Richmond Kosher Bakery

«Toronto’s top Kosher Bakery»
Kosher bakeries face one major hurdle: No dairy for the busiest day of their week: Friday. Most kosher bakeries substitute other parve, non dairy, ingredients to comply with a key requirement of not mixing dairy when their products will be consumed with meat, especially with the Sabbath meal. Richmond copes or rather excels with adhering to this rule. While others produce fair and sometimes good products, Dimitri — their baker, soars in producing items that ranks him in the very top tier of his trade. Whether you compare him to Kosher bakeries or otherwise. A simple chocolate loaf is sublime, a surprise at only $ 6 an example. His breads posses a real old world heartiness and flavour. One example are his outstanding kimmel (caraway) ryes not easily found elsewhere. But why limit yourself to one type when black and sunflower rye are also on offer.
Have a special bread order? no problem just give him a couple of days notice and he’ll come through for you. Like when I asked him to bake a baguette/​cocktail size dark rye. I am delighted when he does the unexpected, probably needing a bakers’ diversion, like produce blueberry brioche or more recently packages of exquisite cheese blintzes. His cakes are not just eye candy but take a dessert lover’s palate on a joy filled journey. Challas are a mainstay of every kosher bakery and here there are numerous choices beyond the ubiquitous egg and water examples. Even his challa rolls are tastier than most others. On Mondays and Thursdays, check before you go, he bakes other grains such as Kamut and Spelt.
My litmus test in classic European desserts is how well a «moon» or poppy seed roll is made. His very fine oversize examples, really for two, are loaded with fresh poppy seed that you’ll be hard pressed to stop eating them.
Open six days a week, Sunday to Friday, with early closing on Fridays.
They are a nut-​free facility.

Richmond Kosher Bakery Is A Big Winner!
They have been in business for many, many years.
Sadly, there was a period of time that they closed down, but by the Grace Of God, they managed to re-​open and are doing as Great As Ever!
Furthermore, they now have Sushi Chefs at the back of their store and sell Delicious Kosher Sushi.
In the pictures, you can see both my mother and I enjoying our Kosher Sushi Together!
Yummy!

3.5 stars:
This place has improved big time. My suggestion are the cheese danishes (very tasty) and the Napoleon pastry. Customer service is good. Went there at 5:58 p.m., just before they closed and they were swift, got me in and out in time. They sell out of bread and buns pretty quickly so go early (I managed to get a small raisin challah which I’ll toast tomorrow with a lot of butter, of course). Mmmmmm …

Their cakes look gorgeous! Like incredibly classy. Unfortunately some of their cakes taste not so good (like their raspberry chocolate that looks gorgeous). When you bring it to a dinner party and show what you have for them people are impressed right away… until they taste it. Oh well. Customer service is amazing, there’s a new owner and he’s an awesome person to talk to, he really cares about everyone’s experience. Some of their food is very tasty so that’s good. And everything looks amazingly presentable and clean and classy. And the prices are much cheaper than what others would charge. Like a really fancy (but not so good tasting) cake would be $ 22, that’s a great price as I’ve seen similar for $ 80 (though the store that did that closed down, probably because of their prices). Anyways, worth checking out, just be taste safe