Chai Blues @ YVR

If you’re fly­ing out of Van­couver Inter­na­tion­al Air­port through gates E91 — E96 (part of the U.S. depar­tures area), avoid the coffee/snackbar there. It fea­tures stale bagels, con­des­cend­ing and slow ser­vice, and weird-tast­ing chai lattes.

If you want some­thing to eat or a decent cof­fee, don’t turn right when you come out of secur­ity after going through U.S. immig­ra­tion and cus­toms. Go straight ahead to the oth­er gates, you’ll come across a bunch of places, all of which have bet­ter food and bet­ter ser­vice than the out­let at E91-E96. It’s a 5–10 minute walk back to the E9x area from there though, so make sure you leave enough time!