There used to be an old bakery on Dunbar street. The kind containing, compared to chain bakeries pumping out the buns, a sparse amount of plain, homemade looking breaks and some pies, with white walls and no signs and a single older woman behind the counter, running the show. When she takes holidays so does the bakery.

Or this is what I imagined the bakery to be like. I never went inside - just walked by. But the other day I took my first walk down Dunbar since April to find a new Bakery front:

Well, it is possible that I missed this in April but - needless to say, it has the most amazing, perfect bakery feel - and name! I am not the only one who thinks so. Googling led to this article on the Dunbar area in the Straight just published this week. “Butter Baked Goods” is under the section of “Best name for a bakery”. The writer mentions that the bakery opened the same day that the schools did…I am assuming he means the neighborhood schools which opened…a long time ago. So I am guessing that the bakery is still owned by the same people, but it has been renovated.

I guess the best way to find out would be to go inside and ask. The problem is, this would likely involve buying something and my expectations for their goods, given the name and decor, are extremely high. Not only that but, part of me enjoys just the concept or fantasy or the perfect bakery and if I were to eat its baking, the bakery would land in the mundane, in reality, and become something under-appreciated.

But…if someone came to visit me and told me we were going…I might not be able to say no * wink * *wink *.