The Green Mermaid (Starbucks to you) is busy in our neighborhood. As we reported recently a new outlet will open at the corner of Eglinton Ave. E. at Laird in the former TD Bank building on the northwest corner. Work has also now begun on a Starbucks at the southwest corner of Mt. Pleasant Rd and Soudan Ave. It’s a former pastry shop which apparently got aced out (rent-wise) by the Mermaid when the lease expired. Across the street in the Briton House retirement home there is a Timothy’s Coffees of the World. It’s trying to figure how to cope with the arrival of the Mermaid. They both make good coffee.
