Rahier Patisserie

Rahier is Leaside’s neighbourhood French bakery that has been doing the unfashionable thing — daily bread, tarts, macarons, and real celebration cakes — on Bayview for years. Official site rahierpatisserie.com lists 1586 Bayview Avenue, Monday–Thursday 8 a.m.–5 p.m. and Friday–Sunday 8 a.m.–6 p.m. in the address block (the contact line on the same page lists Sunday to 5 p.m.; believe the door if they disagree). Phone (416) 482-0917, inquire@rahierpatisserie.com. The shop is a sit-down pastry room as much as a takeaway case: coffee, daily bread, and a cake list that still uses names like Chanel, Cézanne, and Mata Hari. First-timers: croissant and a tart if you are walking Bayview; a whole cake if you called. It is two doors of mood from Bomou — older, sweeter, more “Saturday cake box.” Weekday mornings are calm; Sunday after church soccer is not.