The Sweet Escape

Bakery: The Sweet Escape
Address: 24 Tank House Lane, Toronto ON 
Website: http://www.thesweetescapedistillery.com/
Style: North American 
Price: $$-$$$ 

Now that all trips are over and the rush of bakeries has subsided, it's getting a little slow (and lonely) on this site of mine. That's why I finally got started on a new idea I've been thinking of for the past few months: best of "travel" guides. At the moment, there's only one done, but there are more on the way. Scroll down to the bottom menu or click here to check out the first: Montreal! :)

 Located in the Distillery District, at the end of the hallway of one of the commercial buildings there, the Sweet Escape is one of a few bakeries in the area. Actually, I haven't been to the Distillery District in ages and was a little disgruntled that not much has changed in terms of the bakery scene and there aren't as many options as I would have liked to see. However, the Sweet Escape is there; touting itself as a patisserie, their primary focus seems to be cupcakes. In addition to this, they have different varieties of colourful macarons and squares of the brownie kind.

One of their signature items -- or perhaps *the* signature item -- is their "Distillery cake"; this is an English-style toffee cake with a sponge cake dunked and coated in a more runny caramel sauce. This was then topped with two pieces of dates. The dates in themselves were a bit deceiving since I was expecting it to be more like a date cake, which is always amazing, but it was different. The toffee coating made the cake moist, sweet and sticky with a hint of orange, which was nice. Overall: it probably looked yummier than it tasted, but it was still pretty good. 

Rating: **1/2