Nine Toronto matcha picks mark National Matcha Day
National Matcha Day is coming up on Saturday, and Toronto’s matcha menu has moved well past the usual latte. NOW Toronto compiled nine unconventional drinks and desserts across the city, giving readers a short list of where to go if they want something limited, seasonal, or just stranger than standard.
Rooms 915 Dupont introduced matcha beer on Thursday, while M2 Cocktail Bar by MATCHA MATCHA sells a $19 alcoholized matcha drink with 17 per cent alcohol. Those two items show how far the city’s matcha wave has moved from café comfort drink to bar program.
Rooms 915 Dupont and M2
Rooms 915 Dupont’s matcha beer arrived first in the timeline, followed by M2 Cocktail Bar’s $19 pour. The pairing matters because it puts two of the roundup’s most unusual items on the same shelf: one brewed, one mixed, both built for people looking for something outside the standard green tea drink.
Bloom Cafe pushed the trend into dessert last month with a matcha sakura sundae, and it planned to keep it on sale for two to three months. That gives shoppers a narrower window than a regular menu item, which is the point of a roundup like this: if you want it, you need to go while it is still there.
Bloom Cafe to Han Bingo
Matcha Haus sells a carrot cake matcha for $9.50, TonTon Matcha + Coffee offers a matcha shot for $5, and 18feet released a strawberry matcha tiramisu in late April. The price spread tells you these are not one kind of product; Toronto cafés are testing matcha as a flavor across drinks and desserts, at both entry-level and splurge-level prices.
Han Bingo added green tea matcha bingsu starting from $9.99, and Marry Me Mochi released a Dubai chocolate flavoured with matcha pistachio cream almost two months ago. Marry Me Mochi sells the dessert at all 17 locations, which makes it the most widely distributed item in the list and the easiest one for a reader to find without chasing a single storefront.
Marry Me Mochi across 17 locations
The broader pattern is simple: matcha’s 2024 viral run pushed Toronto cafés toward desserts and alcohol, not just drinks. For readers, the practical move is to choose fast, because the roundup mixes one-off experiments, seasonal items, and products with limited runs — and the city’s most interesting matcha items are the ones most likely to disappear first.
