Reviews of La Provence (Bakery)

Andrea Clark

Cakes are fantastic. You won't be disappointed.

Zeeshan Tauhidi

Loved their Mango Mousse cake.. Not too sweet just perfect

Melissa Gummeson

The opera cake is beautiful and delicious

Rob Carter

A boulangerie lifted straight from the streets of Paris! After being spoiled by the incredibly delicious baguettes, croissants, and other delectable breads available on every corner while visiting Paris, I never thought I'd be able to find it right back at home. If you want a special treat, get there early and pick up a parisienne baguette. Warning: if you can't resist breaking a piece off to try right away you might just find there's nothing left by the time you get back home! Pair that up with a nice brie or camembert and a bottle of your favourite red wine for the ultimate summer picnic treat.

Bartosz Wernik

Ok so the pastries are delicious I won't deny that. The mousse cakes are great as are the macaroons, etc... The problem I have is that it always seems like that's all that's available, mousse cakes...with occasional cheese cake. Maybe I'm wrong but my folks have been buying here for a while and anytime I've been there, whether it's with them or not, that's all I find. Now this second part is likely just standard practice in cake shops but nevertheless I was disappointed to find out the cakes are frozen when purchased and have to be thawed at home. Again makes complete sense when you have to make an undetermined amount presale but it still threw me off...not to mention I couldn't eat some on way home. I feel like I should mention again that the mousse cakes are delectable.

Dale Haug

Great place to get a birthday cake!

Sam M. 4WStamps & Banknotes

Here is the most perfect gem in Kanata! A place that can compete with any top ranking bakery around the world!! The croissants are to die for and the cakes are just wow !! Totally first class

Narcisa Cruz

Perfect!

Franson butello

Excellent Cakes

Faieq Ahmed

Delicious cute cake shop! Really worthwhile to enjoy treats here once in a while and really good for those extra especial birthday's! Can be pricey!

Mallory MacDonald

Amazing pastries, cakes to die for, and little treats for the whole family. Will absolutely return!

Irina Mihai

We ordered a cake & almond croissants for a birthday party. Staff was super nice and helpful. Everything we ever got from them was beyond delicious!

ma jenny

yummy cupcakes bit some were too sweet for me

R T

Great selection of baked goods

Abby Dawson

Best bakery with the sweetest staff ????

Satvinder Singh Bawa

One of our favorite destinations for some amazing baked choices

Sarah MacDonald

Fantastic french pastries with creative designs. My top choice for cakes and pastries in the west end.

Ahmed Al Koufi

Great staff and amazing service

Jos Angel George

Good place to buy cakes

Nikolai Lugovskoi

Cakes are always fresh and super tasty. Very friendly people!

Kelena McDowell

Note that you need to pre-order buns

Amy M Simoneau

Simple, no-nonsense pastry and bread. La Provence doesn't do a lot of fancy, flavoured breads, but they make excellent Belgian, baguette, and multi-grain loaves. If you're looking for a great daily/weekly bakery. This is it. Their almond croissants are also excellent - lots of flavour and generous with the almonds on top. During the pandemic shutdown, they adapted quickly to phone-in orders, but you have to catch them when they're on site - no web orders.

Sean McNamee

Love the cakes

Alisa Gritsenko

Favourite bread bakery! Macaroons so tasty and soft. Baguette always fresh and crispy.

잔나비

My husband ordered my birthday cake here and it was one of the best black forest cake I've ever had. The cake was not too sweet and very soft. We really loved it and definitely revisit again!

Conan Moore

Wonderful local bakery. Beautiful and delicious cakes. Called an hour in advance and they were able to provide Tiramisu cake with 'Happy Birthday' message. Yes the cake was frozen, but made in-house and was excellent quality.

Marwan Dirani

Great pastries, cakes and pies. Everything I've bought from this bakery was delicious and tasted homemade . Highly recommended for birthday cakes, croissants, with a great selection ofother pastries and sweets. Outstanding quality, great friendly service. My favorite bakery in town.

Sohail A

Got 2 cakes for my wife's birthday, Parisienne and Tiramisu, I asked for frozen once since I was driving 2 hours away. Everything was excellent, very friendly helpful service, most importantly delicious cakes!

Stone Huang

Avoid getting frozen cakes from this place. The first time we got a tiramisu cake (a couple years ago), they told us to wait 2 hours before eating. We waited more than that but some bites were still frozen. Also the texture of the cake (or Lady fingers) was dry and did not taste very good. Recently, I gave it another try. I got the Parisian chocolate cake. The cake portion again tasted dry and had a weird texture. It was not moist or fluffy. Overall, I'm quite disappointed after hearing positive reviews from friends. Will not be getting any frozen cakes from here again.

Chris Gabbour

Fantastic quality french pastries, like cakes, pies and breads.

