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Java Jazz Café & Bistro has been providing quality live jazz music and fine filipino cuisine since our founding in 2002. It is our mission to provide a friendly and relaxing atmoshere for which our customers can enjoy an evening of light and foot tapping jazz with our family style culinary specialties that have been handed down for many generations, that are also available for lunch.
We welcome you to join in the Dayao Jazz experience.
We hope that you will become one of our many regular customers that drop in just to hear Ed perform his virtuoso razzle-dazzle on the piano or Salve’s silky voice caressing one of your favourite jazz songs. Many excellent featured singers and accomplished musicians rotate and play for your listening pleasure on different nights as well.
We have Open Jazz Jam sessions with top musicians and singers coming from all over and from the Vancouver region, on Saturday afternoons during the winter season. On any evening, a customer may feel inspired or may be invited to provide an impromptu song or two as we welcome all to jump in and have a spot of fun.
Dancing is permitted - in fact, encouraged for our small, cosy & intimate dance floor.
If you want to just kick up your feet, sit back and relax and listen to the soothing music, and perhaps, make some new friends with the table next to you, hey, that’s great too!
Our Company:
Ed Dayao serves as Java Jazz Café & Bistro’s co-owner and pianist extraodinaire.
Salve Dayao serves as Java Jazz Café & Bistro’s co-owner, principal songtress, executive chef and mother extraorinaire
Beth Dayao serves as Java Jazz Café & Bistro’s Operations Manager
Mia Dayao has served as Java Jazz Café & Bistro’s Pizza and Desserts Manager
Hours:
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Monday
Tuesday to Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Saturday Special
Sunday
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Closed
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM & 5:30 PM to 12:00 AM
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM & 5:30 PM to 01:00 AM
3:00 PM - 01:00 AM
3:00 to 6:00 PM - Open Jazz Jam Session -
5:30 PM - 12:00 AM
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Some Commentaries:
Vaneats ...A lil' Java, a lotta Jazz
“....Ed is almost always seen slouched on the piano filling the room with notes of glorious classics from the 20s through the 50s, while his wife Salve (star of the show), various family members and all staff take turns at the mike (between cooking and serving guests) giving toe-tapping renditions that could potentially wipe out all contestants in "Canadian Idol"....”
Article Published: June, 2005
Ed and Salve Dayao, known for years as a world-class husband-and-wife musical team, are now in the restaurant business and have proven to be equally successful in their new venture.
Java Jazz Café & Bistro which the Dayaos own and manage in New Westminster is on its third year of operation and continues to be the "in-place" for connoisseurs of good food and music lovers. The food is cooked home style, the atmosphere is friendly, and the entertainment set the place apart from other similar eateries and lounges. This fully licensed establishment serves fine western and Filipino foods from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. and with live music from 7:30 in the evening till past midnight, playing sweet jazzy music for the diners' listening pleasure.
You may catch Salve, with her sweet, soft, melodious voice singing for her audience but there are also other song stylists and musicians to entertain the customers. Maria sings on Tuesdays alternating with the Rosario Strings ; Vera Layne Bedard on Wednesdays and Fridays; Via dela Pena alternating with Kisi on Thursdays; daughter Mia Dayao alternating with Julie dela Peña on Saturdays and Julie dela Peña alternating with Masumi on Sundays. Ed Dayao plays the piano with Tony Inclan as alternate while Archie Alafriz and Tony Lam play the drums.
Java Jazz Café and Bistro caters to the mainstream crowd, its diners coming from different segments of society. However, authentic Filipino cuisines are also available in the menu such as kare-kare, pork adobo, crispy pata, lumpia, pansit guisado and other culinary delights that many non-Filipinos have come to enjoy.
Ed and Salve left Manila in the mid-seventies. They have performed as a musical duo in various hotels and night spots in Japan, the Middle East, Vanuatu and Australia before they came to Canada in 1986. Salve could sing songs from 19 different countries. She is accompanied on the piano by her husband Ed, an accomplished composer-arranger who is an equally versatile performer. In 1991, they opened their first Filipino-Canadian voice, music and dance studio at their home in New Westminster that served as a training ground for many young talents, some of whom are now performing artists.
Ed and Salve have set the record as the longest running house performers at Westin Bayshore's
Trader's Vic and Garden Lounge for close to ten years. Among the famous personalities who saw them perform there were Bob Hope, John Travolta, Ringo Starr, Gene Hackman, Katherine Hepburn, Kelly Preston and David Carradine during their visits to Vancouver. They also performed at Hotel Vancouver, Pan Pacific Hotel and other five-star hotels and top clubs in the Lower Mainland.
"Our dream of putting up our own restaurant and lounge was met with early discouragement, frustrations and disappointments," Salve said." But we did not give up and when we found this place,we were determined to establish our business here." Java Jazz Café & Bistro's regular patrons include Mayor Wayne Wright of New Westminster and members of the City Council as well as officials and staff of the city's Health Department who come to dine or order take-outs. Ed and Salve's fans from their Bayshore Inn days frequently drop by and bring their friends to dine and listen to their music once again.
Saturdays and Sundays are the only days when lunch is not served and the place is available for meetings, private parties and catering.
Ed and Salve have the loving support of their family in running the business. Daughter Beth is manager of the joint and part-time singer. Teenage Mia who also sings like her mom and sister is the pizza and dessert manager. Another daughter, Sheila Marie and her husband Dax Alejandro just arrived from Manila with their two children. Ed and Salve have good reasons to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary on August 21 this year (2005). Their dream of having their own restaurant and lounge has been realized and the business is doing well, their famliy has been reunited and the future seems brighter than ever.
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