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Monarch Espresso Bar
Monarch Espresso Bar offers a socially acceptable excuse to head to the Monarch Tavern at 9:00 a.m. While the drinking, debauchery, and live music starts after the sun goes down,...
Pinball Cafe
The Pinball Café is every retro-loving, arcade fanatic's wet dream. There she lies humbly in the heart of Parkdale, offering her shiny silver balls for a mere $0.25 a game....
RISE Espresso
RISE Espresso offers a remedy to the drought of good coffee that has (perhaps formerly) plagued the Ryerson University area. I spent four years at Ryerson hopping from one mini...
Playful Grounds
Playful Grounds is a kid-friendly cafe that has left the Elmos and Alphabet off the wall. This place has real espresso, tasteful decor, healthy snack options, and (perhaps best of...
Rustic Owl
Rustic Owl is a 2,000-square-foot gallery and cafe new to Bloor and Dovercourt. While many indie cafes of late like to throw a few paintings on the wall and call themselves...
Red Rocket (Danforth)
Red Rocket (Danforth) is the original Leslieville location transposed. After five strong years on Queen East, the cafe's owners say they had no choice but to leave their former location....
Caffe Bacio
Caffe Bacio owner Gianni Salvati is a familiar face on Cumberland. "Thirty-seven years," he tells me, leaning back in a maroon high-back chair. "I've been here 37 years, and you...
Yorkville Espresso Bar
Yorkville Espresso Bar may seem simply an Italian cafe on the surface, but it also serves as a showroom through which owner Tony Briganti parades his development expertise. I'm not...
Good Times Bad Times
Good Times Bad Times Cafe feels like it was plucked straight from Kensington Market. The nod to 60's rock is obvious, but the community-focused, sort of psychedelic vibe has more...
Roncy's Bean
Roncy's Bean is not simply a new spot from which to grab a latte in Roncesvalles Village, but also a sort of mini-triumph for some of the people in the...
Fahrenheit Coffee
Fahrenheit Coffee has reemerged, though there are surely hoards of the under-caffeinated still wandering around the Esplanade. Move north, friends; for Fahrenheit already has. In October, we noted that Fahrenheit's former...
Sublime Cafe
Sublime Cafe is part coffee shop, part vinyl store. And it is perhaps that combination that has allowed it to thrive in Kensington Market for the past six years. Oddly...
Circus Coffee House
Circus Coffee House has that same know-your-name feel as Circus Books and Music, owner Ron Duffy's Danforth and Jones (mostly) secondhand bookstore. The cafe, which is just off of Danforth at...
Cafe St. Germain
Cafe St. Germain opened two months ago with the mantra of fresh food and good coffee. I can usually appreciate a café that's comfortable enough to have its kitchen open...
Mountain View Coffee Factory Outlet
Mountain View Coffee, a local Toronto wholesaler, has opened its first mixed-use showroom and café on Logan Avenue just north of Lake Shore Blvd East. The concept, essentially, is to...
Lazy Daisy's Cafe
Lazy Daisy's proves that if there is such a thing as "farmhouse-chic," it can be a great environment in which to curl up with a coffee and some homemade soup.The...
One Hour
One Hour probably has the best seating of any downtown restaurant or café. So simple, yet so often overlooked; the bean bag chair. I thought they were long retired since...
Crema Coffee (Spadina)
Crema at Spadina and Richmond is a familiar incarnation of its older sister to the west. Not too far west — think Crema at Yonge and Bloor. Again sharing space...
Wunderland
Wunderland feels more like a log cabin than an urban coffee shop. Just plug your ears when the Queen streetcar rattles by and summon up a bit of that earth...
Toronto Coffee Company
The Toronto Coffee Company is hoping to liven up the Bloordale community. Now I know what you're thinking; what isn't lively about sprawling dollar stores, a brazen corner strip club,...
The Bandit Coffee Group
The Bandit is hoping to become a one-stop morning shop for the Upper Beaches and Danforth East communities. While on its opening day it offers simply coffee and baked treats,...
Cafe Neon
Cafe Neon was designed to be a hub for the Junction Triangle community. It was that concept, in fact, that gave Café Neon its name. "Neon," owner Niki Tsourounakis tells...
Red Star Cafe
Red Star Cafe is the new Design Republic-owned coffee shop in The Burroughes Building near Queen and Bathurst. Opened since early July, Red Star has taken over the area inside...
Wibke's Espresso Bar
Wibke's Espresso Bar strikes me as the independent coffee shop at its most basic. Wibke Lorenz, the owner of the cafe, found a spot on Bloor West where quality coffee...
R Squared Cafe
R Squared Cafe is already bustling in the home of what once was Quaff Cafe on West Queen West. The former cafe was purchased by new owners, totally made over,...
Locomotive
Locomotive is a Junction café that wants to be known for more than its espresso. That is not to say, however, that owners Vito Carnovale and Paul Araujo are modest...
Balluchon
Balluchon Raymond Inc. is back. Albeit, with a slightly longer name. But after about a six-month hiatus for owner Raymond Emes as he closed shop to tackle some personal issues,...
Bulldog Coffee (Eglinton)
Bulldog Coffee (Eglinton) is the second incarnation of Stuart Ross's original Bulldog Coffee on Granby off of Church. The downtown Bulldog and I became great friends during my four-year stint...
Cafe Unwind
Cafe Unwind sits tucked away in a quiet residential section of Kensington Market on the corner of Wales and Leonard Avenue. I was initially quite sceptical about the awkward location...
Eagles Nest
Eagles Nest is a Dundas West café and ice cream shop offering affogatos, something I always prepared at home but never knew actually had a name. Perhaps I need to...
