Best Pumpkin Spice in Toronto This Fall (2026)

Pumpkin spice gets called basic like that’s a bad thing. It is not a bad thing. It is a whole season’s personality packed into a cup, and every September, my condo building turns into command central for figuring out where to get the best of it before it disappears until next year.

This year, I’ve turned it into an actual scavenger hunt: a running list of every pumpkin spice item worth crossing the city for, from the independent bakeries and cafes doing something interesting with it to the chains that show up because, fine, sometimes convenience wins. Independents first.

Grab a coffee (or don’t, if you’re already three deep) and let’s go.

Lex’s Pantry: Pumpkin Spice + Sugar

Lex’s Pantry is a small-batch Toronto spice company, and this is the one item on the list that outlasts the season.

It’s a vegan, nut-free, dairy-free brown sugar and spice blend built to replace regular sugar anywhere you’d normally reach for it: baking, a bowl of oatmeal, even stirred into plain yogurt if that’s your thing..

Find it online at lexspantry.com or at their farmers market pop-ups around the GTA.

Dark Horse Espresso Bar: Iced Pumpkin Honeycomb Matcha

Dark Horse has been a Toronto coffee fixture for years and this season’s matcha is doing something a little different than the usual latte parade.

It’s built on a pumpkin pie sauce made with local matcha brand Kato, finished with salted honey cold foam and a scatter of sponge toffee. It reads more like dessert than a drink, which is exactly the point of pumpkin spice season.

Heads up if you’re dairy-free: the pumpkin pie sauce contains dairy.

Dark Horse has multiple locations across Toronto (Get Directions)

Andrea’s Cookies: Pumpkin Spice Cookie

Andrea’s has three Toronto locations (High Park, Ossington, and midtown near Yonge and Eglinton) and a cult following for good reason.

Their pumpkin spice cookie folds white chocolate and a fall spice blend into the dough, then finishes it with a brown butter cream cheese icing that is doing most of the heavy lifting.

This is not a subtle cookie. It is also not trying to be.

Andrea’s Cookies is located at 1632 Bloor St W (Get Directions), 166 Ossington Ave (Get Directions) and 2614 Yonge St (Get Directions)

Wanda’s Pie in the Sky: Pumpkin Pie

Wanda’s has been a Kensington Market institution forever, and their pumpkin pie’s return on September 1st was basically a seasonal marker, like the CNE or TIFF.

It’s rich, spiced, and dangerously easy to keep eating even after you’ve already had a full meal.

It sticks around from mid-September through the holidays, so there’s no need to panic-buy in week one.

Wanda’s Pie in the Sky is located at 287 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON (Get Directions)

Bellwoods Brewery: Pumpkin Spice Coffee Stout

Bellwoods built this one around beans from Sam James Coffee Bar and a house spice blend from East India Company: ginger, clove, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, with a hit of vanilla stitched through the finish.

What comes out the other end tastes like a stout that actually read the pumpkin spice latte assignment: roasty malt up front, a chewy body, and warm spice that lingers instead of fading fast. It has a 4.5% ABV and is sold in 473mL cans.

You can find Bellwoods Pumpkin Spiced Coffee Stout at your local LCBO as well as Bellwoods’ brewpub at 126 Ossington Ave (Get Directions)

Shake Shack: Pumpkin Pie Shake

Chudleigh’s has been growing apples in Halton Hills since 1967, and this fall they’ve lent their name and a truckload of pumpkins from their patch to Shake Shack for a shake collab running at Ontario locations.

This Pumpkin Pie Shake folds Ontario pumpkin and a spiced crumble into the usual whipped cream setup, so it eats more like a slice of pie than a milkshake. It’s only around for a limited stretch, so if you’re going, don’t wait until November to find out it’s gone. Available in-store and delivery.

Shake Shack has multiple locations across Toronto (Get Directions)

COBS Bread: Pumpkin Scone

COBS bakes pumpkin puree and fall spice right into the scone itself, then finishes things off with caramel drizzled over a layer of cream cheese glaze.

It’s a solid grab-and-go pastry, and an easy one to toss into your basket without meaning to while you’re there for your regular bread order.

COBS Bread has multiple locations across Toronto (Get Directions)

Farm Boy: Plant-Based Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie

Farm Boy’s version skips dairy and eggs entirely to make a soft, chewy cookie loaded with chocolate chips and just enough warm spice to earn the pumpkin spice label.

Good pick if you’re vegan and usually left out of pumpkin spice season, or if you just want something decent to grab alongside your regular grocery run.

That’s the list, at least until something new turns up and I have to update it (pumpkin spice season has a way of doing that).

Tried one of these already? Let me know which one’s holding up your season so far, or tell me what I missed. I’m always taking submissions, my cats are less enthusiastic about the fieldwork but they don’t have much say in it.

All photos courtesy of the respective businesses. Feature Image: Cobs Bread. Return to Casey to Go.