Michel’s Bakery Cafe

Tried this place multiple times. Service is horrible, the employees are complaining about working while helping you and are super impatient. The food is overpriced and I would recommend going somewhere else!

This is a nice Michel’s Baguette location. It opens early on Saturdays & it was already busy when we arrived. They have a nice seating area for those who want to eat off their deli style menu. They also have the quick service window where you can buy bread & pastries. Their loaves sell quickly & for the cranberry loaf they were baking a new batch. They said it wouldn’t be ready for another 10 minutes. My mom decided to come back for the new batch but by the time we got back it was already sold out! For myself I bought a scone & it was delicious.

4.5 stars! My favourite baguette location still! Go early, 30 mins before mall the opens to get fresh breads. Love the egg bread, croissants and bagels. Soups and salads are good but can get pricey. A bagel or fresh egg bread paired off with a German Chocolate flavoured coffee is my Yorkdale morning bliss.
Please note: service generally okay, the boss sometimes sits in the back corner on his laptop or phone. However, sometimes those waitresses/​cashiers behind the counter can get feisty! Ladies: guards should be slightly up!

Small brunette cashier is so impatient and rude. Other than that, location is packed with few available seats and decently clean. Food old taste better if I haven’t lost my appetite from that rude cashier.

I love everything. There’s a lot of vegetarian options. The bread is perfect. This is my new bakery. I love this place so much. I live near there. I just want something different.

The cheese and fruit danishes are always awesome, just wish they were fresh or warmed up.
This location is always pretty busy, but the line goes really fast if you’re just ordering a drink and a pastry. Good place to get a quick bite to satisfy your sweet-​tooth.

Surprised at the value considering I’m in an upscale mall. Had a great blueberry Danish on a previous review recommendation. Also a German chocolate cake coffee. Better fare than Tims any day! Nice place to crash while wife hunts down sales.

I was blown away by how GOOD this place is. I’m not a fan of bread/​bagels/​baguettes. anything like that really. But my friend and I stopped by and when I tried his fanzette with cheese (basically a gourmet croissant with a sausage and cheese– looks like a westernized ‘cheun jai bao’ for all my cantonese folks)
The pastries and baguettes look super fresh and they are not understaffed at all. So many people working hard in an assembly line and customer service was great. The pastries are also very unique and they have stuff like a pizza croissant. They also had a staff giving out free smoothie and baguette/​cinnamon bun samples– THE MANGO SMOOTHIE BLEW MY MIND. Also, very fresh samples because when I came back a second time ten min later to get my own cheese stick (my friend’s fanzette taste lingered in my mouth and begged me to come back for more. That tease.), anyway– new samples were out. Yum! Only downfall is that it is a bit pricey– his fanzette was around $ 5…
Very efficient although there’s always a inevitable line here. I’ll try the other things next time and maybe sit down as well.

Got a bacon croissantwich that had one piece of bacon for $ 4.90. What a rip off. The seating is fine at this time of the day but given the price point i am very disappointed. The staff are inattentive and disirganized even with the assembly line stlye.

I tend to drop by Michel’s when at Yorkdale. I love most of their pastries, they have great sandwiches and a few other nice things as well. I wouldn’t necessarily invite someone to lunch here but it’s a nice drop-​in place with decently good food and a pleasant atmosphere.

This is my favourite bakery because of how incredible their sandwiches are. Not everything in this place is incredible, but it still gets 5 stars from me because of how amazing certain items are. The best part, is that the quality hasn’t changed in over 20 years. Whenever I come to Yorkdale I have to order the tuna sandwich on a sesame seed baguette. The quality of the ingredients and skill cooking/​baking the food really comes through. I often pair it with minestrone soup, and lately I’ve been having cream of broccoli, and a coffee. The double chocolate croissant is amazing. I recently tried one of their newer croissant flavours, I think hazelnut? Wasn’t good. But the cheese danishes are, as are the non-​sweet croissants. The location at Vaughan Mills doesn’t compare. Don’t even bother going to that one. The one at Fairview isn’t as good either. This location is doing something right. They renovated about a year ago and added more seating, which really helps, because it gets packed sometimes. This is the best part of Yorkdale for me!

