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Monte Bakery is a French artisan bakery and café on Sheppard Ave E in North York, anchored in croissants, canelés premium pastries made to order. · No website yet.
The kitchen distinguishes itself through canelés, the small French custard cake with a caramelized sugar crust and creamy interior, a technically demanding pastry rarely executed at scale in Toronto bakeries. North York's growing appetite for European baked goods has created an opening for a dedicated French operation on this corridor, particularly one serving both the immediate neighbourhood and commuters passing through. The canelé is the calling card, a pastry that requires precise copper-mold casting and a specific caramelization technique that separates casual bakeries from artisan ones Monte has built its identity around the precision required to make them consistently. · No website yet.
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