Toronto Restaurants

Future Bakery & Café

#14 of 565 things to do in Toronto

#20 of 1004 things to do in Ontario

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Good for: food, Solo Travellers

Not good for: service

  • Address
    • 483 Bloor St W
  • Transport
    • Bathurst
  • Phone
    • 416 922 5875
  • Price
    • meals $5-9
  • Hours
    • 8am-2am

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Lonely Planet review for Future Bakery & Café

Future Bakery stays busy selling budget dishes like cheese crepes and homemade borsht with sour cream. Out on the huge street-side patio, lecture-dodgers slap backs and chug pints or push through all-night study sessions with bowls of café au lait and slabs of caramel cheesecake. Twisted '60s psychedelic pop contorts the airwaves.

 

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    Pretty damn good burgers

    blue_faerie recommends this,

    The Future Bakery is a loud, always busy spot filled with, mainly, university students. However, it's not an ageist spot. The only prerequisite is not having an aversion to very loud music. Therefore, you won't be out of place at all if you choose to go in for a meal solo.
    You'll find many the T.A, perhaps, sitting alone, marking a stack of papers or a lone student doing research on her laptop.
    If you're thinking of taking a date there, it may not be that cute little bistro you had in mind, but it does have a few nice upsides to shoestring romance.
    A) couch spaces, so while your enjoying your tea, you'll have to snuggle up to your date, naturally, seeing as it's so loud, maybe it's their ploy. B) It's inexpensive, and what's more, there's no enforced gratuity. This is because it's really just a cafeteria, with a liquor license, open to the public.

    So no, tipping isn't mandatory, but, neither is expecting anything other than service from students who may or may not give you attitude. Though, with that said, even when the service is not very good, the food is always great!

    I've been going to The Future Bakery for years, but it was only in this past year that I discovered their burgers. They're cheap, about 8 bucks, huge, 2 hands holding on tight, and they are just so damn good it was really unexpected. They are charbroiled to juicy perfection, and they come with everything, if you ask, and fries...which aren't really anything special because that burger really trumps them.
    Most people think of their cheesecakes, which are yum, but they don't make them, they buy them. Or their mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy...The potatoes are mashed so perfectly, sometimes that you have to wonder if they aren't from scratch. But this isn't a meal, it's a snack. They offer lots of different options, both meat and non.

    Good for: food, Solo Travellers

    Not good for: service

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