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7th Sister Bakery / Roncesvalles Village
The 7th Sister Bakery, a sugar oasis, has emerged amongst the asphalt labyrinth of Roncesvalles, marked with a yellow striped awning. Since it's recent opening on Labour Day weekend,...
ABC Bakery / Scarborough
ABC Bakery stands out from a sea of Chinese bakeries in Scarborough because of their focused selection of sweet and savory buns (80 cents - 95 cents) that are just...
AF Home Bakery / Etobicoke
AF Home Bakery is a small, but sufficient bakery on the western tip of Islington Village. It's tiny and has a limited selection, but everything is homemade, right on the...
Agincourt Bakery / Scarborough
Agincourt Bakery is the epitome of the old-school Italian bakery. In a little strip mall on Pharmacy just north of Finch, I hear nothing but Italian when I first walk...
Anna's Bakery & Deli / Bloor West Village
Anna's Bakery & Deli is favourite Bloor West Villlage spot for Eastern European pastries, cookies and other baked goods. They also have a good selection of dry goods and frozen...
Arya Home Bakery / Danforth
Arya Home Bakery is a new addition to the east end of the Danforth. Inside, they sell some pretty unique baked goods including Afghan white and whole wheat bread, roghani...
Athena Bakery / Danforth
Athena Bakery might have a nondescript exterior, but inside awaits trays of more than a half dozen varieties of large, dense baklava ($1.75 each) baked on site "almost every day"....
Athena Sweets / Scarborough
While a larger selection of pastries can be found at NASR and Arz Fine Foods, sometimes it pays to go to the source. Greek pastries available here are baked fresh...
Athens Pastries / Danforth
I ate Athens Pastries' spanakopita for five years without knowing where it was coming from. I used to work in a café that baked them from frozen every morning. We...
Athens Pastries (Scarborough) / Scarborough
Athens Pastries (Scarborough) is the Scarborough location of the popular Greektown bakery. Here you'll find traditional Greek pastries including spanakopita, tiropita, and galaktobouriko....
Beard Papa's / Markham
Beard Papa's brings a Japanese favourite to the second floor atrium of the Pacific Mall. The crunchy and gooey cream puffs may come from a food court stall, but this...
Bread and Roses / Bloor West Village
Bread and Roses is the best name for a bakery, enticing as the smell of freshly baked things. Both lured me in off the sidewalk about a year ago. I...
Butter Avenue / Yonge & Lawrence
Butter Avenue has one of those salesmen-to-entrepreneur feel good stories. Calvin Su had been working at FedEx for years, settled in a stable position but less than thrilled with his...
Butterfly Bakery / Chinatown
Butterfly Bakery is the new kid on the block in the hustling center of Chinatown. With a wide selection of baked goods including traditional Chinese pastries as well as...
Capriccio Cafe / North York
Capriccio Cafe is part cafe, part patisserie. There's ample room to settle in for a hot tea or latte and pair it with one of the delicate pastries baked in...
Challal Bakery / Scarborough
Challal Bakery is a pastry shop in Scarborough specializing in Middle Eastern sweets such as zaatar....
Churrasco of St. Lawrence / King East
Churrasco of St. Lawrence has been in business for 21 years and is still going strong. Owner Eugene knows everything there is to know about Portuguese custard tarts and if...
Colombo Bakery (Scarborough) / Scarborough
Colombo Bakery (Scarborough) is a Markham Road bake shop. The bakery specializes in Indian sweets and pastries....
Columbus Bakery / Other
Columbus Bakery is full of baked goods I can't pronounce. Having recently mastered the correct elocution of the word "alfajor" (don't let that 'J' fool you), I walked into Columbus...
Columbus Bakery (Jane St.) / North York
Columbus Bakery on Jane St. is the second Toronto location of the ever-popular Colombian bakery on Dufferin....
Courense Bakery / Bloorcourt
Courense Bakery has been around for 25 years and with men playing chess inside, the locals are clearly comfortable and eating lots of custard tarts. Making over 4,000 a week...
Da Best Filipino Bakery / North York
Da Best Filipino Bakery may not be hip or quaint, but it smells absolutely divine. And isn't that all that matters? This shop offers Filipino treats such as Halo Halo,...
