Venezia Bakery

Let’s do the time warp again.
Walking into this place is like walking into 1988, in the best kind of way. Venezia is part deli, part bakery, part cheap lunch pit-​stop with a just a dash of convenience store. This place is bright white and gleaming, and brings all the neighbourhood old folks to the yard to gossip over apple turnovers and eclairs. Venny Bee makes seventy look fun.
When here, I go for the ham and cheese sandwich and a coffee, for a whopping $ 5. Be aware they have no vegetables in the shop (not even shredded iceberg), so your only choice is «Canadian ham or Portuguese ham?» The correct answer is Portuguese.
PEPPER POINTS for proximity to my couch.

I checked this place out because I have driven by here probably a million times but never gone in. I heard that they have a great giant powdered doughnut but when I went there on Saturday afternoon, there was no giant doughnut. I bought some Portuguese egg tarts (pastel de nata) and some european soda. The egg tarts were delicious, not too sweet and good size. You can get 6 for 5 dollars. The selection of other items was small but all the required items in a local pastry café are there. They also have some corner store items like cleaning products. I would recommend this place if you live in the area and would like to go grab a coffee and a sweet treat or sandwich in the morning or sat/​sun. When I returned on Sunday, they still did not have the doughnut but there were some patrons drinking their morning coffee and chatting it up (in Portuguese of course).
This review may change when I finally get my hands on that giant doughnut. :)