Richmond Adelaide Centre, 120 Adelaide St. W., 416-350-2014
Mid-afternoon pick-me-ups don’t get better than Nadège Nourian’s Instagrammable macarons, cannelés and almond croissants.
Sun Life Financial Tower, 150 King St. W., no phone
The Path isn’t lacking for coffee shops, but Sam James—and its tattooed, plaid-clad baristas and customized La Marzocco Linea machines—is the best.
Commerce Court, 199 Bay St., 647-350-5513.
Here’s where busy PATH people get their daily dose of vitamins and nutrients quickly and efficiently. Greenhouse’s twee bottles of cold-pressed juice deliver a day’s worth of veggies in a few gulps. The green doesn’t stop there: the space, decked out in foliage by Parkdale’s Crown Flora, is an urban underground oasis.
The Exchange Tower, 130 King St. W., 647-343-6169
The outpost of Leslieville’s no-cook kitchen offers organic plant-based meals—like a burrito made with spiced sunflower-walnut “meat” and cashew-chipotle nacho sauce.
First Canadian Place, 100 King St. W., 416-216-6767
The second location of this SoHo-based café offers savoury tarts, like the Angele, made with mushrooms and blue cheese, and house-baked-baguette sandwiches.
First Canadian Place, 100 King St. W., 416-504-1233
It’s vegan, it’s gluten-free and it’s good—for real. Think salads full of nutty brown rice, za’atar salsa, sunflower-and-hemp protein balls and sauerkraut.
Sun Life Financial Tower, 150 King St. W., no phone.
At this yogurt bar, the obsession with the Greek stuff is still going strong. And why shouldn’t it be? Yogurt jazzed up with Ontario honey, crunchy PB or wild blueberry–lavender preserves rides the line between healthy snack and indulgent treat.
TD Centre, 66 Wellington St. W., 416-444-6262
Across from Bymark is Mark McEwan’s supermarket—6,500 square feet of gourmet groceries and prepared meals like curries (many of them vegetarian), tacos and banh mi.
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