Dineen Outpost (Gerrard)

Dineen’s Gerrard Outpost is the east-end neighbourhood shop the Yonge flagship is not: official store page lists 1042 Gerrard Street East, weekdays 7:30 a.m.–4 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m.–4 p.m., phone (416) 924-7515, info@dineencoffee.com. Same company pastry-and-coffee board, in a Riverside/east-Gerrard room instead of a heritage Financial District hall. First-timers: a cappuccino and a pastry; go here when you are already east of the Don and do not want a downtown line. Official close is 4 every day. No reservations. This is not a second copy of 140 Yonge — it is the Dineen you can actually walk to from Leslieville without crossing the core. Weekday mornings are the working-neighbourhood rush; weekend 8 a.m. open is earlier than a lot of east-end specialty rooms.