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Afghan Village Bakery / Don Mills
Afghan Village Bakery just moved into its new digs and it's already having trouble keeping up with demand. The family-run bakery, which left an outward-facing unit in a plaza at...
Angel's Bakery / Other
Angel's Bakery on Rogers Road is a smallish store with a decently stocked array of dried pasta, cheeses, cookies, sauces and other pantry staples. The store is sort of divided...
Artisano Bakery Cafe / Etobicoke
Artisano Bakery Cafe on Islington offers more than just freshly baked breads. I stopped in with a friend this week after hearing him rave about their lunch offerings, and...
B & A Bakery / Scarborough
B & A Bakery Outlet has some amazing steals in the retail section of its industrial space, not the least of which include a dozen dinner rolls for $1, six...
Baro Gun Pang Bakery / North York
Baro Gun Pang Bakery is a Korean bakery serving fresh daily treats that are famous for their tender flavours. When you walk in, there's always a sample platter sitting...
Bonne Journee / Leslieville
Bonne Journee is a classic French bake shop in more than just name (though interestingly, its chef is not from France, but more about that later). Brimming with fresh baguettes,...
Boulangerie Saint George / Yonge & Eglinton
Boulangerie Saint George is an organic bakeshop strategically located at Eglinton and Avenue Road. This area has been sort of lacking when it comes to classic French baking (until now,...
Brazil Bakery and Pastry / Dundas West
Far along Dundas Street West, past the quaintness of Little Portugal and beyond the gentrification creeping out from West Queen West, there appears to be a dearth of good eating....
Bread Stuff Bakery / North York
Bread Stuff Bakery feels like a rustic country bake shop, despite its location on the ground floor of a busy North York condo. At the corner of Sheppard and Bayview,...
Brick Street Bakery / Distillery District
The Brick Street Bakery, located in the Distillery District, makes amazing breads, sandwiches, tarts and fresh pastries all prepared with traditional, all-natural ingredients. ...
Brick Street Bakery (Beaches) / Beaches
Brick Street Bakery has opened their third Toronto location - this one in the Beaches on Queen East. It's bigger and more impressive than the Leslieville one and easily assumes...
Brick Street Bakery (First Canadian Place) / Financial District
Brick Street Bakery has brought some of Toronto's best bread to the Financial District. Find their fourth location on the concourse level of First Canadian Place....
Brick Street Breads (Leslieville) / Leslieville
Brick Street Breads (as its know at its Leslieville location) is the smallest of all the Brick Street locations but here is where the magic happens. More than a dozen...
Brisa Do Liz / Bloordale Village
Brisa Do Liz Bakery is one of those well-established community hubs. Across the street from a school, right by a subway station, and amidst lots of homes and businesses, there...
Buns Master Bakery / Etobicoke
Along with having a great name for an '80s workout video, Buns Master Bakery is known for its freshly baked buns, breads, and pastries. The Etobicoke bakeshop also has its...
Caldense Bakery / Dundas West
Caldense Bakery is a Portuguese bakery with a number of locations in the Toronto area including this one at Dundas St. West and Palmerston. Baking breads and pastries since 1968,...
Carousel Bakery / St. Lawrence Market
Carousel Bakery in St. Lawrence Market does a brisk lunch business with sandwiches like veal parmigiana, peameal bacon, eggplant foccaccia and thai chicken wraps. They also have an assortment of...
Celena's Bakery / Danforth
Celena's Bakery is renowned for its croissants, and after taking my first bite, I can confirm that the real thing lives up to the lore. Crispy and buttery with...
Chris Bread Bakery / Scarborough
Chris Bread is a bakery and catering company that specializes in an assortment of sweet & savory prepared foods. In addition to their signature bread, Chris Bread is known for...
Cliffside Hearth Bread Company / Scarborough
Cliffside Hearth Bread Company began six years ago with an outdoor wood-burning oven and a lot of neighbourhood buzz. Camelia Proulx and her husband built the oven in the yard...
Cozy Cafe & Bakery / Danforth
Cozy Cafe & Bakery at Danforth and Woodbine has potential to grow neighbourhood roots but it really needs to de-emphasize the cafe portion of its name because it's the bake...
Daily Bun Bakery / Weston-Mount Dennis
Daily Bun Bakery is a no-fuss bakery on Weston Road offering freshly baked loaves, buns, and sweet treats....
