My-Chosen Café in Victoria

Ive been here many times and every time never fails to impress me with how lovely it is! Delicious food, warm cozy atmosphere, great people, animals in the back for the kids to see!! Cant wait to come back again and again!!

Great experience stopping by, burger was delicious and staff goes above and beyond. I will be back

Comfortable cafe with good food and service

Great stop. Good food. Sometimes you need to wait but it is always worth it.

Fabulous. Cozy vibes. Huge portions and really reasonably priced. Will happily be back!

This was our first stop when we came to town. The people were so friendly. The food was really delicious and our service was great. I loved the decorations around the whole place. It made you feel very comfortable and cozy. It was a great time and I would recommend stopping by.

Usually sit in laylas section and it makes it more fun!

Worst service I ve ever had here. Meat was off tasting and told the waitress and she told us it s our own pallet and she s been serving it all day. Horrible customer service. Won t be back.

Been coming here for decades and after today s visit we won t be back. Waitress was extremely rude and short with us. Not to mention left us to sit there for half an hour without clearing the table or seeing if we wanted the bill well she walked past us literally 15 times. Even the young bus girl kept checking on us and trying to find her. Normally I would give this place a second chance but the level of rudeness today made our decision for each and every one of us.

Recently ordered Yam Fries to go. Very very disappointed. Extremely greasy, no flavour, very overpriced for the handful of Yam fries. $11.00. Nowhere near the expected value. At that price, I expect a better product. Sorry, butI cant give it a good rating . $11.00 for friendly staff. Ill go somewhere else next time.

Nice place, very busy but to be expected in the fastest growing area of BC. My wife had the Cobb Salad which was the best I ve ever had . The burger was ok but the onions were too strong, wish I had had the Baked Onion Soup with Caesar Salad (that would probably bring it to a 5 star). Nice that you can have breakfast or lunch until 3:00. Parking can be full when it s busy and it usually is, especially on weekends. There are tables to allow for wheelchairs and entry should be easy. The staff are very friendly and accommodating.

One of my favourites for home style cooking, fast service, good food good portion size. Indoor, outdoor and takeout available. May be a wait, it s a busy place. Food : 5/5

Great food and good value for money. The staff were great and very efficient. We will definitely be back!

Great place to have a homestyle meal

Always a great place to go! One of our favourites in the West Shore.

We had a great night with a party of 8. No reservations but we got there early and they were very quick to get us all set up.

The food was incredible here everything was perfect

Anytime we are in Victoria we make sure we stop there. Its a short 30/35 minute drive out of Victoria. It will become more of a regular stop when the construction of our home in Colwood is completed. The food is always good and the atmoshpere and service are terrific. Also check the icecream / bakery and gift shop as well as the pizzeria that are also there. Weather permitting you can sit outside and watch the animals in the petting zoo.

Great homemade food

Great food , my best coffee experience. Great atmosphere . A little bit salty chicken wings, though.

Staff are super nice! Love this place!

Great family style restaurant. Big menu, big portions. Unfortunately owned now by a big chain restaurant but so far still has the original charm.

Went to the Bakery and Coffee Shoppe; lots of trinkets to look and shop for, delicious looking baked goods, and wonderful friendly service!

Cozy, Delicious, and Welcoming! My-Chosen Café is an absolute delight! Walking in, youre greeted by the cozy, welcoming atmosphere that makes you feel at home. Their baked treats are irresistible the cinnamon buns and pies are a must-try! Pair any of their delicious pastries with a freshly brewed cup of coffee, and you have the perfect start (or end) to your day. Parking is ample and convenient, so getting in and out is no hassle, even on busy weekends. The friendly staff and rustic charm make this café a real gem in the Metchosin area. If youre looking for a great spot to relax and enjoy tasty treats, My-Chosen Café is a local favourite that never disappoints!

A great cafe in a beautiful part of the island. The food s good but slightly overpriced, but by far the best option in the immediate area so I guess you re paying for the view and the location that it strongly recommend if you re out in the chosen have a stop and get a baked Good.

I ve been here 3 times and all 3 times the service was absolutely terrible. The food is not good. And customer service was the absolute minimum. Also I ordered the same thing as my partner and they got about 3 times more fries than I had on my plate

Food was terrible. Service was even worse. Not kid friendly. Also the dishes were not clean

Nice fun little place with a lot of great options. Something for everyone.

Our group gathered to celebrate one of our members birthday for a brunch recently and to say our allaround experience was the absolute best is an understatement! The entire staff, with special mention for Crystal, Melissa and Nancy created a perfect setting and feast to celebrate our and their dear friends milestone birthday. Thank you Mychosen...from all our hearts! We will be back again gladly!!

