Montmartre Bakery

*Between 3 – 3.5 stars*
Good bakery in Scarborough. I went specifically after hearing about its strudels, pretzels, and croissants. Not the best in city, I feel, but decent in Scarborough.
I arrived around 5pm. I purchased some croissants, pretzels, dinner rolls, and, of course, their strudels in apple and cherry. I probably with added in some danishes and carrot cake into my purchase, but they were sold out. I really wanted a struesel, but they were sold out.
*The croissants are good when fresh. Though dry looking because it doesn’t after the sheen that other places have on their croissants (from the brush of butter on top), the croissants are airy with a light buttery touch.
*The pretzels are exactly as the other reviewer described: soft, chewy with the right amount of salt. Not hard! Too often I’ve hard a hard and stale pretzel sold as «fresh.»
The dinner rolls are alright. Not particularly special; tastes about the same as grocery in-​store bakery offerings. But, they were nearly all sold out when I arrived at Montmartre. (I purchased the last white dinner roll dozens and one of three remaining whole wheat dinner roll bags.) Convenience, perhaps?
The pricing posted for the strudels is for the entire strudel, which is about two feet long. I didn’t ask and ended up with two large strudels. I would have purchased the blueberry, too, but seeing how I got two strudels already and I didn’t want to speak up as there was a line forming, so I passed on the blueberry. I passed on the extra sugar sprinkle.
Both the apple and cherry were quite good. Not overly sweet with a good portion of filling. Good visible chunks of fruit. The pastry is flakey (as a strudel should be) with little bits falling out as you slice it into smaller portions. The end pieces are a little bit crunchy, and I would argue, are the best parts of the strudel. The cherry is a bit more messy since the cherries and the jam have (even) more of a tendency to leak out and escape. I would only add the extra sugar sprinkle for presentation for guests.
Parking is available in front of its entrance. Not very ample, but people walk in and out of the bakery very quickly. Around 10 – 20 spots.
It’s a good bakery, and I would head over again to sample their goods.
*Side note: If you go early on Saturday mornings, some parents bring their children, and in turn, may touch some of baked goods with their bare hands. (I have seen this.) This is not the fault of the store, and simply the nature of children being children (neither bad or good).
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Pricing, items with ranges made due to poor memory:
Dinner rolls (available in whole wheat or white) are priced at $ 1.95-$ 2.95/dozen
Croissants are priced at $ 0.80/each
Pretzels are priced at $ 0.75-$ 0.85/each
Apple strudels are priced at $ 4.70/each for entire two feet (half price for half a strudel)
Blueberry and cherry strudels are both priced at $ 5.50/each for entire two feet (half price for half a strudel)

Great bakery that we visited after searching on Chowhound. Definitely lived up to expectations. After seeing all the goodies at the bakery, my friend Fei went a little crazy. Ended up buying 4 soft pretzels (perfect soft, chewy texture with just the right amount of kosher salt) — she said it’s the best she’s had. We also got some bread and carrot cake. Freshness is definitely the key here, since they make everything fresh (you can see employees pushing out carts filled with breads and pastries as you are in there shopping). Pastry-​wise, got half a cherry and half a blueberry streudel. They really are 2′ long (you can ask for halves at half the price). The apple is $ 4.50, the cherry is $ 4.75, and the blueberry is $ 4.95. They ask you if you want any sugar sprinkled on yours. We opted not to. When we brought the goodies back, we had the streudels with coffee. Thes streudels are great, with the right amount of flake, and not overly sweet filling. The cherry was especially nice with big cherry chunks of tartness. The prices here are great, and you can’t beat the freshness!

Fantastic German bakery! My friend and I went specifically for strudel and soft pretzels. The place is basically a wholesale bakery that is also open to the public.
The prices are simply amazing. They have a variety of strudel (apple, blueberry, etc), they are HUGE (about 2 feet long) and only $ 4.00! You can also buy half a strudel, which is plenty as dessert for a family of six.
There is also Struesel (a crumbly coffee cake with fruit), Danishes, and more. The fresh buns smell wonderful, they have a large variety of cookies as well. We also bought soft pretzels and pretzel buns, everything was chewy goodness. We even ate buns on the drive home!