Dauphine - Modern and chic

10129 104 Street

Sunday and Monday Closed
Tuesday to Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Friday 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
780 421 4410

Dauphine is a well established little Bakery in the heart of Downtown Edmonton.  

 This place is cozy with abnormally high ceilings, they are at least 20 feet tall. The bakery is

divided with half of it set up to be a cafe with a large chalkboard displaying the philosophy behind Dauphine. The other half of the bakery is adorned with display cases filled with cookies, tortes, slices of cake, eclairs, and other pastries. The buns and breads are lined up in baskets behind these. I have never eaten a soup or sandwich here, nor any other "lunch" staple, not to say I wouldn't, but any time I come in here all the tables are filled up with eager and hungry peeps. Also, its very close to oodle noodle and I just cant resist going there to fill my hungry belly; who could resist all those oodles of noodles in a scrumptious curry sauce?


 On this very special occasion (a Saturday farmers market kind of day) I visited Dauphine with my husband and son. We walked in to a bustling and very warm Dauphine after we wetted our appetites from the small array of baked goods they had displayed at the farmers market.

 We bought a brownie, spice muffin, baguette, and a slice of carrot cake. Although everything was good, it was only that. Nothing I ate left me with that feeling of heavenly goodness in my tummy, on the contrary, I did not finish my brownie (!! never happens) and my carrot cake was so mediocre I forgot about it in the fridge. The baguette was the best thing we purchased that day, but it did not compare to ones I have bought at other local bakeries.

 Will I come back to Dauphine? Most definitely. I'm sure there are things here I haven't tried yet that will be so irresistible to me that the mere thought of them will keep me up at night, tantalizing me....but nothing I tried here today.

Italian Bakery - Downtown location

Italian Bakery
10644 97 Street
Monday to Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
780 424 4830

My next stop is the Italian Bakery, which is actually located in China Town; and no it's not Spinellis the Italian shop. This is a smaller version of the Italian shop with about three times as many baked goodies and obviously different owners, the Frattin's. I have yet to meet these wonderful people and when I do I will gladly shake their hands, hug them, and maybe more....no not really, but I am glad  for their selection of breads, buns, and pastries; it is unbelievably large and of course delicious.

On this fabulous occasion my box of goodies contained biscotti, an oreo mousse cupcake, cannelloni, an eclair, carrot cake, mini cheese pastries, and pretzel buns. The biscotti were amazing and very fresh with a wide variety to choose from; the oreo mousse cupcake was OMG good (the base was made of dark chocolate, no paper liner); the cannelloni, eclair and carrot cake were good albeit very, very sweet; the mini cheese pastries here were awesome (they usually have spinach ones too but they were sold out); and the pretzel buns were to die for. This place is great for many reasons, but one of them is that they always come out with new things for customers to try out. Out of the twenty times or so that I have been to the Italian Bakery, half of those times I have been pleasantly surprised to find new treats I had never seen here before. Their regular goodies definitely have bragging rights though: apple pie, lemon meringue pie, donuts (the jelly filled ones are a-mazing), cookies, tortes (nutella torte!), hockey pucks, cream puffs, rum balls; a very vast variety. 

Not only does the Italian Bakery sell sweets, but the buns and breads also hold a special place in my heart and mouth. Pagnotta, German rye, Pumpernickel rye, dinner buns, crusty buns, are just a few of the varieties.

In addition to being a Bakery this place sells many Italian products as well as other European ones. It's a mini grocery store minus fruits and vegetables with fabulous prices.

Do I come here a lot? You bet I do. Will I keep shopping here? These guys could move to the moon and I'd rent a shuttle and fly down there; it would definitely be worth the trip.

Note: these guys have one more location; 4118 and 118 ave. This location is much smaller and has less variety than the downtown one.