Lantern

118 Geary Avenue · Toronto, Ontario

Lantern Art Cafe

A café you can drink and a gallery you can walk into, laid down in the same warm light. The walls are repainted every six weeks.

Renata Souza · Threads of the City

On the wall now

Threads of the City

by Renata Souza

Six weeks of Toronto rewoven thread by thread: textile and sumi ink on linen, and Renata's first solo show in Ontario. Hung until the 22nd of June.

Textile + ink on linen Until 22 June First Ontario solo

See the full show →

A still-life, warm

The bar keeps the same hours as the light.

Espresso and slow coffee, Arabic coffee ground with cardamom, loose-leaf tea, and a short table of what was baked that morning, all served under whatever is on the wall.

Coffee

  • Espresso · macchiato3.5
  • Flat white · latte · cortado5
  • Filter, changed daily4
  • Arabic coffee, cardamom4.5

Tea & more

  • Loose-leaf black & green4
  • Mint · rose · chamomile4
  • Hot chocolate4.5
  • Chilled, in summer—

The short table

  • Morning pastries3
  • Date & olive-oil cake5
  • Toasts & soup of the day8
  • Sweets with the coffee3

Prices are a sketch until launch. The full menu lives on the menu page.

After the coffee goes cold

This week in the room

Most nights the counter stays open late. These are the ones worth clearing an evening for.

The whole calendar →

Lantern is the light left on for you. It isn't a slogan on the wall; it's the whole idea: a room where people, coffee, and art are all alive in the same warm light. Come for the coffee. Stay because something stopped you.

Open call · Toronto artists

The next wall is yours

There's always one empty frame in the room. If you make work near Toronto (painting, textile, photography, print), send a few images and roughly how much wall you'd need. We answer every one.

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