Emilee's Sweet House

Emilee's Sweet House (sometimes written Emilee's) is a family-run Turkish bakery and café on East Hastings, two doors down from Meet and Eat restaurant. The owner is from Gaziantep — the southeastern Turkish city widely recognized as the global capital of high-end baklava, with UNESCO-recognized culinary heritage around pistachio pastries. That heritage shows up directly on the menu: pistachio baklava made with Turkish Antep pistachios (the specific varietal grown around Gaziantep that baklava chefs consider essential), classic pistachio rolls, şöbiyet (a variant with clotted cream filling), and knafeh (künefe) with the crisp shredded-phyllo exterior and molten cheese centre.

Beyond the baklava case, the menu extends to Turkish bakery and breakfast territory: börek, simit sandwiches, Turkish tea in the traditional tulip-glass service, and Turkish coffee. The lokum (Turkish delight) selection and organic-tea offering round out the afternoon café experience. Reviews consistently call Emilee's the best baklava in Vancouver and a credible contender for the best in North America — claims that are harder to disprove given the Antep-pistachio sourcing and the owner's Gaziantep provenance.

Hours are generous for a bakery: Monday through Sunday, 10 am to 11 pm. That late-close window is useful — most Vancouver bakeries shut by 7 pm, so a 10 pm baklava-and-tea stop is genuinely unusual. The room is small, cozy, and family-atmosphere. Uber Eats delivery is available for wider Vancouver reach. For Turkish newcomers who want a piece of Gaziantep in Vancouver, Emilee's is the closest thing.