Boulangerie Samos

Bakery: Boulangerie Samos 
Address: 4379 Boul. St-Laurent, Montreal QC 
Website: n/a 
Style: Greek, European
Price: $ 

Last Montreal bakery review of the year (I think)! Doing a walk from St. Laurent to Mont Royal, back down St. Denis and taking, for example, Rachel, you'll discover that this round-trip tour of the area has a lot of bakeries. Even I, thinking I had covered most, was amazed and devastated that I had to turn most down this time around. ;_; One that I did check off the list was Boulangerie Samos, a smallish, well-established (over 50 years old) bakery/cafe along St. Laurent itself. Taking a peak at its racks of baked goods in the window, it comes across as having a hodgepodge of European-inspired pastries (croissants) along with doughnuts and this tasty baby below. ;) The window also touts Argentinian empanadas, so it truly is hard to limit this to just one tag. Down to my last $3 cash, I didn't want delve into non-Cake Tour allotted funds and thought the baked goods a safe bet (nothing in the window is priced or labelled, but most items in the display case are). It was only upon paying that I noticed the selection of Greek pastries and cakes by the cash -- and they had dipples! I love dipples.... -_-

Oh boy, was this a memorable treat! :)

Nevertheless, for a whopping $2, tax included, I got this monster of a cinnamon "bun/twist". Shaped like a croissant and featuring a moist, dense dough worthy of the best Jewish-style cinnamon babas, this is a cinnamon bun worth trying. Slightly flaky on the outside with a fresh soft dough interwoven with layers of cinnamon mass that's neither too dry nor too gooey. That's then topped off with chunks of sugar. Like the bakery itself, it seems to be an amazing fusion of some of my favourite cinnamon bun styles, all "rolled" into one. I was going to just rip off a piece while it was fresh and save the rest for later... and ended up eating the whole darn thing in one sitting. Amazing! *-* 

Searching for the address, I came across countless reviews lauding this bakery's reasonable prices, but no one seemed to do the baked goods justice (rather "good" -- I only had one). Until I came along, that is. ;)

Rating: ****