What on earth happened to the restaurant. Everything has gone down hill. Food, service the menu. We loved it here but we will NOT be back.

Why are we closed on a Sunday?

Delicious brunch! Friendly staff! Fun backyard :)

Really cute place and great food! Cant wait to come back and try more things

Great restaurant and/or cafe. The food is amazing. Try the fries or some of the pastries. Love the Metchosin Bar, a spin on the Nanaimo bar!

We stopped in for a snack, service and food were good, and the goats outside in the back are interesting.

Awesome food, great prices for a decent portion size. Service was very friendly, fast and efficient. A must stop when we come down to Victoria area!

If you havent done it do it to say you have

The pizza bagel was really delicious. The bakery runs out of items pretty quickly so get there early. The ambience is very nice as well, food is good and they have a nice children s playground plus a petting zoo kind of thing in the back. Was a lot of fun to experience my chosen Café.

Excellent food, friendly service, and nice views.

Great Beef Dip and pleasant dining atmosphere!

One of my favourite places to go to eat. Reasonably priced, pleasant staff and good food. I also go for a drive and or walk after, cause the scenery around the area is beautiful!!

Highly recommend! Food is delicious, shutout to the french onion soup! Farm animals and the bakery are a nice addition!

Great place to meet friends

Great place for a casual business meeting with colleagues.

Great food and great deserts

Nice destination restaurant. As I ve only eaten here once I may have ordered wrong, lamb burger was tasty but meat was overdone. The one cider offering was too sweet.

Beef dip very good. Staff were friendly also

Very average restaurant but the decor is beautiful. I got the love ranger burger which came out very dry and was a below average burger. The service was basically non existent either - no one even attempted to refill my water.

Huge portions, awesome food & vibe!

Had ice cream it was excellent

Delicious food and fantastic service ...didnt even mind waiting one hour

Very nice restaurant with friendly staff and lots of space indoors and outdoors. It also has a great gift shop! Free parking. Great place to go when youre anywhere near Metchosin.

Opens 10am. Breakfast is served until 11am. If you arrive at 10:20, you ll be told the wait is 45 minutes. No full breakfast menu for you. The silliest of policies I ve seen in a long time. I don t understand the value in offering a specific menu to one sitting of customers. There is a limited breakfast menu that is available for several hours. Stay away. But if you re committed to going, then read both menus just in case, and plan to line up before they open.

The food was excellent quality and was a good portion. Our whole family loved the food that they ordered.

Had dinner here a couple weeks ago with my family and the food is just as good under the new ownership. Cant wait to come back.

Really enjoyed the club sandwich and the sweet potato fries. Will be sure to stop back in next time we re in the area.

Highly recommended, the food is delicious, and the service is excellent. Thank you Food

Ok food when they can get the order right terrible management, last 3 times I ve order have been in hold over6 minutes. Really rude service, very unfortunate one of our only local restaurants sucks

Finally, a good steak sandwich! Very pretty drive, love the animals on the property Food

Sweetest server ever!! Fantastic food Food

Called asked for a 2 wraps with extra sauce, showed up to grab my order and they tell me they messed up the order and didn t put any sauce on the wraps they put in on the side now the 6th time they ve messes up the wrap in the past 10 times I ve ordered, really hate waiting 30mins because again my chosen cafes management sucks.

Although mu go-to order here is their outstanding cherry ice cream, their pizza and other dishes are also fantastic, rich in flavour and generous in portion. This is indeed my chosen café to highly recommend to anyone on the island.

Tuesdays only halibut fish and chips

Have to say quite disappointed this was our first and last visit have heard great things about the place for years. Server was combative and disagreeable about my complaints the opposite of customer service. All the food at our table was sub par no one was satisfied frozen onion soup and horrible eggs benny not to mention the coffee sorry but this was one of the worst experiences I ve ever had for breakfast. I wish you luck ! The location itself is fantastic perhaps looking for someone to breath some fresh life into

Stopped here for brunch for my first visit. I was pleased to find out their outdoor patio is dog friendly, major bonus that my sweet pup could join us! The grounds are really nice, the large building has a cute country vibe with animals in the back of the property. The service was great, everyone was friendly. However I was slightly disappointed with the food, I ordered eggs and bacon and it was served cold. I really wanted to like this place though and if I were to return I would try for dinner and hopefully the food would be better. Really good cheesecake too!

This has been a favorite stop for years. Its a great spot to include in a stop at the beach or coming back from a hike at East Sooke Park.

