Mitfar is a combination cafe, boutique and art gallery in Rosedale.

The space encompasses a third-wave coffee shop as well as a gallery showcasing local artists, and a jewellery store.

Mitfar serves specialty coffee, premium loose-leaf tea, matcha, toasts, salads and pastries in an environment that's intended to mimic third-wave cafes in Europe.

It's co-owned by husband and wife team Farzam Baghchehsaraei and Mitra Ziaee.

Baghchehsaraei has years of coffee education from masters around the world under his belt, and Ziaee was a university art lecturer for around five years with a background in advertising and marketing.

The pair have also had their own online handmade jewellery store for about three years.

All work from local artists is available for sale, and you might be able to see around two local artists displayed for a couple of months at a time.

The cafe serves its own freshly baked butter, ham and cheese, cheese, chocolate and almond croissants, as well as raspberry, strawberry, walnut, banana and pineapple roll cakes.

To go with their toasts, salads and sweet treats, they serve high-quality coffees sourced from local roastery Ethica Coffee Roasters.

Pour over is available at Mitfar, as they feel it's one of the best ways to taste all the different hidden notes in specialty coffee.

"As we serve this coffee in a glass slow-coffee-style server with a cup beside, we suggest our customers try it three times," says Ziaee. "First a cup when it's hot, then a cup when it has medium temperature and then when it's completely cold. This helps them to find more of the notes and tastes that the coffee releases at different temperatures."

In addition to pour over coffee with six regularly changing options for beans, Mitfar also serves a whopping 20 options for espresso-based drinks, single-origin drip, 11 loose-leaf teas, five matcha-based drinks as well as drinks like London Fogs, Tokyo Fogs, golden lattes, and hot chocolate made with real Swiss chocolate instead of chocolate powders.

"We smash real strawberry in our strawberry matcha latte," says Ziaee. "We use a house-made vanilla syrup for our premium vanilla latte and we melt real chocolate for the mocha and the hot chocolate."

Their hot chocolate is actually one of their most popular items, along with their sunny espresso, tonic espresso, strawberry matcha latte, vanilla latte and mocha with Swiss chocolate.

"Day by day we understood more how working in the coffee, tea, food and pastry world is similar to art," Ziaee tells blogTO.

"It is all about different tastes, creativity and openness toward experiencing and feeling differentiations in everything."