Alcoa Bakery

This used to be our go-​to bakery until the management changed. Every week things are rearranged again, and staples like whole wheat bread are often hard to find. Used to get at least two loaves a week, now half the time they don’t have it — just dessert-​y breads with fruit in them or whatever. And if you ask for it sliced, sometimes they slice it properly, sometimes in giant thick slabs. Feh. But now they’ve got a hot table, and a salad bar, and a breakfast special, and… basically so many things they don’t have time to concentrate on baking. It’s a shame because this place was such a great standby before! Hoping the new management recover their senses and get things back on track.

The Portuguese tarts were really delicious! Much better than the ones at St. Lawrence Market. Plus, the price is very reasonable.

The place is great; they are open from 4:30am to 10:00pm daily, and everything is fresh. Often, they are busy and you have to wait to be served. I do think they need to get faster toasters/​grills because the one they have now is slow, and there’s certainly room for improvement when it comes to customer service, but other than that, the food is great and the staff are friendly.

Great bread and the best custard tarts, so reasonably priced and all served up by the sweetest staff ever. Little warm community vibe here, I’m lucky to have Alcoa as my local bakery :)

Get my bread from here multiple times a week. Delicious bread, decent deserts, the best espresso in the area hands down. The staff is very rude though and they talk smack in Portuguese to each other not knowing I’m actually Portuguese. I put it up with it because the espresso is so good.

I randomly stopped by Alcoa on the way to a dinner party and was pleasantly surprised despite not having great expectations. The bakery is set up as a very versatile shop that sells everything from specialty deli to items you would find only in a corner store!
Walk straight past these distractions to the counter with Portuguese tarts and here you will find a little bit of heaven. Alcosa offers great variety and the prices are more than reasonable at about 1.50/tart! I’d recommend trying the one with the brownish filling. The bittersweet taste of orange peel comes through in perfect harmony with other flavours making this one of my new favourite treats in the city.
Overall a good stop for tarts if you’re on the block.

Had a latte, special toast with ham and cheese as well as natta which is a Portuguese custard treat.
It was great and great prices too and I think that’s why it’s a local hangout.
I wouldn’t come here for a Sunday brunch with the family but will come here to grab a quick coffee and a sandwich or a fresh bread.

Wanted to try another Portuguese bakery and googled. Came here based on the Blog TO top ten list … and Unilocal reviews of coz…
This is more like a family restaurant. Very friendly staffs. Great coffee. Less variety of pastries than Seara bakery, and their Portuguese tart is a bit sweeter. I like their pastries over Seara. It’s more puffy… very puffy fluffy… One of the customers recommended the grilled cheese veal sandwich. She said she has the sandwich almost everyday. Will come back for the sandwich! Tart is just a dollar and $ 1.75 for the pastry. Great price :) Had learned to say the tart and pastry in Portuguese, but had been «digested» together with the tart and pastry… got to go back and learn again … lol: p

Very nice people. Good coffee. Really good and cheap desserts. Decent veal sandwiches with light fluffy bread but without much density.
The service though is what makes this place. Dessert is very good though. Ordered a coffee to go with 3 milk and the lady behind the counter was like «let me warm that up for you (the milk) it’s cold outside.»
Love this place. Very homie, warm, cozy, with nice people. Not the fanciest place, but simple, cheap, and reminds me of home.

The best tarts and then much more. This is a wonderful little place where freshly baked goodies abound. I took a couple of my favorite ladies there and we had a wonderful little treat.
I had not eaten lunch, and I ordered a custom sandwich with dry salamis of my choice. I also had a capapucino and one of the absolutely most wonderful tarts which are their specialty.
The ladies each had a specialty coffee and shared a wonderful pastry.
For all that goodness the bill was under $ 13.00 all in! Good and reasonnable… what a combo…

The moment I stepped inside Alcoa Bakery, I feel like I am transferred to one of the smaller village in Portugal…
The staffs all have this big smile on their faces, addressing all the customers by their first names. Older folks enjoying their coffee while chatting with everyone around them. TVs are tuned into Portuguese’s CP24/​Sportnet.
Double Espresso is for sure a great pick me up went well with my egg custard tart.
Great place to come in for a nice coffee break! Or just to pick up some baked goods: bread and desserts both looks and smell great!

If you head north on Ossington — all the way up – you will find a Portuguese pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Alcoa Bakery is a spacious shop with a deli, delicious baked treats and for some reason a glass case sparsely filled with dusty, plastic-​wrapped toys, each priced at $ 10.
I had the veal sandwich here and it’s a beaut. It’s positively stuffed with meat and peppers and the bread is soft and tasty. They’ve got a fridge filled with cold drinks so if you have a hankering for Sumol, you know where to go.
The service is super friendly here, an the prices are great. Three of us ate for about $ 20 total. Definitely worth the trek.
Obligatory Title Pun: This roomy bakeshop’s no ALCOve.
Menu Readability: The staff will tell you what’s what.
Need to mention: As far as I know they are not affilated with any aluminum producers.
What this place teaches me about myself: There is something strangely alluring about toys you to need a key to access.

I live in the neighbourhood of this bakery. It is a nice destination for a quick breakfast on the weekend (it has a sit down area and coffee stand) or to pick up bakery items throughout the week.
The selection of portuguese pastries rivals any in the city. I recommend the cream horns. It also offers other Portuguese food staples like specialty cereals.
It is a great place to get fresh buns and baguettes too at decent prices (baguette = 1.50). The deli section is small but all the important coldcuts can be found there. Also great fish cakes for a quick snack!
The only problem I see is that the pastries/​bread section has a different line than the deli counter and therefore if you want to get stuff for a full sandwich and a sweet treat, you usually have to wait in two lines.