Food was okay, not great but not awful. What made this a one star review was the incredibly rude waitress who made both my youngest brother and grandmother extremely uncomfortable. This waitress continuously rushed my grandma as she was trying to made decisions on what she was going to eat, and when my youngest brother asked for pancakes, the waitress responded with no no no no no you cannot do that. no. you have to wake up wayyyy earlier to do that. The attitude was snippy, uncomfortable, and made for a less than happy birthday brunch.

Metchosins only sit in restaurant with a comfy, relaxing atmosphere and larger size portion home style meals. The housemade dill yogurt dressing is a big must try!

The food here is so reasonably priced for the portions you get. We were passing through the area and decided to get breakfast, definitely would try more here.

Weve been customers for 20+ years. This week the beef dip sandwich was like nothing Ive had before. There was no garlic butter on the bun and the beef was rubbery and tasted old. The yam fries were great. The server took 50% off the price of the sandwich and said shed let the kitchen know. Perhaps the change in owners is showing.

1:30pm on Wednesday very slow service.

My first time here. It was literally the best place I have every been to. Only bad part of my visit is that I would have visited this place but I listened to too many loomsayers saying you had to wait to get in. I had the best time in a long time. This is my place to go to. I was at total high when it comes to the place itself. The staff couldn t been any more friendly and the food was formidable. Being it was my first time there the breakfast was suggested. The breakfast entrees was really tasty. Before the breakfast entree I had the cauliflower bites which were awesome just by themself. Then I had the breakfast. I ve been to a lot of places and this place checks off all the boxes. Good luck getting past the My Chosen bakery I did not and got myself the best dessert I ve had ever they are called Mychosen Bars. I was really happy I took the time out to go for a car ride and visit Mychosen Cafe

Loved our breakfast here! Awesome place

It was cute but the food wasnt cheap expensive and mid, and it took solidly 40 minutes to come out, just for simple breakfast dishes.

Great old restaurant. Its always busy at popular tomes of the day

You have to order the right thing and then its epic. Ask your server. I ordered the BBQ chicken Ceasar wrap. I like gooey... it was far too gooey with hardly any salad. All the salads and soups were epic. Desserts epic also. The patio is dog-friendly, but there are only 6 tables outside, so the wait might be longer to sit here. We went Sunday at 3pm and had to wait 10 mins.

I love the dishes here, many choices and good quality

Great classic homestyle meals.

All I had was coffee, but the ambience seems pleasant

I ve been here a good handful of times and it never disappoints. Super cosy and quaint atmosphere pairs with great service a great menu with many tasty options. It s a staple place for dine in breakfast any day. Lunch and dinner menue also never disappoints. I would easily return again and again.

Really like going to this place, food is great, servers are always friendly,

We were here for dinner on Friday May 24. The food and service was excellent. Big portions and great food.

Always great food, plentiful and the selection is broad enough to satisfy everyone. The gems are the staff, personable and efficient. Food

Just a gem of a place. Everything is good all the time

Always a hit with visitors and worth the drive.

Nice setting always busy. Lots of good food choices. Delicious desserts- especially the cheesecakes.

We have dined here for many years but since the new owners have taken over they have not held true to their promise to maintain the same menu items as in the past. The menu has changed and substituted several times of the selections that were favourites to many without any consideration to the patrons. Sides that were a free option to a menu item are now up charged a substantial fee. The food quality has diminished on some items and we may not return.

We went for a birthday celebration here lastnight.There was 11 of us service was good...The food was not... fries were not fresh they tasted like old reheated ones. Im not sure what was deluxe about the beef dip it seriously lacked flavor.The appy was Calamari it was the best part of the evening.It was alot of money for all parties to feel like their meals were just meh.I see the review below had a similar experience as well.

One of the best open roast beef sandwich. Gravy was out of this world. Will be coming back for lots more.

Great Food Friendly Staff Food

Decent food, definitely on the rustic side. Great service. Very busy place, seems to be quite popular.

Breakfast food is good, service is okay. Ice cream and beverages are nice.

expensive, they need to loose the fake plants and let some light in. Dirty dishes, and the new menu is sub par. Used to be a weekly customer, they just are not making the right changes.

Mychosin Cafe is great for everyone! Good food good portion size and very tasty as well as reasonably priced! Food

I had the eggs benedict with shredded potatoes, the shredded potatoes were not good at all I could not eat them. They tasted off from whatever they were cooked in.

Good food, good portions and good service. Parking: Lots of parking, but can be limited when busy. Food : 5/5 |

One of my favorite restaurants to eat at. Love the country vibe it gives off and the food and staff are amazing.

