Address: 1240 Eglinton Ave, Mississauga ON (several locations throughout Montreal and area)
Website: http://www.adonisproducts.com
Style: Middle Eastern
Price: $-$$
(Thanks to the visitor who called my attention to the fact that this place is now open! :)) This is good news for fans of Middle Eastern pastries and those hunting for a good supermarket bakery, especially in terms of sweets. To put it briefly, just head over to the big "Pastry" sign and you'll see for yourself.Backtracking a bit: Adonis is a smaller chain of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern, predominantly Lebanese, specialty supermarkets from Quebec. The majority of their locations are in the immediate Montreal area. The new Mississauga location, the first location in Ontario, on the other hand, is large and home to what should be officially named "The Great Wall of Baklava"! Yes, the Great Wall of Baklava. Probably the most Middle Eastern pastries, cookies, and cakes you've seen, all in one long line of platters. Although you can't say it's cheap, it's not bad in terms of Middle Eastern pastries! This, like Starsky is for Eastern European baked goods, is also a great place for trying pastries for those who may not know all that much or find themselves a little lost in front of all that filo.
I wanted to pick out something new/different, mainly because the selection is there! Wanting to settle on something with a fixed price (though it actually wasn't), I was deciding between one of their elaborate desserts/cake slices ($2.99/each) and the knefeh cake (sign says $3.99/each, though I actually paid $20/kg for it -- my piece cost $3.30) and settled on the latter.Mind you, I had never heard of knefeh cake before then and did the research on it only afterwards. This version, served with sesame flat bread resembling a pita, is a Lebanese specialty. The "cake" itself (Adonis calls it a cookie) pretty much consists of a thick, somewhat crumbly layer of semolina over top of a slice of mozzarella-like cheese. This was given with the sesame bread (semi-pictured) and a container of fragrant sugar syrup which is poured over it upon eating. This was... well, strange. The first try, I ate it as is (unheated) and couldn't really see the use for the bread. The second time, I overdid it in the microwave and the cheese melted a little too much. By then, the sesame bread had been eaten. Perhaps not being so much a cheese lover, I'd try something else next time.
[NEW!] Yes, Adonis isn't only that wall of baklava! ;) Lovely cakes and pastries, European style. Even some of the pre-packed stuff (they had more and it was of higher quality in the past) like sweet buns, cookies, pastries, and pound cakes are worth sampling -- I've developed an especial love for the white chocolate and pistachio shortbread with raspberry jam in the middle ($2.49 for a pack of two). The butter, the butter!!
Rating: ***
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