Canada’s Coffee Pioneer

You could call Matt Lee a coffee geek, and he would be just fine with that. The owner of Manic Coffee in Toronto was seriously tired of seeing the Tim Horton’s chain – along with a lot of other so-called “coffee shops” open up and serve sub-standard beans that had been roasted who-knows-when. So Lee got in touch with the folks from Chicago’s Intelligentsia about four years ago, and is now regularly importing the meticulously-sourced beans to his shop on College Street. Yes, they cost a little more, but he says it’s totally worth it.