Caldense Bakery — Restaurant in Mississauga

The benchmark of a good bakery are their croissants and while it is easy to get distracted by the vast selection of croissant iterations ranging from ham and cheese to ‘sweet egg’ (?) available at this location, a good croissant should be crispy on the outside and light and flaky on the inside. By no means should you expect Parisian croissants for $3 in Mississauga, but that being said if you want a dense loaf of bread with low quality chocolate, Caldense Bakery seems to be the place.

I have been to this location on two separate occasions, and have been greeted by the same subpar, thick ‘bread like’ croissants with low quality oddly acidic chocolate and sickly sweet almond filling each time. While trying to diagnose the problem with their dough, it can most likely be attributed to poor lamination, the butter melting into the dough, or possibly just their poor shaping of the dough(increase number of rolls) . In regard to the fillings a simple fix is to just add some lemon zest to freshen up the almond paste, as it is rather one dimensional . Additionally, although it is traditional to use a cheaper chocolate with a lower cocoa butter in pain au chocolate, the risk of melting out it is minimized in filled croissants.

To conclude, despite the fact Caldense Bakery has admittedly aesthetically attractive pastries, it is evident they value style over substance. If you want a more personable service go to Molisana’s, if you want inexpensive baked goods go to a Tim Hortons and if you want high quality pastries go to French Corner Patisserie or Danish Pastry House. With the exception of their Portuguese pastries (which arguably they have very few of), Caldense bakery has failed to find its niche in an already over...

Mondays are when bakeries take their weekly day off. This is the case for my fav bakeries.

So I decided to head over to Caldense to try their baked goods.

I ended up ordering some of their cake slices. I chose the Black Forest, Red Velvet, Strawberry Cheesecake and the Strawberry-Lime-Coconut.

The cakes were most enjoyable. They were all moist with a good amount of balance between tasting just sweet enough without being overly sweet. Some might wish to enjoy their cakes with maximum sweetness or less etc. But I liked the taste.

I also tried the chocolate croissants and some crusty buns ( papo secos). The chocolate croissants were not a hit with my lunch party friends because it was overly sweet. This was made so because there was a crust of brown sugar or something like that on it which made it taste too sweet.

The crusty buns were crusty on the outside and pillowy soft on the inside. They were a perfect match with some fresh pasta.

So all in all I really enjoyed the baked goods and I will return to try their other offerings.

Please pop in and let us all know what your thoughts are.

The service was friendly, helpful...

Ive been coming here for years and always had good experiences and they have the best Portuguese tarts. Unfortunately today my husband and I stopped in to have a quick lunch before he had to leave for work. We ordered 2 sandwhichs tarts and drinks. An employee brought us our drinks and Portuguese tarts and said are sandwhichs would be ready soon. After about 25 mins of waiting my husband concerned about being late for work went up to ask about our food. My husband said if they haven't started making them we would like to get a refund because we needed to leave. About 4 employees went to the back then came and said nothing to us, so again he said if you started making them we need to leave. She told oh we are going to do it now. Anyways it was a very frustrating visit we both left hungry and in a rush for work. There were no apologies nothing, it seemed like nobody cared. I understand human error sometimes things get missed but they really didnt care didnt offer an apology and spent alot of time ignoring us.We werent even mad we were just hungry and in a rush.It's seems like this is normal behavior for...