Caffe Demetre

Mixed feelings about this place. Food for the most part is good, service is hit or miss. Prices don’t reflect the quality of the food anymore

One of the best desserts places in Toronto. I ordered the «tongue depressor» and I was very impressed! The portion is huge and is enough for two people.

Yummy dessert place! Crepes and waffles and ice cream. How can you go wrong?

The desserts are beyond amazing. Love the puns in the dessert names! I liked going when the store just opens because its a nice quiet space. Overall, very tasty desserts and I will probably go back

Went there during a busy time, i.e.Taste of Danforth. Despite being so busy, we received friendly service with prompt delivery of our desserts. Our table of 4 ordered one cake+ice cream, one waffle+ice cream, one ice cream and one ice cream cookie.
The experience was great with my first timer friends overestimating their ability to consume a full serving of dessert. I enjoyed laughing at them and seeing them succumb to getting a take away box. In everyone’s case, the ice cream was delicious and the added milk Belgian chocolate was amazing. The cookies were hard enough to cut but soft enough to chew without difficulty.
Being able to give great service during a busy period is a true mark of a restaurant and worthy of leaving tips. I will return for more!

I had mixed feelings about this place forever. On one hand it represents the excess that is North America i.e. monster sized desserts that can send one into a sugar induced coma and on the other hand they do make their crepes, waffles, toppings etc. fresh so that has to be appreciated.
I hadn’t been to this spot in eons as didn’t want relive the sugar overload I associated with this place. The prices have gone up and now they do their ice creams in house.
I settled for a waffle as if wants to indulge why settle on a crêpe.
Sure enough a monster sized serving that IMO should suffice for two people easy. Sugar nightmare realized as I felt awful after I woke up from this dream (sadly real). I can see the appeal of this spot as dessert only spots that are open late night are hard to come by I personally would rather have a smaller portioned richer dessert over a sweet one.
2 Stars.

This place has fresh deserts. The waffles taste amazing and lived up to my expectations! The only turn off was the price. A waffles with a scoop of ice cream cost $ 12! The portion was large but not worth it’s large price tag. As good as the waffle was, I was turned off by the wallet-​killing prices. Good food, but not worth the money.

Bought a Spilt Banana and along came pieces of glass in it! I first thought it was a piece of hard candy which I couldn’t bite and swallowed it and then after my husband bit into couple of more pieces in it. Worst terrifying experience… I’m unable to sleep now thanks to this and hope they discard all the ice cream in this place and investigate. I’m praying that nothing serious happens to us now! I don’t think I can ever step into another Café Demetres again. Horrible experience.

The most decadent deserts. Demetre is a chain now, but it started from the Greektown-​Danforth location. The ice cream is so delicious and so fatty, one goes into sugar/​fat induced coma after a portion. The ‘baklava’ crêpe with baklava ice cream is so sweet and delicious. The cake and ice cream special (I had the caramel one) is a bit smaller portion, but just as filling and delicious.
If you’re gonna order the crêpe+ice cream specials (their specialty) be sure to have A LOT of space in your stomach as the portions are HUGE :)

Very cute store! Perfect to bring yourself and a nice book or date, bestfriend or family! Probably one of the best places to get dessert here in Toronto. They have wide variety of ice cream, crepes, waffles, hot drinks etc. It gets busy late in the evening when people come in after dinner!
Thanks for reading!

Good decoration & location. I ordered plain waffle with fruit & Nutella. The waffle is soft. Fresh fruit. The cream is really good, not greasy. Over all, it is ok. Kind of pricy.

Plus:
Good location
Big menu, a lot of choices
Quick service
Funny names in the menu
Open late
Minus:
Some ice creams and waffles etc are just way too sweet and portions too big (share with a friend!)
Ambiance a bit sterile
A little overpriced
I feel bad physically and mentally after eating that huge a pile of something that sweet and fatty
That is why I can’t see myself going there again anytime soon. Just too much! At least for my taste.

