Urban Fare
Overwaitea Food Group | |
Website | www.urbanfare.com |
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Urban Fare is a
Urban Fare is primarily
History
The first Urban Fare opened in 1999 in Vancouver's trendy Yaletown neighborhood, at the base of a new luxury condominium development. An Edmonton, Alberta store in the city's historic Crestwood neighborhood opened shortly after but closed after its lease expired. A second Vancouver location in the Coal Harbour neighbourhood opened in 2007, and a third opened in 2008 in the Living Shangri-La tower in downtown Vancouver. In 2012 the chain added a new location in Vancouver's Olympic Village complex, billed as an "Express Urban Fare", being half the size of most other locations.[1] A fifth location, the first outside Vancouver, was opened in a converted Cooper's Foods store in Kelowna also in 2012. A sixth location was opened in uptown Calgary in 2019.
Early in its history, the store made news for the price and luxury of some of its goods, notably an imported loaf of