This Toronto café is pouring $99 cups of coffee

At a newly opened café in midtown, coffee is more than just a stimulant to help get you through the day.

Denovia, whose name comes from the Latin for “anew,” is equal parts coffee shop and wellness centre. It was inspired by owner Nick Wang’s wife, Angel Di, who is a licensed aromatherapist. “We wanted to create a space that helps people live healthier lives—not only from the medical side but from the mental health side,” he says. “There are a lot of places like this in Japan, but there’s really no such combination in Toronto.”

Denovia’s services include sound baths, IV drips, frequency-based treatments, and AI-powered machines that are used to identify acupuncture points and target concerns like immune support or hormone-related issues. They also offer body analysis using a BioScan machine, which claims to assess stress and energy levels by scanning fingertips and provides a full-body overview in about 60 seconds.

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And then there’s the coffee. A self-professed bean nerd, Wang has spent close to a decade in the coffee industry, and it shows. You don’t need to be a client to visit the café—but you do need to be willing to fork out more than the price of your average latte.

At the top of the cafe’s menu is a $99 pour-over made with Panama Geisha beans sourced from the Elida Estate, widely regarded as the finest beans in the world. They have to be grown between 1,700 and 2,000 metres above sea level, picked by hand, and naturally processed. The team secured one kilogram of these extremely rare beans for a hefty sum (which explains the price of the coffee). Roasted and brewed at lower temperatures, the coffee is served as a pour-over to preserve its delicate flavours.

“When it’s hot, it tastes more like white tea,” says Wang. “As it cools, it becomes more like a juice.” They have enough of the magic beans to brew a total of 50 cups—and once it’s gone, it’s gone. But are people actually buying $100 cups of coffee—in this economy? As of this past weekend, there were only 20 servings left.

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Denovia’s coffee program is divided into three sections: black, white and signature. The black menu features non-dairy drinks such as espressos and Americanos, while the white menu focuses on milk-based classics like lattes, cappuccinos and cortados.

The signature menu is where Denovia really leans into creativity. Developed in collaboration with Arnon Thitiprasert, an award-winning Thai barista who previously hosted a four-day pop-up at the café’s soft launch, the drinks are built to challenge conventional ideas of what coffee should taste like. The bestselling “Tor8nto” is made with Colombian peach beans, sparkling water and a house-made syrup. It’s served in a celebratory champagne flute. The effervescent beverage—with notes of lychee, strawberry, stone fruit and jasmine—tastes more like a soda or a mocktail.

For anyone who’s apprehensive about dishing out $100 for some joe (or those who are fine with it but miss out), there’s the Luna Geisha, made using single-origin beans from Colombia. It has a grape-like flavour profile, with an unexpected bubblegum sweetness on the finish—and a (comparatively) modest price of just $35 per cup.