Address: 3115 Winston Churchill Blvd, Mississauga ON (second location on Dundas St W)
Website: N/A
Style: Polish
Price: $$
Polcan isn't a bakery, but rather mostly a meat shop with homemade sausages and cold cuts as well as a butcher shop with mostly beef and pork. The deli receives their small selection of baked goods from a more commercial Polish bakery (such as Sweet Temptations, Karlik or Double W, for example); I'm extremely curious which one it is, since I'd aim this review at them. Previously, (that is, before Starsky supermarket existed) they had a small, though fresh (with nearly daily shipments) selection of baked products such as cheese, fruit or poppy seed buns or pączki and a few, rather expensive slabs of cheesecakes or more tort-like goodies. Now, with Starsky there, Polcan focuses mainly on the meat part of their deli with the rest, in particular the bakery section, having gone downhill (and yes, the worst part is that it isn't their fault). I think that Polcan did get shipments from Sweet Temptations beforehand, and I went for their poppy seed buns, as it was the only place in this half of the city (the only other place that I knew of was Highland Farms and, occasionally, Karpaty) that had them. I don't know who supplies Polcan with their goods and if it's the same place, but they should uh, reconsider their supplier. Or maybe not have a bakery section at all?
While going for some meat, my mom picked me up a poppy seed bun (something around $1.80; she can't remember for sure) for the sake of the Cake Tour and: worst poppy seed bun ever. :( It was something new, so I was pretty excited to give it a try, but the experience actually managed to beat that of Pusateri's poppy seed bun, which, although old, had an incredibly promising taste. There were two things that didn't work out for this thing: the taste and the freshness. For one, it was purchased from the store almost completely solidified. The dough was very stale and that good old microwave refresher trick failed to work. Secondly, it just wasn't good. The bun, unlike other Polish ones, quite literally was 'what you see is what you get': the poppy seed on top was all the poppy seed you got. Polish poppy seed buns mostly use the same mass, which you can buy (from Starsky) imported from Poland in cans, but this was curiously a bit of mashed poppy seeds, with not too much taste, expertly folded so that it all showed up on top. This was really as skimpy as you can get. Perhaps with more of a mass or more poppy seeds in general, the whole thing could have lasted longer or remained sliiiightly more moist. However, seeing as a huge chunk (see above, with the crack in it) of the bun had no poppy seeds, it was just... like a dried bread end. :/ It's not like it was $0.75 or something that you're cutting corners to make it cheap: it wasn't cheap and yet was very cheap, even with the icing. Huge disappointment!
Rating: *
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