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Baked Goodness or Bust
The hardest thing about leaving Montreal for the swirling cosmopolis that is Toronto is accepting that you’ll be forfeiting almond croissants for timbits (not that there’s anything wrong with a good ol’ fashioned timbit). And while you can’t get a good muffin to save your life in Montreal, Toronto is also alarmingly scarce when it comes to traditional baked goods, items including but not limited to chocolate chip cookies, scones, muffins and cakes.
Torontoist wants to rectify the situation, or at least help you satisfy your carbed candy needs. And so we’ve devised the Baked Good Review, a forum in which we’ll review the city’s baked (not burnt) offerings, and spar with sugar sticks when necessary.
What makes a perfect baked good? Freshness, to be sure. And so, packaged baked goods are off-limits for now. We’re aiming for freshly-baked wonders that will dazzle GTA palates. Maybe we’ll even get a precision location device going: You are approximately .4 km from the nearest adequate cookie.
In any event, to start things off we’ll name our favourite, relatively convenient cookie purveyor, Le Gourmand, as a place to go for a mammoth walnuty, chocolatey, half-baked biscuit. At $2 per, these cookies are well-priced, and worth purchasing if you’re strolling the Queen/Spadina corridor on a Saturday afternoon.