Equator Coffee Westboro is a daytime cafe built around fair trade organic coffee, breakfast sandwiches, fancy toast, salads, seasonal drinks, and counter treats. The useful order starts with the Roasted Red Pepper and Pesto Breakfast Sandwich, then flexes into plant-forward lunch or a pastry-and-coffee stop.

Planet Coffee is a women-owned ByWard Market cafe with a 1994 story, a courtyard setting, and a bakery counter that does real work. Go for the Maple Way Latte, Fresh Scones, Planut Bar, plant-based cookies, and the kind of simple coffee stop that still feels local.