The Cornerstone

Happy Hillside! 🎨🎭🎤 We’ll be providing your pre-festival fuel all weekend! Special hours on Sat-Sun, no open stage Sunday!

We had a blast at the Carden Market this past weekend! Thank you to everyone who came out to support us. See y’all at the next one!

Handmade merch is still available for purchase in store! 🎽
Designed by Stone + Flint Co.

A new event for the books 😉 bi-weekly book club with our pals Flo & Mads! The first meeting will be July 10th from 6-8pm.

We are running this book club a lil different than other ones you may have attended - you don't have to read the same book! Each meeting will have a different genre, and you can bring your most recent read, your all-time fave, your current read, of the genre!!!

Come cozy up with a tea, and chat your fav YA books in a casual, chill setting!

Mads has kindly put together a list of recommendations if you're not sure where to start:

🌟The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson
🌟On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
🌟Cemetary Boys by Aiden Thomas

See ya then !!!

July is upon us! Where has the time gone?

TONIGHT we have some very special guests playing for us. Catch the Len O’Neill Band, Ben Vallee, and the Andrew Smith Band tonight 6:30pm. Door price is $10-$20.

July 4+ 18 • Date Night with Trick & Kennedy! 6pm, PWYC. ♡ Dinner Special ♡ : 1 App + 2 Mains for $46

July 15 • Jazz Jam, all are welcome! Bring your own instruments 🎺 6:30pm start, PWYC

July 16 • Q***r Crawl, hosted by ! Stop by for a coffee and to see our vendors! 5pm-10pm, free entry!

Sunday Open Stage -6pm, hosted by

⇩ SPECIAL HOURS ⇩

Hillside Weekend 🏕️ (July 19-21): Brunch ONLY, closed after 3pm

July 30-August 6: CLOSED for repairs! 🛠️ Will be up and running again before you know it.

Wishing everyone a safe and fun holiday Monday! 🧡

We have a new drink menu!!

Some changes have been made to our coffee sizes and prices, and a number of fun drinks have been added (peep the espresso tonic in the second slide) 👀

Our team has undergone a retraining process to ensure the drinks are made just right. We can’t wait for you to try them! ☕️

Pt. 2 of our June Events! We hope everyone is having the best month celebrating Pride. 🏳️‍🌈🦋🫶🏻🏳️‍⚧️

June 17 • Jazz Jam 🎷 6pm, PWYC

June 20 • Date Night w Trick Vilbar & Kennedy Shaw, 6pm, PWYC. ♡ Dinner Deal ♡: 1 App + 2 Mains, $46

June 22 • The Audacity, rocking some 90’s & 2000’s covers! 9pm TILL LATE, PWYC

June 23 • Open Stage ft. Piano Student Coffee House w Liv Cazzola from Tragedy Ann and Hellion Ton! FREE

July 3 • Live Music ft. Len O'Neill & Benjamin Vallee- coming all the way from St. John’s Newfoundland!

We had a very special time with all the families who sang at the Father’s Day open stage! 👨 Special thank you to Kaleigh and Hellion Ton for making it happen.

Does your dad rock? Ours do too. 😉🎸

So excited to announce this special Father’s Day event, hosted by Hellion Ton, and featuring our very own Kaleigh Kerr and her father, Rob Kerr!

3pm-6pm, Free Entry! BYOI (Bring Your Own Instruments)

There are a few changes to our regular schedule for the next few days!

✨TUESDAY JUNE 11 ✨ we will not open until 10 AM as we are taking a de-escalation and anti-stigma training workshop with the Welcoming Streets Initiative so that we can better serve our community 🧡🤗 Also staying open until 10 PM, a little later than usual, as a host location for the Pride Edition of Q***r Crawl 👀✨🏳️‍🌈

✨WEDNESDAY JUNE 12 ✨ we are closed from 2 PM to 5 PM for a quick coffee training session to keep up on awesome coffee standards ✌️☕️

✨ FRIDAY JUNE 14 ✨ we are closing early at 3 PM to host a special private event! 😉🥂

Don’t forget we are running a special ✨OPEN STAGE Father’s Day Special ✨ this Sunday! 3-6 pm, hosted by Hellion Ton and featuring our favourite father-daughter duo, Kale and Rob!

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride month everyone! June is looking very fun for us! Here’s the first round of amazing events we have lined up!

June 6 + 20 • Date Night w & .shaw . 6pm, PWYC. 💖 Date Night Special- 1 App + 2 Mains for $46.

June 10 • Q***r Clothing Swap with !! 4:30-6:30pm, Free Entry. All clothing will be donated afterwards.

June 11 • Q***r Crawl: Pride Edition! 6-10pm, Free Entry

June 13 • LGBTQ+ Safe S*x workshop, facilitated by Guelph! 3-5pm, Free Entry!

Open Stage every Sunday, 3pm-6pm, hosted by Hellion Ton

Please put your hands together for our summer drink feature…the Matcha Horchata Latte! 🍵☀️

Iced or hot, made with your choice of milk. All the other lattes can go home now.

Come on by!! Regular hours running, 9:30 - 9 PM.

And to make the day better we are ending it with a live jazz jam, featuring a live house band. Come join in or just sit back and enjoy!

We will be closed from 11:45-4 for this event. See you all soon! 😊

But don’t worry, wont be long until we are back to serving beers again!!

Hi all!!

We are closing early tonight and tomorrow, at 6 PM, to get ready for GAIN fest shows !!! Super excited.

Tonight featuring Vivian Forte, Danny Tess and Oh Cretins ✨ Won’t you come join us? 🧡

Hey folks!

We are OPEN regular hours today and closed tomorrow, Monday April 1st.

Today’s Open Stage is not happening.

Here are our hours for the next couple of weeks!

DEC 24: brunch only 9:30-3
DEC 25-27: closed
DEC 31 & JAN 1: brunch only 9:30-3

Sadly no Open Stage on the 24th or 31st BUT come catch our host at his annual Winter Solstice Extravaganza this Friday dec 22 at 6:30 pm for a night of music and friends!!

Much love xo

Come out tomorrow night at 7pm to celebrate the art of the incomparable that has been hanging in our space for the past couple months

Come incentivize your inventive side with artist talks , music , poetry and good good vibes 🌟

Tomorrow with

Come get a reading from Aimee between 4:30-7 💖

Funky lil poster for a funky lil show comin up from some lovely staff!! 🤩

Come on down Nov 24 to see these guys - pwyc, 7pm start. See ya there!