Village Juicery

When business partners and high school pals Omar Shaheen and Tyler Colford saw their friends and family basking in the juicing afterglow, it spurred an idea to make organic, cold-pressed juice accessible to communities throughout Toronto. They brought their vision to life with Village Juicery. They opened a storefront on College Street in late 2014, and in less than two years, two more outposts were added along with the esteemed certified organic title – one of the first of its kind for a juicery in Toronto.

At their third outpost, pounds of nutrient-dense bevvies, brekkies, boosters and a rotating tap of hot and cold elixirs fill their teensiest space on the Yonge and Eglinton strip. Stepping in, you’ll be immediately drawn to the store’s centrepiece: the ultra-slick bar tap perched on the brilliant white counter.

On the menu is a cold, fizzy and refreshing kombucha from Live, a Guelph, Ontario-based company. It goes down super smooth with just the right amount of kick you’d expect from a glass of booch. “This one tastes a little sweeter and little lighter because it wasn’t fermented for quite as long,” says Gabby Ouimet, one of the store’s holistic nutritionists.