PlayCoffeeCommunity

Scandinavian play café.
Sorauren/Roncy, opening 2027/2028.

Join the waitlist What it is

Parents of small kids in Toronto have no place to go. So we built one.

Smål is a third space for families with young kids, inspired by relaxed, curated play cafés in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and across the rest of the Nordics.

Open play built for six and under, grounded in a Nordic open-play ethos. A real café attached to it. No drop-off. You stay, you play, and you meet parents like yourself.

What's inside

Sorauren / Roncy · 2,000–3,000 sq ft

An open play room with a plywood climbing structure and a café counter
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Open play, six and under

One open-concept room, Nordic mixed play and meet space. Built for the age where everything goes in the mouth and nothing stays where you put it.

Drop in or book

An iced matcha and an iced latte on a café table
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A real café

Iced latte, matcha, filter. Four dollars flat, tax and tip included. Available for orders inside or through street window.

$4 · every drink · always

An adult crouching beside a toddler at a café window
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An ECE on the floor

An early childhood educator in the room for educational co-play. Someone who knows what they're doing, playing alongside you and your kid.

No drop-off. Parents stay and hang.

Two families sitting outside a café with a stroller and a dog
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No stairs, and somewhere to put the stroller

Step-free entry and stroller parking with locks. If you've ever tried to get a bucket seat and a toddler down a half-flight, you already understand why this is on the list.

Open tables for co-working, too

A child walking towards a café takeout window
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A window for everyone else

A takeout window serving the street, whether or not you have a kid in tow.

Trading under Lykke

The most scandi part of all: fair, transparent pricing

Café$4flat, per itemMatcha, coffee, filter, warm cardamom buns and more. Tax included. Tipping not permitted.
Walk-inTBDper kid · still arguing about itSiblings the same as walk-in price, two adults free, tax and tip included. Still working on the number.
Membership$250a month · strictly cappedAll adults plus one kid, +$50 per sibling. One free drink a day. Pause for one month a year.

Pricing is illustrative.

Cardamom buns cooling on a tray
Kardemummabullar · inspired by Juno in Copenhagen (IYKYK)
A child's meal tray with bread, hummus, fruit and granola
Food for small people · no beige buffet

Membership includes people, not just space

It takes a village, and the village has to actually know each other. Membership is strictly capped — small enough that faces feel familiar and kids make real friends rather than passing acquaintances.

WeeklyFriday DiscoEvery week, for the kids. Loud, brief, non-negotiable.
WeeklyCool Moms Run (we hope)Finishes at our door, with the coffee and buns ready and warm. If you're reading this, CMR, hit us up!
DailyClasses & collabsA calendar of events run before open and after close, so the floor stays free in between.
CappedA short list of membersWe stop well before it stops feeling like a room you know. Numbers when we have them.

Where we are

Today

Concept & brand

Limited waitlist now open!

Late 2026

Foundations & site

Lease, permits, funding closed.

2027/2028

Build

Fit-out of the Sorauren/Roncy space.

1H 2027/2028

Smål opens

Founding memberships released.

Early 2028

Second location

Smål cafe, big dreams.

Ten years in Scandinavia, then home to Toronto

Nick and Simona Perry on a beach with their two children

Simona & Nick

Founders · parents of two

We spent the last ten years in Sweden and Denmark. Both our kids were born there, and both of them grew up in rooms like the one we're building — where a play café is just ordinary infrastructure, the place you go on a wet Tuesday because the flat is small and the day is long.

It's simply where parents are. You turn up, the kids disappear into the play area, you get a coffee and thirty minutes of adult conversation, and everyone goes home in a better mood than they arrived. For the smålest members, you have plenty of room for tummy time and tactile play.

When we moved home to Toronto with two small kids, we found there was nowhere to go. So we're making one.

Families and neighbours outside a café on a Toronto street in late afternoon light

Home. Playground. Smål.

Your local hangout.

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The waitlist hears first about founding memberships, and gets to build the community with us.

We never share your details with anyone else.

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We'll write when founding memberships open — and not before. See you at Sorauren.

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