Sweet Thea Bakery

Bakery: Sweet Thea Bakery
Address: 1 Ferry Causeway, Tsawwassen BC
Website: https://www.sweetthea.com/
Style: European, French
Price: $$$

It may come as a bit of a surprise, but amid the souvenir junk and overpriced, sub par food inside the Tsawwassen ferry terminal, there's a bakery! Yes, really. And it's not one of those airport-style "bakeries" where items come in sealed bags and arrive on plastic dollies, not baking trays; it's a real bakery selling flaky French pastries and a colourful assortment of macarons. It's a local bakery as well - operating out of Langley, their main location (rather their only location according to their website) appears to have more selection and stocks a bit more rustic breads and cookies. But the ferry terminal booth is nonetheless impressive in its own right. I mean, it's good, quality pastries in the kind of spot that's synonymous with lousy food. And the prices aren't too over-the-top; if you're a frequenter of Vancouver bakeries and already paid for your ferry ticket, you won't be shocked.

 I grabbed the rhubarb hand pie ($5.00), a sort of square-shaped turnover pastry stuffed with big chunks of rhubarb. It was pretty good: the pie shell was nice and flaky, but still hefty enough to handle the fruit filling. That filling had a good level of sweetness; I love rhubarb in baked goods and not only is it hard to find, bakeries often try to cover up that refreshing, almost vegetal tartness of the rhubarb with tons of sugar, so it was nice to get that hint of sourness.

Rating: ***