Neighbourhoods
Junction
Billed by many as the next West Queen West, The Junction is already attracting artists and entrepreneurs for its cheaper rents and converted industrial and warehouse spaces. A raw food restaurant and organic grocer are two recent additions to the Dundas West strip, joining established residents like Vesuvio who some say have the best pizza in the city. The neighbourhood is also turning into something of a furniture and design destination sporting three great shops in Post + Beam Reclamation, Forever Interiors and Smash.
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3030 Dundas West / Bars
3030 Dundas Street West is, incidentally, both the address and name of this new Junction bar. The lack of concrete signage isn't laziness, but could rather be interpreted as a...
Above Ground Art Supplies (Junction) / Design Stores
Above Ground Art Supplies in the Junction is the second location of of the original art supply store on McCaul Street near OCAD. While the first Above Ground planted its...
Agora Mediterranean Market Cafe / Cafes
Agora Cafe serves up fair-trade coffee, fresh sandwiches and baked goods, artwork on the walls and WIFI in the air....
ARTiculations / Design Stores
ARTiculations is an art supply store that's more than an art supply store. It has its own semi-enclosed gallery space, a back room studio, and a roster full of workshops...
Axis Gallery and Grill / Restaurants
Axis Gallery and Grill is a local pub in the Junction which is more about beer and food than it is about the art. The menu features no frills options...
Baan Thai / Restaurants
Visiting Thailand for a couple months has ruined me for the Canadianized Thai food. Instead of blindly ordering a pad thai or green curry, I try to ask a few...
Big Daddy's DVD Shop / Services
Big Daddy's DVD Shop has décor comprised of retro robots and vintage projectors. The Junction's leading rental joint is a charmingly compact bastion of film geek chic. Big Daddy's library...
Black Daffodil / Fashion Stores
Black Daffodil brings a much-needed sartorial spark to the Junction. The pink-and-black boutique was opened by Cythia Rea in September to house her eponymous Black Daffodil collection along with an impressive...
Book Exchange / Bookstores
The Book Exchange is a well organized new and used bookstore located in the West end of the Junction. Monday CLOSED Tuesday-Friday 11am-9pm Saturday ...
Breathe Yoga Studio (Junction) / Fitness Clubs
Breathe Yoga Studio has a stellar reputation for having one of the best teams of young Ashtanga-trained teachers in town, with strong credentials in other disciplines such as Iyengar, anasura,...
Buddha Pie / Restaurants
Buddha Pie, formerly Lou's Coffee bar, opened about a month ago on the southwest fringe of The Junction. A brief once-over of the menu upon arrival made it clear Buddha...
Bunner's Bake Shop / Baked Goods
Bunner's Bake Shop became a dedicated storefront in late 2010 after its home-baked treats gained overwhelming response at local farmers markets. Owners and boyfriend/girlfriend duo Ashley Wittig and Kevin MacAllister...
Butcher by Nature / Grocery Stores
Butcher by Nature, located in the Junction, is a small, tightly packed butcher that has more tchotchkes in the window than my grandmother's entire house, and more turkey references than...
Cafe Cranberries / Restaurants
Cafe Cranberries is a family-owned and operated restaurant and cafe that serves up a range of coffee drinks, pastries, gelato and breakfast dishes, as well as lunch and dinner-suitable sandwiches...
Chuck Akudu Gallery / Galleries
Chuck Akudu Gallery opened in the Junction in September 2010. So far, the new gallery has showcased the work of local artists working primarily in illustration, mixed media and photography....
Circuit Fitness / Fitness Clubs
Circuit Fitness is a women's only fitness club on Annette St. near Runnymede. They offer classes in zumba, pilates and more....
Cool Hand of a Girl / Cafes
Alyssa and I arrive at Cool Hand of a Girl via those luxurious new bike lanes on Dupont. After a hot (but refreshingly smooth) bike ride, we're hungry and have...
Cornerstone / Design Stores
Cornerstone Home Interiors is a furniture, decor and design store in the heart of the Junction. It's a good fit for people where space in not a concern because their...
