The southwest corner of Yorkville Avenue and Bay Street housed a luxury grocer for 20 years. Pusateri's closed there in 2024 amid the chain's bankruptcy filings. As of blogTO's reporting in March 2026, the storefront at 57 Yorkville Avenue had sat dormant since. What is arriving around it is smaller.
That pattern runs through the recent openings covered here. Each one takes a room that a flagship tenant would skip, such as an upper floor, a back garden, or a grocery counter trimmed to a few well-chosen shelves. Together they make a different neighbourhood from the one the Pusateri's era built.
The anchor corner is being refilled at a smaller scale
The tenant coming to 57 Yorkville Avenue is Stock TC, the grocery and restaurant concept from Terroni and Cumbrae's. Its first location is at Yonge and Eglinton. blogTO reported that the Yorkville version will have a considerably smaller footprint than the original, and that the concept plans to use the constraint to its benefit.
Two halves of the concept survive. The grocer is stocked with pastries, quick-service bites, prepared foods and a butcher station. It carries a tight selection of cured meats and cheeses and a curated lineup of pantry staples. Behind it, the restaurant, Stock Grille, serves a concise bistro-style menu of crudos, steaks, pastas and seasonal specials.
Anyone hoping to do a full weekend shop there will wait. As of that March 2026 report, Stock's stated opening is Spring 2027. That date is a plan and could move.
Rooms you have to know about
Two openings from the past week show the same instinct on Yorkville Avenue and on Scollard Street.
Salt & Sand, reported by Streets of Toronto on September 25, 2026, sits on the second and third floors at 92 Yorkville Avenue. Owners Kasra Khorramnejad and Afton Joy Rentz built the concept around caviar and truffle, with wines from smaller producers in Spain and France, handcrafted cocktails and a selection of amaro. The concept also includes a hybrid retail space and a dedicated area for beverage tastings. The idea is that a guest tastes something at the table and then takes it home with a bottle of wine. Khorramnejad describes the focus as "truffle and caviar," which is also where the name comes from. Sandy soils suit truffles, and the salt stands for the sea behind caviar.
Agora Yorkville opened on Thursday, September 24, at 105 Scollard Street. It is the Mamakas Food Group's Greek market concept, and it arrived from the original shop at 921 Queen Street West, across from Trinity Bellwoods Park. That first shop is compact and mostly geared to pickup and delivery. The Scollard location adds 40 seats and a rear garden the group calls its secret garden. Hungry 416 pointed out that this makes the new address less dependent on takeaway traffic than the original. The menu follows the Queen West formula of house-made pita, dips such as tzatziki and tirokafteri, salads, souvlaki and Greek pastries. Three made-to-order canned drinks are exclusive to the Yorkville shop.
| Place | Address | The room | Status as of September 29, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agora Yorkville | 105 Scollard Street | 40 seats plus a rear garden | Opened September 24, 2026 |
| Salt & Sand | 92 Yorkville Avenue | Second and third floors | Reported open September 25, 2026 |
| Stock Yorkville | 57 Yorkville Avenue | Smaller than the Yonge and Eglinton original | Planned for Spring 2027 |
Read down the fourth column and the pace of the neighbourhood's re-tenanting shows. One room is serving lunch. One arrived this week. One is still months out. The corner that anchored the neighbourhood is the last of the three to reopen, and it will reopen smaller than the concept it comes from.
The established rooms are changing quietly
The dining rooms that were already here are also making adjustments, mostly inside the dish.
The Michelin Guide revealed its 2026 Toronto and Region selection on September 22. It named 15 starred restaurants, and no new restaurants received stars. Enigma Yorkville kept its One Star through a change in the kitchen. Chef Zachary Barnes replaced founding executive chef Quinton Bennett, who stepped down at the end of January 2026. Barnes has worked at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London, Daniel in New York and Alo in Toronto. Michelin says he has moved Bennett's complex, avant-garde approach toward something simpler.
One change is easy to picture. The Enigma Signature Tree, the interactive display that used to close the meal with dessert petit fours, now opens it with savoury canapés such as short rib croquettes and salmon mille-feuille. The room, the address and the star stayed put while the sequence of the evening changed.
The calendar borrows big rooms for a night
Yorkville's larger spaces still get used, one night at a time.
Bloor Street Entertains marks its 30th anniversary on Thursday, November 19, 2026. It is Canada's largest fundraiser for HIV and AIDS research. Chefs cook at more than 25 venues across Bloor-Yorkville, including fashion houses, and the official after party is at the Royal Ontario Museum. For that evening, dining is hosted inside fashion houses and other signature venues.
Later that week comes the Bloor-Yorkville Holiday Magic light-up in the Village of Yorkville Park, the park at Cumberland and Bellair that has stood there since 1993. It is free and open to all ages, with a headline performance and a flick-the-switch countdown. The Bloor-Yorkville BIA lists the date as November 21 on one page and November 22 on another, so confirm it on the BIA's site before planning around it.
A route worth walking this fall
The three addresses above make a simple order for a weeknight.
- Lunch or coffee at Agora on Scollard, in the garden while the weather allows.
- An evening upstairs at Salt & Sand on Yorkville Avenue, with a look at the retail and tasting side of the concept.
- A pass by 57 Yorkville Avenue to see the corner where Stock Grille and its grocer are planned for spring.
If a friend asks where to go, the useful answer is a specific door on Scollard Street and a specific staircase on Yorkville Avenue.
Appugliesi Real Estate Group works across Toronto and the GTA, and Yorkville is one of the neighbourhoods we follow closely. If you're curious what is changing around a particular block or building, Schedule a Consultation and bring your list of stops.
