Lusitania Bakery

Bakery: Lusitania Bakery
Address: 607 Lakeshore Rd, Mississauga ON
Website: n/a
Style: Portuguese 
Price: $

Last week, I returned home to find that my youngest brother had gone cake touring on my behalf -- I love when that happens! ;) What was more, he had actually spotted another bakery along Lakeshore that had eluded me the first few drives along the street: Lusitania Bakery. Tucked away in the plaza at Lakeshore and Cawthra, this Portuguese bakery is apparently more bread than any sorts of sweets purchases. Of the latter, there isn't that much and, when there, there were only or two things besides the two purchased items. So I suppose it's not the place to get your baked goods?

At any rate, the first item which was eaten before I managed to get a picture (thanks) was a lemon tart (of course, they didn't make a note of any prices (as with a vast majority of Portuguese bakeries, no prices are listed), but apparently, he paid $9 for three lemon tarts and six doughnuts) Not bad. These lemon tarts,  small tart shells filled with lemon custard, were "alright" (seeing as I wasn't included in the tart purchasing, I can't say how they were), and were much better than the second purchase.

This second purchase I'm talking about is the doughnuts, deep-fried dough balls cut in half and filled with a thick layer of pastry cream... which was more like a cream sandwich than a stuffed doughnut. From the outside, they looked quite good: crispy and golden brown with granulated sugar. And the cream was quite tasty, though the real miss was the dough itself. One bad idea was that I chose to have a piece of this doughnut with a piece of the one from Glory Hole -- big mistake. You really appreciate the wonderfully moist and airy dough from the latter, but it wasn't so good news for Lusitania. The dough was super dense and, as the top part was larger than the bottom, it was hard biting down into this heavy, hard, unyielding dough. Taste-wise it was okay, but the texture was just... not doughnut dough! This was especially... embarrassing seeing as Portuguese know how to deep fry dough. ;D

Unfortunately, considering that there are so many Portuguese bakeries in the city, I really can't find myself suggesting this place. :/ Drive up Cawthra instead and pop into Nova. Or, go up to Dundas, go right and pop into Trigo. Both will leave you more satisfied in terms of the sweets. ^^;;

Rating: **