Queen Street East
Atomic Toybot
978 QUEEN ST E
It’s easy to miss this unassuming storefront chock full with collectible toys. Inside is a colourful selection of characters by Kid Robot and Ugly...
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Avenue Road
415 EASTERN AVE
Housed in a 1907 building glammified by world-class interior design firm Yabu Pushelberg, this showroom displays top-end furniture and accessories...
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B Espresso Bar
111 Queen St E
Designed by local maverick Anna Simone of Cecconi Simone, this long, narrow space is outfitted in black, white and dark chocolate – colours that s...
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Baby on the Hip
969 Queen St East
This cheerful shop is always buzzing with young, urban Leslieville families who come for the eco-friendly furniture, toys and kids’ clothing...
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Celia Franca Centre National Ballet School
400 Jarvis St
Created by Goldsmith Borgal & Co. and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, NBS’s new campus (completed in 2005) breathes new life onto Jarvis Stre...
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Cry If I Want To
1175 QUEEN ST E
This Leslieville shop is unique: you can rent out their dinner party supplies or buy them to create your own thematic soire – from charming...
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Dark Horse Espresso Bar
682 Queen St E
The combination of mod light fixtures, a reclaimed board table serving as a communal coffee-drinking/paper-reading hub, free wireless and some impressiv...
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District
806 QUEEN ST E
District, a recent addition to Riverside, might be a one-trick pony, but turning out such consistently fresh and velvety sushi is one mighty fine...
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Edward Levesque's Kitchen
1290 Queen St E
Wildly popular for weekend brunch, ELK (as the locals call it) features an eclectic, French-inspired menu that changes frequently. Local faves inc...
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Ethel
1091 Queen St E
An interior designer with expertise in vintage furniture, owner Shauntelle LeBlanc is a fount of knowledge about all things mid-century modern. S...
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Even & Odd
356 Queen St E
Winnie Yip’s tireless effort to outfit her new condo inspired her to open this charming home decor shop. Inconspicuously located on a burgeoning s...
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G.U.F.F.
1142 QUEEN ST E
John Jakeman’s Great Used Furniture Finds is loaded with vintage and antique pieces showcasing his wildly divergent tastes. He scours estat...
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Gio Rana's Really Really Nice Restaurant
1220 Queen St E
Rustic Italian fare served in an unfussy space that's generally boisterous. $$...
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Goods & Provisions
1124 QUEEN ST E
This cozy eatery evokes the 1920s, jammed as it is with bric-a-brac (even a stuffed pheasant) collected by owners Nikki Andriet and Dean Fletcher, who a...
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Greentea Design
388 Carlaw Ave, STE 200
An Eastern oasis in the Riverdale district, this extra-large showroom features contemporary Asian furniture designed by its in-house team. GD is ...
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Hardware
760 Queen St E
Pitch-black walls, dim lighting and a tin ceiling give this store an industrial vibe. Meanwhile, the edgy, custom-made furniture by owners Murray...
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Holy Cow
1100 Queen St E
Bursting with colour and whimsy, this shop’s distinctive home-decor items are imported directly from Africa, South America and Asia. Sculpt...
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Kiondo
323 Queen St E
Owner Chris Johnson hand-picks the inventory for this trove of traditional and contemporary African artifacts from such far-flung places as Mali,...
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Lady Marmalade
898 Queen St E
Lineups for brunch start early on weekends at this charming retro spot. It serves up a healthy spin on breakfast classics, like eggs Benny with lemony h...
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Little Peeps
768 QUEEN ST E
Inside the aqua-painted walls of this shop, the kids’ goods are just as lively as the youth to whom co-owner and industrial designer Alyssa...
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Loic Gourmet
722 Queen St E
A take-out joint with French-inspired epicurean delights prepared by chef David Kokai. $ ...