Crema Coffee / Cafes
Crema Coffee raises the bar on cafe culture in The Junction. Check out our First Look at the cafe over here. ...
Curry Twist / Restaurants
Located in the Junction, Curry Twist is contemporary restaurants serving Northern Indian and Moghlai cuisine. ...
Delight / Grocery Stores
Delight sells handmade chocolates and other delectables that contain only fair trade, organic ingredients. Despite its small size, owners Jennifer Rashleigh and Jeff Brown have managed to cram a gamut...
Dencan Books & Magazines / Bookstores
The Dencan Books & Magazines store is located in the West end of the Junction right beside Book Exchange. Between these two stores and Pandemonium down the road, the Junction...
Eclectic Revival / Design Stores
Eclectic Revival started in everything antique, but eventually honed in exclusively on antique lighting. The Junction shop is known as a glowing Toronto source of period lighting, as well as...
Equilibrium / Design Stores
Equilibrium bring new furniture options to the Junction. Offerings here include a mix of Canadian made pieces and modern imports. They carry some of the same lines as Elte, Casalife,...
Euro Pasta Takeout / Grocery Stores
Euro Pasta Takeout is a European food and groceries store located on Dundas Street West. It offers a large selection of prepackaged goods, ranging from raw pasta to rarely-seen European...
Fabric Fabric / Design Stores
Fabric Fabric can be easily overlooked next to the depot giants that surround it. However, once it's discovered, you'll find any low to medium cost fabric ever invented. The only...
Fatimas Cafe / Restaurants
Fatimas Cafe serves up pasta, crepes, quiches, panini, soup and salads in the Junction....
Forever Interiors / Design Stores
Trash is a subjective kind of thing. There are some people who think a broken, overused table is garbage. ("Some people" being me, a girl that nearly flunked shop class...
Gerhard Supply / Fashion Stores
Gerhard Supply is Toronto's newest menswear destination — and I say destination because while the Junction is quite the hotbed for design stores, it's quite the distance from the men's...
Good Neighbour / Cafes
The Good Neighbour is an artsy, airy space with exposed brick walls and plenty of different sized tables and nooks for sitting. With WiFi and lots of natural light, it's...
Hairy Tarantula / Bookstores
The Hairy Tarantula West in the Junction sells toys, graphic novels, manga, comics, board games, rpgs and more. Owner Tanis Underhill has expanded the store to carry new and used...
Haveli Home (the Junction) / Design Stores
Haveli Home is making a slow move from Liberty Village to the Junction. While the original location on East Liberty Street still remains open (for now), the new (and soon...
High Park Spicy House / Restaurants
High Park Spicy House in the Junction cooks up a range of Northern Indian dishes including lots of vegetarian options. Eat in or take-out. ...
Hole in the Wall / Bars
The Hole in the Wall is a watering hole with live music and standard drinks. Open seven days a week, it's one of the original spots in the Junction where...
Ice Cream Junction / Restaurants
The Ice Cream Junction is a throwback to the Fifties found in, well...the Junction of course. Situated on Dundas at Clendenan, the ICJ has a near monopoly over the...
Indian Kiss / Restaurants
Indian Kiss must believe there's some gap to be filled in the Indian restaurant landscape in the Junction to have the courage to open in a mini strip mall off...
Indie Alehouse / Restaurants
Indie Alehouse is the much-anticipated brewpub that has finally opened on Dundas Street in the once-dry Junction. With an opening date that was long-delayed by red tape, construction woes, and...
International Cheese / Grocery Stores
The International Cheese Company's retail store is like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory for the cheese lover. Walking into the factory shop near Keele and St. Clair, all I can see...
IZ Adaptive / Fashion Stores
IZ Adaptive is the new brand and Junction boutique from designer Izzy Camilleri. The clothing line is designed specifically for quadriplegics. ...
Jumbo Burgers / Restaurants
Jumbo Burgers is an old-school burger joint on Runnymede. You won't find any gourmet toppings or organic ingredients here....
Junction Craft Brewing / Grocery Stores
Junction Craft Brewing opened its retail store and microbrewery last December, but had already been making beer at Wellington Brewery for about a year prior to setting up shop in...
