvet cake was just a sliver which really is a great size to satisfy without too much guilt.
Over all it’s a cute place and now I want to find a paintnite there because it’s a great painting space unlike many of the bar spaces I’ve painted in…

An awesome addition to the Calgary café culture. A spacious yet intimate café in the base of the Riverfront towers across from Eau Clair Market. This place has coffee beans that are single origin independently sourced, and honestly are quite unique in flavor. The food selection is small and high quality, as well as always changing.
The atmosphere is very cheerful and relaxing. With comfy pillows to relax in, many windows and lots of power outlets, its a great place for a meeting, studying or relaxing with friends. They even have a separate room with a TV and various board games to chill out in for a while.
Check it out and support a great local business.

I love dropping by Café Blanca and grabbing a tea latte and a macaron to enjoy while getting some homework done. The atmosphere is great and the staff is very friendly. I don’t usually order it, but the siphon coffee is a must for coffee lovers, it’s the least acidic and smoothest cup of black coffee I’ve ever had.

Great little café, which Is seemingly pretty new and undiscovered. Great place to hangout and just collect your thoughts. Coffees pretty good and fairly well priced. I’m only here because I had a job interview that took place here but turned out to be a great Café! Would recommend.

I really enjoy hanging out at Café Blanca! I’ve been here a few times and I like that their drink menu is full of different options. Their food menu is like many other cafés, sandwiches and salads, but it’s cool that some nights they change up what they have to offer for eats.
I think the ambience of cafés are extremely important, and Café Blanca is cool, welcoming, and they promote the arts which is not always the easiest to find in Calgary. If you’re in the area stop by for an open mic night, grab a drink, and let the vibes take you away.

Stopped into his new downtown café after the gym in the hopes of a quick, healthy dinner.
When I asked about the gluten free sandwiches they said they were going to be getting some soon, so I settled for a small boccicini salad, added shrimp (3 pieces) and a small almond milk latte.
This ran me $ 18.
Yikes.
The salad was decent, quite oily and the cold shrimp salad skewer was soggy which made me sad. My latte was decent, not the best.
The café itself seems like a cool place to hang out, neat tables, nice ambiance. The food/​coffee just didn’t do it for me.
I will totally give it a second try though because a new café downtown is always worth it to me.