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Lit Espresso Bar - CLOSED
Category: Food Coffee & Tea Coffee & Tea [Edit]
639 Queen St WBurroughs Building
Toronto, ON M5V 2B5
Neighbourhoods: Alexandra Park, Queen Street West
(416) 538-9700
- Price Range:
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$
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
3 reviews for Lit Espresso Bar
3 reviews in English
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Review from Renata R.
12/27/2010 1 Check-in Here
It's more like a kiosk than a proper espresso bar, but does the job of providing nice mochas and their delicious sea salt brownies.
It's cool because you can hang out around the design store while having coffee, but it's not the same thing than going to a café. Also I felt it was kind of complicated to find them - I didn't know it was INSIDE the store, so it was a bit messy.
I still love the Lit-Boys and Lit-Coffee. I just felt the kiosk thing was a bit confusing.Listed in: Coffee & Muffins
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Review from Kent P.
12/3/2010 ROTD 3/2/2011
Dropped into the new @litespressobar today on its first official day open. It's a cool idea- a simple coffee bar inside the famous Burroughs building for quick drinks to go. It's actually right in the Design Republic store- two floors of fancy couches, chairs, art, and the like- so there's a lot to browse if you don't want to go back out in the cold.
Not short of places to sit.
Great to have a LIT down on Queen West. Also- today all the coffee was French pressed. No drips allowed. MMMM.
five enthusiastic patricks on the back
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ttyn,
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Review from Luke S.
2/19/2011
Little princes packed in the stroller (it is f...ing cold in TO, btw), I sense a need for coffee - and LIT I see. It is located in some old warehouse kind of building, a weird bar, really, in a furniture store? (Are you supposed to be sitting on the couches for sale?).
The guy behind the bar was serving a couple in front of me, it took him forever, and I mean forever, like 10 minutes. Little princess, in full winter attire got nervous and excited, wanted ot of her stroller. I had no intention of unpacking her. Time was of the essence here. He never even gave me a single glance, acknowledge my presence (we could be heard, believe me, princess switched on her yellow alert siren), asked me what I wanted, or apologized for the wait (that would probably be too far fetched, wouldn't it) - he was standing next to me, within arm's reach. He was so rude in a passive aggressive kind of way, I couldn't believe it.
I almost gave him the finger, but priority was to console the irate princess.
I left. Worst customer service ever. What these people don't get when they behave like that - like stubborn moose or whatever the deal is - they lose a potentially loyal (and one that is not insolvent either) customer (and I like the LIT coffee). Needless to say, I will NEVER be back. Too pissed off I am.
Walked down to Dark Horse, which is about 3 minutes away, and had a marvellous macchiato. And it was packed; yet I had my coffee within 3 minutes. That's a caffeine pit-stop right there.Listed in: One Star Stars
