Oliver's Tearoom

A tearoom and a coffee shop are not quite the same proposition, though this directory files both under cafes. The word usually signals a room you sit down in rather than a counter you queue at, and a slower turnover of tables. Oliver's Tearoom is listed downtown, inside the V2P postal district that covers the old grid around Five Corners and Wellington Avenue. There is no way to tell which shape it actually takes, and the name is the only clue on offer.

Two things here are worth flagging. No street address is published, only the postal code, so a map will get you to the right few blocks rather than to a door. And the website on file belongs to Dickens Sweets rather than carrying the tearoom's own name, which is useful to know before searching for it, though what the relationship between the two amounts to is not established here. The phone number is the surer route. It is worth using to confirm the address and the opening hours before making a trip downtown on the strength of that alone, particularly since a sit-down room is a poor thing to arrive at ten minutes before it closes.