Reunion Coffee Roasters — Restaurant in Toronto

3.5 stars... 4 stars easily for the place itself provided you can find a seat. Laptop city!

Reunion Island Coffee is a stalwart on the Toronto coffee scene. They are a local coffee roaster with a few outposts but their Roncy location is the one most people know the best. I've seen Reunion on many top Toronto coffee list and on a Sunday afternoon, I finally got to try it. This particular cafe is fairly spacious. I would easily say they have a number of tables ... provided the laptop horde doesn't park their butts and take up more seats than needed. It is very quiet even on a weekend ... no one is speaking except for the occasional tinder date nearby.

The menu is a solid espresso menu with no seasonal offerings but they do have a decent amount of loose leaf tea to drink as well. Also, they have a breakfast sandwich and a few treats to tempt you. I have to admit, I was excited to see their slow drip iced coffee machine work in the background. Service here is polite and efficient... we got our flat whites pretty quickly.

Flat White - Beautiful latte art topped a fairly good flat white. I would say the flat white was made well but I think the beans weren't my favourite. I dont think thats the barista's fault... I think the beans were just too acidic and fruity for my preference. I did find it more on the sour side and lighter overall. 3.5/5

Tahini maple cookie - Ok, if you see this... get it. It's really good and I normally dont eat cookies cause I always worried they're too hard or too sweet. This is neither. Its a crispy edged but tender on the inside ... just the right amount of maple sweetness without being sugary. I love the tahini addition as it makes it more rich tasting. Seeing how this was bigger than my hand, it definitely is more than enough to share... if you really wanted to! 4/5

Roncy has a few coffee spots but I think Reunion island has the better baristas to pull the espressos and also a nicer place to enjoy that coffee. Maybe next time I'll try something different like a South American bean instead and see how the...

This is just a tentative review, as I've only been here once, but the first experience wasn't great, so I figured I'd post this to try to give a little feedback. If this place improved a bit, it would be my go to coffee shop, as it's incredibly close to where I live. Went in during the "soft" opening. Decor is nice, perhaps a little too minimal, but pleasant overall with nice big front windows that open for the nice weather. Espresso machine built into the bar that look like beer taps are really cool. Have had a variety of different kinds of Reunion Island coffee before, but mainly from little shops, so I was hoping to get the straight from the roaster experience. Decided I would first go with filter coffee, as this is what I mainly drink at home and I wanted to compare. People before me in line got the last two cups and so I was offered an americano instead. Fine, not quite what I was looking for, but ok. Went to pay and saw that they were charging me a dollar more because I got an americano. I know this is a little thing, but the americano wasn't really my choice, it was a backup plan proposed by the barista. Starbucks would absolutely never charge a customer extra for this when they didn't receive what they originally wanted. On top of that, I found the americano to be a bit cold. Will try here again, and I feel bad about being the first review and it being a negative one, but I'm hoping that someone will see this and won't charge the customer extra...

I stopped to have a cappuccino & muffin on a glorious sunny day. I had my coffee outside on the bench to enjoy the sunny afternoon and afterwards brought my cup and saucer back in and left it at the station where customers grab napkins, sugar and water. I did not see an obvious place to leave my cup and saucer and as I walked away the young woman who had prepared my beverage (name not known, dark bob with nose piercing) exclaims, “we have a place for dirty dishes!”She expressed herself with a condescending tone! I glanced across the mostly empty coffee shop to see next to her a bin labelled dirty dishes in very small font). Certainly not an obvious place for customers to take notice or to use. I left the coffee shop to walk back to my car and returned to let the 2 young woman know I was leaving a bad review and describing my experience. The cashier had absolutely nothing to say and the other young woman argued with me that she shad not said anything rude at which time I realized she did not want to recognize her behaviour as being rude, unfriendly and condescending. I hope the shop owner reads my review to understand how her employees treat...