Del Sur Empanadas / Etobicoke
Del Sur Empanadas serves up the tasty pastries like no other joint in town. Whether eating in or taking out (batches of frozen goodies are available to bake at home),...
Doce Minho Bakery / Other
Doce Minho Bakery is everything you'd expect from an old-school Portuguese bakery; lots of chatter at the counter, clusters of old men silently sipping their coffees and walls of freshly...
Dorio's Italian Bakery / North York
Dorio's Italian Bakery, a family-run deli, eatery and bakery in North York appropriately offered me a refreshing change of pace following a refreshing break from... well, everything that Christmas gets...
Elite Bakery / Scarborough
Elite Bakery Pastry & Delicatessen in Scarborough offers an eclectic variety of sweet and savory baked treats including baklava and halva....
European Patisserie / Etobicoke
European Patisserie looks every bit as sweet as the treats behind its counter. Painted a light mint green with a standing macaron tower in the window, European Patisserie offers a...
Fine Bakery & Deli / Etobicoke
Fine Bakery & Deli is a European bakery and deli on Lake Shore in Etobicoke....
Francesca Italian Bakery / Scarborough
Francesca Italian Bakery is one of those places that could probably thrive off its cannoli alone. Legends of the sweet Sicilian-style treat are carried far beyond its Invergordon and McCowan...
Hansen's Danish Pastry Shop / East York
Hansen's Danish Pastry Shop and its stately black and white sign is hard to miss on this stretch of Pape Avenue, north of the Danforth. Owned by the same family...
Hodo Kwaja / Koreatown
Hodo Kwaja is a bakery in Koreatown. Its name means 'walnut cake,' and this restaurant has several varieties of that Korean treat as well as sugary pancakes and other treats. ...
Hong Kong Island Bakery / Chinatown
Hong Kong Island Bakery is a new addition in Chinatown where customers are greeted with a collection of pastries, tempting them to indulge in delicately designed bakes. With a...
Jack's Bakery & Pastry / St. Clair West
There is a lot going on in Jack's Bakery and Pastry: a bunch of guys are watching Portuguese news and eating cake with a guy in an apron, the radio...
Joe's Pastizzi Plus / Etobicoke
Joe's Pastizzi Plus specializes in pastizzis, which are phyllo dough rolls with sweet or savory fillings like ricotta cheese or corned beef....
Juan Meat Market (El Gaucho) / North York
Juan Meat Market is known not just for its chorizos, chicken, ribs, and other meats, but also for its freshly baked goods. The North York Market offers pastries and breads...
Jules Cafe Patisserie / Mount Pleasant
Jules Cafe Patisserie gives Thobors a run for their money on Mount Pleasant. Do a taste test yourself and compare the fresh bread, cakes and pastries....
La Bamboche / Avenue and Lawrence
La Bamboche now has just one location in Toronto having recently shuttered the one on Manor Road....
La Stella Bakery / North York
La Stella Bakery is a North York bake shop offering cakes, pastries, and cookies, as well as gelato, grocery, and deli items....
Latin Bakery / Weston-Mount Dennis
Latin Bakery has a great Mediterranean tiled roof, if more for style than for substance since the tiles seem to wane halfway up. A fairly new fixture on Jane Street,...
Le Matin Bakery / Leslieville
Le Matin Bakery is the newest venture by French chef Jean-Pierre Challet. Those in the foodie scene know Jean-Pierre (or J.P.) as the culinary master behind Ici Bistro, though he's...
Lemon Tree Patisserie / St. Lawrence Market
Lemon Tree Patisserie is easy to miss. Find it in the depths of the St. Lawrence Market a couple of steps away from Rube's Rice. There, the owner has a...
Ma Maison / Etobicoke
Ma Maison tries to give its customers that authentic French experience right from the moment they walk in the door. "Bonjour!" I hear, as I step into the shop. You don't...
Malta Bake Shop / Junction
Malta Bake Shop is instantly recognizable when approached from the west, thanks to a vivid blue mural depicting its namesake nation's seafaring ways. It's a fitting facade for what...
Menalon Bakery / St. Clair West
Menalon Bakery may not be located in Greektown, but for 40+ years, owner Filio and his wife Phyllis have been providing St. Clair West patrons with an authentic taste of...
Messina Bakery / Etobicoke
Messina Bakery is as much an area lunch hub as it is a market and bakery. Obviously noon is the hour at this family-run Italian shop at Scarlett Road and...
