Someone once asked me if I knew of a place that sold authentic German style pretzels. At the time I didn’t know of any place in town…and not being an aficionado myself, I asked around. A colleague of German descent told me about an relatively unremarkable bakery in an industrial zone just off the South Main district in Vancouver. They serve, he told me, the closest thing to a German pretzel... more

They supply their baguettes to some of the finest restaurants in the city, but the real reason to go is for soft pretzels fresh from the oven—the original fast food.