New Coffee Bar ‘Super Veloce’ Opens Today in Vancouver’s Shaw Tower

NEW COFFEE BAR ‘SUPER VELOCE’ OPENS IN SHAW TOWER TODAY

Health-Conscious ‘Asporto’ Counter-service Concept by Kitchen Table Restaurants Offers High-Powered Smoothies, Italian Espresso Beverages, Fresh Salads and Protein-Rich Snacks

Award-winning, BC-based Kitchen Table Restaurants introduces the newest member of its ever-growing family of establishments today by opening the doors of its new quick-service coffee bar Super Veloce in the lobby of Vancouver’s Shaw Tower (1067 West Cordova Street).

Located in the heart of Coal Harbour, Super Veloce (‘Super Fast’ in Italian) is a unique Italian-meets-West-Coast experience offering guests an array of high-powered bottled smoothies, nutritious quick meals, snack foods, and authentic espresso-based beverages

Developed under the guidance of Kitchen Table Restaurants’ Culinary Director Alex Tung, Super Veloce’s health-conscious food and drink program has been designed with a strong focus on nourishing ingredients and premium flavours. With seasonal salads, macro-friendly power pastries, and performance-enhancing snacks made with nutrient-rich superfoods, the inclusive menu features a variety of vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and sugar-free options.

Menu highlights include bottled high-protein smoothies available in three signature flavours with the option to add on energy-boosting supplements such as maca, pine pollen, glutamine, and collagen; protein-based doughnuts – ‘Pronuts’ – made with a choice of vegan or whey protein in tempting varieties like chocolate coconut and vanilla cherry; and eco-conscious Italian-inspired salads served in reusable glass jars that can be returned for a discount on future orders. Four-legged visitors will even have a chance to chow down with an offering of dog treats made with chicken liver, sweet potato and rice.

Situated in an airy, light-filled interior surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows, Super Veloce will preserve the same open-concept design and décor from the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma — the visionary behind the highly acclaimed design of the new Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. The coffee bar will offer a picturesque outdoor patio and indoor seating in an impressive three-storey glass atrium appointed with a carbon-fibre, moon-shaped bar seating with tension cables positioned around a towering column that complements the caffè’s state-of-the-art custom carbon-fibre Victoria Arduino ‘Eagle One’ espresso machine.

Open daily, Super Veloce is the third establishment recently opened by the award-winning hospitality group, including the Northern-Italian inspired wine-and-cicchetti bar giovane bacaro — located in the Coal Harbour district — and the Italian-Chinese inspired culinary experience known as Miantiao, now open in the Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver.

For more information on Super Veloce and to stay up to date on all the latest developments, go to www.caffesuperveloce.com or follow @caffesuperveloce on Instagram. For more information on Kitchen Table Restaurants, visit ktrestaurants.com.

ABOUT SUPER VELOCE | The latest project for award-winning hospitality group Kitchen Table Restaurants, Super Veloce (‘Super Fast’ in Italian) is Vancouver’s newest coffee bar experience in the heart of Coal Harbour. The Super Veloce’s health-conscious food and drink program has been designed with a strong focus on nourishing ingredients and premium flavours. With seasonal salads, macro-friendly power pastries, and performance-enhancing snacks made with nutrient-rich superfoods, the inclusive menu features a variety of vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and sugar-free options and more in the lobby of Shaw Tower with caffè seating as well as an outdoor patio. | caffesuperveloce.com

1067 W Cordova St. (in the lobby of Shaw Tower), Vancouver BC V6C 1C7 | 604-566-1661| Open seven days a week 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

ABOUT KITCHEN TABLE RESTAURANTS | A mainstay of the local hospitality scene since 2009, Kitchen Table Restaurants places a premium on simplicity, integrity, giving back to the neighbourhoods in which it operates and the belief that the fondest memories are made at the kitchen table, not in the dining room. The brand operates a number of beloved and award-winning restaurants in the Greater Vancouver area, including: Gastown comfort-food-and-cocktail hotspot Pourhouse; Main Street’s Northern Italian-focused Pizzeria Farina; Railtown casual Italian eatery Ask For Luigi; authentically Italian caffé-by-day, ristorante-by-night Di Beppe in Gastown; Italian hotspot Farina a Legna in North Vancouver’s Lower Lonsdale district; Venetian-inspired wine and cicchetti bar giovane bacaro, located in the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel; Miantiao, now open in the Shangri-La Hotel Vancouver; and Super Veloce, a new health-conscious coffee bar experience in the Shaw Tower in Coal Harbour. Kitchen Table continues to set the gold standard for hospitality by placing a premium on simplicity, integrity, giving back to the neighbourhoods in which it operates and with the belief that the fondest memories are made at the kitchen table, not in the dining room. |

Media release and images provided by Kaylyn Storey, SMC Communications Inc.