The Mascot had their grand opening in Parkdale on Saturday: complete with tiger mascot, clown on a unicycle juggling bowling pins, free mini vegan cupcakes, and best of all free coffee! The Mascot is a super new coffee shop and gallery at 1267 Queen West and the space looks great.

I first visited soon after they opened a few weeks ago and was impressed with their well-edited selection of magazines, from which I picked up a copy of hard to find Brooklyn based Dossier magazine. The crew there are really friendly and didn’t mind me taking loads of photographs – they even offered to open 2 boxes of freshly delivered mini cupcakes for me to photograph. How could I say no? And, according to this, they plan to donate all tips, as well as 20% of gallery sales to charity. A totally admirable venture – I hope they do well. Next time you’re in the neighborhood, I recommend a visit!