Avenue Cafe & Bistro

«Miami South Beach setting at Parklawn and Lakeshore»
Avenue Café & Bistro is a great spot for breakfast, brunch, coffee and desert. It is located at the base of a condo and offers parking through the entrance to the condos. It has indoor and outdoor seating and lots of natural daylight.
I have been here several times and the service has been up and down. If you don’t think of it as a quick place to get in and out, you will be pleased. I thought the Starbucks that just opened up might affect their business and it might to some extent, however Starbucks is dark and cookie cutter and Avenue is light, has better food and outdoor seating.

Excellent been there many times never disappointed

Decent little café, but nothing special. There is a pretty extensive menu of sandwiches, salads, baked goods and drinks, good lunch options.
I ordered a roast beef pressed sandwich with a side caesar salad. Both items were pretty average. The roast beef sandwich was served on a whole wheat baguette, the crust of which got rather hard as the sandwich cooled. It would probably have been better served on a softer bun.
They have free wifi, and a large patio. Sadly, with all of the construction going on around this place, it’s extremely noisy and dusty sitting outside.
Would probably come back again just because it’s close to home, and beats out the Tim’s and Starbucks up the street.

This place was amazing! Awesome staff, friendly, caring, and helpful! The food is amazing, too! Quick order, getting my food, eating, being satisfying, Boom! But it WAS! I used to come every 3 – 4 days for the sandwich, coffee, snacks, etc! Loved it! I am pretty sure they changed the chef and staff (or maybe owner) because everything there has changed (in a bad way) so sad!!! It’s total like some one stole your favourite toy and destroyed it! I went there in April, and ordered sandwich and salad, tasted so bad! It took them 20min to prepare the sandwich (before was 10mins max). The sandwich was warm outside and cold (soo cold) inside! I thought it was just my unlucky day! So I tried again this month, early May! I ordered coffee, and stood aside and waiting, the lady seemed forget my order! After 5mins, I asked her if my coffee was ready, because I didn’t see anyone working around the coffee machine! She finally started to make the coffee, and asked me what my order was! Was that because it’s busy there? No! It’s just me! Nobody else! /​/​The same day I went there for a wrap (lazy day, didn’t wanna cook), the same thing happened: warm wrap, cold inside, plus 20mins waiting time! ! Today I went there AGAIN, because I am sick, just wanna have a coffee and yogurt parfait. I ordered, a different lady forgot my order again! And she was busy counting receipts, and she kept asking herself «what I am doing!?», I wanted to ask her, too. «What are you doing?! I’m standing here like forever and you haven’t brought my Yogurt yet, and my coffee machine is still very silent… /​/​after all these bad experiences happening in one-​two months, I won’t be back I think… I would rather go to the Metro besides and get a sandwich there, at least it’s warm, and nobody wanna forget my order… Sigh! I used to love this place, so did lots of other customers …

Better coffee and way better food than Starbucks… hoping these guys do not take a hit w two new Starbucks in the area. They need to warm up the space though. Looks too severe, minimalist and not welcoming. They could also benefit from having some community events to bring neighbours together. Also insulate better from ongoing construction…

Great little café/​bistro just around the corner from home for me. It’s sort of difficult to access if you’re in a car so ensure you’re driving through the large condo driveway entrance to the North of Avenue Café (if traveling north bound).
Avenue has mostly typical café beverage options in terms of coffee’s, late’s, espressos, and teas. They do some specialty and seasonal picks as well which were very tasty. but I tend to be a creature of habit so I stick to what I like and save my calories for other things.
Other things like their bistro style menu! This is where this place sets itself apart, the food here is good — all of it. Perfect lunch or easy dinner options ranging from soups and salads to sandwiches and hot meals. They even have G-​FREE and Vegan options for those hard pressed to find those options. I suggest trying the Caribbean/​jerk sandwich/​wrap — divine.
In warmer months their patio is excellent, lots of tables, huge umbrellas and the WiFi works great outside. The WiFI is also free so this is a great place to get work done.
Eatcrest Out

Beautiful décor but the food was only average. The Ceasar salad had leaves that were turning pink and the fruit bowl was unpalatable because the fruit was old. The girl at the register was slightly unpleasant.

Over the weekend was here for bf, unfortunately it was not quite as good as their sandwiches, snacks and coffee. Limited bf menu, too simplistic for my taste. Error with my order did not help, which was rectified pronto. Still a good place though, will be coming here again

Walked in and LOVED it. Atmosphere, décor, food options (both sweet and savoury), drinks… I pleasantly welcome it all. We definitely need more development in the area for the many many residents and I hope this café picks up business! We need more not less of this here!
Today I had the Caribbean chicken sandwich with a side of fruits and hot chocolate — yumm

Great Place with a nice atmosphere. I’ve tried their expresso and coffee and both did me right on both occasions. Great location, especially for residents like myself who live in the same condo complex as this Café. Hopefully this place starts picking up soon, it’s never really busy every time I go there. All-​in-​all a decent place for some good warm coffee.

Good coffee and nice place. Local spot. Never full though and my worry is it will go out of business soon if people don’t start stopping by. Great patio for the summer!
Beats Tim hortons.

This place has the potential to be something. As far as I am aware, it’s the only non-​Tim Horton’s coffee shop south of Bloor in this line of longitude.
But it currently seems like it’s still learning the ropes. Menu is impressive, but the actual food looks just so-​so. Staff seem a bit amateur.
All I had so far was a latte, but it was more along the lines of a sweet, warm milk.
Atmosphere is very cool. Great patio.
Let’s hope it turns into something great!