Stany Greek Bakery

Bakery: Stany Greek Bakery
Address: 1015-1/2 Pape Ave, Toronto ON 
Website: n/a 
Style: Greek
Price: $ 

Located next door to the Danish Pastry Shop and nearly hidden by the awning, Stany Greek Bakery actually required a bit of a back track, since it took me a while for me to notice that I'd passed a bakery. Unfathomable. Anyways, Stany Greek Bakery is a hole-in-the-wall bakery and deli with everything from sweet bread to feta cheese crammed in as tight a space as you've seen. It's quite cute, in fact. ^^; The selection isn't so great, especially in terms of sweets. There's probably more savoury options (cheese and spinach pies) and breads (among them sweet breads and sweet sesame twists resembling egg/challah bread, but nonetheless, the classics are there: a few slices of cream cake, rum baba, and that's pretty much it, if you don't include the baklava, of course.

These come in two trays and have a definite homemade feel to them: the traditional well, baklava (triangle edition -- yes, it was so soaking that it was dangerous removing it from the box :P) and noodle-like kataifi, both loaded with nuts and a total steal at $1.75 each (that's taxes included) for a gigantic piece. Add that onto the fact that these things weigh a ton! If this were a priced per weight sort of place, you wouldn't be too pleased; four pieces must have weighed two kilos -- no, I'm not kidding you. One complained that the honey mixture was a little watery, but everyone else didn't seem to mind all that much. One even said it beat nearby Serano Bakery. The kataifi was especially delicious and the favourite all around. And it'll last forever... if you can resist the temptation of gobbling it up right away. Bang for your buck, for what little there's there.

Rating: ***