Answer: Desmond was on the right track, but the rest of you? Oy vey! You've eaten at Schwartz's, bought Mile-End bagels, and had coffee at whatever they call Open Da Nite these days, but don't know this? It's only the best chocolate babka this side of the shtetl (review 1 and 2), and it's from Cheskie Heimische Bakery (359 Bernard West at Park Avenue).
After being closed a few days for the Passover holiday, there was a Soviet-style lineup today, but little remained on the shelves by the early Friday closing hour for the Jewish sabbath, so if you popped in for a loaf, you were outta luck. See you there Monday.
Is this some sort of rugelach (jewish chocolate croissant, but denser and butterier) from that half jewish, half asian place on Victoria a little south of Van Horne? If it's not, it should be.
ReplyDeleteDead Sea Scroll; the one that discusses the benefits of a welfare state as preached by the Ancient Egyptian Astronauts. It's from a long time ago and was discovered in the head of Sir John A. MacDonald after it was sawed off his monument in Place du Canada.
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ReplyDeleteIt's a rolled up copy of the Montreal Star from 1974 that termites got to?
I know it's late in the game, but I was going to say it's one of the pillars from Queen Victoria's wedding cake -- photo from a recent Sotheby's auction catalogue.
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=there used to be this place called EUROPEAN BAKERY on st-v. It was kosher. The BEST boston cream pie ever! They moved though. Amazing mandel bread (jewish biscotti).
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