The Liberty Village Grocery and Essentials Guide

Liberty Village has a real grocery store, and half the guides online still say it does not. Metro at 100 Lynn Williams Street is the anchor. It runs until 11:59pm Monday through Friday, has a pharmacy, a butcher counter and a fish counter inside, and it is a five to ten minute walk from most buildings in the neighbourhood. Add the LCBO and the small format No Frills on Hanna Avenue and a normal week is covered without leaving. The big stock up shop is the one trip you take out, and even that is short.

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The five stops that cover almost everything

Addresses and Metro hours confirmed August 17, 2026 from store and landlord listings. Hours change, so call ahead for a late run.

Metro is the one people forget to mention

Metro sits inside the Shops at King Liberty at 100 Lynn Williams, the retail block that also holds the LCBO, a GoodLife and a Starbucks. It is a proper supermarket, not a corner format. Fresh fish counter, full butcher, floral, sushi, a pharmacy at 416-588-1300 and the store line at 416-530-4100.

The near midnight closing on weekdays matters more than it sounds. If you work downtown and get home at nine, you can still cook. That single fact does more for the liveability of a condo here than most amenity lists in a building brochure.

The Hanna Avenue pair

The LCBO at 85 Hanna and the small format No Frills at 42 Hanna sit within about a block of each other, tucked into the old industrial spine of the neighbourhood. The No Frills is Loblaw's compact concept, the same idea they tried at King and Shaw. It is built for the trip where you need eggs, milk, pasta and something for tonight. It is not built for a cart.

Treat it as a top up store and you will like it. Treat it as your main grocer and you will be annoyed by week two.

123451 Metro, 100 Lynn Williams St2 LCBO, 85 Hanna Ave3 No Frills, 42 Hanna Ave4 FreshCo, 620 King St W5 Loblaws, 700 Queen St W© OpenStreetMap contributors © CARTO

Locator map for the five stops above. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles © CARTO.

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When you do leave the Village

FreshCo at 620 King West is a fifteen minute walk from the east side of the neighbourhood and a bit more from the west end. It competes on price. If you plan around the flyer, the gap between FreshCo and a full service grocer on a basket of staples is real money over a year.

Loblaws at 700 Queen is the specialty trip. Fish, better produce, the international aisle, the prepared food counter. Fifteen minutes on the 501. Most people we talk to here do this once or twice a month and stop pretending it needs to be weekly.

Delivery fills the gaps. It also costs six to ten dollars an order plus a tip, which adds up faster than people expect. Used twice a week, that is a few hundred dollars a year, roughly what a decent bike costs.

What this actually means if you are buying or renting here

Grocery access is one of the few neighbourhood features that shows up in your monthly budget rather than just your mood. Economists call this the opportunity cost of a trip, meaning what you give up to get the thing. In plain terms: if the store is a nine minute walk, you go three times a week and buy what you need. If the store is a drive, you buy a car, or you pay for delivery, or you eat out more.

That matters in Liberty Village because parking is the expensive part of a unit here. A spot adds meaningfully to purchase price and to your carrying cost. If the walkable grocery run means you can skip the car entirely, the savings on insurance, gas and a monthly spot can offset a chunk of your mortgage payment. Run the numbers for your own situation before you decide either way.

The counterpoint, and it is a fair one. One anchor grocer is thin. If Metro ever closed or renovated for six months, the neighbourhood would feel it immediately, and the small format stores would not absorb it. Grocery choice here is also narrower than what you get in Bloor West or on the Danforth, so anyone with specific dietary or international shopping needs will still be making trips. What would change the picture is more full size retail landing as the neighbourhood's new density comes online. Worth watching, not worth assuming.

For context on the market these units trade in: across the GTA, condo apartments averaged $636,323 in July 2026, down 2.3 percent year over year, with the apartment benchmark down 7.35 percent, per TRREB. Buyers have room to be picky right now, and small daily conveniences are exactly the kind of thing worth being picky about.

Thinking about a move into or out of Liberty Village? Have a look at what is on the market right now, or just send us a note and we will talk it through with you.

Rachel Currey
Liberty Village Real Estate Expert
Dave Dubbin & Associates
Real Estate Broker for Etobicoke and Toronto
Sotheby's International Realty, Canada