300 King Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
Our Story
Ark & Anchor was established in the fall of 2015 by partners Patrick Guilbault and Yigi Chang, who quickly made themselves well known faces in the community. Their flare for exceptional customer service and great coffee made the cafe a go to spot in the Strathcona neighbourhood.
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Since then, they have committed themselves to providing the community with the prefect space to enjoy great drinks and food in the company of friends.
Meet Us
Patrick Guilbault
Patrick started wearing a green apron in the fall of 2006, pulling shots on one of the last La Marzocco Linea machines in Canada, and found a certain oneness with both coffee and serving. He stuck with the Large Corporation until 2010 when the opportunity to manage a smaller independent shop in Toronto's Dundas West neighbourhood arose and has since worked/helped/hung out in many a fine spot in Toronto.
While he is a fan of coffee, it is really cafes that Patrick is interested in. Spaces and places, how we use them, and why they feel like home... but also can be so transitory.
Patrick also reads lots of comics, rpg books, and will always want to talk about the structure of running a tabletop roleplaying game.
Yigi Chang
Yigi is an artist who received his BDes for illustration from OCAD in 2011. His work as always been fascinated by the playful complexity of the sensual and he enjoys drawing form its fertile and infinite variations.
After studying the human figure and anatomy his focus expanded from art and beauty, into an exploration of health and nutrition. Yigi believes that the surest way to store your resources is in your body. Health is wealth and food is medicine.
Yigi likes drawing, painting, fantasy, and yoga.