Creator of Canada’s Best Coffee shop launches new concept in Vancouver

On April 1, Reno, 32, opened his latest project, Bam Bam, a conceptual pivot from Nemesis or Dope Bakehouse. It’s more Americana than continental. “It’s rooted in warm, nostalgic moments we grew up with. Fast food, Tim Hortons, the places we all went to and were most excited about when we were young. We take that and make it great,” he says. Bam Bam offers doughnuts, chicken sandos, coffee, cocktails, and a curated adjacent retail space with his fashion line. It’s in a well-chosen location, kitty corner to the old post office building (The Post), where Amazon’s tech hub projects staff to balloon up to eight thousand. In June, the FIFA World Cup lands at B.C. Place Stadium, just minutes away.