Lost Control

Great croissants, quiche, and cakes. The biggest problem is that they run out of products by the end of the day. Go early so you won't be disappointed. Oh, and don't try the almond croissants. They're fantastic - but highly addictive. ????

Bev Millar

Very nice bakery, has marzipan and fanciful cakes

Adrian Cupsa

Very good cakes

Bob Trudel

Lady Bug cake... Family tradition

Victor Brailovsky

Awesome pastry shop! Will definitely buy there again

Nerla Bertrand

Disappointed that the cake I ordered was a froken cake (plain vanilla cake). Ended up being dry. Was told only black forest cake and a few others are made fresh.

Christi Volden

Went here for a cake for my sister-in-law as we heard great things about the bakery. I’m not even very picky about cakes, but our entire family found the cake to be very dry. Seems like the bakery has a good selection of things, though, and can have orders ready pretty last minute. MIGHT try again in the future.

Stephanie Klett

We used this bakery for our wedding and we were so pleased with the cake! We did make the request for our cake some what last minute but they were still able to deliver exactly what we wanted on time! The carrot cake is absolutely delicious and the cake was decorated as requested. I would recommend this bakery!

Barb Purdy

We've been getting birthday cakes there for many years! Especially love the Mocha buttercreme.

Attila Simon

Very friendly people and omg what a good selection of baking Goods

Akshay Harshe

If you are in mood for pastries and cakes this is the place you want to be. Every single cake they have is mouth watering and stunningly beautiful I will highly recommend it you should try this if you are in the area

Hasopum

LOVE IT! It has become my only choice for cakes. Especially for special occasions. They have a wide veriety of cakes and selections of pastries and friendly and helpful staff. The cakes are frozen and they tell you to have it out to defrost for 2 hours, so make sure to get the cakes ahead of time. Price is the same for all cakes. It is 27 for the small ones, and 34 for the large one. Maybe a bit pricey but it is 100% worth it

John Paul Handrigan

Nice little bakery tucked away in a strip mall. They have a great selection of breads and desserts. It's a great place to grab a treat for others (e.g., get togethers, parties, etc.). Prices are in line with what you'd paid at other bakeries. Products may contain nuts - the cakes I got didn't have them, but I understood there could be traces from the baking area in them.

Mike B Richardson

Fresh and rich treats of all kinds. I had a delicious almond treat and an incredible mille feuille. ????????

Ted Branscombe

Wonderful little shop, their croissants are large, and of course delicious.

Jeff Clark (Neolist)

Excellent local bakery. The almond croissants are the best I've ever had. Get here early as they sometimes run out of options by afternoon.

Richard Lalancette

Wish they baked specialty bread here.

Aisha Toor

Great little bakery. Nice selection of pastries. Almond croissants and hazelnut pastry are super yummy.

Husam Aldakhil

Vanessa provided an excellent personalized service. Would highly refomment this place.

Dionysios Gosselin

So happy to find this place out in Stittsville/Kanata area. The bakery features solid staples such as baguettes that they go out of my way to grab. They also have in house macarons which are quite nice. Parking is easy and the location makes it so you can swing by if you frequent the Sobey’s on Terry Fox Dr.

narcisse edoukoi

(Translated) French pastry (Original) Pâtisserie française

Gurleen Kaur

Love this Bakery. Always delivers fresh and same quality cakes and pastries. Big fan of this place.

Lisa Casselman

Disorganized to say the least. Called us 4 hours after we were in the store to place an order (for the following week) and asked why we hadn't picked up our cake. Once we explained that the cake was for 6 days from then they told us it was an error. Went to pick up the cake on the arranged day and they had no record of it. They handed me a frozen cake and said it would thaw in 2 hours. 3 1/2 hours later we cut and served a still frozen cake. It was horrible. I was so embarrassed. No one liked it. Waste of my money. I won't be returning to La Provence again.

Jason Chapman

This is an awesome local french bakery. Highly recommended stopping in to pickup some pastries. Hardest part is deciding what to get. The selection is fantastic. The staff is also very friendly and helpful.

CASEY FOURNIER

Your eggnog mousse is the stuff legends are made out of.. these legends mainly consisting of really good mousse

Crystal Smalldon

Super bakery!

Jack Yue Heng Xu

The pastries were okay.

Emily Wu

The store sells some good stuff! Although the cinnamon sticks are my favorite.

Editors Lobby

Best croissants and pastries in town!! Kanata and Stittsville’s best bakery.

Goldwin Guiang

They have a wide assortment of pastries and desserts!! All of them are delicious and are must try's especially their Opera Cake and Lady Fingers. Not to mention that they do awesome custom cakes! Definitely the bakery shop to go to in Kanata. Highly recommended!

