Marco's Bakery

Bakery: Marco's Bakery
Address: 3500 Fairview St #4, Burlington ON 
Website: http://www.marcosbakery.net/
Style: Balkan, Serbian 
Price: $-$$ 

With the bakeries from the BC trip taken care of, it's getting a little slow on the Cake Tour. I miss daily bakeries, but what can you do when there are no bakeries to be done, at least not in the immediate vicinity and any sort of travel plans are... nonexistent? :( Nevertheless, I was super happy to get my hands on this bakery in Burlington -- yay!

Marco's is a Balkan/Serbian bakery with an ample selection of traditional sweets (mostly baklava or similar filo creations) and a particular emphasis on their burek, which is available in savoury and sweet fillings. On one of their photos, I spotted a poppy seed roll (!!), but didn't see any in store. *pouts* Unlike other Balkan bakeries I've visited throughout the GTA, they also have a few items for those not wanting to delve into more traditional fare, among which are chocolate cupcakes and danishes. But why not be adventurous? ;) Most items are labelled; some are priced, some are not, but in general it was pretty well-priced, with each item costing under $2. Not bad. I've certainly paid more elsewhere for the same product, so it was nice....

 Anyways, three items were purchased: a slice of baklava, a piece of cherry burek, and a... what was this called again? XD Everyone loves a good piece of soaking baklava, and this one was certainly soaking, you could probably say it was a little too soaking, resulting in a dough that became mushy upon contact. Pretty good, just unmanageable. 

The chocolate banana roll was by far the best of the bunch: a moist dark chocolate and banana mass studded with pieces of vanilla cake. This was a rich cake, but too rich on account of the bananas, which gave it the impression of being a fusion between chocolate and banana bread. Interesting, and tasty!

The least favourite was the cherry burek: thick, pita bread-like dough was dense, a bit dry, and quite bland in taste -- it would have matched a savoury burek, and most likely the juices from the meat would have been absorbed into the dough, giving it a bit of flavour, but as it was, the dough didn't match the sweet filling. I also thought the outside would be flakier, like on the pictures. Next time, I would stick to the lovely display case of cakes, cookies, and baklava.

Rating: **1/2