Sweaty Betty's is marked by a custom red heart neon sign glowing in the front window and walls painted in a deep, dark maroon. Inside, the space feels like a faded Victorian living room, filled with mismatched antique furniture, crystal…
Ossington Avenue Strip
This walk down Toronto’s trendiest strip highlights how mid-century auto repair garages, traditional bakeries, and immigrant-owned storefronts have been creatively repurposed while preserving the street's gritty working-class roots.
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1. Sweaty Betty's
2. Pho Tien Thanh
Pho Tien Thanh is a narrow restaurant on Ossington Avenue, recognizable by its dusty-rose and powder-blue interior and the sign in the window that reads "I Love Pho Forever." Founded in nineteen ninety-five by Tuan Vo, who left Vietnam in…
3. Stylegarage
Stylegarage occupies an eight-thousand-square-foot, two-storey heritage warehouse on the Ossington Avenue strip. The building is defined by its exposed brick walls and an open, raw interior designed to showcase custom-made and locally…
4. Venezia Bakery
Venezia Bakery, once a fixture at the corner of Argyle and Ossington, stood for over four decades as a community staple in Beaconsfield Village. Though its name suggested an Italian origin, the shop was known for its deep roots in…
5. Bellwoods Brewery
Bellwoods Brewery occupies a site on Ossington Avenue that once operated as an auto shop. When co-founders Luke Pestl and Mike Clark opened the doors in twenty-twelve, they installed a small brewhouse inside the former garage, beginning a…
6. Côte de Bœuf
Côte de Bœuf is a butcher shop and bistro located at one hundred thirty Ossington Avenue. The storefront is distinguished by old-fashioned glass doors that open into a space featuring weathered hardwood floors and rustic shelving, designed…
7. Paris Paris
Paris Paris occupies a building easily identified by its sliding glass doors and the remnants of its former life as an auto-body garage. Located at one hundred forty-six Ossington Avenue, the space features skylights and large windows that…
8. Rotate This
Rotate This is a long-standing independent record shop that has occupied its current storefront on Ossington Avenue since twenty sixteen. You can identify the shop by the floor-to-ceiling shelving along the walls, which holds a dense…