Coffee & Chemistry
Crust Bakery at Uptown
The Fort Street bakery's Uptown counter, putting proper French pastry and real espresso in the middle of Saanich.
Uptown, Saanich Core
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The Fort Street bakery's Uptown counter, putting proper French pastry and real espresso in the middle of Saanich.
Uptown, Saanich Core
More infoCrust has been a Fort Street fixture since 2013, and its Uptown counter runs the same case: croissants and pain au chocolat that go first, fruit tarts and cakes that hold all day, and espresso that is genuinely good rather than merely present. It is a kiosk rather than a room, so this is a paper bag and a bench instead of a long sit. That is fine here, because Uptown has sun, seating and a whole plaza to walk it off in, and it is the easiest good pastry on this side of Saanich by a distance.
It is a counter on the Uptown boulevard rather than a sit-down room, so order and take it outside to the plaza seating. Croissants and pain au chocolat go early; the tarts and cakes hold all day. Open 8:30 until late afternoon, seven days. Parking at Uptown is free and enormous, the bus exchange is right there, and Kinu and the rest of the Uptown restaurants are a two-minute walk.
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