Ordered a panini, soup and quiche. The cajun chicken panini was okay, not a lot of chicken in the panini for me. The clam chowder soup were very good if you like oceany soups (tastes briny I want to say, or how certain fish taste fishy), the quiche was okay, nothing special. Those 3 items plus a small chocolate milk set us back $ 21. Not bad for the price.

I have always loved this place even before the renovation.
The blueberry cheese danish is my favourite item… flaky pastry with a ring of cheese surrounds the blueberry centre. My mouth waters every time I’m near this place.
For a breakfast treat, I love the broccoli cheese danish…
Michel’s Baguette is irresistible.

Killer sandwiches and pastries. When I first tried their chocolate crescent, I fell in love with it instantly. It was so fresh, so soft and the chocolate was not overly sweet, dusted with powdered sugar, it’s to die for when you have a sweet craving! Not to mention how much I love the variety of specialty sandwiches and deli sandwiches that they have. One thing that could be better in my opinion is definitely the pricing. I feel that the sandwiches and certain pastries are overpriced. For example, a simple tuna salad or chicken salad sandwich is about $ 7.99 (that’s the price of an entire combo for food elsewhere).

There is no reason to be getting your bagels & pastries from anyone else in the mall when there’s a Michel’s Baguette around. Their bagels & pastries are so light and fresh, you don’t feel as if you’ve just ingested heavy carbs. Service is always great, and their coffee’s pretty good too. Also a nice place to sit in the mall, away from the crowds…

In my opinion, this is the ONLY way to do chocolate croissants. The spinach and feta is good too but my fav is chocolate. The food is always fresh and delicious.

For Yorkdale this is a 4* choice in terms of quality and price.
For all other purposes this is really an average 3.5. Anyways this place is cafeteria style and you can select from a variety of lunching foods from pizzas to salads, sandwiches, wraps and hot specials. It’s all good home cooking.
The bakery is quite good too for pastries and such. Stop in here if your not down for food court crap and don’t want to busy ur wallet on the shitty rainforest café.

I just love this place! The soups I have had are flavorful (Tomato bisque reminds me of back home!) I like the feel of the whole place and the staff are always friendly to me. I recommend the grilled Cajun panini– it’s superb!

This place is slightly better than the Yorkdale food court in that it’s not quite as loud and dirty. The food selection is a bit uninspired for Toronto — this is back-​to-​basics soup, sandwiches, and salads. That being said, you can probably find something here you won’t dislike entirely.
I had a pretty decent 5-​bean salad and although it was somewhat overpriced, it was also pretty tasty (and not too oily)! I managed to find a seat on a Friday when the parking lot outside was rammed, so that gives me some hope that finding a table here isn’t an exercise in futility.
Check out the freshly baked bread!

There’s nothing I enjoy more in this world then a freshly baked light and fluffy piece of bread! Most people do not understand my appreciation for bread, but I kidd you not, when they made the phrase, «Man can’t live on bread alone» they clearly did not sample the whole population!
I went here last weekend for lunch. Yorkdale is a pretty busy mall, and Michel’s is no exception. There’s two counters, one where you can go buy breads and other goodies from behind the counter, and then there’s the line where you can buy food such as soups, sandwiches and desserts. For first timers like myself, it’s all sorta confusing because the two lines intersect each other. I tried their onion and cheese bun, which was a good size and absolutely delish!
They do have a pretty good size seating area so you can sit and eat. It’s like a food court, only they have people to clear the tables. If you are lucky to find one that is clean during busy hours, then grab it. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until someone comes to pick up the trays and plates. There is no designated place to put your used plates even if you wanted to clear your table for the next person.
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