Balzac's Coffee

This café opens into the Library’s main public space as well as Yonge Street creating a micro-community of book and coffee lovers alike.

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  • Phone

    (416) 922-3700

  • Website

    balzacs.com

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  • Type

    Café

Address

789 Yonge Street (at Asquith Ave.) Toronto ON M4W 2G8 Canada

Reservations No
Credit Cards Yes (incl. American Express & MasterCard)
Wi-Fi Free
Outdoor Seating No
Wheelchair Accessible Yes
Menus Dessert

Comments / 32


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coffee parisian mist carrot cake trendy great value good service wifi café library London Fog clean
GK

Coffee is delicious... And the cafe and its neighbourhood is really pretty :)

Connie Crosby

Seasonal specialty lattes are made with homemade ingredients. Cafe Harvest is made with real pumpkin and their own spice mix. Yummy.

Connie Crosby

Winter Warmer "Cafe Nordique" is a latte with honey , cardamom and vanilla . It is tasty but not sweet. You must like the taste of cardamom to enjoy this one, though.

Ghazal Salehi

You should certainly have cortado and also carrot cake ????????

Connie Crosby

There are extra electrical outlets hidden under the counters with seats against the windows. Excellent. :)

Theresa

Really great coffee + my friend loved her 'Parisian Mist ' (similar to a London Fog ). Not really cozy , but comfortable .

Kris Matheson

Bar seating at the window has convenient plugs under the bar to charge your mobile.

Connie Crosby

Wifi - The Toronto Public Library wifi does work but it might take a few tries to establish the connection.

Aprile Elcich

Same good coffee and tea but a weird setting inside the library . Different vibe than you expect from Balzac's.

Salim Bamakhrama

Beautiful place where I enjoyed reading and writing in long Canadian winters.

Edward Apostol

It's about the frappes , but their selection of sweets is good too

Paloma D'Silva

It's a very independent style coffee shop . Love the locale!

bunny hero

wifi password changes frequently so save time by asking for it before you sit down

Yuli Scheidt

Try the Maple Iced Coffee . Just the right amount of sweet!

Paul Syng

Need to use the bathroom ? The keys are by the cashier with rulers on the other end of the keychain. Anybody else see the irony? ????????

Fahd Ananta

Parisian Mist is leeeeegit. A little on the sweeter side though.

msbeisha

cannot go wrong trying their carrot cake :))

Seda Sendenel

Medium roast brewed coffee ????????

Juliana Ardila

The coffee or The baristas are just a bad. Awful cortado , I'd rather go to Tim hortons for this kind of coffee . Seriously. A cortado doesn't have water wtf.

Serap Şölen

Balzac's Carrot cakes is the best ????????????

Noor Sultan

For a good coffee near Toronto library .

Connie Crosby

The coffee shop has its own entrance and washrooms.

Laura

The magic bar is so good!

Alessandro Würgler

Good coffee , but I found their lemonade way too sweet, couldn't finish drinking it.

bunny hero

the wifi here gets worse every time i visit

Amélie Therrien

try the canadian coffee :)

Oksy Cantskate

Favorite place to work while watching passerbys

Cynthia CM

Parisian mist...basically a London Fog under a different name

Ahmed B

Had a latte . It was atrociously bitter and tasteless

Michael Soncina

I really liked my expresso

Ozge Y

Brewed coffee barely average

Rafaela Figueredo de Oliveira

Muito conveniente para quem está estudando na biblioteca e não quer perder tempo procurando por um lanche rápido. O café e chá são boas pedidas. O preço não é muito amistoso não.

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