Hub Coffee

Excellent coffee and food! They use thoughtful and fresh ingredients! Great breakfast sandwich and pressed sandwiches.

Breakfast on a bun was a very delightful start in our first day of Toronto. Very nice service and a cozy little place! The best thing was THE COFFEE! No offense, but for me as an European it’s very hard to find a decent coffee in North America ;) this please had a great cappuccino!

I came here for brunch with my in-​laws and the Hubster. It’s a neat spot with very friendly staff and mostly great food. I ordered the traditional breakfast with the Mennonite breakfast sausage. The sausage was super dry and crumbly, but everything else, the sweet potatoes, salad and slaw, were great!
I really liked the relaxed atmosphere and could see myself coming back.

It’s clear that Hallam and Dovercourt is an up and coming spot and Hub is leading the way. The place has a cool vibe and the owners are so friendly and fun to talk to. The coffee is great and the food is fresh and delicious, I order something new every time and I’m always very impressed.

Great coffee cool ambiance, small kitchen with huge talent. Brunch, pastry smoothies. ! Great addition to dovercourt.

It can be a little hard to find a spot to sit because this place is so popular, and I totally get why! Really nice staff and a laid back vibe. The pastries are delicious as is the coffee, and the prices are average. It’s great to watch passersby in the window or to sit with people in the back.
I just wish there was a patio.
I think this will be a regular Sunday laptop/​coffee/​people watch spot for me.

It’s just a perfect little place.

Delicious coffee with a cool vibe! The perfect neighborhood coffee shop with a focus on organic local and sustainable produce. Menu is pretty simple, but the grill cheese was tasty. Free wifi and perfect spot for work or a coffee date. The staff are incredibly friendly. Go here!

The muffins are salty and greasy. The breakfast scones often have egg shells in them. There is little variety in the food choices and the soup is bland. Basically after hearing about how great this place is supposed to be I still don’t get it. The coffee is alright, but the tea is ALWAYS watery and gross. There used to be agave syrup, that has been replaced by simple syrup. Simple syrup is sugar and water and tastes disgusting. This place has going downhill fast. Over priced, salty food. Not worth the effort to support these clowns. My family and friends are all avoiding this rip of environment.

Really nice Americano, and local Orange Juice.
Amazing Eggs Benny! Fresh, filling and really good value.
Will be coming again!

This place is really cute. My partner and I stopped going out for brunch for the past year as we had exhausted the options around the bloorcourt ‘hood, but one fateful Saturday morning I spotted this place on my Unilocal listings. We both had a very tasty benny along with a french press. Very tasty + good vibes!

Visited the Hub for brunch, before heading back home in Montréal. We were looking for an inexpensive place near the apartment we rented, and we came across the Hub on Unilocal which was a few minutes walk from where we were.
We both took the Egg Benedict. I’m a big fan of benedicts, and I also know how difficult it is to make a good one. Everything was perfect: the egg was properly poached with a beautiful runny yolk, the peameal bacon was crispy, the multigrain bread was a nice change from the traditional English muffin, and the hollandaise was perfectly executed. The coffee was really good too.
In terms of service, it was very efficient and friendly.
A nice little gem in Dovercourt Village. Too bad we only discovered it on our last day in Toronto. We’ll be back for sure next time we are in town :)

I had the best gluten free bar/​treat I’ve probably ever had EVER at Hub, coconut raspberry bar or something like that, honestly jaw-​dropping level of tastiness. The coffee and service are also really wonderful and it’s so warm and welcoming inside, it’s hard not to love it

I love it when my Unilocal app points me in the direction of something awesome!
This was my experience today when I was wandering around Dovercourt/​Bloorcourt Village with an empty tummy and a heavy laptop on my back. Where to find food and comfort?! Unilocal tells me I’m steps away from the Hub and the other Unilocalers are raving, so I head over.
I’m going to admit that I have low expectations for places that are calling themselves coffee houses, because they spend all their energy coming up with new techniques for roasting beans and don’t consider food beyond how it will pair with the brew du jour. I didn’t know that the Hub actually cares about both. I got a well crafted coffee that didn’t make my ears tingle (if it’s really bitter, is it supposed to be good?) and a turkey provolone sandwich was mmmmm mmmm good!
Also, I would have happily had a bowl of that coleslaw side — how about a daily coleslaw special for us veggie lovers?
And then it’s also got this great relaxed vibe that actually helped me get some work done. I’m in paradise! Would have loved to see more outlets, but the free and solid wifi makes up for that.
I’ll be back!

Great atmosphere, ample bike parking, big windows, great food. I had the breakfast on a bun and it was so so good. Highly recommended.

Outstanding service. We came here for breakfast today and were the first people to sit down. Nice healthy bustle from neighbourhood customers followed with a parade of happy dogs.
I’ve been struggling with a restrictive diet for the past few months and it’s always made more difficult by travel. These folks were creative, patient and accommodating as soon as I articulated my needs. I got the breakfast in a bun without the bun with a baby arugula side salad and fresh tomatoes sliced in the side. My egg was layered with cheese and just the perfect amount of bacon. It was beautiful and delicious. They also accommodated my coffee request for nonfat milk with almond. My Americano was delicious. My husband had tge b.o.b. (Breakfast on a bun) with no hoisin sauce and said it was delish, but he was definitely eyeing my tomatoes! Top marks to hub coffee house. Ideally located and great neighbourhood vibe.

