If you're looking to quench your thirst, here are a few recently opened beverage shops throughout Vancouver to consider.

For tea-lovers, we also reported on TeaTure Tea Lounge opening up in Davie Village, with its menu of beverages and tea-infused desserts and snacks.

Citrus cheer

Adding to the mushrooming number of Asian drink and dessert shops in town, Chinese beverage chain Happy Lemon opened at 1188 Robson Street (at Bute Street) in June.

As they specialize in both cold and hot Asian-style drinks, the menu covers a comprehensive range of milk teas, lemon with black or green teas, slushies, Yakult (a Japanese dairy beverage) with tea, and  matcha lattes.

Particularly intriguing are the salted cheese teas, which features green, black, or milk tea with a thick foam topping that's lightly flavoured with cheese and salt. Believe it or not, it works, in the tradition of Taiwanese salted coffees.

Milk tea add-ons include red bean, pudding, taro balls, and coconut jelly.

The international company previously opened a location in Richmond at 105–6011 No. 3 Road.

Over on the next block, Taiwanese dessert spot Meet Fresh also opened in June. 

Nectar of the gods

Vancouver's Nectar Juicery is expanding its reach with two new locations.

The local company had a soft launch of a Mount Pleasant location at 153 West 7^th Avenue, in proximity to Olympic Village, earlier this month. This second spot includes a commissary kitchen.

Meanwhile, their third spot opened Wednesday (August 16) at 3633 Main Street (at East 21^st Avenue) also in Mount Pleasant.

Their first shop is in Gastown at 102 West Hastings and they also have a mobile juice cart on Granville Street at West Georgia Street (outside Hudson's Bay). Their juices also available at Bel Café, Café Medina, Small Victory Bakery, Holts Café at Holt Renfrew, Verdura Salads, Willow Wax Bar, and Living Produce Aisle.

The juicery offers a range of cold-press juices, with various combinations of fruits, vegetable, herbs, and spices; hydrators, with ingredients such as alkaline water, marine collagen, and raw honey; and milk made with hemp and chia seeds, and more. The juices can be purchased in sets for multi-day cleanses.

The company also sells a variety of supplements, elixirs, snacks, soups, kombucha, and other retail items.

Glory be

Meanwhile, Glory Juice Co. is also steadily growing and opened a fourth location at 100–1066 West Hastings (at Thurlow Street) in Coal Harbour on July 24.

The organic-based company also has locations in Olympic Village, Kitsilano, and Lonsdale (North Vancouver). That's in addition to their juices being sold at Ebar at Nordstrom, UBC Hero Market, Beaucoup Bakery, Temper Pastry, and JJ Bean.

While they offer organic cold-pressed juices, they also serve almond and seek mylks; shots of fermented cabbage and beet ($3.50), turmeric and ginger ($4), and E3Live ($5.50); and a range of smoothies ($7 to $12).

They also have a food menu with bowls, featuring ingredients such as frozen açai berries, granola, and various fruits; salads; soups, such as cauliflower cashew turmeric or yam chipotle; and gluten-free chia flatbread toasts, with toppings such as avocado, banana, nut butter, hummus, and garlic cashew dressing.   

Juices, soups, and shots can also be combined into cleanse mutliday combination packages.