Di Manno Bakery / Woodbridge
Di Manno Bakery offers fresh pastries (such as delicious cannoli), chilli chocolate gelato, and breads, but the real draw is their superb hot table selection, fresh pizzas and sizeable antipasto...
Dough Bakeshop / Danforth
"Dough? Mmmm...that sounds good." Leave it to Emma to immediately understand the visceral reaction invoked in me by the mere name of this new bakeshop on the Danforth. Linked to so...
Epi Breads / Bayview and Leaside
The only bakery in the area (and possibly the city) with a conical roof, Epi Breads has a complete selection of freshly-baked breads and pastries, as well as a good-sized...
Forno Cultura / King West
Forno Cultura is fresh goods on Toronto's baking scene. The Italian bakery opened two weeks ago at King and Bathurst in a warehouse-like space beneath WVRST. While the bakery has...
Future Bakery (St. Lawrence Market) / St. Lawrence Market
Future Bakery has two locations in St. Lawrence Market, located directly across from each other. One has a huge selection of breads and the other sells cakes, tarts and other...
Golden Wheat / Little Italy
To me, the name Golden Wheat is evocative of home made, salt of the earth, old world goodness. On a really sunny spring day, my roommate Alyssa and I...
Grodzinski / North York
Grodzinski touts that it started baking in 1888, but don't expect to find evidence of the Bathurst Street bakery in the Toronto Archives from that time. From Lithuania to England...
Hermes Bakery / North York
Hermes is a kosher bakery and grocery store on Bathurst just south of Lawrence Avenue. Those in the know avoid Hermes on Friday mornings unless they have lots of time...
Hot Oven Bakery / Bloor West Village
Hot Oven Bakery has surfaced in Bloor West Village after a renovation that has transformed it from Sunglow, its previous incarnation. In store are a range of fresh breads, cookies...
Hot Oven Bakery (The Kingsway) / Etobicoke
Hot Oven Bakery opened its third location in at Bloor Street West and Royal York Road about a year and a half ago, and business is already booming. So much...
Isaac's Bakery / North York
Isaac's is just a stone's throw from Grodzinski, but wins when the two are compared for price. Isaac's regular egg loaves start at $2.85, and vary depending on size and...
Knead Bakery / Upper Beaches
Knead Bakery is trying to establish itself as a country bakery in the city, and so far, it seems to be doing a pretty good job. Owners Heather Levchuk and...
Leiria Bakery / Junction Triangle
Leiria Bakery is a small, darkly-lit Italian and Portuguese bakery in the Junction Triangle. They sell bread, cakes, pastries, sandwiches and tasty chocolate croissants....
Mabel's Bakery (Queen St.) / West Queen West
Mabel's Bakery just opened its second location on Queen West at Beaconsfield Avenue. "This area needed something different than restaurants from bars," owner Lorraine Hawley says simply as she scans...
Mabel's Bakery (Roncesvalles) / Roncesvalles Village
Mabel's Bakery & Specialty Foods opened for business this fall in the old Warmia Deli space on Roncesvalles, and after a total rennovation and completely revamped offerings, the storefront now...
Molisana Bakery (Woodbridge) / Woodbridge
Molisana Bakery in Woodbridge is notable for its hot table and being one of the few places you can regularly get a bowl of pasta fagiole for lunch....
Montmartre Bakery / Scarborough
Montmartre Bakery has been selling preservative-free, homestyle European bread and other delectable baked goods directly out of their mid-size bakery since 1970. Tucked away in an industrial area, it's worth...
My Market Bakery / Kensington Market
My Market Bakery is a Kensington Market favourite. They sell pretty much everything here except a good selection of spelt and gluten free options (hint hint). For everyone else, there's...
My Zaidy's Bakery / North York
My Zaidy's Bakery evokes all of those warm Zaidy-like feelings not just in name, but in bread. Its challahs are, of course, all baked fresh (I'm sure with lots of...
Nova Era / Dundas West
Nova Era Bakery now has seven locations in Toronto including the one pictured above at 352 Oakwood Avenue. The first location on Dundas West still makes the delicious Portuguese style...
Nova Era (Geary Ave) / Bloorcourt
Nova Era has locations scattered across the city, but this one acts as a hub of activity on Geary Avenue as locals stop in for baked goods and coffee on...
Nova Era (Rogers Rd) / Other
Nova Era is a Portuguese bakery with many locations in Toronto including this popular one on Rogers Road....
