Address: 2828 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC
Website: http://www.italiabakery.ca/
Style: Italian
Price: $$$
Italiabakery (yes, one word) also operates Cannoli King out of one corner of the bakery; since you can mix and match and pay together, I don't really understand the need for having the separate cannoli business instead of just selling cannoli at the pastry counter, but some things never make much sense. Nonetheless, the specialty here is the wide array of cakes and all the characteristic Italian pastries you expect from a classic bakery such as this one. Such as cannoli. Actually, the one thing not classic about it the cannoli are available in about half a dozen more traditional as well as totally unique flavours.
However, before I made it over to the cannoli zone (see the downside of having it separate!), I spotted one item that surpassed cheese/cream-filled pastry tubes: rum babas. Available in both the classic ($4) unadorned version and a cream-filled ($5) variety, they looked so good I took both. In my opinion, though, it's not worth paying more for the cream one; it didn't look as exciting, but the plain one was so much better. Not only was the dough moister and more flavourful, the pudding detracted from the subtlety that makes the rum baba so great and made it resemble more a fruit and cream cake than anything else.
Rating: ***
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