Bomou Artisanal Bakery

Nov 5, 2020

Pistachio Croissant $4.50

The pistachio almond paste in the croissant was REALLY good and it wasn't super sweet

The croissant was a little harder and crunchier outside and not as flaky and soft as I would have liked my croissant, but the pistachio paste totally made up for it! I would definitely get this again!

June 10, 2020

Bomou Artisanal Bakery opened sometime in the last few months and I noticed it on one of my trips to Rahier and on Ubereats. They had a lot of selection of desserts, pastries and chocolates available for sale which was great! 

Pear Tart $3.25

The tart was really cute and it looked really nice with the pears cut into small cubes and baked into an almond filling. The almond part was quite nice, but the pears were a little strange since they weren't quite poached or fully cooked and somehow maintained a firm and slightly crunchy state (which wasn't what I expected). 

 

Shahzedeh $8.50

Pistachio mousse cake with rosewater gelee in the middle. It was a nice light pistachio mousse and looked really pretty cake. 

Butter Chicken Roti

Butter Chicken Roti is running a BOGO (buy one get one free) promotion on Ubereats

 

$15.95 Signature Butter Chicken Roti (and it can be picked up)

We got mild butter chicken with rice and one with roti to try them both out. 

The butter chicken sauce was creamy and sweet with some spices and lots of white meat chunks of chicken. I think I'll try it with a little more heat next time since the mild was mostly sweet. 

The portions were huge! The containers didn't look that big, but the roti was the size of the container inside (HUGE) and the butter chicken with rice came with a lot of rice and tons of sauce. 

Great deal! 

Website: https://www.butterchickenroti.com/menus

Cheese Garden

Nov 3, 2020

We got to use our $10 coupons on our next order, so we got two of the matcha tiramisu (since they were so good last time) and tried a new yaki pudding.

$11.95 Matcha Tiramisu 

Super yummy!

Chocolate yaki pudding $5.95

Turns out this is super tiny for $6 - it was basically the size of a salad dressing container. 

The chocolate pudding cheesecake had a fluffy cheesecake top that was pretty tasty, not too cheesy or too chocolate-y. There was pudding on the bottom which was also pretty good and it was fun that they combined two interesting textures and desserts together in one item. I did find it rather expensive for what it was and considering the size, but it was pretty good overall. 

Oct 23, 2020

We came back to try some of their other menu items with the 50% off. 

Uji Matcha Tiramisu (reg price $11.95)

The tiramisu had good matcha flavour and the cream cheese flavour was a lot more subtle (although it was still there - the matcha did a good job being the stronger more dominant flavour). The sweet mascarpone cheese on top was also really good even though it was on the runnier side. This was really yummy especially since the matcha was not too overwhelming and it tasted more like a matcha cake than a tiramisu (no chocolate or liqueur). It was obvious when you hit a cake layer in the tiramisu since it was a little harder, but overall it worked really well with the cheese and matcha cream. 

 

Matcha Double Fromage cheesecake (reg price $19.95)

Great matcha flavour and you could really taste the cheese in the cake (heavier cream cheese flavour). The cake wsn't too firm, instead it was a bit oozy after being left out for 25 minutes at room temperature. I liked the cake better after it was chilled/frozen in the fridge since it was more solid and kept its shape better, but the heavy cheesy flavour was still there and it didn't have as much matcha flavour to offset it as the tiramisu. 

October 19, 2020 

Cheese Garden is celebrating their anniversary and doing a promotion for 50% off 1 item and $10 voucher until October 24, 2020. I've never had their cheesecakes or tarts before, but I heard good things (even though I'm not a fan of Pablo or Uncle Tetsu, I figured for 50% off, it'd be time to try it out - maybe I'll find a Japanese cheese dessert I'll like?). Turns out there was quite a lineup at the Midland location - but luckily most people were socially distanced by at least 5 steps away. 

Cheese Tart $8.85 (with discount)

We got one of the last few cheese tarts after everything else sold out around 2:30pm. The cheese tart was really oozy with the cheese and I made the mistake of not reading instructions and instead of cutting the tart, tearing a piece of the tart shell and dipping into filling or serving with a spoon- I just cut it and tried to eat it which was a messy disaster. The pie crust was really hard to cut and I eventually just had to use my hands to rip it and eat it the directed way. It was super cheesy and the strongest flavour was definitely the cream cheese (which is NOT a flavour I like). The cheese was also sweet and sour and super liquid-like. I found the cheese tart got better later when it wasn't as oozy, but I still didn't really like it. 

Website: https://www.cheesegarden.ca/

Jerkup Central

 When we were driving along Brimley, I saw a sign about lunch specials. So when I got home, I did a little research and found out that Jerkup Central has a daily jerk chicken lunch special with vegetables and a drink for $6.99

$6.99 Lunch Special with Jerk Chicken leg, rice & peas and vegetables

It looked pretty good and the sodas were pretty interesting too!

The vegetable mix was different with like cut up choy sum and peppers rather than the usual coleslaw. Unfortunately, they didn't help with the spicy jerk chicken sauce. The jerk chicken leg was good since it was nice and juicy, but flavourwise and overall I still found I liked Ritz's better. 

It was a decent cheap lunch deal for $6.99

Website: http://www.jerkupcentral.com/

Snow Tea

 There are so many bubble tea options in Skycity Shopping Centre and quite a few of them have dessert options. I saw that Snow Tea had crepe cake online, so I picked one up to try.

Purple Taro Crepe Cake $7.99

The crepe cake had pretty good layers of crepe with a cake layer at the bottom and throughout the cake there were pieces of taro and taro paste between some layers of the crepe cake, but mostly cream. I would have liked it more if it had a stronger and sweeter taro taste, but it was okay overall. 

Marjo Bakery

I was looking for a pistachio cake bakery and found Marjo Bakery through Yelp and Google. It's kinda interesting since I've been to this plaza many times for Family Shawarma, but I never noticed this bakery at the end of the strip mall. 

Beef empanada $2.99

I was quite intrigued by the mix of cakes and empanadas and I really wanted to try them (even though I was rather full from lunch), so I got one. It's quite sizable with a packed with beef filling and a nice soft crust in the middle and a harder crust on the outside - very yummy! 

Ferrero Rocher Cake and Pistachio Chocolate Cake ($3.49 each)

OMG I couldn't believe how cheap these cakes were! Especially considering how beautiful they looked and their sizes and everything - comparable cakes in Toronto usually go for around $5-8 depending on the bakery and neighbourhood - so I thought these were a bargain (especially the beautiful chocolate art on the ferrero rocher cake and I couldn't believe I found a pistachio cake for under $5)

The Ferrero cake was gorgeous and caught my eye right away with the colourful chocolate outside shell and inside it had this nice and fluffy hazelnut and chocolate mousse. I also liked that the cake had small crunchy bits around the outside which I thought was a pie crust at first, but then realized it was a thin chocolate cake layer. Yummy and so pretty! 

Pistachio chocolate cake had a layer of pistachio mousse and chocolate mousse on a light chocolate cake with a glaze on top. The pistachio and chocolate mousses were both pretty good, but the flavours weren't as strong as some of the others I've had (like Dessert Lady) but good flavour regardless and mousse was light and fluffy and the price totally sold me on the cake (especially for $3.49)!

I would definitely come back here and try some of their other cakes! 

Website: https://www.marjobakery.ca/