Momo's Groceteria & Bakery / Annex
Momo's Groceteria & Bakery offers Mohamed Abu-Taah's Middle Eastern baked goods to the grab-and-go crowd. Mohamed has long served the surrounding Harbord community with his take on tastes from back...
Muzda Bakery / Danforth
Muzda Bakery on The Danforth sells most of their inventory to wholesalers but they do have a small selection of Indian style baked cookies and biscuits such as coconut, cashew,...
Nadege Patisserie / West Queen West
My road to Nadege Patisserie was longer and harder than I ever could have expected. 4 weeks, to be exact, as our visit fell on their one-month anniversary, and about...4...
Nadege Patisserie (Rosedale) / Rosedale
Nadege Patisserie may be the second Toronto pastry shop for chef Nadege Nourian, but she says this one--not her original West Queen West location--fulfils a lifelong dream. "A pure boutique," she...
Nakamura Bakery / Markham
Nakamura is a Japanese bakery located inside the J-Town complex near Steeles and the 404. Cakes, pastries, donuts and more are made here including a beef curry donut, sadly, a...
Naturally Yours / Upper Beaches
Naturally Yours on Kingston Road is the sister location to the health food store with the same name in first Canadian Place. But this spot in the Upper Beaches is...
Nicol's Pastry Shop / Woodbridge
Nicol's Pastry Shop creates works-of-art when it comes to their sweets and treats. Expect to find cream cakes, tarts, cheesecakes, strudels, danishes and more....
North Pole Bakery / Danforth
North Pole Bakery — like most of Toronto's shrouded gems — doesn't look like much. It sits on a stretch of the Danforth that has more than its share of...
Pagel French Pastries / Scarborough
Pagel French Pastries bakes up sweet and savoury treats such as cakes, cookies, puff pastires, strudels, and more. Some of their special cakes on offer include Truffle Cream Dark Chocolate...
Palermo Bakery / Corso Italia
Palermo Bakery is a popular Portuguese bakery located in the heart of Corso Italia. Best known for its delicious traditional pastries and ultra-cheap hot sandwiches ($3 for assorted meats on...
Pancho's Bakery (Bloor and Dufferin) / Bloordale Village
Pancho's Bakery at Dufferin and Bloor is the third location of the popular Mexican bakery-and its by far the most intuitively strategic of the bunch. Open for just over a...
Pars Bakery / North York
Pars Bakery has all sorts of Persian baked goods along with your typical household food products. Also, in the back there are free magazines available for anyone that can,...
Pasteleria Barreda / Koreatown
The first few times I walked past Pasteleria Barreda, the windows were steamy and I couldn't see what was going on inside. But then, I wasn't thinking about bakeries, probably...
Pastry Shop / Upper Beaches
The Pastry Shop is part cafe, part lunch spot and part bakery. On the menu are lunch options like chickpea curry, various coffee options and tasty cookies and other fresh...
Patachou / Rosedale
I want to have more money so I can purchase the stuffed Portobello mushroom from Patachou. It looks so delicious, so overflowing. At eight bucks, it's not an impossible dream,...
Patisserie 27 / Bloor West Village
Patisserie 27 quietly landed on Jane Street street several months ago, and it is still introducing area residents to its take on classic French pastry. "I don't know Twitter; I don't...
Patisserie La Cigogne / Bayview and Leaside
Entering Patisserie La Cigogne, I make a beeline for the front pastry showcase to drool over the offerings of the day. The posted descriptions are mouthwatering on their own: the...
Patisserie La Cigogne (Danforth) / Danforth
Patisserie La Cigogne has expanded beyond its original Bayview location to a large outpost on the East Danforth. Check out the photos below: ...
Patisserie Royale / Scarborough
Patisserie Royale may sit humbly in an unremarkable strip mall in Scarborough, but the family-run bakery has a boisterous reputation among the Middle Eastern community and beyond. Its most popular offering...
Phipps Bakery Cafe / Yonge & Eglinton
Some mornings, a person just needs a muffin. And Phipps Bakery happens to make the best cornmeal muffins I've ever found - plus, Phipps is a satisfying holdout against the...
Queen's Patisserie / Chinatown
Queen's Patisserie is a small chain of Chinese bakeries including the above location at 442 Dundas West. Inside, the bakery sells an assortment of cellophane wrapped treats like sinfully delicious...