Paul LeMarquand

Ordered a chocolate birthday cake with buttercream icing and it was… meh. Tasted like a sponge cake with with whipped cream icing. Guests described it as flavourless.

Shan Sri

Their almond croissants are a must try! Great place with amazing food and service ????

RENE

frozen cakes !!!! RE: the response below from the owner. Maybe frozen cakes because not enough customers. Maybe not enough customers bc ppl are eventually choosing Sobeys (just across), that has fresh cakes. Maybe unhappy customers are choosing not to post here as a constructive feedback, but prefer to tell everyone they know that your store has frozen cakes. Maybe....

damien mergalet

Almond croissant was really good

Olive Xu

Fantastic bakery, lots of varieties to choose from for birthday or afternoon tea. Our family have tried a few bakeries in Ottawa and cannot praise more this local gem. The Mille Feuille is one of our favorite casual selections. Overall, the style and quality is comparable to one of the bakeries across the river in Quebec. New policy allowing Maximum one family of customers inside during this time and of course with mask on.

Monique Doucet

Every item we purchased was very fresh veg quiche, chocolate croissants. Best mille feuilles!! Friendly service. We will be a repeat customer.

Waves On Swim

I’ve been coming here for about two years and have noticed over the last few months that they’ve been cutting their already small individual deserts even smaller. It’s not as though the price point for these items is minimal and the portions in comparison to other French patisseries is not on par. At this rate, they’ll soon be selling slivers or bites of desserts. This bakery is local and I will continue to patron here, but will be going out of my way more often to purchase desserts from locations that are further away. This is a recipe that always lead to downfall. Customers always notice. As said in French I don’t appreciate when stores/services are “radin”

Ahmed El-sherbiny

The mille feuille cake was great

Don McClure

Excellent pastries and breads!

Susan Saler

All the cakes here are amazing! Super yummy!!!! I love the service and their cakes!

Shikha Saxena

Best millefeuille ever!

Arnel Obas

La Provence Kanata has been our favourite bakery for many years. A 'La Provence cake' is now a tradition in our family gatherings. All cakes and pastries are decorated with such artistry that it feels a shame to eat it. You can taste the quality and freshness in every bite! The mousse cup cakes is our top pick, with many variety from Lemmon cheese, chocolate, tiramisu to my all time favourite, mango! There were many instances where we bought pastries to bring to parties but they never all made it as they were consumed by the kids in the car. They are that good! Friendly staff, great bakery, reasonable price. Best bakery in Ottawa!!!!

Brian

Not what I was expecting. The croissant I got was stale and soggy at the same time. There chocolate has a bitter after taste. Plus very expensive. I hear the cakes are really good. Haven't had one yet though.

Nathan Cooke

Their mouse cakes are really light and flavourful. We also got a croissant that was delicious.

Michael F

I bought a chocolate mousse cake from La Provence Bakery yesterday for my wedding anniversary. The staff were helpful and responsive to my questions and gave me personalized service with no fuss. The cake itself was wonderful: not too heavy, but sweet. The artistry and design was wonderful. I would definitely come back here and recommend others.

Natalie Jeanneault

We ordered a black forest cake for my father's birthday and we were all incredibly pleased! It tasted homemade and the price was spot on. The staff were also very friendly. Highly recommended!

Ritu Sikka

Their pear and caramel cake had no flavour of pear, and little flavour in general. Their canolis were better.

Hanan Chaabane

Best almond croissant and millefeuille. Not too much sweet. Highly recommended.

Crystal Chaplyn

Lack of pride in ownership ? After ordering and enjoying a cake for a birthday in December, we decided to order once more for a second occasion in January. We called and spoke in great detail to bakery staff who recommended a cake that would serve the five of us and that was similar to the one ( which was no longer available) that we had previously. In a matter of fifteen minutes - and no later, we arrived to pick up the cake only to be told that it was "on back order" !!! We wondered whether we'd spoken to a different location but this wasn't the case. There was no apology and no suggestion as to when it would be available. What a way to run a business.....

Mohan Kumar

The cake here is so good!!

Dragos Musician

This is a very good store! I recomand!

Achim Flottmann

That's what I call a nice bakery. All cookies, cakes, breads and buns are very very delicious. Best Almond Croissants in Ottawa ever.

Anastassiya K

Very fresh and always delicious!

Alexis Ayoub

If I could give no stars I would. Awful experience. I Ordered the Black Forest cake. Looked okay, was under cooked and tasted awful. I went back the next day for a refund, the staff was awful and rude when I asked for the manager. Definitely will not be back. I do not recommend. If you’re looking for a cake, Sobey’s across the street has better tasting cakes.

kailash venkat

Nice service

ALONSO REBOLLEDO

Excellent French bakery, great service.

David H.

