Quality Bakery

Bakery: Quality Bakery
Address: 150 Ottawa St N, Hamilton ON
Website: facebook
Style: Canadian 
Price: $$ 

A trip to the neighbourhood brought about the question: had any bakeries been done on Ottawa St? It seemed entirely possible, but upon further research into the matter, I came up with... nothing. This needed to be fixed and here is Quality Bakery. :)

Quality Bakery is a neighbourhood bakery that has been around for quite a few years now. Their specialty seems to be egg breads, so challah bread and sweet buns with various fillings (lemon, chocolate chip), but they also have a nice selection of classic bakery staples: a few squares, buns and danishes.

This time, I wanted to give their carrot cake a try. I've been to bakeries where people try to reinvent classics and spice them up by changing ingredients or the appearance, making them look and feel a little more "gourmet", but sometimes, you just crave a simple cake done right. This was the case with Quality Bakery's version. There was nothing elaborate about it and was as traditional as you could get: a nicely sized slab with thick cream cheese icing sprinkled with walnuts and plenty of carrots in the moist dough -- as it should be. In short: a good example of carrot cake.

Rating: ***