O Cantinho / Other
O Cantinho Bakery & Cafe is a bustling place on Rogers Rd that serves as a meeting place for residents of the area as well as laundromat customers looking for...
O&B Artisan / Financial District
O&B Artisan bakes up fresh bread, pastries and cakes on the lower level of The Bay at Yonge and Queen....
Pain Perdu / St. Clair West
Pain Perdu is small and quiet, adorned with flowers and French music and neat, unimpressive furniture. Regulars sit happily alone in a corner, or quietly chat in French with Yannick,...
Pancho's Bakery / Other
Pancho's Bakery is a godsend. By way of explanation, here are four main reasons why I love this place: 1. It's simple. I know exactly what I'll find on the inside because...
Pancho's Bakery (Kensington) / Kensington Market
Pancho's Bakery first opened at Dufferin and Davenport, and has been in 214 Augusta for just a few weeks, collecting a faithful following for its house-made churros ($1.50), which are...
Pane Vittoria / Woodbridge
Pane Vittoria specializes in Italian artisan breads. This includes a unique selection of Calabrese, Pitte, or Vienna Style breads....
Patisserie Sebastien / Yonge & Lawrence
Patisserie Sebastien is located on the corner of Yonge and Fairlawn, just north of Lawrence Avenue. When I stop by for a visit, January sunlight is streaming into the...
Petite Thuet / Financial District
Petite Thuet is Marc Thuet's best move yet. Finally, a place dedicated to showcasing what the local celebrity chef does best: fresh breads and hearty comfort food to take home....
Petite Thuet (King East) / King East
Petite Thuet has a high-end, woodsy cottage feel with a Parisian inspired menu. With gold and red patterned dining room chairs, Manitoba maple wooden tables and a chandelier made of...
Petite Thuet (Rosedale) / Rosedale
Petite Thuet in Rosedale functions as both a neighbourhood baker and coffee shop. Marc Thuet's much sought-after bread and prepared foods can be purchased to go, but locals are as...
PicNic at Home / Riverside
PicNic at Home is a cafe and bakery owned by the same people behind PicNic Wine Bar. The difference here, of course, is that coffee and tea are the beverages...
Select Bakery / East York
Select Bakery is, simply, massive. Fitting, then, that it's actually part grocery store and part bakery. Family-owned and Greek, the grocery section offers Krinos coffee, Ktyma olive oil, and...
St. John's Bakery / Riverside
St. John's Bakery's olive boule was a revelation in bread for me when I tried it for the first time. This round loaf has a classic sourdough base with a...
Steeles Bakery / North York
Steeles Bakery, found in a strip mall at Bathurst and Steeles has been baking wedding cakes, chalah, rye bread, bagels and more since the 1960s....
Stonemill Bakehouse / St. Lawrence Market
Stonemill Bakehouse has fresh baked muffins, bread and other baked goods. Located on the lower level of St. Lawrence Market....
Tatsu's Bread / Etobicoke
Tatsu's Bread expresses its art through its handcrafted artisan breads. Everything else, it leaves to the students at nearby Humber College. This bakery at Lakeshore and Kipling has become the...
Thobors Boulangerie Patisserie Cafe / Mount Pleasant
Thobors Boulangerie Patisserie Cafe is packed on a Sunday afternoon with regulars popping in for their daily baguette fix. Amid the rush, the cafe's owner/baker emerges from the kitchen, greeting...
Tre Mari Bakery / Corso Italia
Tre Mari Bakery has been a staple in Corso Italia since 1960. Fifty one years and three generations later, it's still a family affair currently overseen by founder Vincent Deleo...
Universal Bakery / Etobicoke
Universal Bakery is renown for its rye, and supplies many of its loaves and baked goods to other shops in the city. It also serves hot perogies for $0.39 a...
Venezia Bakery / Ossington
Venezia Bakery at the corner of Ossington and Argyle specializes in Portuguese bread and baked treats. It's also a good spot to stop for a morning espresso. ...
Weston Bakery Outlet / Leslieville
The Weston Bakeries Surplus Factory Outlet is downtown Toronto's answer to discount factory shopping (for now), with steals such as two loaves for a dollar and change, plus marked-down Ace...
Yvonne Bakery / Don Mills
Yvonne Bakery is tucked away in a strip mall across the street from the Science Centre. While the bakery looks basic, it's a good source in the neighbourhood for fresh...

