Harina Bakeshoppe

One of the best in Town. Specialize in Filipino breads and pastries and the famous "pandesal or Filipino bun. You can buy it freshly baked and still warm from the oven, just like in the Philippines. Try others selection with ube or purple yam or taro. Parking is a challenge though but there some in nearby or accross the street. Location is at Bathurst and Wilson where most Filipino restaurants and eatery can be found.

Been wanting to come here and wouldn’t you know I get their ube roll cake for my birrhday as a gift a couple months ago The cake itself was soft and had a nice ube flavour. They colour was so eyecatching and the cream was nice and smooth. I cannot wait to go back and try more of their baked goods! A great spot for Filipino bakery items! Would love to experience an in store outing to see their service. Follow me on IG @thirst_and_taste for better pics, vids and more amazing content!

Harina Bakeshoppe sells a number of Filipino breads including pandesal, ube pandesal, monay, Spanish bread, pan de coco, ensaymada, as well as other pies and cakes like buko pie and sans rival. The bread is baked fresh in-house daily. The dozen plain pandesal $3.50 that I ordered was given to me in a paper bag, still warm from the oven so good!. It had a slightly firmer exterior than Baker’s Best, and was less sweet and dense, which I really enjoyed. Hubby and I really enjoyed their pan de coco. The bread was soft, with lots of fresh grated coconut. We both really appreciated that it was sizeable and not too sweet. The ube pandesal is not ube filled and did not have an ube flavour as I would have hoped. A dozen pre-packaged ube pandesal came to $3.50. We also purchased the ube bars, which were not as moist and lacked the more prominent ube flavour as I would have expected. They were coated in a generous amount of coconut, and the flavour overall was good. They limit the number of people in the store to three customers at a time . Prices are very reasonable. Will definitely be back for their fresh baked plain pandesal, pan de coco, and to try some other specialty breads.

This bakery always has fresh Filipino desserts and breads. I love the fresh Ube hopia. I am nearby this store at least once a week and I have to limit myself from going in every time. So yummy :

Wish I could give a more positive review but having had a subpar visit the last time, I can’t quite do that. The baked goods were decent- a little on the oily side but ok flavour. What I didn’t appreciate was the snarky customer service from the lady at the counter. I was with my husband and I ordered what was stated on the glass display which was ‘cupcake’ to which the lady rudely responded ‘that’s not a cupcake’. Mind you I wasn’t pointing at any great in particular, I just read what was on the glass menu. She proceeded to rudely tell me that there are no cupcakes in the bakery…very confusing since I was reading it quite well. A little taken aback by this I just asked my husband to order for me and surprisingly enough her tone changed immediately when he spoke with her. She was all of a sudden kind and well mannered. It would be in the best interest of this bakery to train their workers better. Regardless of whether or not these were family members of the owners or owners themselves, they should really take some time to evaluate their behaviour with ALL customers. You can do better Harina.

I went last week and it was my first time. I had the pandasel, the bread with pork inside and some ube cake. I was very delighted at how light the bun tasted and the filling was great. Everything tasted super fresh. I will be back for more!

Lots of Filipino bakeries in the area but Harina seems to be the only one that has freshly baked goods in house. Having said that, some are pre packed and ready to go so wished they had more freshly baked stuff still oozing with heat. They're known for their ube pandesal, not that sweet, as well as ube ensaymada brioche. Ube hopia as well as ube bars too. Lots of items infused with ube!

Best thing about this place is that they open early at 6am. I pass by on my way to work and pick up fresh pandesals to go along with my coffee. The Ube Hopia is better here than most places. You get MORE ube than dough.

The bitso taste great and I love the other breads also, but I hope they could add an expiration date on the displayed breads :

Bought some pandesal, ube pandesal and ube hopia. I asked for 12pcs ube hopia. I came home and when I looked inside the bag, they only gave 6pcs ube hopia. Checked the receipt and indeed they charged me for 12pcs.