Petra’s By L’Aromas

What a tragic mistake to spend my money here. I had hoped for a nice café with honest home style food. Wrong. I had a bowl of clam chowder and my wife had the French Onion soup, both obviously from a can. The French onion soup bowl was filled with torn up pieces of bread and unmelted mozzarella cheese. How they felt justified to call it French onion soup is beyond me. We also had the «special» grilled panini with ham and tomatoes. It did have grill marks but how they came to be there is unclear. The bread was room temperature but the cheese was «melted». I am aghast to say it but I am pretty sure the cheese was liquid «natcho» cheese that was poured on. All in all the whole experience was revolting. I won’t be stopping to eat in Tswassen any time soon.

WORST service.
The girl behind the counter was curt and it was clear she did not want to be there. I got a breakfast sandwich. She didn’t even start to grab it for me until she was done chatting with a coworker, which was about five minutes of just standing there. There were no other patrons in line, only a couple other people in the café sitting at tables reading.
When I finally got the sandwich, it was incredibly dry.
The manager needs to start hiring people based on good attitude and work ethic and let go of the bored, sassy high school snobs. Or maybe the manager is an equally rude person. Terrible. I’d rather go to Starbucks, at least the baristas there are friendly.
Just absolutely horrible customer service and food. Maybe if you’re old and grey they might be nice to you, but I’m apparently just some dumb university student from out of town that was just wasting their time when they could’ve been standing around doing nothing.
I hated Tsawwassen because of this place. I’d never recommend it, and I will NEVER go there again.

I had their chocolate white chocolate chip cookie and it was so soft and crumbly. Not my favorite… I didn’t like it. I also tried their strawberry smoothie which was ok, but not incredible. But the atmosphere is nice and cozy, so it’s not totally awful. But I didn’t try anything else so unfortunately all I can give is a 3 star rating.

A fave place to meet up with friends and catch up — never rushed, good coffee and delicious food. I love their baked goods, and they have the usual selection of coffee & tea beverages. I have never tried the ceramic-​painting in the back, but I enjoy browsing the selection which seems to be quite broad. Always lots of locals, and I often run into people I know even when just walking by.

The American boyfriend is over the border, I have no visa there, so was dropped off here! The place I originally planned on visiting was nowhere to be found, but I discovered Petra’s instead!
An arts café! Everything’s wooden and friendly, there are plain ceramic objects to sit and paint with children, and the chairs have individual hand painted flowers on them! Am I in heaven? There’s a nice choice of drinks, sweets and sandwiches, nothing out of the ordinary. Same goes for the taste.
There are no hipsters here, actually a fair amount of older people all having a good chat :) In fact I’m the only person with an Apple product on display, am I the hipster?