7 Baker

Bakery: 7 Baker 
Address: 3 Wellesley St W, Toronto ON 
Website: https://7baker.ca/
Style: Asian, Chinese, European
Price: $$$ 

One of a couple Asian fusion bakeries sprouting up along Yonge, 7 Baker sells baked goods that consist of rustic breads, stuffed croissants and famous - or aiming to be famous - square mousse cakes in flavours like milk tea, pineapple and double cheese cake. I found it quite expensive for what it is.

I decided to try the green tea cranberry cheese loaf; yes, that's quite the mouthful and quite the combination of flavours. However, I was surprised at how there was no real "Asianness"to it, despite the fact that the predominant flavour should have been green tea. Given how little you could taste the green tea and how intensely green it was, I'm a little disappointed that colour was used - their website states that they don't use artificial colours, but vegetable dyes, but in my opinion colour is colour. Because green tea has a direct correlation between intensity of taste and colour, using colour in green tea baked goods and desserts is a bit deceitful. Moreover, there was barely any cheese filling, especially for the price. In the end, the two aspects I'd been looking forward to weren't distinct enough and the cranberries just made the loaf feel like piece of raisin bread. So much excitement in terms of its description yet strangely boring in taste. Personally, I was a bit disappointed with the end result.

Rating: **