The Best Greek Bakeries in Toronto

The best Greek bakeries in Toronto aren't just concentrated in Greektown. These masters of phyllo can be found scattered around the city serving up pies stuffed with spinach and feta as well as treats like honey-soaked pastries.

Here are the best Greek bakeries in Toronto.

Serano Bakery

Light and flakey tiropita and spinach and feta-filled spanikopita are among the freshly baked goodies at this bakery on Pape Avenue. Other highlights include assorted syropiasta and traditional cookies like kourambiedes and melomakarona.

Athena Bakery

This Greektown bakery is well stocked with savoury pies like spanikopita, tiropita and kreatopia as well as with traditional sweets such as sticky, honey-soaked loukoumades and galaktoboureko featuring delicate phyllo layered with custard.

Athens Pastries

Since opening its first location on the Danforth in 1978, Athens has grown to include three locations and its scratch-made phyllo pastries can be found at bakeries and cafes throughout the city. Expect to find spinach and feta pies, galaktoboureko and and loukoumades here.

Kostas Bakery

This bakery (and adjoining butcher) on Ellesmere Road is the place to find loukanopita (sausages wrapped in phyllo), kreatopita meat pies, spanakopita, tiropita and a wide range of sweets including sugar-dusted bougatsa filled with creamy egg custard.

Akropolis Pastries

Since 1979, this bakery-cafe at Danforth and Pape has established itself as a top source for hand-crafted Greek phyllo pastries. Standouts include savoury phyllo swirls filled with feta and spinach or ricotta, and sweet variations with custard, apples and cinnamon.

Select Bakery

This family run bakery in East York is famous for its baklava, loukoumades and galaktoboureko. Other favourites include fried pastries like touloubes and an assortment of cookies including honey walnut melomakarona.

Menalon Bakery

For over 40 years, this fixture on St. Clair Avenue West has been the neighbourhood destination for freshly baked Greek desserts, pastries and sweets. Find an variety of phyllo pastries sold alongside rice pudding, sugar dusted kourabiedes and koulouri bread rings.

Elite Bakery

Located on Kennedy Roady, this Greek bakery offers custom cakes, traditional sweets like baklava and seasonal specialties. Around the holidays, find vassilopita, a decorative New Years Day cake and tsourekia, a sweet braided bread for Greek Easter.

Stany Greek Bakery

Tucked away on Pape Avenue, this compact Greek bakery is easy to miss, but you should definitely go and find it. You'll discover some of Toronto's best baklava displayed behind the glass counters. All of it is made in house and some pieces come doused in chocolate.