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Casa Acoreana
Categories: Food Coffee & Tea Food Specialty Food Coffee & Tea, Specialty Food [Edit]
235 Augusta AveToronto, ON M5T 2L8
Neighbourhood: Kensington Market
(416) 593-9717
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
5 reviews for Casa Acoreana
5 reviews in English
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Review from Tara A.
10/21/2009
With summer fading quickly, I am grasping at my favourite memories from our short but sweet summer months. For the past two years, my favourite place on a Saturday morning is on the bench outside Ozzie's coffee shop (attached to Casa)... I love their teas and I enjoy sitting there people watching for a few hours every saturday morning.
Afterwards, I usually pick up my spices, coffee grinds (for the BF) and occasionally sweets from the shop and head home to start my day. How can you not be a fan of a place that offers so much in such a little space.
The prices are good... the people are real and tells it like it is and its by far the best place in Kensington to watch the characters that make Kensington what it is. -
Review from susan c.
7/26/2009
For the S.O.'s birthday, I got him an Indian cooking course. After the class, he was dying to make his own chicken tikka and aloo gobi at home. (Brilliant gift, huh?) So we headed over to Casa Acoreana to load up on all the spices.
We grabbed some little plastic bags and filled them with chili powder, cumin seeds, coriander, and cloves. Any spice you need, they're bound to have it in one of the apothecary jars lining the shelves. And the great thing is you can buy everything in small quantities because really, who's got a spice rack big enough to house five more bottles? We also picked up some basmati rice and organic quinoa in bulk while we were there. HURRAH!
Next time, I'm going back to sample some of the candy in the jars. -
Review from Todd V.
Toronto, ON
10/3/2008
As luck would have it I stumbled across this coffee-shop-cum-bulk-store completely by accident in the Kensington Market. All I knew was that I needed some coffee for the house and wanted to go further afield than the usual Starbucks, Second Cup, or tin-of-Tim-Horton's offerings that I'd taken in the past.
As soon as you enter Casa Acoreana, you're faced with what amounts to a very simple bulk food shop. Jars of coffees, candies, and nuts line the walls awaiting your selection. The first thing I noticed about their array of coffees is not only is the selection wide, it is definitely affordable, weighing in about half the price of what you'd pay for similar beans at Second Cup for example. At about $8.00 a pound, you could do way worse.
Attached is a coffee shop with a small seating area where you're able to try out some very fresh coffees indeed. When temptation gets the better of me, I'm usually leaving with a scoop or two of peanut M&M's. Oh, thank you, guilty pleasures. I've now engrained purchasing coffee from here, it now is the place that I stop at on the healthy hike from my place to the Madison to watch soccer. Helps burn off the M&M's I suppose. -
Review from Deanna W.
12/20/2008
I don't get to shop in Casa Acoreana as often as I would like to given that most of my shopping in the market is done on Sundays when the store is closed. However, for those odd times that I am in the market not on a Sunday-I make a beeline for Casa Acoreana and find that more often than not, I am a kid in candy store again. (literally and nostagically)
Casa Acoreana is THE bulk food/dry good store to hit up in Toronto. Everything is nicely outlined and stored in bins or glass jars with scoops and bags readily available. And if you love candy (and who doesn't) they have excellent selection of candies and chocolates. When I am on one of random baking marathons, I head over here because they have everything I need from flours, chocolates and sugars. And the charismatic counter boys are more than willing to lend a hand or to source out what you need. Plus if you're into coffee they can grind it here for you according to a specific grind too!Listed in: Smooth Operator!-Favourite…
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Review from hangover n.
Toronto, ON
10/22/2011
a great americano for 2 bucks? amazing. friendly, cool people. good seating for people watching in the small inside area. all in all, kind of an antidote to the many 7 dollar a cup, laptop-corrall joints in this town. yes!