It took me a while to finally check out this spot, especially considering that it is only a few streets from my house, and much closer than any other similar option. Upon my first visit, the service, food, coffee and vibe were all fantastic. And I loved how the layout buffers noise and offers a few nooks to settle into for quiet work or a conversation.
Shortly after my first visit, my home-​office internet went down, and I ended up here again for the better part of a day. Once again, staff were great, the food was superb and I found an awesome temporary workspace.
Bonus: their daily homemade soup is delicious, beautifully presented and the generous portion is very fairly priced at $ 6 (including bread, cup of slaw and roasted nuts as sides).

Okay so I don’t know if this one will replace my other post, but I don’t think it will… I was ranting and raving about how AMAZING the muffins are at the hub… well, the hub has undergone managerial changes, or so I’ve heard and what I sense. I am not in this place everyday to know for certain though. I would go whenever I craved a muffin… BUT, those muffins have changed… I will not go as far as to say they are bad… but they are different and when you fall in love with something, like a muffin, you’d kinda like it to stay the same.
So, their morning muffins, have less nuts in them. The old ones had full half walnuts and full almonds on the top, plus some inside. The new morning muffins, have crushed/​chopped (* sounds better) nuts on top and very few within the muffin itself. That’s kinda disappointing, since in the morning it’s the protein hit, I seek. What is nice about the changed muffin is the dates. they have dates to sweeten it, which I don’t know if they did originally, but is something I noticed that I quite enjoyed.
Their chocolate muffins… are now with Zucchini. This is great if you like zucchini and even better if you find the combination of zucchini + chocolate, divine, I don’t. I am not a HUGE no. 1 fan of zucchini, I don’t hate it, but it doesn’t agree with me and chocolate and zucchini together, while it adds moisture yet ultimately what is going through my head is… WHY? WHY? WHY? I really don’t get the appeal here… seriously! WHY… but that’s me.
Needless to say I will reconsider future trips to this café… I can make pretty kickass muffins myself and I can prepare them the way I like, without feeling guilty or bad for being so picky (like not liking zucchini in my CHOCOLATE muffin)… or feeling like I am being judged (this typically happens at other places, not the hub and is one of the major reasons I actually like the HUB) because they are so not pretentious and judgey. They’re smiley, welcoming and usually incredibly friendly too.

still bitter they closed the shaw location, but I mean I get why. I just preferred the small closer space.
1 star for their iced coffee
1 star for their B.O.B breakfast on a bun. tasty, under 5 $
1 star for their nice crew, always the same 3 – 4 people.
Go grab a sandwich & a coffee it’ll be a dece time!

Sweet tunes, chilled vibe, I had Grilled Cheese and black coffee which was good, they put pesto and something else on the cheese which was a nice touch! My friend got the BOB which he said has great! I’ll be back!

The Hub is now one of my favorite spots in town! Cozy, friendly, laid back. Excellent lunch and brunch! Great service, good coffee and delicious sweets!
For lunch, I have the soup of the day, grilled cheese sandwich and they come with a side of fruit and nuts!
For brunch, I have the eggs Benedict and it is soooo good! On the side, sweet potatoes and a fresh salad!
My cappuccino is always perfect and the staff is friendly and professional. Asher and Jake are just great owners, they are really wonderful with their costumers and passionate people.

Basically this is the best place you can go for a breakfast sandwich. A Bob is a breakfast on a bun and it has bacon, old cheddar, mayo and hoisin on a bun. It’s a guarantee your morning starts out with no temper tantrum. Exactly what you wanted and for a super cheap price. Coffee is great. But really the place is about the people working there. They remember your name, your order and they actually really like their customers. The two new owners are late twenties and best friends. You sort of get the sense you are going to go hang out with friends. I also seem to run into every writer and artist I know. Ready to stare at their laptops or take the occassional break and talk about their projects. This is the sort of place that can be your Toronto. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Great place for coffee and brunch on a dus at morning. Delicious muffins and food. Eggs are great!

Great ambiance, coffee and food. Particularly love the BOB (breakfast on a bun). The hoisin sauce is a nice touch — magical you could say. Also highly recommend the honey ginger latte. Whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.

Went for the first time this past Sunday and I was really impressed. Stayed for brunch with a few friends and the place was alive with a lot of people either stopping and staying, or grabbing something to go.
I ordered the eggs Benedict and was certainly impressed. The hollandaise has a lemon tang to it and it was served with sweet potato fries, which were both new to me and very delicious. The coffee was very fresh (how can it not be when it is French pressed?) and the staff were friendly and professional.
Even though it is a bit of a drive for me, coming from Richmond Hill, this is definitely a place I’ll check out when I’m downtown.

I really like the Hub. I used to make the whole 3 block walk for a cup of strong coffee when the Hub was at the previous location on Shaw, but now it’s even more convenient at it’s location on Hallam & Dovercourt. Really adds to the little neighbourhood developing at this intersection!
The Hub has a chill, quiet vibe with unobtrusive music and usually free tables for doing work/​reading during the week. On the weekend it seems to get quite packed with the brunch crowd, which I haven’t tried (I tried the B.O.B – breakfast-​on-​a-​bun at their old place) but there is a walk up counter where you can grab coffee, cookies, muffins, and scones to go.
HIghlights: get the iced coffee, a delicious, strong, and refreshing jolt of caffeine. Also, for those who are gluten averse – the double chocolate gluten free cookie (salted or not) is amazing!