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Whether you’re a coffee connoisseur or looking for a great hangout, Toronto’s local coffee shops have you covered. With creative drinks, delicious treats and artsy vibes, here are the top spots for your perfect cup of joe.

Boxcar Social

Boxcar Social has a selection of espresso from around the globe that can be foamed up with a selection of dairy, non-dairy and nut milk. It also carries a number of pastries and baked goods that are delivered daily from Almond Butterfly, Blackbird Baking Co. and Butternut Baking Co.

Pilot Coffee Roasters

As an all-inclusive coffee shop, Pilot Coffee Roasters provides an excellent opportunity to delve deeper into the art and craft of coffee while savouring the perfection of the brews both on-the-go and in the comfort of your home.

Propeller Coffee Co.

As one of Toronto's finest examples of a comprehensive coffee destination, Propellor Coffee provides customers with a diverse array of coffee beans, brewing gear, and, above all, invaluable knowledge on making exceptional coffee. 

Fahrenheit Coffee

Fahrenheit showcases exotic blends from Te Aro Roasted. Customers can enjoy the three featured blends of espresso ($2.25) — the Diablo, the Kenya Kandara and the Brazil Fazenda Delarisse ($2.25). Although Fahrenheit doesn’t serve drip coffee, it does serve cappuccinos ($3.25), lattes ($3.75) and macchiatos ($2.75), not to mention a variety of baked treats from, you guessed it, Circles and Squares.

De Mello Palheta

The knowledgeable staff being able explain to customers how the coffees showcase the inherent traits of the region they are from only adds to the strength of the relationship with farmers.

Beatrice Society

Beatrice Society Cafe goes beyond just coffee and also offers a variety of alcohol-optional cocktails, shareable plates, and convenient products to-go.

Ethica Coffee Roasters

Not only does Ethica strive for excellence in delivering pristine cups of coffee, but the coffee shop also offers a delectable food menu, featuring café essentials like almond croissants and breakfast sandwiches.

Reunion Coffee Roasters

As a family-owned coffee roastery, Reunion takes pride in offering customers from all corners of the globe exceptional-tasting coffees. Their approach involves a meticulous process that involves carefully vetting farmers, ensuring they align with those who share their core values.

Hale Coffee Roasters

This coffee shop is all about fair trade, directly sourcing beans from coffee farmers located around the world. Not only does Hale Coffee serve a delicious cup o' Joe, but it provides great educational resources.
jimmy's coffee

Jimmy's Coffee

Jimmy's Coffee now has nine locations all throughout the coolest neighbourhoods in Toronto where people come in every day to grab a cup o’ joe for that morning commute or to stay and work. No matter what, everyone is welcome.

Annex Café and Wine Bar

In the morning, it’s a café that offers a great range of balanced breakfasts made in collaboration with the Drake Commissary’s experts. Take it to go or stay and plug in to (not literally) the lightning fast Wi-Fi. By night, it's a wine bar.

Athens Pastries

The humble honey puff might not be fancy, but at Athens Pastries, the surface-fried, honey-soaked, cinnamon-dusted dough balls are proof that simplicity is addictive. Try to eat just one. We dare you.

Bake Code

Bake Code, with a combination of European and Asian influences, was brought to Toronto by three school friends. "We consider ourselves well-travelled, and during a visit to Bake Code in Taiwan, I was blown away by some of the pastries and breads I had there," Wong recalled.
balzac's powerhouse

Balzac's Powerhouse

There are many drip coffee options that range from bean origins to flavour and roast profiles, including decaf! Munch on some baked goods, courtesy of local bakeries Dufflet, Baxter's and Circles and Squares, and take home some beans, merchandise or equipment to brew your own Balzac's quality coffee.

Bampot Bohemian House of Tea and Board Games

With a name that rolls off the tongue, tea and treats (and tobacoo-free hookah) and an assortment of board games, Czech-inspired lounge Bampot Bohemian House of Tea and Board Games is drawing quite the crowd.

Bloom Café

As chef Tomo's first step out from the Tsujiri umbrella, Bloom Café is serving a myriad of classic Japanese desserts, along with some of the chef's personal creations.

Bloomers

Bloomers is just one place where vegans can get their sugar fix, worry-free. The homey bake shop and café offers up soups, salads and sandwiches alongside its assortment of baked goods, such as bagels, cookies, and muffins.

Bud's Coffee Bar

Serving up Cut Coffee, a fine local roaster run by Sam James, one of the city’s top dudes of caffeine, Bud’s also features treats from Desmond & Beatrice Bake Shop, which includes many equally delicious gluten-free and vegan options.

Bulldog Coffee

Best known for its colourful latte art, Bulldog Coffee is a lively and sweet destination to get that morning cup o’ joe made from the finest and most flavourful coffee beans from Africa and Central and South America.

Cafe 23

At Cafe 23, they serve amazing lattes, like the oh so popular matcha latte in an assortment of dairy and non-dairy milk options that they want everyone to be able to enjoy along with them.

Cafe Kray

This Korean café offers a unique and delicious dining experience that is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Cafe Login

Get these exciting macaron flavours — think double cheese and red wine fig — at Cafe Login, which also sells the discarded macaron cookie scraps in a mixed bag, so you can taste so many more of its flavours.

Cafe Neon

The coffee is provided by Sam James Coffee bar, and at the café, they bake all their pastries and nutritious baked goods in house. Each menu has plenty of standout items.

