Ba Noi

What Reddit says

Bloor Street bakery with a cult following, best known for butter tarts and chocolate chip cookies with a salt topping. Redditors mention friendly staff, though the more unusual items often sell out by early afternoon.

Paraphrased from the comments below.

What to order

• 9.6
  Butter Tarts#2 for butter tarts in Toronto
  Top pick
• 9.6
  Cookies#1 for cookies in Toronto
  Top pick
• 8.2
  Bread#19 for bread in Toronto
  Worth trying
• 8.2
  Pastries#23 for pastries in Toronto
  Worth trying
• 7.5
  Coffee8 Redditors
  Worth trying
• Panettone4 Redditors
• Cantonese BBQ (char siu & roast meats)2 Redditors

In their words

Short excerpts, each linked to the full comment on Reddit.

• “It absolutely lives up the hype and cult following IMO.”

• “chocolate chip cookies and butter tarts from Bà Nội will haunt me for years”

• “My go-to places here in Toronto are Le Beau, Conci, Ba Noi, Dear Grain, Castle & Coal... but now, they just seem a bit insufficient.”

• “Butter tarts and chocolate chip cookies from the bakery at Bloor and Christie, I forget the name but they are INCREDIBLE”

• “The chocolate chip cookie from Bà Nội. It has ruined all other chocolate chip cookies for me”

• “Ba Noi is underrated. Because they do what some people hate. Put some salt on top.”

• “Ba Noi's more interesting stuff is usually sold out by 12:30 pm. They often do have their butter tarts and chocolate chip cookies available”

• “I still remember where I was and what I was doing when I had one of those butter tarts for the first time”

• “Ba Noi, Bricolage Bakery, Brodflour, Bonjour Brioche, Mabel's bakery are all my pics”

• “best butter tarts in the city, plus a very kind staff, and everything else they do is awesome”

• “Their butter tarts though are just leagues ahead of any other for me”

• “They're so uniquely sticky and creamy, I cant for the life of me recreate it at home.”