Soula's Tea Garden

Bakery: Soula's Tea Garden
Address: 260 George St, Cobourg ON
Website: http://www.soulasteagarden.ca/
Style: Greek 
Price: $$

It doesn't happen often, but there are times when the Cake Tour stumbles onto something undeniably unique, maybe even lovingly random. Today, we feature Soula's. ;) Soula's is a tea house on overdrive: in addition to loose leaf teas that you can enjoy there or buy for home use, there's an art gallery, random gifts, lunches, locally made preserves -- and Greek pastries. It would be interesting to even count how many times "Greek pastries" appears on their website, because, after all, the perfect compliment to tea is.. Greek pastries. Who knew? Of course I won't disagree with that! :D

Nonetheless, this very cute shop with a little bit of almost everything has homemade Greek pastries and they seem insanely proud of that fact. Even the man in-store began charting the history of the family baklava recipe. It's so refreshing to find genuine people passionate about what they sell! Nonetheless, this famous baklava ($2.25, taxes included -- if I didn't confuse the price with something else) was a great example of classic Greek baklava: a triangle of honey-soaked flaky dough that was filled with nuts. One baklava connoisseur said it could have been a little more soaking in that good stuff or bigger even (naturally), but it was very good nonetheless. Just more proof that, indeed, the best baklava is the Greek kind, hands down. Whether or not the recipe passed down from generation to generation is required is up to interpretation. :P

Rating: ***