Etobicoke's Best Bakeries: Five Spots Worth the Line

Etobicoke Lifestyle & Community Dave Dubbin August 5, 2026

We did sandwiches. We did desserts. We did ice cream. Bakeries were inevitable, and this list was easier to argue about than to finish, because half the team kept leaving to get cannoli. Here are the five Etobicoke bakeries we send people to, with what to order at each. Yes, we probably left off your favourite. Tell us.

Falling for a neighbourhood because of its bakery is a legitimate strategy. Browse our Etobicoke neighbourhood guides here.

12345Etobicoke's Best Bakeries
1. Sanremo Bakery
2. Choux Lab
3. Dimpflmeier Bakery
4. Montesanto Bakery
5. Hadrien Patisserie© OpenStreetMap contributors © CARTO

Where to find them. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors © CARTO.

1. Sanremo Bakery, 374 Royal York Rd

The institution. Sanremo has been feeding Mimico since 1969, and the weekend line out the door is part of the experience. The pistachio cannoli gets the headlines, the fresh donuts are what locals actually cross the city for, and the focaccia sandwiches plus the hot table turn a treat run into a full lunch stop. Go early on a Saturday or accept your fate. You can preview the damage at sanremobakery.com.

2. Choux Lab, 386 Royal York Rd

A few doors up from Sanremo, which feels almost unfair to the rest of the borough. Choux Lab does one thing, French choux pastry, and does it properly. Cream puffs filled to order, rotating flavours, small room, no fuss. The two shops together have quietly turned this stretch of Royal York into a legitimate pastry destination. Flavours change often, so check chouxlab.ca before you drive over.

3. Dimpflmeier Bakery, on Advance Rd near Kipling and Dundas

A west end institution of a different kind. Dimpflmeier bakes German breads at scale, more than forty varieties, from serious hard ryes to pretzels and softer North American loaves. The factory outlet is the move: fresh bread at prices that make a supermarket loaf feel like bad math. If your grandmother had opinions about rye bread, this is where you settle the argument. The full bread list lives at dimpflmeierbakery.com.

Fresh bread loaves on a bakery shelf
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4. Montesanto Bakery, 5 Lavington Dr

Central Etobicoke's family-run Italian bakery, tucked near The Westway. Fresh bread and pastries up front, a hot table of Italian dishes that turns a bread run into dinner. It is the kind of place where the regulars are greeted by name and the veal is gone by mid-afternoon. Closed Mondays, which we have learned the hard way. Hours and the menu are at montesantobakery.com.

5. Hadrien Patisserie, 709 The Queensway

The Queensway keeps collecting good food, and Hadrien is the French entry: proper croissants, laminated pastry with real butter in it, and cakes that look like they belong in a shop window in the sixth arrondissement rather than between a tile store and a gym. Weekend mornings move fast here. The croissants sell out and they do not apologize for it. See what is in the case this week at hadrienpatisserie.ca.

Fresh croissants
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Why a realtor is writing about bakeries, again

Because this is what people actually ask us during showings. Not the square footage, which is on the listing, but what life feels like on a Saturday morning. A great bakery within walking distance changes how a street feels, and it is no accident that Royal York in Mimico and The Queensway keep showing up in these guides. Good food follows good neighbourhoods, and sometimes it leads them.