One of the best bakeries in the area. They usually have big variety and sorts of desserts to offer. The staff is always polite and helpful. Prices are fair when you consider the quality and expertise. Bought a cake for a b-day and everyone enjoyed it and commented on the rich moist and elegant texture of the cake.

Judy Jia

Cake was pretty good, but it was previously frozen

Maria Brown

I'm always very happy with the service I get from La Provence, they always go out of their way to make sure I get a great special order cake. We love all the products from this bakery!

Chalmers Reed

Absolutely wonderful baked goods. Not inexpensive but then the best seldom is. Nice treat.

Natalie Shumovsky

This place has the most authentic French pastries that I've tried in the Ottawa area. Too bad it's way on the other side of town from me. I go here to pick up fresh pastries for my mother for special occasions. She's from France and appreciates good pastries. They are not too sweet, and I like that too. My favorite is the mille-feuille. Get there early or they'll be sold out.

John Byrtus

The croissants are done perfectly. Flaky and buttery. It was the perfect butteryness where you don't need to add anything. The baguette was nice and crusty on the outside but was pillowy and had excellent chew. We also had the Parisian cake which was wonderfully chocolatey. The cake itself had excellent spring and texture, while the icing had just enough salt to bring out the chocolate taste.

Nathalie Goyette

Terrific bakery. Their croissants are great, and my father says that their baguettes are the best that he's had outside of France. Their cakes (which you can buy individual pieces of) are a bit expensive, but quality comes at a price, and they are quality. Their bread prices are excellent -- I believe their baguettes are around 3 dollars? -- which is more than reasonable.

Justin Hachey

Great service!!!

Seb Pilon

Great little bakery! Please be careful before you try the Almond croissants, they are ridiculously addictive and ever so delicious. Be sure to go early if you want some because they are so popular and often sell out! Had a cake from there too and it was so moist and delicious!!! Definitely recommend!

Richard Fitzgerald

Fresh baked goods with real ingredients.

Veronica T

Authentic little French Bakery...wholesome ingredients, real butter...something for everyone

Bonnie Craig

Purchased a small chocolate raspberry cake. Hardly any raspberry flavor. Disappointed…

Rick Whalen

Great bakery with the Best Scones in Ottawa!!! If you call ahead they'll set what you order aside or you can pre-order for you and have it baked for the next day!!! Love it!!!

John Andrews

We get the chocolate mouse ????, wish they had a bread slicer to cut our bread????

Kim Kelly

Was one of my favorite places for baked goods. We ordered croissants & meat pie for the holidays, as we have done in the past. They were disgusting and tasteless. Croissants were too big with little to no filling. The meat pie was small with very little filling. The top and bottom crust was thicker than the filling. Obviously there are new owners and using the reputation of previous owners. Wanted to support local but it was a waste of money for our family. Will never visit again

Lisa Pow

Not sure why we took so long to try this place!! Best lemon blueberry scones I've ever had!!! The baguettes and bread are amazing too.

R L

Are they still baking cakes fresh daily? I went today to buy a cake. and was told all cakes are frozen Bought one anyway and after thawing it, it tasted delicious. I would have given a 5 star if not frozen.

S Brady

Awesome treats

Teddy T

Although it is a little bit pricey, I have to say the desserts here are really awesome and make my day! I would like to visit again when I want to treat myself as rewards.

Kirsten Cousineau

Amazing desserts!!

Law Lee

Excellent pastry. I was looking for a good pastry shop in Kanata south. And I visit 2 of them. This is the better one and taste excellent. Many choices of pastry. I will come back for sure:)

Enterprise 777

Their butter Croissants and are authentic and deliciously fresh. I would recommend this place.

Sylvie Cote

Great variety of delicious pastries, cakes and more European style.

Mtb Canuck

Kanata has a Parisian boulangerie? This place seems to focus on cakes and pastries and they all look good. I wanted an authentic French bagguette and they do have a decent variety although it looks like they may run out near the end of the day, so get here early. It looks like the bread and pastries are made on site. The bread is way better than a super market bagguette and the one Baileys cupcake I tried was okay only. If you live in Kanata and need a French Bread fix or are in need of fancy desert to impress your friends check out La Provence.

Amir Eslampanah

Nice place to buy delicious custom cakes.

M M

Non sense website. Don't even waste your time. No online prices, you will need to drive all the way. Store is losing money, because of that. Better shop at Fidelice and order online.

greesje telah

Canada Day cupcakes ordered with quite expensive price. Small size with only red white sprinkles to differentiate as Canada Day treat. Photo shows size comparison to Nespresso glass mug. What a disappointment!

Shoban Ananda

Bought their mango mousse cake yesterday and it was a hit with my family. Really nice presentation and tasted delicious. Their tiramisu looked really good too - I'll definitely be trying it out next time.