ING Direct Café

Thank you based Unilocal for introducing this place to me. It’s the perfect chill spot in the downtown core, srsly.
The interior is spacious and open-​concept with a variety of seating options: couches, arm chairs, booths, high chairs, etc. They also have computers and ipads available for use.
I’m here right now, and it’s completely empty, thus it feels like my own private work space. There’s about 4 employees helping random people who walk in asking banking questions.
The menu is limited — coffee or tea, but most of the time, you don’t really need a fancy drink. Both coffee and tea (they usually have freshly squeezed orange juice, but not today) are $ 2.00 and goes towards charity. I got a green tea, which is pretty standard. They have cane sugar packets and milk too.
Wifi is great too — you just need to sign up and they email you a password.
I’m so happy I found this place, it will serve as my new sanctuary.

I’ve been banking with ING for over a year now and am constantly impressed with their service. Most banks are terrible to deal with, but ING has always been nothing but nice and helpful.

We accidentally walked into this place. Felt so futuristic with its décor and iPads for anybody to use. It was a really cool café/​bank and the fair trade coffee was cheaply priced and good!
It’s now called cage tangerine though

I first found out about ING DIRECT Café when my friend wanted to meet up there. I passed by the café often but I never thought much of it. I didn’t realize that it was a community space where people were free to come in and do their work. The café has free Wi-​Fi and several iPads for use. Their drink menu is unfortunately very limited. You can get either tea, coffee or OJ. However, they are all organic and fair trade.
The purpose of the ING Direct Cafes (they have 5 locations altogether across Canada), is to teach finance in a fun and unique approach. People can come in an inquire anything finance-​related and the staff can also set up an account for you! The cafes are not bank branches, though there are two ABMS available for clients’ at the downtown location.
The café also offers co-​working space, where companies can rent the space for $ 20/​day or $ 100/​month. 100% of the money generated is donated to charity. More details at:
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I think ING DIRECT Cafes are a unique concept. They really want to change the way people talk about money and provide an open space for that type of discussion, instead of boring money talk. It’s a great place to have quick meetings with a friend or co-​worker when you need a place to do so downtown as well.

Good bank with decent rewards. Thrive no fee bank account is so much better compared to TD (my other account).
The Canadian version is not as good as the Australian one, in terms of bonuses and interest rates (they are different economies though). The Aust ING also has debit card so you can buy online purchases, Canadian ING does not have this, not sure why? ING also still uses paper cheque for the initial deposit to open the account, which I find quite backwards, electronic transfer would be much faster and convenient.
If anyone wants to open an account and need the orange key, you can use 4 048 0456S1. They issue individual orange key to all existing account holders, if someone uses their key to open a new account, the key owner gets $ 25 and the new account opener gets $ 25. Pretty smart marketing technique.

ING has been my favorite bank for years, and as a personal finance blogger, I compliment them on a regular basis (and get some cool swag for my efforts!). I knew I couldn’t visit Toronto without meeting up with the ING Direct team and getting a tour of their rad café downtown. I am SO impressed with this space! I make a point to visit every ING location when I travel (as my home city doesn’t have one), and Toronto’s is the best so far. It’s huge, with a great work space on the second floor. In addition to tables and couches, there’s meeting rooms as well. This really is the perfect co-​working space to get your own business started. I LOVE it. I want to move to TO just to work from here! The staff was exceptionally welcoming and friendly — but I find those are pretty standard ING traits ;) I can’t wait to visit again!

I went here for a meeting/​presentation last December and found the space to be pretty cool. It has a loft-​style, casual, relaxed, artsy vibe to it.
Very interesting space and the coffee proceeds go to charity!
Would definitely stop in here again sometime soon.

Good coffee, great cause, friendly staff, casual & relaxed space!

I have been with ING Direct for years and this is the first time I ever visit their brick and mortar location and talk to some one LIVE!
$ 2 for coffee or freshly squeezed OJ (obvious choice of juice for colour coordination) with all the proceeds goes toward Charities. Or can just chill out browsing using their Ipads or free wifi for some internet banking.
One of the most non commercial banks I encounter as you know no one is trying hard to sell you anything!

