Bakeries and Pâtisseries in the [Greater Toronto Area], 2024 Edition

Coco’s coffee shop’s cinnamon bun.

It has a cream cheese icing. It’s good but I prefer icing without cream cheese on cinnamon buns. I like cream cheese icing when it’s on carrot cake.

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I tried College Street Bagel Co today.

They are really puffy and light. Something like Dempster’s bagels at the grocery store. I bought some sesame, poppyseed, and marble (white and pumpernickel swirl) bagels.

I don’t think these will satisfy NYC, MTL, or Toronto bagel traditionalists.


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Well now I know to avoid it… thanks for the update!

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We skipped trying the croissant cube at Little Pebbles for some time, thinking of it as more Instagrammy gimmick than quality pastry. But our curiosity got the better of us, so we sampled one with matcha cream and raspberry. Verdict: pretty good pastry and a barely sweet filling, with tangy raspberry.


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An errand to the Baby Point area gave us reason to try Patisserie 27. Arriving before 11, we were still too late to sample their cheddar and beer croissant. So instead we had the pineapple blackberry danish, which had flaky, buttery pastry with plenty of fruit. The sakura brioche with pastry cream and sour cherry jam was great, with lovely bread, light cream, and tangy jam. The minor disappointment was the jardin sandwich, which came on good bread, had sweet roasted butternut squash, caramelized onions, mushrooms, arugula, and gruyère. But it needed something a bit more, maybe more gruyère for more salt.



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