LA MERCERIA 506 Adelaide West, 416-848-0057, lamerceria.ca
We resolve to make La Merceria our hibernation spot this winter. But we can’t all go at once. The Adelaide and Portland lifestyle boutique and café only has 11 seats, after all. The bulk of its square footage is devoted to beautiful home accessories and stationery chicly curated by owner Sandra Rojas-Chinni.
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Photo By Kathryn Gaitens
She and husband Marcelo wanted to give Toronto a taste of the style-meets-sustenance hybrid boutiques that feed cosmopolitan appetites across South America and Europe. Their merchandise mix includes Tocca candles, Snow & Graham card stock and cotton camisoles by American Vintage. “Merceria” means craft store, so everything has a rustic-meets-modern feeling, from a found ladder layered with tea towels printed with whisks and bicycles to the café’s homemade empanadas.
Bed and bath finds fill the store’s back room. If all the tables are taken, you can always try to slip on a pair of terry cloth slippers and take your Illy espresso under the striped Dwell duvet.
Photo By Kathryn Gaitens
La Merceria picks: Claus Porto soaps are seven times milled, and scents include rose, pomegranate and lemongrass, $15 each pick up petal-printed bone china by Teroforma, $38 to $48 alfajores are traditional (and addictive) Latin American filled cookies topped with powdered sugar, $1.50.
Look for: A second seating area being added to the back of the shop, and new stylish buys following January’s gift show season.
Hours: Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 6 pm, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sunday 9 am to 5 pm.
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