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| - I travel a fair bit and was excited to see that there was a fairly well reviewed bakery in the neighbourhood I was staying in. I don't know why, but getting fresh pastry just really helps me feel more 'at home' wherever I happen to be. Also, I find that there's nothing like fresh, handmade pastry that just jumpstarts your day.
Unfortunately, Leah's wasn't fully successful in getting my day started.
I picked up a cheese danish, an orange muffin, and some of Leah's chips. The danish was absolutely amazing. I cannot recommend it enough. I wasn't quite as flakey as I would have liked, but I certainly have no complaints. I would buy another cheese danish from Leah's in a heartbeat.
The muffin was remarkably less pleasant. The first bite was terrific - moist, great taste, and just delightful. The second was far less impressive - along with my bite came a large piece of plastic! While the rest of the muffin tasted great, the plastic just took me out of the experience entirely. Were this a supermarket I'd just shrug it off, but Leah's doesn't claim (or pretend) to be be selling supermarket grade goods. Hopefully this is just a bizarre one-off, but I'm not going to keep buying muffins to find out!
I picked up the chips based on Brenda S.'s interest. They're nice - you get real, full chips that are minimally salted. That minimal salting *isn't* a bad thing - it means you actually get the flavor of the chip itself. Admittedly, I would have preferred just a hint more salt, but can't really complain with the choice. None of the chips that I managed to get were greasy which is good considering the premium price you'll pay for them. Still, having purchased them once I don't know that I'd actually ever go out of my way to buy them again.
So, if you count things up there was one item that was great, another that could have been but wasn't, and a final one that was OK. If you're in the neighbourhood then you can get really nice little deserts, but just hope that you're not cursed with eating plastic with your tasty treats. Still, if I had the extra minute or two I'd probably pass by Leah's and just go to Pain Perdu's instead.
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