Branch on Bowen | Narwhal On Bowen

The tacos are awesome and the ice creams are great!
I love the smoked salmon tacos and the salted caramel icecream the best.

Bomb vegan ice cream. Recommend the berry flavour, which has a creamy coconut base, granola and pie crust in addition to berries!

I had the plate of 3, vegan tacos here, while waiting for the ferry. They were amazing, tasty, and had a lot of healthy ingredients. I was assured that they were gluten-free, too. They also many different vegan flavours of Earnest Icecream, WHICH I LOVE, but I was too full after my tacos.

Nice place to hang out while waiting for the ferry.

I absolutely love this place! It’s not just a cozy café with great vibes, but it also has a cute gift shop section where you can find unique souvenirs and cool items.

The whole place has such a charming and welcoming atmosphere. It’s the perfect spot to grab a coffee, relax, and browse through their collection of quirky and interesting products.

If you’re visiting Bowen Island, don’t miss out on this gem. It’s a must-visit and adds a special touch to your trip!

One of the best ice cream I had which is Coconut flavoured one, very unique, and yum. One can enjoy the view from the shop or can purchase candles, kids items, brooches, and so on. Unfortunately, when I visited second time store was out of coconut flavour. Peace out

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Best tacos on Bowen island!! Though I didn't try any other tacos, but I didn't need to! These tacos are soooo good. I tried all of them. The chicken and salmon were probably my favorite but they were all really good. I am just sad we only ate here once while we were there. I will definitely come back if we are ever on Bowen island. Breathtaking view from branch and it's right next to the ferry, so a great spot if you like to people watch. I believe they are open later for dinner and there aren't many places on Bowen open for dinner. I would highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Interesting shop with an interesting and unique collection of products. They carry many items that are very unique and well designed. Combining it with ice cream and the marina landscape sets you up for a great experience.

They serve Earnest Ice Cream, which is great. They also serve $5 children's quesadillas, which consists of a single store-bought corn tortilla folded over 25¢ of cheese. Lame. Can't even make it two dirt-cheap corn tortillas? Pretty weak. Learn from my stupidity and skip.

Yummy tacos, but I wish there were more vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian options to make it a bit more inclusive. When we went, they only had meat tacos and a yam taco.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Sooo friendly and cute staff!!! ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nice set up and servers just don’t know how to prioritize or help each other… wait times for a scoop of ice cream in a cone or cup is ridiculously slow… taco? Even slower and the owners should be embarrassed. No sense of urgency. How dare your staff asked to be tipped before hand! I waited so long I was ready to cancel my order and ask for my money & tip back.
I also wonder how much is lost to shop lifting…
I travel to Bowen Island often and will go to Union Steamship who has better services always.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 4

Service: 1

Just over on Bowen for the day and decided to stop here for lunch. We just ordered a few more tacos as the first 5 we ordered were unbelievably good and everyone wanted more. Couldn't recommend this place more.

Vegetarian options: The sweet potato taco was great

Dietary restrictions: Everything is gluten free and offer a vegan taco that was delicious

Kid-friendliness: My 6 year old son loved the tacos.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Tacos

Cute little ice cream shop

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Salted Caramel Ice Cream

We did a long 2.5 hour hike from the ferry and around Killarney lake then stopped by here for dessert after a great lunch at the Bowen Island pub just up the road.This place is located on a dock by the water right beside the ferry terminal. It is 2 connected stores, the Narwhal gift store and the Branch taco restaurant. The signs actually tell you enter through the gift store, go through a tiny connecting doorway to the food counter. They have some amazing looking candles that look like food that look so real.They have about awesome 10 flavours of Earnest ice cream that you can have in a cup or cone. My wife chose Salted Caramel while I chose the London Fog. Both of us chose to have them with the cone. They also had Cookies & Cream, Chocolate Cupcake and Whisky Hazelnut among their flavours today.Earnest ice cream is handmade and tastes like it. The London Fog is my son’s favourite ice cream and I found out why. Very creamy and you can taste the black teas, bergamot and vanilla in it! My wife loves the Salted Caramel which is one of their most popular flavours and mine too!The ice cream was a perfect way to finish off a day trip to beautiful Bowen Island! We will be back for their tacos!

Vegetarian options: They had 2 flavours of vegan ice cream: Cookies & Cream as well as Chocolate Cupcake. They had vegan Smoke Sweet Potato Tacos (the Zo Zo) as well.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5