Piast Bakery

Bakery: Piast Bakery
Address: 3280 Cambie St, Vancouver BC
Website: facebook 
Style: Polish
Price: $

Piast Bakery actually resembles your typical Polish deli: fully-stocked shelves of imported products, cold cuts, and of course the little corner dedicated to baked goodies and cakes. Given the fact that they do consider themselves a bakery, and not a deli, the selection isn't as impressive and everything else kind of drowns out the small array of cakes in the display case and mostly yeast-based baked goodies behind the counter. Of course, coming to find all the doughnuts gone didn't help... how are there never any doughnuts left for me?

 But! there were poppy seed buns and I couldn't resist. These buns were ridiculously well-priced ($1.35 each) and looked promising with a spiral of poppy seeds and a perhaps too generous dusting of vanilla sugar. Taking a bite, I was amazed at how they managed to get so many poppy seeds on top when the inside had so few, barely any... I never understand how they do it. It was very doughy, airy but not exactly fluffy -- basically slightly sweet bread, even more so when you didn't factor in the sugar on top.

Similarly, there was the summertime classic: the blueberry bun ($1.35). It was, after all, blueberry season in BC and what better way to celebrate! This, like the poppy seed bun, was very bready, with a lot more dough than filling. Actually, the former was overpowering and you couldn't really enjoy the taste of blueberries. I think it would be better for them to raise the prices a little and put more filling.

Rating: **