Popsugar Celebrity Toronto Film Festival Ryan Gosling Visits a Coffee Shop in Toronto September 2018 This Cute Story is Further Proof That Ryan Gosling is One of the Nicest Guys in Hollywood 13 September 2018 by Gemma Cartwright First Published: 12 September 2018 View this post on Instagram And this happened... It worked!! Our #ryanneedsgrinder actually worked. The man himself #ryangosling showed up here and had a coffee with us. What a good sport (you can only imagine what Joelle actually said). Thanks for everyones support . A big thanks at Ryan for taking the time out of #tiff to visit #leslieville. What a gracious well brought up Canadian boy. Take that @idriselba your loss!! A post shared by Grinder Coffee Gerrard (@grindercoffeegerrard) on Sep 11, 2018 at 12:24pm PDT Idris Elba, listen up, you've just been bested by Ryan Gosling! Back in 2017, the staff at an independent coffee shop in Toronto started an online campaign to get Idris Elba to visit while he was in town for the Toronto International Film Festival. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, the British actor was a no-show. This time around, the folks at Grinder Coffee decided to turn their attention to some home-grown talent, and the results were far more satisfactory. Joelle Murray, the shop's owner, decided that her mark for 2018 was Ryan Gosling, who was in town to promote his film First Man. She spent the week of the festival posting photos with a cardboard cutout of the Ontario-born actor, launching the #ryanneedsgrinder campaign across social media. It wasn't long before the pleas were picked up by local news organisations and blogs, and eventually, they found their way to the man himself. What else was this nice Canadian boy to do except drop by for a drink, as requested? The sweet story has been recorded on social media by the coffee shop, but also by Joelle's nephew, who shared the events, with a very touching commentary about his aunt, on Twitter. Keep reading to see how it all played out. View this post on Instagram And this happened... It worked!! Our #ryanneedsgrinder actually worked. The man himself #ryangosling showed up here and had a coffee with us. What a good sport (you can only imagine what Joelle actually said). Thanks for everyones support . A big thanks at Ryan for taking the time out of #tiff to visit #leslieville. What a gracious well brought up Canadian boy. Take that @idriselba your loss!! A post shared by Grinder Coffee Gerrard (@grindercoffeegerrard) on Sep 11, 2018 at 12:24pm PDT 1 / 10 V proud of my aunt Joelle, who works her ass off as a small business owner of a local independent coffee shop in Leslieville: @GrinderCoffeeTO 1/9 pic.twitter.com/eqyjaI6wbW— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 2 / 10 She's dealt with a rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood, a flashy coffee chain opening up shop across the street, and the death of her business partner, all in the span of three years. But she never wavers.2/9 pic.twitter.com/68y8N2ofWI— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 3 / 10 She always treats her employees fairly, is an active voice in the neighbourhood, and is one of the funniest and most genuine people you’ll meet. 3/9 pic.twitter.com/Fo6VFQGFac— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 4 / 10 Over the past week, she planned and executed this hilariously tongue-in-cheek social campaign to get Ryan Gosling to visit her shop during TIFF. On paper, it was a maybe little ridiculous and maybe little cheesy and definitely wasn’t supposed to work. 4/9 pic.twitter.com/hCESOqQl8M— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 5 / 10 But lo and behold, her story gets picked up by blogTO, CityTV and the fucking CBC. All of a sudden, her super-low-budget grassroots campaign has legs. People love it - and, I suspect it’s also due in large part to Joelle’s charisma. 5/9 pic.twitter.com/EkEJFFtUpC— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 6 / 10 She’s always been “the cool aunt” to me, and now others get to see her for who she is - and they love her, too.6/9 pic.twitter.com/jVG6LOj9DL— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 7 / 10 So sure enough, Ryan Gosling actually ends up visiting her shop today. In her words, “he just showed up and told me he saw the whole campaign, I told him next time he comes for dinner and a playdate.” Oh, and I also asked her how he smelled, and she said, “really good!”7/9 pic.twitter.com/GLku8GcrxS— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 8 / 10 This is all a little crazy - feeling proud for someone because a famous person came to see them - but I still can’t help that I’m beaming, even as I type this out. 8/9 pic.twitter.com/lrWhR9nY7w— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 9 / 10 Joelle deserved this, she finally scored one for the little guy, and she proved that success isn’t always something that’s measured tangibly.@GrinderCoffeeTO #RyanNeedsGrinder9/9 pic.twitter.com/18Rb1vSiXN— etienne (@etiiiennne) September 11, 2018 10 / 10 Toronto Film FestivalRyan Gosling