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Love The Design
1362 QUEEN ST E
This cavernous shop is packed with enough industrial-chic furnishings to bring a vintage lover to his knees. Old-school metal mailboxes mingle with zinc...
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MacFab
755 Queen St East
Specializing in upholstery and drapery fabrics, this shop features such distinct offerings as Ulf Moritz’s opulently textured metallic wall...
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MachineageModern
1000 Queen St E
Jake Keck stocks high-end vintage furniture and accessories in his carefully curated shop, including classic chairs like Eames’ DCM ...
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Ooma Gallery
276 CARLAW AVE, UNIT #308
In a renovated Leslieville warehouse, Ooma shows locally made contemporary art and home furnishings. Co-owner Ian Cox’s sleek coffee tables, featu...
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Phil'z 20th Century Design
792 Queen St E
This high-ceilinged modernist emporium will make you wish you had a huge industrial loft to fit all the enormous sculptural light fixtures and rare v...
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Planet of Sound
263 QUEEN ST E
Gunnar Van Vliet really knows music: that’s why audiophiles in need of high-end sound systems flock to his shop. He’s the exclusive C...
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Primetime Paint & Paper
299 Queen St E
At PP&P, selection is king – shelves of Benjamin Moore and Para paint are matched in scale only by the largest library of wallpaper samples in...
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Ruby WatchCo
730 Queen St E
Former Four Seasons exec chef Lynn Crawford recently downsized to these laid-back digs designed by Yabu Pushelberg-staffer Cherie Stinson. The foo...
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Snob
388 Carlaw Ave, Suite 202F
Owner Denise Zidel places hard-to-find African design at your fingertips. From her monthly travels to a dozen African countries, Zidel brings bac...
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Space Furniture
479 Queen St E
Alex Bak and Laura Payne offer custom-designed furnishings – combining wood, steel, glass, ceramic and Plexiglas – with a large part ...
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Studio Pazo
729 Queen St E
SP is the go-to place for an eclectic array of master-class mid-century design. In this carefully curated boutique, you’ll find wacky resin...
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Swirl
946 1/2 Queen St E
Design aficionados and gourmands will find much to admire at this new wine bar, a cozy space done up like a sophisticated boudoir by local designers Fam...
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TPL Lighting
121 Logan Ave
While they mostly deal with architects and designers, the friendly consultants here are happy to walk regular folks through the process of finding the ...
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Table 17
782 Queen St E
Italian, Spanish and French cuisine housed in a button-cute bistro. Don’t miss BYOW/ prix fixe Sundays. $$$...
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The Ceili Cottage
1301 Queen St E
This resto-bar from master oyster shucker Patrick McMurray emphasizes the local and organic. Freshly shucked Irish and Malpeque oysters side well with a...
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The Comrade
758 Queen St E
The art-deco interior of this cocktail lounge helmed by Nikki Andriet and Dean Fletcher has a distinct Indochinese feel – dark woods, red swag lam...
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The Zero Point
1590 QUEEN ST E
Organic and fairly traded building products are this Leslieville shop’s specialty. Among TZP’s offerings are VOC-free paints by Little Yolo ...
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Up to You
1483 Queen St E
Set up like a hip apartment, Up to You offers a voyeuristic shopping experience, with various objets de design tucked into an apartment&rs...
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Viso Inc.
388 Carlaw Ave, Suite 202J
A consistently creative source of lighting frequented mainly by design professionals, Viso’s showroom features the company’s 24 lines...
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Wellesley Community Centre
495 Sherbourne St
Community centres can often be confusing structures, with networks of dimly lit corridors. This light-filled building, located on a busy corner in St. J...
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Zenporium
998 QUEEN ST E
Be prepared to groove – perusing these two floors of home furnishings is a musical experience. Among the benches and colourfulsideboards made from...
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Zig Zag
985 Queen St E
Compared to other vintage shops, this one may seem small and spare, but it’s simply well-edited. Owner Joe Graafman has a keen eye for quality ...
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