Having recently moved back to Toronto I am of course on the hunt for ... well favorite everything.. sadly this was not it. I pass Yitz's every day on the bus and as it was a lovely day I thought I would hop off and pick up some treats... got some potato latkes and asked the BEST way to heat them... after giving me 5 options on how to do it I once again asked what his recommendation would be for the best way to do it (as I assumed he would be an expert) as those were all the ways I knew I could do it but what was the best?? a blank stare was the reply... oooookay. They reheated in the convection oven ok but were just Meh and needed some serious blotting to absorb all the oil that came out of them.
Asked for some butter tarts as we all love those... well that was a major miss. When we opened the bag we knew something was off immediately.. they had that weird "really old, kind of stale, maybe a little mouldy smell" to them. Tried a tiny bite to see if maybe it was the bags or if it was some strange spice smell but the crust, which may have been a shortbread style crust instead of a pie crust crust we decided that that was definitely the source of the weird smell and although the filing, which was super sticky, was not super sweet (which was good) it could not overcome the smell so off to the garbage they went.
The hunt for a good bakery continues