Fair Grounds
Fair Grounds Organic Cafe & Roastery started in a borrowed warehouse and residential locker. Now it's a spacious micro-roaster, bakery and coffee shop (and soon to make its own ice...
Crema Coffee (Danforth)
Crema Coffee has arrived on the Danforth, and the community is receiving it with open arms. While it's not exactly a traditional Greentown addition (but neither is Mark's Work Warehouse,...
El Cafecito
El Cafecito is one of those cafes you have to know about. Inside, it's bright and spacious, with lots of seating, high ceilings, and chic vintage decor. But from the...
Seven Grams
Seven Grams Espresso Bar offers more than just the option of espresso or drip. On Avenue Road just south of Davenport, the new cafe is striking in appearance, and not...
Petite & Sweet
Petite & Sweet is just like it sounds. Pretty, light, and charming, nestled in a quaint Summerhill community. The fusion of an event planning company and a sweet couturier, Petite...
Hot Box Cafe
Hot Box cafe is a novelty cafe in Toronto if there ever was one. While the menu offers a reasonably robust selection of breakfast/lunch/diner and other 'munchies', the real draw...
Merchants of Green Coffee
Merchants of Green knows coffee. That fact was made abundantly clear to me half an hour after meeting Merchants' Morgan Yew, as our conversation evolved from Ethiopian coffee rituals to...
TAN Coffee (Baldwin Village)
T.A.N. Coffee in Baldwin Village is little brighter and airier than Toronto's original T.A.N. at Queen and Ossington, but it offers the same warm cup of single-origin, fair trade organic...
Angel's Cafe
Angel's Cafe is a little family-run coffee shop in the heart of the Junction Triangle. Angel works as a programmer by day and Matilda is a paralegal. The couple runs...
Atelier Cafe Lounge
Atelier Cafe Lounge is in the midst a branding overhaul and is hoping to emerge as a daytime meeting space for King West designers, people in finance, and budding young...
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- The Pinball Cafe Toronto is definitely not a friendly place. I was just offering up some ideas. I'm not a 'hater'...I think calling someone a 'drunk waste of human flesh' qualifies you though. Maybe...
- The Pinball Cafe Dr. Shrinker and loper, come by The Pinball Cafe and let us buy you a coffee and load some credits up on the games for ya. :)
- The Pinball Cafe You are a tool. If you came into my bar multiple times I would ask you to leave. You tip me $1 per pint because that's how I get paid...
- The Pinball Cafe Why the frack don't you open up a place of your own, then, if you can't stand this place? Because you're a lazy twit who has to act as a...
- The Pinball Cafe ROB, this is a PINBALL place, NOT a video game place. Get your ass to Playdium if you want to do that, or one of the Chinese malls in Richmond...
- Playful Grounds A lot of cultures embrace children as a totally normal part of daily life. I just spend a few weeks in Spain and every restaurant, no matter how fancy, had...
- RISE Espresso Also glad to see a close to campus alternative to Bulldog. "If someone asked for a double-double at the Bulldog, they'd likely get their head bitten off. " This actually...
- Liberty Village Market and Cafe Best butternut squash soup I have ever had. Low fat and dary free.
- Red Rocket (Danforth) Thank you Liako. I don't know if I wish to discuss my experience with you. (We may talk some day.) Others here, as well as myself, might like to know...
- Monarch Espresso Bar yay more coffee
- The Pinball Cafe why should I give $1 for someone pulling me a pint? it's minimal effort. yeah I've done yoga. I don't tip for that either.
- Monarch Espresso Bar espresso and beer and grilled cheese AND WIFI?! new homework spot.
- The Pinball Cafe Yeah WTF right? I too feel the same way. A pinball cafe should not serve coffee, should serve beer, only at the bar, and look nice, not bright, dark and cosy...
- The Pinball Cafe dear no more coffee, 1. you're supposed to tip $1 per pint pulled. period. 2. you should try yoga
- The Pinball Cafe Love this idea but where is Captain Fantastic!?!
- RISE Espresso What I believe @coffeer is trying to say is that if you have a 10z cappuccino and a 10z latte and if you want to maintain espresso/milk proportions how many...
- Monarch Espresso Bar UGC win for the day.
- Red Rocket (Danforth) As one of the owners of RRC, I'm quite distraught to here of your recent experience at our new Danforth store. Both my partners and I take great pride in...
- Monarch Espresso Bar ha!
- The Pinball Cafe I think you're the sort of customer he's trying to avoid by not having a liqour license. Please don't come to this place you'll ruin the positive vibe and...
- Monarch Espresso Bar ZANE YOU HO THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!
- The Pinball Cafe looks too...plain. It's the lighting. Doesn't look very inviting. Make it dark, cosy and warm and people will come. I know its brand new, but from the photos it looks like...
- RISE Espresso Ryerson: where you go to get actual experience While it's true that Ryerson has co-op, Waterloo has the most sophisticated co-op program (2 years of work experience in a degree that...
- The Pinball Cafe I REALLY want to like this place. That said watching the crosswalk out front blocked day after day while trucks were unloaded and the contents carted inside left me...
- RISE Espresso ryerson: where you go to get actual experience
- The Pinball Cafe I love it. But 8 pinball machines and an espresso machine.?? Unless the rent is almost free, I honestly doubt it will last. ...
- The Pinball Cafe Get a Street Fighter 2 machine, and I'm there. No mercy rounds. HADOUKEN!
- The Pinball Cafe to all those people crying hipster, it's usually because you are one. if you're going to be live you life rejecting anything that people co-opt as trendy then you better...
- The Pinball Cafe Pinball yes! Needs liquor license.
- The Pinball Cafe Stopped by with my girlfriend for a coffee and some games yesterday afternoon. We had loads of fun and loved the atmosphere / music / decor. Should definitely be...
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