Waves Coffee House

The Springborough location is best for sitting and chatting with friends, not studying or working. Reasonable number of sockets to charge your laptop, but wifi is not spectacular and sometimes unreliable. The café has lots of seating space inside but limited parking. They also have a bitcoin machine. Great find for suburbia and rich kids from Ambrose.

Great spot for meeting with lots of space and lots of free parking. I prefer their beans to Starbucks. Friendly staff. Family owned and operated.

Nice coffee shop but no parking. Westpark Parking will tag you for 45.00 parking penalty if you go over the 10 minute limit so be aware! First time I’ve received a parking ticket in the burbs!

Another coffee shop, offering the usual selection.
This location tends to be really empty during the times I’ve been there, so I always receive good service. I like the art they have on sale here (although I would never pay that much for it). Overall nothing too special about this location, just another coffee shop.
Waves, a different chain, the same usual coffee shop.

Headed to Waves’ Springborough location yesterday for the first time and had a great experience. I went with a colleague and we spent the morning there working while we drank coffee and shared a cinnamon bun. The coffee was good, cinnamon bun was delicious, and the atmosphere was great! There are plenty of seats (including lots of soft armchairs), lots of windows to let the sun shine in, free wi-​fi, and just a generally good vibe. In fact we were so productive that I think our boss should pay for us to work there every week since we got so much done!

A great find in Springbank Hill. Great coffee, food, and ambience! The staff were warm and friendly, and were good about helping us figure out where we should park in order to not get ticketed/​towed. The only thing is it’s two hour parking (it’s free, but only two hours) which is a pain if you’re using Waves Coffee as a study space rather than conversation space.
I really liked their London Fog, and their breakfast sandwich was surprisingly unique – egg, english muffin, smoked salmon, and cream cheese. It’s quite good. I also shared a cinammon bun with my comrade.
Overall, a good experience. I will certainly be back.

I am reviewing the Springborough Location only, and I am not sure why all the reviews are being jumbled under this location. I have long ago boycotted all local StarSucks coffeeshops as I am tired of getting dishwater, poorly brewed espresso drinks there. While my preference is to go to independents who truly know how to brew a good latte or cappuccino, but, there were none nearby, so Waves it was.
I was pleasantly surprised by my special of the month ($ 2 latte, September). It had a bold coffee flavour (without having to add an extra espresso shot), and was topped with full-​bodied foam complete with latte art, just like those the knowledgeable baristas at the boutique coffee shops make. I have not had their regular coffee, but my extremely picky husband has, and seems to enjoy it very much. The atmosphere is welcoming and not at all pretentious. We were there one friday night and there was even a musician. There is a good selection of pastries, muffins and sandwich/​wrap type food, though I would prefer more freshly prepared items. For that, I will leave room for improvement.

Quick service. I love me coffee and the strong roast blend really hot the spot. Great to have a comfy seat and good wifi. A good selection of pastries and snacks at fair prices. I was very happy Unilocal pointed me in the direction of this oasis.

I like waves! To me, it’s like that middle ground between shishi coffee and normal coffee. They offer a higher value product a little cheaper than higher value price, it’s a rather appealing idea!
The space here is wonderful! Big, open lots of seating! This is my kind of coffee shop and I look very forward to the next time I come here! Come try it out!
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Great service, one smooth latte! Need one of these near Sunridge, you’d have my money every day.

A friend told me about this new coffee shop that had opened on 17^th called Waves. Other friends have told me that it’s a chain out of Vancouver. I figured «new Canadian chain? Cool. Worth checking out.» And so I did.
On a service note, I had no problems here. The staff/​owners are all very friendly and asked every customer that came in while I was there a question about themselves or where they worked. Two thumbs up there guys.
The selection of teas and coffees wasn’t amazing, but it wasn’t that bad either. I stuck to a cinnamon roiboos tea and enjoyed my cup by the wannabe fire place.
Where Waves fell down was with their internet. It’s free to use, but is spotty at best. Two thumbs down as a place to hang out for a drink with your laptop in tow.
I’m with Devon B in the opinion that this Waves location is wasting their potential. But they’re new here… so maybe they’ll hit it yet?

I went to the Waves in the plus 15 area by the calgary stock exchange.
You really wanna pass yourself off as a good coffee house and youre missing one thing… Good coffee.
Amateur at best, bitter, I might even venture as far as to say WORSE than a Starbucks coffee… OK no, I apologize, not that bad but i still tossed the coffee in the trash about 5 sips in. Custard filled sweet bun was dry, flavorless,
NO LOVE.

Nothing is worse than wasting potential and that is exactly what is happening at the Waves Coffee House on 17^th Ave SW (which has no listing on Unilocal?).
Located in a spacious area on the ground floor of a building at the corner of an intersection, they have a head start already.
Walking in, the décor is nice and modern. Plenty of comfy chairs, tables and yes even free Wi-​Fi.
The problems started when I ordered a medium roast coffee. I was informed it would take six minutes (a new pot being brewed I assumed). Well’p a total of 15 minutes had passed then I had to ask for the coffee again– the server/​barista/​coffee distribution manager forgot about me. If it was busy, fine, but there were five people in the whole place including the employees.
The coffe itself was fairly mediocre, but at just under $ 2 for a medium, the price was right.
While there are certainly pluses to this coffee house, there are also minuses. For a coffe house, everything seemed to be more of a hassle than it should have been right down to having to put a code in to get onto the bathroom.
Considering the amount of coffe locations that have sprouted up on 17^th, this place needs to try harder at not just go through the motions.

Cozy environment, and excellent Coffee!