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Design charrette offers recommendations to support winter café culture and enliven streetscapes

A CaféTO design charrette to explore innovations for enhancing safe outdoor dining and entertainment activities into the colder months has released its findings. Organized by the City of Toronto and the Design Industry Advisory Committee, the charrette brought together key stakeholders from the restaurant industry, the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas and City staff.

They looked at how best to develop a winter café culture that could enliven the streetscape in Toronto neighbourhoods and be sustained beyond the pandemic.

Download the report.