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Truscott Italian Bakery and Deli

In Bakery, Breakfast, Burbs, Delis, Oakville/Mississauga, Sandwiches, bread on June 23, 2009 at 10:58 pm

Location:

2425 Truscott Dr, Mississauga ON

I’m sure you will agree, there’s nothing quite like freshly baked bread; the smell, the taste, the warmth, it’s all so very good! 

I definitely heart bakeries. When I was growing up there was a lovely little bakery called Hot n’ Crusty where the breads were baked fresh every morning; it was always such a treat to go there.

Recently we discovered Truscott Italian Bakery & Deli – a quaint little bakery right in the middle of a parking lot on the border of Oakville/Mississauga. It’s been there only eight years yet it appears as though the parking lot was built around it.

I imagine though, that the past eight years have been enormously successful judging from the steady stream of customers at 8 in the morning! 

The cappuccino on the patio sounded like a great idea!

The breads! Rows of crusty, floured, multigrained loaves.  I wanted to try them all…and in due time I will, but to begin….we got some fresh buns, croissants, and this:

Spacatelli….which I’ve never had before, but which was undeniably fresh (and still warm!!!).

The trays of muffins, pies, cookies and pastries were astounding!

 

I’ve yet to try their hot-table items, but I got their mini cakes/tarts for a tea party recently and they not only looked pretty they were pretty delectable, too.

Then there’s their deli meat counter which boasts a variety of European meats, the huge selection of pastas (I recently purchased some corn pasta [gluten free] and added to it the all natural Mediterranean Garden’s “fiery hot arrabiata” pasta sauce, which was fantastic), fancy imported drinks (lemonades and juices), farmed fresh eggs, and of course a massive collection of olives and olive oils!  Heaven!

With our morning breakfast made complete with the addition of a divine ”elephant ear” – stuffed full of chocolate – we were ready to start the weekend!

I’m sure many start their weekends this way and I for one can’t wait to do it again!

Truscott Italian Bakery &Delicatessen on Urbanspoon

Product: Ricepod Wasabi Mix

In Snack, Toronto on June 21, 2009 at 1:21 pm

From: Fresh & Wild

Location:

69 Spadina Avenue (King & Spadina)

Cost: $2.99

My friend just offered me some of this. 

It says it’s ’spicy’ on the package but I know spicy; I laugh in the face of spicy. Bwhahaa.

I had two that were stuck together and my head just exploded. 

It’s raeally hared to teaype with brain awell ovwer teh kyewbaord.

Salad King

In Thai, Toronto on June 18, 2009 at 4:35 pm

For this review of Salad King, I’ve invited one part of the wonderful couple (and fellow bloggers) I dined with at SK, to contribute her take on this restaurant which will be up soon.

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A couple of the neon lights in the “Salad King” sign were out when we went – so it read “SAD KING” …which is absolutely APT for this dump of a restaurant that 275 of you on Urbanspoon claim is the best Thai resto in Toronto.

Are you kidding me?  Where else are you people eating that this has become the place to go for Thai??!

To start, we ordered the Papaya Salad (which boasted “dried shrimps”…the salad that came to our table had non-existent dried shrimp (must have been so dry that it shriveled away?) and a garnish that had black spots on it.  Good start, right?

Our “medium” heat Shrimp Delight ($8.95 – Shrimps, bell peppers, onions, yellow bean sauce, chilli sauce, lime juice, steamed rice) arrived with neither heat NOR shrimp (nor delight for that matter!) and plenty of accompanying liquid “spicy” water. We weren’t aware we’d ordered soups?

The Spicy Fish dish ($8.95 – Red cod fillet, lime leaf, carrots, onions, bell peppers chilli, garlic, shallots, palm sugar, steamed rice) came with hardly any fish although what was there certainly was still swimming..in a pool of oily liquid!

And the Evil Jungle Prince ($6.75 – Egg plant, baby corn, peas, carrots, onions, chilli sauce, lemon grass, bamboo shoots and steam rice) which was supposed to contain eggplant and veggies came with one tiny piece of eggplant, plenty of frozen peas and a generous portion of WATER!

How disgusting.

I asked the server whether the dishes were always that watery – to which she replied ‘yes that’s how they are made’.  I told her it was a disappointing meal to which she shrugged and moved along to serve the next table of assembly line patrons.

Salad King will forever be SAD KING to me – it’s the worst thai food I’ve ever had and I’m really sorry that so many of you think that that’s what Thai is supposed to taste like!  I’d really love to see where else the 275 of you are eating and stay the hell away from those places!

Salad King on Urbanspoon