Red Rose Patisserie / North York
I asked my friend Sona to take us to her favourite Persian bakery in Toronto, so she meets us (picks us up... in a car!) at Finch station and drives...
Roncesvalles Bakery / Roncesvalles Village
The Roncesvalles Bakery & Deli is a lot smaller, but from my experience, friendlier then some of the other larger Polish bakeries on Roncesvalles. The Roncesvalles Bakery & Deli...
Ruelo Patisserie / Yonge & Eglinton
Ruelo Patisserie is not touting the same salted caramel and pistachio macarons you'll find at most French pastry shops in Toronto. No, this patisserie, new to Yonge and Eglinton, is...
Ruelo Patisserie (Richmond Hill) / Richmond Hill
Ruelo Patisserie is a fancy pastry shop located in the Times Square Plaza in Richmond Hill. They are best known for their macarons and afternoon tea set meals. For about...
Rustic Bakery / North York
Rustic Bakery is one of those places that has managed to slowly absorb the spaces around it. Like a taralli-filled version of The Blob, the Italian bake shop and grocery...
SanRemo Bakery / Etobicoke
SanRemo Bakery is actually much more than a bakery. Yes, it offers an impressive array of baked-daily loaves, buns, pastries and cakes, but SanRemo doesn't simply begin and end with...
Seara Bakery / Other
Seara Bakery is hard to find as it's not actually on Rogers Rd. but in a strip mall about 300m behind a massive Value Village. It isn't the most picturesque...
Shirin Mahal (Steeles) / Markham
Shirin Mahal is a sweet shop that offers an assortment of foods from cream cakes, to lemon tarts, to chicken patties. All of their food is made with traditional Pakistani...
Shirini Sara Pastry House / North York
Shirini Sara is wildly popular within the Iranian community, having been successful in Tehran before moving to Toronto, and offer up a large amount of Middle Eastern treats all made...
Sicilia Bakery / Woodbridge
Sicilia Bakery often sells out of their biscotti and bread quite quickly, so be sure to arrive early. Among their offerings is delicious (and creative) cannoli--their pistachio cannoli is incredible,...
Solero Mediterranean Bakery / Junction
Solero Mediterranean bakery has stuck a poster on their door advertising their burek, a Serbian version of the Mediterranean phyllo pastry treat. It has confronted and tempted me many a...
Stany Greek Bakery / Danforth
Stany Greek bakery is tiny and might be easy to miss, tucked away on Pape Avenue but it definitely shouldn't be at any cost. Behind the glass sits the...
Sweet Gallery (Etobicoke) / Etobicoke
Sweet Gallery (Etobicoke) is a bakery specializing in European cakes and pastries. Along with pudding cakes, flan, baklava, and tarts, the Etobicoke bake shop and cafe offers homemade salads, sandwiches,...
The Artisan Baker / Yonge & St. Clair
The Artisan Baker is already a hit after a mere three weeks in operation. The evidence is in the fact that, as I arrive during weekday lunch, not a single...
The Big Cannoli / Woodbridge
The Big Cannoli is a family-run business and bakery in Woodbridge serving up European style pastries, cakes, and cookies. Some of their menu items include cupcakes, cheesecake tarts, elaborate cakes...
Tiny Tom Donuts / Markham
Tiny Tom Donuts is a CNE favourite of mine, but never before have I encountered the deep-fried magic off Exhibition grounds. But here at Denison and Woodbine they're made just...
Vegan Danish Bakery / North York
Vegan Danish Bakery in Thornhill is a tiny shop that bakes up just what their names promises - Danish pastries, cookies, cakes and bread all made with 100% vegan ingredients....
Ventisette / Yonge & Lawrence
Ventisette, as made obvious by its name, is an authentic Italian cafe and gelateria on Yonge between Lawrence and York Mills. Approaching the front entrance you can't help but notice...
Yoshi's Sweets / Beaches
Yoshi's Sweets on Queen East in the Beaches bakes up a range of tasty sweets and hot out of the oven treats including scones, tarts, croissants and cookies....
Zane's Patisserie & Boulangerie / Beaches
We go bursting into Zane's in a flurry of cold air, loud with hats and scarves and camera gear that gets dumped on two of only a few metal stools...
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