Cherry Bomb Coffee

At Cherry Bomb Coffee they roast their own ethically sourced coffee by hand weekly in Prince Edward County, meaning it's always as fresh as can be. All pastries are baked on site and include favourites like the classic date and pecan scone and the chewy croissants.

Cops

Cops has partnered with a multitude of speciality coffee roasters across North America to give customers an experience of top-quality coffee at its purest expression.

Dineen Coffee Co.

Contemporary businesses people line up for americanos and cappuccinos, while freelancers and students take up the tables, typing away on their laptops and ignoring the constant pace of people moving in and out. The food options are similar to the likes of many other specialty coffee houses in the city.

Douce France

Il y a un world to discover at Douce France, the French café and small grocery destination on the Danforth. Be greeted in either language by the bilingual staff and peruse the curated selection of imported goods while the likes of Edith Piaf or Charles Aznavour plays in the back.

Duo Patisserie

Duo patisserie is a chic Markham bakery that specializes in viennoiseries, cakes and chocolates. It is a French-inspired café with a Japanese flare.

Eative Film Café

This Japanese café is something out of the ordinary; in fact, there is nothing ordinary about it. Eative mixes the traditional Canadian breakfast with edgy Japanese cuisine and a splice of an espresso bar all in one.

El Almacen

Take a trip throughout Latin America without leaving Queen West at El Almacen. This café specializes in mate, a earthy tasting drink made from the yerba mate, a species of holly.

Ella's Uncle

Wafts of freshly baked treats and coarsely ground coffee dance under your nose to the symphony of sounds that encapsulate this small coffee shop.

Empire Espresso

This queer-owned business is dishing out customizable bean blends and in-house baked goods like gingersnaps, rosemary lemon shortbread cookies and blackberry and lavender biscuits, plus so much more.

Fika Café

Fika is becoming a prominent part of Kensington’s culinary scene — keeping things classic with its take on Denmark's most recognizable sandwich, the smørrebrød.

Full Stop Cafe

Offering up a variety of coffee and snacks, including a lemon ricotta loaf and flourless chocolate cake, everyone will find something at Full Stop to crush a craving.

Grounded. Coffeebar

If you need some coffee to pair with your coffee, grounded. supplies vegan goods from Tori’s Bakeshop, or you can get a selection of rotating sandwiches and snacks made from Moma herself.

Himalayan Coffee House

Fashioned as the Asian nation’s first gourmet coffee house (think a more exotic, better, less ubiquitous version of Starbucks), it’s meant to promote socially responsible brews around the globe.

HotBlack Coffee

The coffee shop is innovative in using the latest high-tech water and espresso systems to ensure all water going into the coffee is as pure as possible. Made from coffee beans sourced directly from farmers and led by a national competition barista, HotBlack offers quality coffee in a friendly, inviting space.
Isle of Coffee

Isle of Coffee

The menu here is similar to a classic café, in that it has espresso, drip coffee and hot chocolate, but if you get down into the nitty gritty, you'll see that Isle of Coffee has gone above and beyond to curate some of the best products so that Isle's ordinary drinks are extra special.

Juice & Java

The menu has tons of options, including fresh-made crepes, loose leaf teas and sandwiches (like the Montreal smoked meat sandwich, the meat of which is actually from Montreal).

Kiss My Pans

This artisanal cheese boutique has its roots planted back in Singapore. Kiss My Pans is all about tasting good and looking good, with a unique selection of delights esthetically placed on various cheese boards.

Koffee Kween

Offering the usual gamut of coffee beverages, like flat whites, cappuccinos and lattes, Koffee Kween also makes the trendier matcha and chai tea lattes.

La Bohème Café Patisserie

With coffee made using the beans from Pilot Coffee and sweets from Jules Café Patisserie, La Bohème's focus is to offer only the highest quality products.

Lazy Daisy’s Café

Lazy Daisy's Café is a cute and warm space that might make you question whether you’re still in the city. From the cosy interior to the genuine care of the staff, this place has definitely got some country charm.

Louie Coffee Shop

Besides getting its beans from a local roaster, this coffee shop is one of the only places in Toronto that is dedicated to not comprising its social conscience for bigger sales.

Major Treat

This rad little coffee shop is one of the most standout spots on Queen Street West. Major Treat, the coffee shop/barber, is bold and unapologetic about its attitude and its coffee.

Marvel Coffee Co.

If you ever find yourself at the Donlands TTC subway stop, you’re in luck: Marvel Coffee Co. is right next door. The coffee shop is certainly better than the average.

Mary Be Kitchen

Mary Be Kitchen is an homage to home cooking, and the eatery’s moniker is a nod to Huggins’s grandmother Mary and also happens to be her middle name.

Milky's Coffee

Nearly everything you see in Milky’s is the result of owner Fraser Greenberg’s collaboration with a Toronto-based artist, roaster, baker or architect.

Patisserie La Cigogne

At Patisserie La Cigogne, French master pastry chef Thierry Schmitt aims to provide Alsatian delicacies from the land of the stork. Traditional French desserts, like croquembouches, pastries, breads and chocolate, have earned La Cigogne a devoted Leaside clientele.

Ritz Bar and Cafe

Appropriately named Ritz Bar and Cafe, the coffee shop is intended to make the most out of the Ritz-Carleton lobby adjacent lounge spot that caters to the hotel's suit-and-tie crowd.
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