Better and Better Bakery Cafe.

bakery/cafe... If you like to chill or study at places like starbucks or tim hortons and think its too expensive, you should definitely check out Better and Better Bakery Cafe in Korea Town. This family run bakery/cafe is always quiet, with plenty of tables and seats. They serve freshly baked goods including muffins, bagels, pastries and fresh home made soups. The best thing about this place is that there is Free Wifi, which makes it great for those who like to study at coffee shops.
I always get bagels there, which are freshly baked. They are super soft and chewy! With cream cheese, the bagels are $1.85 and for an extra $0.50 they will even add vegetables (which usually cost $0.50 each at Tim Horton's. My friend Florence always gets coffee ($1.85 for a large mug) and according to her, the hazelnut flavoured coffee is the best with their homemade chocolate chip cookies ($0.55/cookie). These cookies were soft, chewy, had plenty of chocolate chips in it and you could taste a bit of salt added which made the cookie sweeter as a hole (although they are pretty average for size). Better and Better Bakery Cafe also has a daily homemade soup and daily specials for breakfast and lunch (ex. $5, taxes included for a sandwich and coffee, between 11am- 3pm everyday).

Better and Better Bakery Cafe is a great quiet place to study or chill at in Korea Town (just west of Bathurst, on the north side of Bloor, across from Honest Ed's). All of their baked goods including bagels and pastries are freshly baked and affordable. Every time I've been there, there have always been plenty of seats and I never get hassled for staying too long (ex. >2 hrs). In addition to this, the Free Wifi makes this place much better than typical coffee shops like Starbucks and Tim Horton's. They are open until 10 pm everyday.
Better and Better Bakery Cafe
586 Bloor St. W.
416-530-4666

Leslie Cafe.

hk style breakfast... For breakfast the other day, I decided to go and grab some Hong Kong Style fusion breakfast food at Leslie Cafe. HK style breakfast is usually just a mix of simple things like eggs, bacon, ham and more chinese type things like noodles with BBQ pork. The best thing about most of these HK style breakfast places is that the breakfast combos which includes a drink are always cheap! When you come here, they have an all day special menu which is what we ordered from. I ordered the BBQ Pork Noodles + Beef and Egg Sandwich, which comes with a drink (ex. hot milk tea, hot lemon tea, coffee, etc). My friend ordered the Bacon/Eggs + BBQ Pork Noodles, which also comes with toast and a drink. The taste of the food is average, definitely not as good as some other places in Scarborough or Markham, but it is quite close to my house and also quite cheap.
Quick Notes: The Combos that we ordered came from the "specials" blue menu and everything on this menu is $4.99 (+tax/tip) and comes with a hot drink (+$0.70 for cold drink). No matter what type of noodles comes with the order, you can ask to switch it to macaroni, rice noodles or vermicelli depending on what you like.From the dinner menu though, I do not recommend the Portuguese sauce baked rice, as I have ordered it twice and its not that good. This place is definitely not the best, but if you happen to be in the area, it is pretty cheap food. Leslie Cafe is at the North West Corner of Leslie/Finch, inside the plaza, across from the chinese supermarket.

The plaza is quite busy on the weekends because of the Chinese supermarket Additional Parking can be found upstairs