📍 Annex, Toronto

Spirited Tarts & Coffee is a small storefront near Bathurst and Bloor in the Annex, opened during the pandemic by co-founders Joanna and Ryan out of a historic building. The pa...

First & Last is a Dupont Street coffee shop done up in 70s retro decor, known locally for its Colombian coffee and drinks like a lavender London fog. The kitchen turns out past...

Typist Studios & Coffee started as an idea from Nicole Bhersafi, a barista who wanted to build a home for artists and writers around a coffee counter. The Dupont Street space l...

Chadwick's has been a fixture on Howland Avenue in the Annex for years, first as brunch-focused Fanny Chadwick's and now running under its own name with a diner-style dining room o...

Fat Pasha is chef Anthony Rose's Middle Eastern room in the Annex, built around Israeli street food and the Ashkenazi and Sephardic cooking of his own family background — shakshuka...

Three converted Victorian houses behind Spadina station, strung together since 1983 into a multi-room pub sprawl with six bars, a rooftop patio, and a crowd that skews students but...

A converted bank at Bloor and Bathurst with the vaulted ceilings to prove it. Paupers has been a fixture of the Annex since 1986 — live music, a sing-along piano bar upstairs, and ...

An Annex haunt where the events calendar does as much work as the kitchen — live music, karaoke, movie nights and the game on. The food leans Mexican and Californian, served laid-b...