Café
1. Bouchon Bakery
Thomas Keller's French bakery at The Venetian, known for artisanal breads, viennoiserie and traditional French desserts, with coffee blended by Equator Coffees.
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2. Café du Monde
The original French Market coffee stand, serving beignets under powdered sugar and chicory coffee since 1862, open from early morning until late.
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3. Café Sabarsky
A Viennese-style café inside the Neue Galerie on Museum Mile, serving Austrian pastries, coffee and dishes amid period furnishings.
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4. Carousel Bakery
A family-run bakery inside St. Lawrence Market, known as the home of Toronto's famous peameal bacon sandwich, with breads, bagels, pastries and hot sandwiches.
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5. Churrería El Moro (Eje Central)
The original El Moro churrería on Eje Central, frying churros to a 1935 recipe brought from Spain and serving them with hot chocolate made from Tabasco cacao.
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6. La Casa de las Mayoras
A homely vegetarian Mexican restaurant in Donceles 28, listed in the 2026 Michelin Guide, best known for breakfasts with handmade tortillas.
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7. Lou Mitchell’s
Lou Mitchell's is a family diner dating from 1923 near Union Station, known as the first stop on Route 66 and for its breakfasts, coffee and complimentary donut holes.
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8. Mike’s Pastry
A North End pastry shop on Hanover Street, founded in 1946, best known for its many varieties of cannoli as well as cookies, cakes and Italian pastries.
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9. Nemesis Coffee Gastown
Founded as a single Gastown café in 2017, Nemesis was ranked 15th in the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops 2026, the highest-placed café in Canada.
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10. Piroshky Piroshky
Baking in Pike Place Market since 1992, Piroshky Piroshky is a small Eastern European bakery selling savoury and sweet piroshky and pastries to take away.
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11. République
Bakery, café and restaurant in a historic building on La Brea Avenue, where James Beard award-winning pastry chef Margarita Manzke's breads and pastries anchor the daytime menu.
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12. St-Viateur Bagel
Mile End bakery founded in 1957, where bagels are still hand-rolled, boiled in honey water and baked in a wood-burning oven, open from 6am to midnight.
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13. Tartine Bakery
Tartine Bakery on Guerrero Street has baked bread, croissants and morning buns since 2002 and is open daily from 7.30am to 6pm with café seating.
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14. Tryst
An Adams Morgan coffeehouse open since 1998 that serves coffee and pastries in the morning, food through the day and cocktails into the night.
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15. Zak the Baker
Zak the Baker is a kosher-certified Wynwood bakery and café known for its sourdough bread and pastries, open from Sunday to Friday.
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16. Baked & Wired
A family-owned Georgetown bakery and coffee shop open since 2001, known for its cupcakes, cakecups and breakfast breads.
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17. Balzac’s Coffee Distillery District
A two-storey coffee house in the Distillery District's restored 1890s Pump House, run by Ontario roaster Balzac's and open every day from early morning.
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18. Café Nader
A downtown café and bakery on Avenida Nader where sweet bread comes out of the oven every half hour, serving Mexican breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
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19. Caffè Reggio
A Greenwich Village café open since 1927 that claims to have introduced cappuccino to America, with an ornate 1902 espresso machine on display.
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20. Caffe Trieste
Caffe Trieste in North Beach opened in 1956 as the first espresso house on the West Coast and was a haunt of Beat writers and Francis Ford Coppola.
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