Shirin Mahal Bakery & Sweets

We had a breakfast combo with puris, katlama, meat katlama, halwa, chickpeas and pickled onions at 10:30am on a Saturday. Everything was incredibly oily. The puris and katlama were pretty much indelible, you could feel the oil gushing into your throat as you take a bite. We could only finish half our meal and we felt disgusted for hours after we left. As we were leaving, we politely told the staff that the food was a bit too oily and she responded really poorly. She said «that’s how it’s supposed to be» and «our food is good, that’s why people come». I find that very disappointing. When a customer gives you feedback, you should apologize that they didn’t have a good experience and thank them for their feedback rather than responding defensively and telling the customer they are wrong.

The review is primarily for halwa puri breakfast.
Was there for breakfast this weekend (halwa puri). it looked like It isn’t a dine in place but they put tables and chairs on weekends for breakfast, i say that because there was so much space that was not utilized and it looked the tables were haphazardly placed. Puris were extremely oily, even more oily than the one they make back home, and they didnt give paper towel or anything to wipe the oil of it (newspapers are given back home to wipe the oil, not hygenic, but useful nonetheless).
The potato and chickpeas gravies are good, but the puris are an oily turn off, I wouldn’t go there again for breakfast.
The service is not bad and they do have tasty collection of sweets.

The best sweets in Canada especially Samosa. Will recommend everyone to go to that place.

I give this place two stars only because the Mithai is good, though over-​priced. But the service at this place continues to be such a disappointment, the ladies behind the counter are unbelievably rude and behave as if they’re doing us a favour and giving the sweets for free. If you ask for a 1 pound box the contempt is written all over their faces. I’m sorry I can’t buy pounds of mithai just to appease you. When you’re in a business like this learn to treat your customers with some respect, your attitude has forced me to look for other bakeries that sell mithai.

This is a decent Pakistani bakery and you can find pretty much all the mithai (sweets), biscuits, cakes, patties, kachori, samosas and they offer halwa puri breakfast as well.
The store is quite big and clean. They have put in some tables and a TV so people can have a seat now as well.
I get stuff from here all the time and I don’t think I have been disappointed anytime. The service is good, the folks tend to be as fast as possible but it takes time when selecting sweets. Pricing is a little high but that with every bakery in town, you are paying for quality here.
For my Muslim Brother and Sister — They serve halal meat in their patties and Kachories

Lovely small place to have good bakery stuff. I was so surprised that some chocolates were using golden foil

This is a Pakistani bakery (or so it seems based on the products). Place looks clean but customer service is very bad. Every time I have been there, have had to literally fight my way through the order. Menu is very confusing and the amount of food you end up paying for is fuzzy at best. Sometimes it is not enough. I ordered 8 Puris and got 7 and that after the lady on the counter being down right confrontational with me. I won’t be going back again. Food quality has already been described in a review below although I have not found it to be that bad.

I like this place. Sweets are good quality and chicken patties are delicious ! Definitely would recommend to anyone who wants to taste good Indian — Pakistani sweets !

Good selection of Pakistani desserts or traditional sweets. Excellent chicken patties, which is a necessary staple at many bakeries in Pakistan. They also have a good selection of cookies. Very good traditional Pakistani breakfast served on weekends.
The BF includes Halwa Puri and Chana. Halwa is a semolina dessert, puris are fried tortillas, and Chana is chick peas. Served with pickles. Tea is served separately.
Service can be downright indifferent. Watch when your cookies are being packed. They sometimes throw them in the bag carelessly and many a pieces may be broken.
Nice sitting area.
It is better than many of its competitors including Al Mukarram. Despite bad service it now has 3 locations, that is a pity but a common trait of many Desi businesses.
It is comparatively more expensive than other East Indian sweet sellers. Desserts are about $ 10 per lb.
A focus on service will make it the best Pakistani or East Indian bakery and seller.

What a lovely little bakery! This place is a new tradition for my family. We visit every weekend and pick out biscuits for tea. We also by puffs filled with spicy beef. I even picked up my husband’s birthday cake from Shirin.
All sweets are sold at a flat rate in either half or one pound boxes. $ 10/​pound.
The bakery shop staff are cute. They’re always eager to pinch my daughter’s cheeks and fill our box with different biscuits. I recently discovered their rusk and can’t think of a cup of chai without it. Yes, it has all the crunchy goodness one would expect in rusk, only lighter and fresher. Delish!
What a perfect find!

Yay I M a fan, if you want good quality halwa poori in GTA, this is your place to be, they’ll give you two pooris halwa and chickpeas, potato curry, pickle and sweet for less than 8 bucks, the desi tea is extra. All of the above mentioned is really worth having, yeah and the people who’re not from subcontinent probably won’t be too scared going in, there aren’t too many seats tables available, this is a full fledge bakery and sweet shop and quite expensive at that, the sweet flavours are authentic pakistani. and i have just realized i am rambling, but people i gotta say I love their food, but at the rate their prices have climbed i am finding it difficult to keep pace, and losing patience fast…