What to know
- The bakery serves a rotating menu of Filipino-inspired pastries and beverages, including cinnamon rae rolls, ube desserts, calamansi cream puffs, croissant cups, pandan latte, and hot chacalate.
- Bakerrae is woman-run and marks Rhea Abayan’s return after closing her previous location in 2024.
- Pre-orders, catering, and special event options are available for weddings, celebrations, and corporate events.
Bakerrae transports you to the Philippines with every bite as the woman-run bakery opens its doors in Toronto’s East Chinatown.
Located at 326 Broadview Ave., the Filipino bakery returns after closing its last location in 2024. Bakerrae offers endless options with a bi-weekly rotating menu of nostalgic sweets that blend the owner’s childhood memories with her cultural heritage.
The pastry menu features croissant-like pastries with caramelized onions in soy sauce, special Rae Buns, croissant cups with various Filipino-inspired fillings, calamansi meringue cream puffs, laminated scones, cinnamon rae rolls, or ube on everything!
They also have drinks, featuring pandan latte, calamansi espresso tonic, matcha and hojicha, hot “chacalate”, amongst many more.
Bakerrae also sells a variety of types of cakes – from her “swirl,” “texture,” “bouquet” series, and “the Bakerrae basque.”
Chachalate also reunited with Bakerrae under the same roof – where Chachalate offers ethical, fruity chocolate bars.
If you’re planning for a wedding or other celebrations, pre-orders are also available, as well as catering and corporate events.
History of Bakerrae
Rhea Abayan, the owner of Bakerrae, isn’t new to the bakery business. She started doing pop-ups all over the city and soon after opened her first location at 149 Main St., while working full-time as a COVID-19 test nurse.
During the pandemic’s fatigue and hardships, baking was her escape, and opening up this bakery was a dream.
Unfortunately, she had to close the bakery and shared in an Instagram post that she was “devastated.” However, her passion for cafes never left as she continued with her co-owned microinfluencing account @twobitetwo on Instagram. And then one day, she worked to get her bakery back up and running with a new location.
In May 2024, Abayan decided to relocate her bakery to a spot on Queen St., which was the previous location of a grocery store, Luen Hop Centre. She shared her renovation journey on Instagram and worked to perfect her bakery’s aesthetic, from changing the floors, ceilings, walls, and adding a washroom.
This month, she finished all the preparations for the new location, and has soft-launched her bakery.
Bakerrae’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, according to Google.
