Pastry Chef

Bakery: Pastry Chef Bakery
Address: 380 George St, Prince George BC
Website: facebook 
Style: Canadian, German
Price: $$ 

The best bakery in this part of the province? It's right here! Pastry Chef was actually one of the last bakeries on this particular trip and it really came as a welcome change from the sparsely stocked bakeries I had encountered along the way. For one, the selection was amazing: they had a little bit of everything, all of which was generously sized and fairly well-priced. And they had poppy seed buns - finally! I'd been waiting for this moment for over a week now... That being said, Pastry Chef is an old-school bakery in downtown Prince George - it's the only bakery in town, for that matter; the counter space is pretty big and is fully stocked with an impressive, downright jaw-dropping array of cakes, cake slices, doughnuts, danishes, cookies, squares along with a few more European treats (Dutch and German) like strudels, poppy seed baked goods, "Russian pretzels" and apple cake.

Of course I had to give their poppy seed buns ($3.49) a try. It looked amazing with its thick layers of poppy seed mass and drizzle of icing - and it tasted amazing as well. Slightly flaky dough wound round a surprisingly generous amount of delicious poppy seed filling. I would liked more than just a sprinkling of crumble on top, but this really was nearly perfect and would have been the best baked good on the trip...

... Had this massive apple doughnut ($2.49) not come along and upset things. It'd been a trip a bit too heavy on the apple fritters and yet the second I saw this monster, I knew it had to be featured. This huge spiral of perfectly fried and glazed dough was dotted with chunks of apple amid the crispy, yet moist dough. Oh boy. This bakery was phenomenal.

Rating: ****