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Toronto cafe and bar shares vulnerable post about its fight to stay open

Kimia Afshar Mehrabi

created: Nov. 25, 2025, 7:52 p.m. | updated: Nov. 26, 2025, 8:17 p.m.

The future of a Toronto neighbourhood café and bar hangs in the balance, as months of low foot traffic and high rent prices have made its survival past 2026 an uncertainty. "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" is most definitely the motto here, as beer and wines that lean heavily toward the low-intervention side are served all day. Despite all its offerings, the shop's owner-operator, Shabri Kapoor, took to Instagram last week to transparently share some of the struggles the business has been facing. While there is a combination of factors hindering the business, Kapoor tells blogTO that the top two elements preventing the business from thriving are its location and its high rent. I dunno... even if we don't survive this, I'm still always going to be proud of what we achieved."

1 week, 5 days ago: blogTO