Take a trip down to the Cottage Bakery and Café

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This article was published 11/12/2017 (3046 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

There are two good reasons to visit The Cottage Bakery and Café: one is to be a part of the Cottage Bakery legacy, which dates back to 1932, and the other is to savour their tasty fare.

  The history of the bakery has been carefully written onto a large chalkboard which takes up a great deal of wall space. Both my lunch date and I read the entire history and at first I wondered why others in the café were not. With the bakery being close to a high school, all of the other patrons were regular customers, having seen the message many, many times.

I chose the Mediterranean pesto panini melt and broccoli cheddar soup. The gal serving us indicated that she had made the soup herself that very morning. I felt that I would be insulting her cooking if I didn’t taste it. The crunchy panini started with a chicken breast, roasted peppers and cheese (of course). What was unusual about the panini was the inclusion of what I thought was an olive tapenade (which originates from the south of France), as opposed to a basil pesto. I am quite fond of the pungent tastes of a tapenade so was quite content. I also appreciated the crispy panini.

My lunch date also chose the soup and a chicken burger which looked to be on special that day. It too started with a chicken breast, coated and deep fried in this case, and was also adorned with cheese (unmelted).

Even though I don’t typically indulge in dessert, especially at lunch time, we were lunching in a bakery so of course we had to sample something! We decided upon splitting a date square. In Manitoba and other places on the prairies the date square is called matrimonial cake.

Kathryne Grisim is a local food and travel writer and blogger: foodmusings.ca. She believes food = love.