Junction Fromagerie / Grocery Stores
The Junction Fromagerie is a new addition to the Junction providing quality Canadian artisinal cheese. It's owned by the same people who churn out some of Toronto's best chocolate down...
Kid Culture / Fashion Stores
Kid Culture is a kids' clothing shop in the Junction run by neighbourhood resident Clare Raman. Wall-hung vintage chairs display local goods, clothing, and accessories, much of which is designed...
La Revolucion / Restaurants
La Revolucion, at the corner of Keele and Dundas, is the sole contender for Mexican restaurants in The Junction, but it is worthy of competition. Owner and operator, Indira opened...
LAN Sushi / Restaurants
LAN Sushi has recently opened on Dundas St. West in the Junction and brings to the neighbourhood its first Japanese restaurant (after over-indexing in Thai and Indian). ...
Littlefish / Restaurants
Littlefish in the Junction is a brunch spot I've been meaning to make the great swim across town to. Armed with two friends to split a cab and swap...
Locomotive / Cafes
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...
Malta Bake Shop / Baked Goods
Malta Bake Shop is instantly recognizable when approached from the west, thanks to a vivid blue mural depicting its namesake nation's seafaring ways. It's a fitting facade for what...
Martin's Flowers / Design Stores
Martin's Flowers has been rooted in the Junction for 110 years, surpassing pretty much every other flower shop in town in terms of longevity and quality. It's unusual in this city...
Metropolis Living / Design Stores
Metropolis Living is an inviting new store in the Junction that sells vintage home decor pieces. That description barely does justice to this fun shop. Something about the playful juxtapositions...
Mia Boutique / Fashion Stores
Mia Boutique is a Junction clothing store that can't really be defined. "I'm not consignment, vintage, or second hand," owner Sandra Muscat tells me as she jumps back and forth...
Mjolk / Design Stores
Mjölk, barely open a month, is an interior design store in the Junction. Pronounced mi-yelk and meaning, wait for it...milk, this seemingly odd moniker perfectly befits the aesthetic and...
Mom's Coffee Shop / Restaurants
Mom's Coffee Shop is a small storefront selling Ethiopian coffee and other coffee-based drinks, pastries, prepared foods, gift baskets and a small selection of pantry items, as well as sandwiches....
Mrs. Huizenga / Fashion Stores
Mrs. Huizenga, a 5-year-old Roncesvalles vintage shop, birthed a wee baby sister in the blossoming heart of the Junction this fall. So it's not actually that far from the original...
Narwhal Art Projects / Galleries
Narwhal Art Projects was opened by Magic Pony to host expanded exhibitions without retail crossover. Featuring the work of young Canadian and international artists, the gallery was first located at...
North of Bombay / Restaurants
Located in the Junction, North of Bombay serves classic North Indian cuisine. ...
Opticianado / Fashion Stores
Opticianado is an eyewear Junction shop specializing in unused vintage frames and independent design. The boutique offers onsite contact fittings and also features an up-to-date edging lab. Brands include Yellows...
Pandemonium / Bookstores
Pandemonium first opened in the Junction twelve years ago. When owner Neill Cunningham opened the used book and record store, the neighbourhood hadn't seen foot traffic along Dundas West in...
Phil's Espresso Bar & Internet Cafe / Cafes
Phil's espresso bar & internet cafe in The Junction offers a wide variety of hot and cold beverages and food items as well as computers with high speed internet for...
Pho Huong / Restaurants
Pho Huong, on the corner of Pacific Ave and Dundas St W, is a local hot spot in the Junction. While somewhat hidden away this 'authentic' Vietnamese restaurant is always...
Planet Storage / Services
Planet Storage is located in the historic Viceroy Rubber Plant near Dupont and Dundas. A 10x10 unit is only $190 plus there's 4 weeks free (based on minimum stay of...
Playa Cabana Cantina / Restaurants
Playa Cabana Cantina, the younger, cooler cousin of the the original location opened recently in the Junction and in some sense is a far cry from its family member. While...