Whoa, this was an unexpectedly cool spot! Its more like a café/​urban hang out… that happens to provide banking services ;)
ING café is across from the Eaton Centre. I went there for an evening talk. Apparently community organizations can rent out the space (free?). External catering is allowed (we had Starbucks and Lanka Gardens). There is also ING staff available to help with technical difficulties and/​or other setup issues.
The space itself is cool! There are comfy leather couches, armchairs, benches, and bistro sets :). There are Ipads (wi fi connected!) available for use.
This is a cool place to bring people together for innovation. I love the large windows, I felt very connected to the city around us, and it was kind of funny to see people peering at us as they walked by.
I will check this place out again during the day. I noticed a short menu for coffee type drinks. I’m curious whether they serve any tasty goodies.

I am a huge ING fan and have been with them after my initial bad experience with two of the Big 3 banks.
Its not really a teller branch and more of a support system for their strictly online and phone banking. Lets face it one banks with ING for their service and very competitive rates.
What I like about this branch is they have free financial advise sessions and you can withdraw USD from the ATM here. The free Orange Juice and Coffee is just icing on the cake.
I keep recommending ING to my friends and this location makes it easier and helps put a face to this great financial institution.

Like a lot of Canadians, I don’t really trust banks. They are generally smarmy institutions that spout condescending messaging like «you’re richer than you think» (pfft), and are always working on ways to get at your moola, ruin your marriage, and/​or destroy the world. (I think I’m paranoid…)
Which is why the Network Orange /​ING Direct Café (across from the Eaton Centre) is an interesting experiment. Despite all appearances this spot isn’t a bank. They do have a couple of ABMs and the staff will field some questions if you happen to be a customer but there is nothing here you can’t do at home via online banking.
Instead, this place is touted as a space to hang out, grab a coffee, use some free Wifi and chill. It’s a large space, though seating isn’t abundant or that conducive to work. It is pretty though: they have soft leather couches, and a bar covered with iPads if you want to browse. There is lots of light and natural light, a garden wall, and copious amounts of orange if you’re into that sort of thing. I’d recommend the street-​facing bar if you brought your own laptop, and there is a single booth IF you get to it first.
It’s not a typical coffeeshop. For starters, there is no cash register so you can only pay with debit or credit. There is no counter so just look for someone wearing an orange shirt. The coffee is supplied by Merchants of Green Coffee (bonus!), and there are pastries by LPK’s Culinary Groove. Also unique about this spot: 100% of the proceeds from sales go to a charitable organization. On my visit it was the Canadian Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
On the second floor are collaborative spaces available for a fee. Presumably this is how they afford their rent at Yonge and Shuter. You can rent seminar rooms, their projector and screen and other presentation tools. I will likely never use this space, but it is a cool idea.
Considering I am the only non-​staff member here on a Sunday afternoon it remains to be seen how this café-​by-​a-​bank will fare. It’s certainly just as corporate as the Starbucks across the street, but has better coffee and the proceeds go to charity. Advantage: Orange.
Obligatory Title Pun: Some banks are generous to a VAULT.
Menu Readability: It’s black liquid crayon on dark blue panels. Very difficult to read, but it’s not like they have a huge selection here anyway.
Need to mention: A great place to curl up with No Logo or the Selling Out issue of Now Magazine.
What this place teaches me about myself: Me and the banks need to do some trust exercises.

I attended a seminar at this Super cool Café… Internet Café, iPad Station, Free Wi-​Fi Orange 2 Floor, open concept, Very welcoming space… and Can’t wait to go back. This space is great for anybody but might intimidate the regular JOE… it is a MUST see experience. I think it is very underused, at least it seemed to be the day we went. It reminded me the |Apple store with all the iPad stations… but this is designed with you in mind… including a common area where you can eat and or cater to meetings :) @orangeYYZ