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Obama Café
Category: Food Coffee & Tea Coffee & Tea [Edit]
1226 Danforth AveToronto, ON M4J 1M6
Neighbourhood: The Danforth
(647) 344-7843
4 reviews for Obama Café
4 reviews in English
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Review from Emily M.
5/9/2012 1 Check-in Here
I can't speak for the coffee, but the food is pretty good. From what I see it's all vegetarian!! Yay!!! Seating seems really limited though and the whole front area was just filled with a large group of guys drinking coffee/tea and watching tv. A bit intimidating and not really a cafe feel. May be best to get your food to go.
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Review from Good T.
Toronto, ON
5/19/2012
If you want to step back into time, when the world rallied around Obama, then this is the place for you. POTUS welcomes you in, once inside he peers at you from 12 months of the 2009 calender and he even casts a watchful eye on you from your table top.
We were searching for some shisha places on that Danforth strip after restaurant hopping, when someone pointed us in the direction of Obama Cafe.
It's a pretty dark and no frills place; and the front of the cafe seemed like a world congress of Ethiopian men!
My friends and I ordered a mint shisha, which did take sometime to prepare, but the lady serving us was apologetic and helpful.The shisha itself was flavorful and strong. I usually like to have shisha in more comfortable settings but oh well. -
Review from Daniel B.
Cultural opportunists of the world, unite!
You have to wonder how well a 'Barack Obama themed' coffeeshop would do smack dab in the middle of a desolate strip of absurdia on the east end.
The tables have his face on them. There's a lifesized cardboard cutout of the man in the middle of the room.
There are newspaper clippings of him all over the walls.
A confused and lost tourist walks by and snaps a picture. The whole thing is completely off-the-wall. Of course, this is neither here nor there.
The big question.... Can we make a good cup of coffee?
Yes, we can. -
Review from Marie F.
6/1/2010 1 Check-in Here
I wanted to give my mom her Obama themed mother's day gift (http://www.yelp.ca/biz...) at an Obama themed cafe. I trekked it all the way from Etobicoke to this place only to find it inexplicably closed.
The sign in the window fully says open, and I am there within the hours of operations listed, and yet the lights are off, there is no note on the door and all the chairs on up on the tables.
Thanks for nothing Obama Cafe :-(
