Mountain View Bakery

Bakery: Mountain View Bakery & Delicatessen 
Address: 4561 Gertrude St, Port Alberni BC 
Website: facebook 
Style: Dutch, Canadian 
Price: $

The last bakery on Vancouver Island (for this trip, at any rate) is also Mimi's Cake Tour's 600th bakery -- that's right! The big 6-0-0. Great things are a-coming~! :)

Anyways, I took the bus from Tofino to Nanaimo, and this includes a 'lunch' break in Port Alberni, and it just so happens that right behind the bus depot, there's Mountain View Bakery, which manages to disprove The Donut Shop's claim that they have the best doughnuts on Vancouver Island -- that is, if you count apple fritters. ;) When I was there, it was pretty busy, with most people going for the lunch dishes on the left-hand side of the space. On the right, you have a couple of display cases loaded with sweets and cheese buns, from various types of squares and cake slices, to a few Dutch and German staples. Everything is labelled and so well priced -- it might just be one of the most affordable and bang-for-your-buck bakeries on the island!

Yes, I had the apple fritter ($1.60), and an amazing apple fritter it was. Yum! This was spot-on: tons of chunky apple pieces, fantastic soft dough with a hint of cinnamon, and amazing coverage with the glaze. This is exactly how an apple fritter should be! Even though this was supposed to be saved for later, I just ate this straight from the bag before getting on the bus... and it was so good! *-*

I also took the cinnamon bun ($2.00), which was a big and tall brick of dough with a thick drizzle of icing on top. This didn't impress like the apple fritter did: there wasn't enough cinnamon given the bun's size. Fresh and airy, it was good in taste and texture, but I had a hard time being able to tell it was an actual cinnamon bun -- it would have been better if there was less dough and more flavour. Given the greatness of the apple fritter, I was a little disappointed. :(

Rating: ***