The business started off as a small catering operation. In order to accommodate our larger catering requests, in December 2004, we purchased a large Greek restaurant and kitchen in a business park in south Richmond, BC. Since we're not Greek, we didn't intend on keeping the Greek theme. Our goal has always been catering. We decided to make some major changes to the restaurant in order to better achieve our goal. We knew the cafe had wonderful potential for our sit-down customers; floor-to-ceiling glass windows, lots of space for additional tables, charming New York style checkered flooring and a patio for those sunny summer days. So...we rolled up our sleeves...donned our oldest duds...and went to Home Depot to get supplies to make changes to our dream project.

As you can see, it's a much larger place than most business-park style cafes. A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into the renovations. And it all occurred during the Christmas holidays when we should have been home making gingerbread cookies and drinking eggnog! But we persevered...we rounded up the troops, including boyfriends, husbands, parents and friends in order to make this dream come true.

Walls were torn down and kitchen appliances were removed to clean every nook and cranny in the kitchen. Plans were implemented to make the kitchen bigger and better to make a catering operation successful. All those episodes of "Trading Spaces" and "Holmes on Homes" finally seemed to pay off in the end as we selected a winning colour combination for the walls.