Nordic Foods

Bakery: Nordic Foods

Address: 1235 Bayly St #8, Pickering, ON

Website: http://www.nordicfoods.org/

Style: Finnish

Price: $$-$$$ 

I actually came to this Finnish/Scandinavian deli on the hunt for Finnish rye bread and never expected that they'd have anything sweet as well! I've always said that nothing interesting is ever on the bottom of a condo building, but this place seems to be an exception - albeit it *is* a weird place for any sort of deli, let alone a Finnish one. And to increase the weirdness of the whole experience, the owner was sitting outside in his car because he found his store too cold. Then any baked goods were just randomly taken out of plastic boxes scattered here and there. It felt a little like stepping into an off-kilter Scandinavian comedy. XD 

To my utter delight, Nordic Foods sells Finnish doughnuts! (And I learned only when leaving that they have bags of frozen cinnamon buns as well... if only I'd known earlier) Like everything else, they were dug out of a plastic Tupperware bin and didn't taste like they had been made that day (Saturday), which was unfortunate, because they were so fragrant and flavourful. Just the right amount of jelly, delicious dough. Once heated up in the microwave, so good. They would have been so much better had they been fresh; maybe weekdays are better? Still, how  missed Finnish baked goods~ 

Rating: ***