My favourite restaurant. Always great here. Big portion size and friendly staff. Vegetarian options: Theres a few vegetarian options. They are noted on the menu. Parking: Parking lot isnt *huge* but it works. If not, walk across the street. Not a busy road. Kid-friendliness: Very kid friendly. Has kids menu. Barn themed dining area. Petting zoo also. Wheelchair accessibility: Handicap spots at the door. Only 1 level, no stairs. Easy access.

Super cute restaurant with a petting zoo out back!

Here are pictures of menu, I got the flour less chocolate cake, very chocolaty Food : 5/5

Terrific spot. Family friendly. The area has much to offer in nature and ocean , the lunch at the friendly , kitchy and delish My-Chosen Cafe. Cute animals to visit out back if you have a short wait, popular spot on the weekends. Food

Don t get the skor cheesecake. Because I would like it all.

Great service and the eggs benny was good. Nice to have the animals nearby for kids. Will have to go back and try the pizza and ice cream!

There is a cafe in the name which for me spells good coffee but oh well, not the case here, all coffee comes from a touch screen coffee dispenser which makes a meh coffee which costs more than Starbucks btw Ok its worst then meh

I always enjoy my time going to eat at My Chosen Café. From delicious food to friendly and personable staff, I highly recommend it!

Absolutely amazing food! Well spent Mother s Day weekend. Definitely going back.

Dietary restrictions: No halal meet or plant based protein options. Food

Just a quick stop for icecream, bought a few bobbles too. Icecream was excellent and hit the spot!!

One of the best meals. Service was outstanding. Highly recommend

Lemon raspberry scone with zero lemon and zero raspberry. Just an ugly brown pile of dough. Awful...

Great food always!

Wheelchair accessibility: My hubby and I were thrilled to discover this place! The service was amazing and the food was excellent! Compliments to the chef! We had the cauliflower bites dipped in Thai peanut sauce (to die for!), onion soup (sooo good), beef sandwich, and chicken linguini. Everything was cooked just right - and portions were BIG. We took doggie bags for later, and it was just as good when reheated. A couple of days later, we came back to carry-out pizza! That s how good the food is!

Take all my visitors to visit this place. So much to experience.

My food came out warm at best didnt want to wait another half hour for a redo service was very good though7

Great food , and Awesome service !

Great little place to be.Love the atmosphere!Food was very good.Quick service.

Just the coziest spot! If youre touring around, check it out, youll love it... And check out the goats!!

I absolutely love this place

Always great food

Love the atmosphere and pretty much everything on the menu! Its worth the drive out.

Delicious food.

We chose to not eat here, we were looking for a cafe, and this establishment is somewhere between a bistro and a greasy spoon, which Im usually down for but it was 10am so a greasy burger was not in order just yet and esoecially at the prices posted. We will maybe come back at a later date and later hour in the day to try the fare, and reevaluate the rating, but for now its a 2, mainly because the smell pumping out of your exhaust fans lead me to believe that the food is probably not worth the price tag, but lets go heavy on the probably, as I havent yet tried it; also change your name, this is NOT a cafe, and My Chosen Bistro sounds just as good if not better than your current false advertising... I look forward to trying your grub.

Great food , I especially go there for the Seafood Chowder

Incredible pastries, treats and absolutely precious time chatting with the staff.

A great place for breakfast

Food is always fantastic and the atmosphere is wonderful. The only problem is it s nearly impossible to get a table. Every time I go here I have to wait at least an hour and there isn t a good mechanism to book reservations or be notified once you have a table.

Good breakfasts from the cafe and pizzas from the pizza section. Bakery stuff isn t good however

Best kept secret in Victoria. The atmosphere and the food are always memorable. Food

We arrived 15 min before they opened, and by the time they did there were 20 people behind us

Dropped in for coffee. Cute place limited seating inside. Outdoor seating ok depending on weather.

Great transition by the new owners, keep it up!

Excellent as usual.

Delicious food, outrageous desserts, good drink choices, fantastic staff, and a friendly neighborhood vibe. One of our favorite pubs in an area saturated with great pubs.

Amazing atmosphere. Food is amazing and reasonably priced. Cute souvenir shop inside that also has ice-cream and coffee. Best part is the cute animals including goats, chicken, lamas that you can visit. Expect it to be busy on weekends. Had to wait 45 minutes.

Not worth the hype in my opinion. Came here for the supposedly great baked goods, but was disappointed. The toffee cookie tasted like baking powder, the lemon cookie had no taste at all. The savoury cheddar scone was sweet. The only good item I had was the lemon tart. Their espresso maker was broken and people couldn t get coffees. Overall, I would not recommend this place.

Vegetarian options: Avocado and mushroom add ons were delish ! Food

Absolute best place to go for really good food all the time, the staff are really nice and friendly, super clean, overall great experience !