08/10/2026
✨ WE’VE BEEN NOMINATED AGAIN! ✨
For the 5th year in a row, Holy Cannoli has been nominated as a GEM of Etobicoke-Lakeshore — and this one feels extra special. ❤️
This year, we’ve been nominated for FOUR categories:
🏆 Michael O’Connor Thompson Award
🍰 Favourite Restaurant
🛍️ Favourite Retail Business
❤️ Favourite Frontline Worker
And for those who have been following our journey for a while, you may remember that Holy Cannoli was honoured with a GEM Award in 2022, winning Best Retail Business – Food. 🥹❤️
To now be nominated for the fifth consecutive year is something we don’t take for granted.
These awards aren’t just about a business. They’re about the people who make up this incredible community — the customers who walk through our doors, the families who bring us into their celebrations, the local businesses we get to work alongside, and all of you who continue to recommend us, support us and cheer us on.
Five years of nominations means five years of our community saying, “We see you.”
And after everything Holy Cannoli has experienced, built and grown over the years, those words mean more than you know.
We’ve watched our little cannoli shop grow, we’ve survived some pretty crazy times, we’ve celebrated countless milestones with you, and now we’re getting ready to begin our next chapter at our new home on Lakeshore Boulevard. 🇮🇹❤️
So whether you’ve been with us since the very beginning, discovered us last week, travel across the city for your cannoli fix, or simply like and share our posts from time to time...
THANK YOU.
Thank you for making Holy Cannoli part of your lives.
Thank you for supporting a small, local business.
Thank you for nominating us.
And thank you for believing in what we’ve built.
We are incredibly proud to call Etobicoke-Lakeshore home, and being recognized by our own community — year after year — is one of the greatest compliments we could receive.
Grazie mille, Etobicoke-Lakeshore. 🇮🇹❤️
Here’s to 5 consecutive years of GEM nominations, one GEM win, countless cannoli, and the best community we could ask for.
We couldn’t do this without you. ❤️
