Atlantic Bakery

Bakery: Atlantic Bakery 
Address: 4025 Brandon Gate Dr, Mississauga ON 
Website: n/a 
Style: Italian 
Price: $ 

With the brother being in the airport area (buying sports stuff and whatnot), he told me to find an address of a bakery and he'd go there, as long as it wasn't out of the way. One of the closest bakeries that wasn't a commercial one in the industrial sector was Atlantic Bakery. There's nothing on this place online, so I was almost beginning to worry that it no longer existed. Luckily, this Italian bakery/convenience store (no, this isn't a typo) is still here. Not only that, for a half a bakery and a convenience store on the side, it's quite good and also manages to beat a few of the latest Italian bakeries on the tour.

The sign indicating that it is indeed an Italian pasticceria is, in this case, not wrong. For a rather small establishment, they have all the classics, from those famous cannoli to a darn good tiramisu. On top of that, everything is well priced, at $1.50 for the pastries and around $2.00 for the cakes, and well sized in accordance to its cost. That is to say, it ends up being pretty bang for your buck.

The pastries turned out surprisingly well -- it must be since this is as close as you get to Woodbridge in Mississauga :DDD -- with the ricotta cannoli not necessarily the best anyone has had, but certainly one of the better ones, especially in the city. Both the sfoglia and uh, the other one (some call it 'lobster tails' but the Italian name has slipped my mind -- che peccato!) were also quite impressive, with generous, tasty fillings and good puff pastry dough, albeit it was clear they weren't baked that morning.


Similarly, the zeppola (probably my favourite Italian pastry ^-^) tasted a tad stale, but not only was it authentic -- the brother was getting worried when it was called a "custard tart" -- it was one of the best. Had it entered the zeppola challenge, it would have been a medal winner. Not gold, for sure, but it was definitely notable, with cherry syrup inside and... yum!

What else was yum? The tiramisu, which was nice and moist -- and we know what that means. :) I think the last few times we've sampled tiramisu, it's been horribly dry and stiff with more ladyfingers than anything else. This had the perfect proportions -- a definite highlight.

The 401-area of Mississauga is pretty renowned (okay, by me, at any rate) as being a bakery desert, with  bakeries very few and far between. Atlantic Bakery is, however, a very good choice, not only in this sweets-starved part of the city, but in general. Don't let the convenience store scare you off. ;D

Rating: ***