Seiffert Market

For the first time visitors, if you enter from West Pender St go straight up through the corridor till you reach the café take the stairs on your right to go to the 3^rd floor. If you enter from Dunsmuir St look up when you reach the hall where café is, we will see it.
Keep in mind it’s the retail arm of VCC Culinary Arts program, not a proper business establishment, so you are never guaranteed the same goodies every time, and it’s only open Monday to Friday from 10:15 am to 5:15pm. But according to the lady at the counter the best time to visit is between 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, that’s when the fresh batch comes in, and it won’t last long.
I have tried the bread it’s just excellent.

Cheap and honest rye bread. Thats all i was looking for and thats what I got at Seiffert Market, along with some eye candy via the decorated cakes and ridiculous baked and frosted christmas display. The location of this place is a bit mysterious though, and even if I went back to VCC I think I would have a hard time finding it without asking.

Another one of those city secrets…
Seiffert’s is the retail arm of the VCC Culinary Arts program, offering meals to go ($ 4.50 & up), baked goods, pastries ($ 2.10 & up), and the occasional Boston cream pie or cheesecake (prices vary, but remain inexpensive).
The goods are not fancy French bakery ohh-​lah-​lah quality, but they are as good as you’d get at the grocery store, unless you’re a Meinhardt’s shopper.
You’re best bet is to hit Seiffert’s between 9:30 — 10:00 am for baked goods. As an added bonus, you may witness an episode of Senior Citizen Smack Down.
Y’see, the cheap bread and pies are extremely popular with the elderly citizens of our fair city. So much so that I have witnessed on more than one occasion a flurry of canes and walkers (I know this mental image takes some work– hang in there) descend on a trolley of baked goods delivered from the kitchen area, and pick it bare within a minute. I kid you not, the bread arrives under the protection of a security guard.
They swing canes at the poor kid.
My advice is stand back. If you’re lucky, they’ll leave you the poppy seed danishes (seeds get stuck in dentures), and maybe a pound cake or two (diabetes, dontcha know).