"Four brothers (whose parents owned West Vancouver’s Cafe Crema) dispersed far and wide to third-wave hot-spots—Montreal, New York, Seattle, and cities in Europe, Japan, and beyond—to figure out what made great coffee houses great, then came back to Vancouver and created a space featuring the best of what they saw abroad. The result is Revolver, a trailblazing shop in trendy Gastown that has become a focal point for coffee culture in the city, one that many other cafes have emulated since it opened in 2011." - Jennifer Van Evra