Todo Rico Bakery

I recommend 100% the chuleta caleña, it’s a massive plate with a perfectly cooked piece of pork, very crispy in the outside and juicy inside. I also recommend you have a natural passion fruit juice to accompany this crazy amount of food.

Sadly disappointed by this place. The beef empanadas we ordered were filled with more potato then anything else. It’s too bad because the crust and hot sauce was yummy. We won’t be back. Sorry!

The beef and potato empanadas are quite good (they don’t keep well though… Definitely eat them fresh).
I’m a huge fan of the Spanish version, with a pastry crust. That being said, I was pleasantly surprised to bite into the crispy, corn-​based shell of Todo Rico empanadas. Slightly oily, but wonderfully crunchy. The contrast with the soft filling is nice, although the filling was more potato than beef. Note that the potato still had the skin on. I don’t mind that, but be warned if you’re picky!
The empanadas alone didn’t deliver on flavour without the spicy sauce. That sauce, MAN. It’s so tangy, love the coriander and peppers. That sauce made these empanadas shine. Really yummy with it, lacklustre without.

3.5* This is a small-​ish bakery right beside Long & McQuade, in the same plaza as Leela’s Roti. There is seating and as opposed to Chinese and some Italian bakeries, all the items are kept in a glass showcase.
I usually love bakeries, but none of the sweet stuff appealed to me, at least visually. I’m not the hugest fan of meringues or stuff that’s made out of puff pastry and looks like Flaky Puffs… only with little-​to-​no filling. I ordered the Chicharron de Guayaba and just had a bite of it and it was meh. Fairly dry and guava filling was concentrated into a small portion of the «chicharron».
So personally, I’d skip the sweets and head directly to the savouries!
During my visit, they had 2 kinds of empanadas available: Chicken and Beef/​Potato. The girl behind the counter served it in a plastic basket lined with a napkin and a spicy sauce came on the side. The Beef/​Potato was much better, Chicken was chunky, but a bit dry. Slightly oily since both are fried. Size was good for price ($ 1.25), about half that of a Jamaican Beef Patty.
Not sure what the other reviewers are talking about, but there aren’t any soups or arepas. I specifically asked about the arepas and the girl showed me these thick tortillas from the freezer. I said, «Nothing like sandwich?» and she said no. So perhaps they had them before.
There was some chicharrons and a sausage, but they looked über dry. So I’d just go for the empanadas as a snack IF I was in the area. Girl was friendly and helpful.

Love this place
The best Empanadas in the GTA.
The chicken and beef are great.
The price are great fair .
Not those high prices like Toronto.
The staff is super friendly.
I have to go back to try some of there soups.

Thrilled to write this review as this is one of my fave places to get my Colombian grub on. Its a bakery but you can also get actual hot dishes here as well. So you have that option if you’re hungry buy something from their bakery but you’re really hungry order a hot plate of food and you are on your way my friend.
Let me start off by saying that their food always tastes so fresh. Tastes like home made cooking, all the time. From their bakery you can get pastries, bread, empanadas, arepas (almost like a warm and thicker tortilla but better, try it with cheese!) and many other goodies. From their hot plates you can get soups to rice with chicken and salad or beef steak with chicharron (fried pork rinds, tastes so good) with rice and plantain or fish and more.
What won me over was their Arepas with cheese or with sausage. The cheese they use makes you believe they have a cow in their back yard which helps produces their fresh cheese. Of course they don’t but that’s how good it tastes. If you’re thirsty you can get a postobon drink (apple flavoured soda) to help that food go down.