No doubt about it, Good Egg is one of the best little food-themed bookstores in North America. Located in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighborhood, it stocks thousands of cookbooks, chef biographies, and tomes mining every imaginable micro topic of culinary history. Also: gorgeously shot, smarty-pants food rags like Cherry Bombe and shelves full of high-quality pots, pans, and other kitchen gear Because who doesn’t need a colorful French press from Le Creuset and a mint copy of Tacopedia?

267 Augusta Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada; 416-593-4663.