Brampton had coffee shops. What it didn’t have was a place that took the coffee seriously and the people even more so. So in 2025, we opened City Side Cafe at 8 Queen Street West and got to work.
The recipe is simple. Beans roasted in Ontario, never shipped stale from somewhere far away. Pastries baked in-house every single morning. Baristas who actually care whether your cappuccino foam holds up. And tables you can sit at for ten minutes or three hours, because nobody here is rushing you out.
None of it is complicated. Roast local, waste less, treat people well. That’s the whole vision, and it fits in one sentence.