Brick Street Bakery
55 Mill Street, Toronto, ON, M5A 3C4
416-214-4925
Brick Street Bakery is a traditional British bakery that offers unique baked goods and amazing sandwiches.
Category:
Shopping & Services
What:
| Payment | | Interac, Cash |
Where:
| Neighbourhood | | The Beaches |
| Getting There | | King streetcar to Parliament |
| Cross Street | | Mill and Trinity Streets |
When:
| Tues-Sat: 10AM–7PM, Sun: 10AM-6PM |
Profile Last Updated: August 05, 2008
Traditional British Baked Goods, Made the Old Fashioned Way
Located in the main street of the Distillery District, this bakery creates its bread using all organic, all natural ingredients. The bakery specializes in British baked goods, including traditional items that you won’t find at most (if any) other bakeries in Toronto. One of the most unique things about the Brick Street Bakery is that while most buildings in the Distillery District are serving much different purposes than they were originally built for (clothing stores and art galleries exist in buildings once used for storing grain or in the production of spirits), the bakery looks like it could have existed in the Distillery District all along, in exactly the same form as it has now.
Hard-to-Find Items
One of the bakery’s signature items is the Eccles cake, a round British dessert made with buttery, flaky pastry that yields to a mix of spices and currants. Other traditional British goods include bread and butter pudding, Chelsea buns, and bakewell tarts (filled with raspberry jam and almond cream, and topped with an apricot glaze). You’ll also find baguettes, scones, no-nonsense cookies, tarts, croissants and more.
Great Sandwiches Too
It’s also possible to build a full meal to be enjoyed on an outdoor table on the brick laneways outside the bakery. On weekdays at lunchtime, the hottest items on the bakery’s ticket are the sandwiches, like the “Coronation Chicken”, with apple, apricot, and curried mayo, and the “Boxing Day”, which is filled with turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayo. Other options for building a full meal include gourmet house-made salads, sausage rolls, and traditional English pies, like Sheppard’s pie or steak and stout.
Located in the main street of the Distillery District, this bakery creates its bread using all organic, all natural ingredients. The bakery specializes in British baked goods, including traditional items that you won’t find at most (if any) other bakeries in Toronto. One of the most unique things about the Brick Street Bakery is that while most buildings in the Distillery District are serving much different purposes than they were originally built for (clothing stores and art galleries exist in buildings once used for storing grain or in the production of spirits), the bakery looks like it could have existed in the Distillery District all along, in exactly the same form as it has now.
Hard-to-Find Items
One of the bakery’s signature items is the Eccles cake, a round British dessert made with buttery, flaky pastry that yields to a mix of spices and currants. Other traditional British goods include bread and butter pudding, Chelsea buns, and bakewell tarts (filled with raspberry jam and almond cream, and topped with an apricot glaze). You’ll also find baguettes, scones, no-nonsense cookies, tarts, croissants and more.
Great Sandwiches Too
It’s also possible to build a full meal to be enjoyed on an outdoor table on the brick laneways outside the bakery. On weekdays at lunchtime, the hottest items on the bakery’s ticket are the sandwiches, like the “Coronation Chicken”, with apple, apricot, and curried mayo, and the “Boxing Day”, which is filled with turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayo. Other options for building a full meal include gourmet house-made salads, sausage rolls, and traditional English pies, like Sheppard’s pie or steak and stout.
