Thanks for being here!

We have been working in specialty coffee and food culture for a combined 40 years. Exploring our love of food, drink, and hospitality has given our little family it's own special culture, a culture that for years we dreamed of sharing with others.

In Victoria, where we lived for a few magical years, we were fortunate to stumble into our first jobs in the specialty coffee industry. We fell in love with the culture of attentiveness that surrounds all stages of producing, preparing, and drinking exceptional coffee. It resonated with us, because both of us came from families that honour European traditions of nurturing social bonds through the enjoyment of artfully prepared food and drink.

We moved to Vancouver in 2010 to be closer to our families and there we continued to develop our knowledge of coffee and food with rewarding stints as managers of a pair of the city’s finest cafes. During this time, we truly refined our palates, our skills, and our dreams of elevating the experience of hospitality through our own cafe.

It's now been 10 years of Oldhand Coffee. Our Abbotsford location continues to be a social hub where we see connections happen every single day, and in our new location in Langley, opened in March 2025, we get to further our cafe dreams in a new city!  Oldhand Coffee is the dream we get to share with our reclaimed community, where we believe people want to create stronger bonds with their friends and neighbours over artfully prepared food and drink. We are grateful to be raising our daughters among the families and culture-lovers who visit us every day at Oldhand Coffee.

As the Dutch say, heel gezellig, or “we will make every detail of our time together perfect.”

Thank you for being part of our story,

Kristina and Johannes van Bommel van Vloten