The first thing you notice walking into Mini Morsel Co. isn’t the pancakes.

It’s the vibe — a pastel-pink hum of chatter and laughter, an inviting pink couch that wouldn’t look out of place in a friend’s living room, the kind of place that invites you to sit down and stay a while.

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That’s exactly how owner Thea Barsanti imagined it.

“I wanted it to feel like you’re coming into family,” she told The Sault Star, sitting on the pink couch along the café’s feature wall. “Come for the flavour, stay for the vibe is the whole aesthetic in here.”

Barsanti grew up in the restaurant world. Her family ran Barsanti’s Restaurant and Root River Golf Club, a Sault institution. She started working there at 11 years old, absorbing what it means to run a family business and make a pla

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