Cafes
Happy Daze
Happy Daze caters to a niche audience looking for a little something extra with their caffeine addiction. Part cafe and part smoke shop, the space has desserts, coffee and a variety of paraphernalia to suit your habits and tastes. Owners Michelle Cordeiro and Jamal Ahmad are laid back and relaxed, and opened the cafe about 5 months ago.
I order a single espresso macchiato ($1.75) and it comes in a retro black and white Elvis cup. The beans are 100 per cent Brazilian, and there is no extra charge for specialty milk. Cory and I split a white chocolate marshmallow bar ($2.00) and it is chewy and sweet, with chunks of nuts inside. It's lovely to dip into an espresso even if it doesn't exactly dissolve.
Everything on the menu is made in-house. Their dessert options change daily from carrot cake to banana cake with raisins. Other hot beverages include specialty hot chocolate ($1.50) exotic teas ($2.00) and lattes ($2.00).
Customers can enjoy free WiFi and while there is limited seating space, their back patio will be opening soon and feature live music shows. A fruit juice and wheat grass bar will also be added in the coming weeks. When it comes to their smoke shop, Cordeiro explains that their products are comparatively priced and everything is hand crafted by local artists.
Cordeiro and Ahmad say their shop has been very popular with local musicians, comics and writers. Both wanted to open up this hybrid cafe because they couldn't find another type of its kind in the neighbourhood.
Happy Daze is open from 9 a.m to 9 p.m Tuesday- Sunday.
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PS - the Gaggia espresso machine in the pic? It's for home use. The pressure isn't strong enough to rival a good commercial grade machine.
1. the shop is called Happy Daze. this reminds me of the stoner-epic Dazed and Confused, while simultaneously reminding me of the the familiar dazed feeling I get from smoking grass; which leads me to point two.
2. the sign is written in (fake) grass, perhaps a hint?
3. there appear to be a wide assortment of rolling papers for sale behind the counter.
what kind of smoke shop could this be?
I really hope BlogTO didn't pay the author to write this. I probably could have written more, and I've never even been.
They sell pipes, bongs and rolling papers and whatever you choose to use them for is up to you. There were more photos taken of specific products, but not all photos make it onto the site.
re: smoke shop
The term "smoke shop" was used by both the owners and myself. The owners did not elaborate on if they sell weed/tobacco, just the various products (glass pipes etc)
Also, the brevity of this article had to do with the limited baked goods & offerings on that particular day and my personal experience.
Re: I really hope BlogTO didn't pay the author to write this. I probably could have written more, and I've never even been.
Wow, if you don't like the article you don't have to be so rude about it. Don't you people have better things to do than bash the author?
As soon as I saw the name of this cafe and a picture of the sign, it didn't take more than one second for me to put two and two together. The pictures say it all. Are people no longer able to look at an image and get the message?
This shop seems interesting, I'm planning on checking it out.
- They haven't opened the patio yet.
- They offer bagels, but only had two options out when I visited
- The espresso I tasted was strong, a little bitter but good
- Their main entrance is where those steps are, if they open a patio maybe they'll have an additional one. Not sure.
- They offer tobacco products as well
- As written in the review, I talked to both the owners, the service was good, they were friendly. They stated that they have a large artistic clientele
-There will be seating on the patio, and as I mentioned they don't have a lot of seating inside.
-No there weren't any local musicians, comics or writers when I went
- People should go if they are in the area, interested in purchasing tobacco products, smoking products (pipes, bongs, papers etc) or just curious and want to grab a cup of coffee and check out the scene.
You can read their listing here: http://www.referlinks.com/listing/happy-daze-smoke-shop-cafe.html
I will find out & report back if that is what the main concern is!
You shouldn't have to subject yourself to responding to all these people and their nit picking of your article. Most of them are probably jealous that you get to write these reviews and get paid for it while they sit at their favourite free trade coffee house, striving to be the next great author and write the next great american novel. Bottom line people, it's a SMOKE SHOP AND CAFE.. what do you think goes on there? Acrobats??
Go down there and check it out for yourselves if you have so many damn questions about it; the weather is beautiful.
Then I read her comments *face palm*
That was an aside, but all tea is exotic, some have just lost their novelty
Care to write your own article?
What do they need that massive mac computer for?
ring in a coffee or 2?!