This location is decent. It’s super convenient on the Danforth for when you want a dessert run. Dining area is nice and spacious. It can be a little loud when there are a lot of people there, but most of the time you can hear conversation just fine. They’ve also extended their hours, so that’s a plus when I want cake at 11pm.
Their menu got a makeover with a bunch of punny names for every item. I had the chocolate cake with ice cream (Cocoa Ono) and it was great. Portion was huge, could barely finish it. I’ve also had the cheesecake with fruit (Fruit & Tie), and it was just okay. Tasted stale, and the bottom was rubbery and totally inedible.
Staff and service are awful. I’ve been here multiple times and service has always been sub-​par at best. Barely know their own menu, even though the new one’s been out for months now. It’s at least a 15 – 20 minute wait time from ordering something to it being in front of you. Had to wait over 10 minutes when we were done our meal because waiter was impossible to find, and then just decided to take his time.
It has a dependable chocolate cake, so I’ll probably keep coming back. I’ll probably also keep slightly regretting it after.

Overprice dessert. I like that it opens until late though. Nothing special about the food. Will probably come back.

Menu is made for children, menu so crowded and staff forgot about us in a non busy time (almost half empty), waited for 20 minutes for the bill and we went the counter to pay. Normal, coffee was really good and apple pie was good ! Little bit overpriced as we’ll

This may be the worst location I have been to yet. I ordered apple pie and earl grey tea. The server kept telling me I couldn’t have earl grey for the cake/​coffee combo. I had to tell him several times I didn’t want the combo and would pay separately for the tea and pie. The pie came with so much cinnamon on it I couldn’t taste the apples. The server didn’t bring any milk or a spoon for my tea and he didn’t return to our table so I had to stir my tea with my fork. The service was slow and the server didn’t return to the table to ask if we needed anything else or how the food was. I will never return to this location! So awful.

Food: Got the chocolate paradox w/​crêpe and caramel drizzle (³⁄₅)
Service: Horrible! Male hostesses/​manager rude and unpleasant. The waitress got our order wrong, we didn’t say anything because it was already made. (¹⁄₅)
Ambience: Really Bad! Kitchen is right where you get served. barely able to hear each other over the sound of the clinging dishes. 3 of the workers including the manager stepped outside to smoke leaving the door wide open making the inside of the café smell of cigarettes. Yuk! ⁰⁄₅
Price/​Value: $ 13 For a crêpe + ice cream. A little pricy but not outrageous. ²⁄₅
We have both been to other locations and this by far has been the worst. It is clear that this franchise is family run.

Loved how spacious this location was, stayed here for hours and weren’t rushed to leave.

Heaps of ice cream and other pieces of sweet goodness, mounted on a belgian waffle are always a must at Demetres. I’ve been coming here since I was 12 and it’s just such a great place to get fat.
I usually get the rusty pelican… some chocolate and nutella stuff and maybe some brownies… chocolate sauce… caramel… who knows?! but it’s amazeballsssssss. I do have to mention though, that I HATE whipped cream and maraschino cherries, so I always do without it when I go to Demetres (let the hate comments begin for my hate-​relationship with whipped cream)
Service here isn’t great, but I’m usually a happy camper when I’m eating sweets, so I can’t really complain and the prices are great, so I’m still not going to complain. I did decide to venture outside of the Rusty Pelican one time and it wasn’t a pleasurable experience. I had something with tiramisu ice cream at one point and it was nasty… and one time I had something with peanut ice cream… and that was even worse. If you’re ever wondering what «dry» ice cream tastes and feels like… try the peanut ice cream… it was awful lol
Anywhos… I found my favorites and they never fail. Still a really great place to go, and they just renovated their outdated décor! :D

After speaking with the new owner, Padra, I have decided to remove my review, which was of an experience from more than 7 years ago.
I don’t believe in punishing people from someone else’s poor business management.