Red Knot Bakery

Bakery: Red Knot Bakery
Address: 569 Prince St, Truro NS
Website: https://www.redknotbakery.com/ 
Style: European 
Price: $$ 

This little gem of a small, hip bakery was without a doubt a highlight of the Nova Scotia leg of the trip and it may be one of the province's best bakeries, especially since, after a few trips involving on-site research, nothing has really managed to amaze me (sorry, guys!). Until now, that is. It may be a pretty ambitious, loaded way to start a post, but when it's something worth praising, why not just get right into it? ;) Red Knot is a bakery using organic flour, butter and free range eggs and sources produce from local Nova Scotian farmers. Now, that's what I'm talking about! Taking all of that into consideration, the prices are also fairly reasonable. The selection isn't too big and it varies day to day, but it's tasty. Very tasty.

 Two items were sampled: a chocolate babka ($2.75) and the croissant of the day ($4), which was a peach blueberry cream danish of sorts that day. I definitely didn't expect to find the chocolate babka. It had the perfect babka texture: dense, buttery yet soft with a great crunch on the outside and some baked chocolate spilling out over the edges. The only thing I could say is that a bit more chocolate would have been nice.

For the peach blueberry cream "croissant", I knew it was a matter of the dough. And that was a delicious flaky, buttery, multi-layered dough. Add to that the very good filling of local peaches and blueberries and custard. Mmmm... what a find!

Rating: ****