Post & Beam Reclamation / Design Stores
Post & Beam Reclamation is one of the favourite destinations for Toronto interior designers. Prices and selection of hard to find random treasures are tough to beat here....
Public Storage / Services
Public Storage has storage locations across Canada including quite a few in the Toronto area. Prices, storage unit sizes and amenities vary by location but the Junction and Liberty Village...
RPM (Junction) / Fitness Clubs
RPM fitness won't be confused with the neighbourhood Goodlife. Instead of individual workouts, RPM only offers small group training classes such as spinning, gravity, and boot camp....
Sanction / Fashion Stores
Sanction, a mini skateboard franchise, brings a little bit more garnish to your typical local fare. With a clean look, set-up and vibe, Sanction is safe for the whole family,...
Shoxs Sports Saloon / Restaurants
Shoxs is the go-to sports pub in the Junction. For sports on big screens, beer and tasty pub style food just look for the Massive 8 ball....
Smash / Design Stores
Smash, a design store meets art gallery in the Junction, makes an immediate impression with a large, pink Jesus prominently on display. It dangled above me, hanging haphazardly from the...
Snap Fitness (Junction) / Fitness Clubs
Snap Fitness in the Junction is open 24/7. It's a small space that will suit those looking for treadmills and other basic cardio equipment, as well as individual weight training....
Snug as a Bug / Fashion Stores
Snug as a Bug is a popular kids store in the Junction that sells boys and girls clothing, puppets, costumes, activity books and baby products....
Solero Mediterranean Bakery / Baked Goods
Solero Mediterranean bakery has stuck a poster on their door advertising their burek, a Serbian version of the Mediterranean phyllo pastry treat. It has confronted and tempted me many a...
Studio Cycle / Fashion Stores
Studio Cycle is more than just a place to buy a fancy motorcycle. It's also a gallery space (they always have a CONTACT show and have regular exhibits) and clothing...
Tea Blendz / Cafes
Tea Blendz has introduced quality loose leaf tea and something called a "teapresso" machine to the Junction. I had never previously given much thought as to how my favourite tea...
Telephone Booth Gallery / Galleries
Telephone Booth Gallery is an enthusiastic newcomer to the Junction. Representing up-and-coming artists, many of whom work in textile, clay, or other fine-craft media, the gallery fits well with the...
The Beet / Cafes
It would be an unfair to lump the The Beet together with the hefty entourage of organic shops appearing around the city. Instead, The Beet should be heralded as...
The Loft Pilates Studio / Fitness Clubs
The Loft Pilates Studio feels a lot like my Physiotherapist's office. That's not a bad thing for a studio that specializes in restorative pilates and workouts tailored to healing. Trisha...
The Pie Shack (Annette) / Baked Goods
The Pie Shack, the wildly popular Beaches source for flakey peaches and cream goodness, has opened a second location for west-enders. Its new shop, at the corner of Annette and...
The Purple Onion / Restaurants
When I was a kid, a trip to the Purple Onion meant crossing at least one of two railway lines to find a lone diner sitting in the middle of...
The Sweet Potato / Grocery Stores
The Junction is emerging as the destination for the organically-inclined in Toronto. I visited the newly opened organic grocery store The Sweet Potato on a cold Tuesday morning and was...
Trap Door / Fashion Stores
Trap Door is a boutique in the Junction that sells a range of mens and womens fashions from local designers....
Vesuvio Pizzeria / Restaurants
Located in the Junction, Vesuvio's is one of Toronto's favourite pizza spots. ...
West Toronto CrossFit / Fitness Clubs
West Toronto CrossFit has brought this grassroots fitness movement to the Junction. Located in a multipurpose industrial building on a quiet side street just north of Dundas, West Toronto...
Wise Daughters Craft Market / Design Stores
Wise Daughters Craft Market in the Junction sells handmade crafts made by local artists. They also offer a variety of workshops like booking binding and encaustic card-making....
World Headquarters / Design Stores
World Headquarters is my favourite new vintage decor shop in the city, a secret hideout filled with enough old treasure and fun junk to outfit your next three apartments. The store...
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