About Us

At Jeffrey’s Café we believe in the intrinsic value of community. Let’s face it, if you didn’t exist, we wouldn’t exist. Because of this undeniable reality, we, as a member of this incredible community, strive to reciprocate the loyalty and affection you’ve given us through active participation in a number of worthwhile community organizations. We truly hope, with time, we can give as good as we get. Jeffrey’s Café is proud to support:

• GPRC
• GPRC Alumni Association
• Peace River Bible Institute
• Reading University
• GP Boys Choir
• GP Live Theatre
• Rising Above
• Several Sports Teams Across Multiple Sports Including Basketball, Soccer and Volleyball
• Rotary House
• QEII Foundation

We also take an active role in functions like the “Take Part Take Pride” event with the city of GP, as well as contributing to Salvation Army food drives and food donations to a number of local youth and adult programs focused on underprivileged individuals. Jeffrey’s Café is also a committed international supporter of poverty-fighting organizations like Samaritan’s Purse, Operation Shoebox and Compassion International.

Our History

Lance Warkentin began his career as an entrepreneurial chef at the tender age of 20. A self-taught visionary with a curiosity for dough and a “knead” to make some landed him a job creating and baking pastries at the Grand Prairie Farmers Market in 1999. Just a year later Lance was catering special events under the banner of White Sail Event Catering.

With the rapid expansion of the catering business to three separate locations by 2001, the original Jeffrey’s Centre Cafe rested in the Creative Arts Centre, while the purchase of Gourmade in 2002 relocated their catering hub until ’04.

Now with locations on West Side Drive (Mill District). 214 Place downtown and Nordic Court, Warkentin continues a long-standing tradition of bringing eclectic international fare to the good people of Grand Prairie. The extensive menus offered here are hand-picked and comprised of Lance’s travel experiences the world over.

Jeffrey’s Cafe is pleased to cater all manner of events as well as contracting food service supplies for Second Cup, and catering directly for a number of schools including Weyerhaeuser Canada and the GP Curling Club.