Our story

Paris, 1959: Smoke–filled cafés ignite in an exciting new music scene, pouring jazz out into every street. Mike Sims’ musical journey begins as he hones his craft in the lounges and cabarets of the era. For the next 20 years, Mike and his wife Edith will play to audiences around the world, first traveling with the U.S.O. to entertain the troops and then onto the jazz clubs of America.

Vancouver, 1979: Mike and Edith take everything they love about the best jazz joints of the world and create a unique café on the west coast for jazz…and cheesecake. The secret family recipe has its roots in dinner parties of past decades, where the Sims’ homemade cheesecakes garnered their earliest praise.

Today: Mike and Edith’s passion continues to thrive at Cheesecake Etc., where the Sims family and staff carry on the traditions that began decades ago, welcoming guests from all over the world with their original secret recipe cheesecake.