Aiko I.
Yelp
I was born and raised in Japan. I lived in Tokyo (prior to immigrating to Canada) enjoying patisserie hopping - visiting those Tokyo patisseries that
have French-style pastries/cakes with Japanese influences and ingredients. Those patisseries are competing on their products' looks/elegance, tastes, texture, balance, and quality of the ingredients.
In Canada, I have visited many places that use "Japanese style cakes" as their selling point in/around the GTA - unfortunately, many places are disappointing.
Mon-K never uses "Japanese style" as their main selling point, but their products do have Japanese influences and never disappoint me. This is one of the few places that truly keep high standards of Japanese patisseries in terms of taste, quality of the ingredients, and elegance in aesthetics.
We had:
Coconut Yuzu-mango mousse
Mont Blank
Cream puff
Japanese-cheesecakestyle soufflé cheesecake
Green tea tiramisu
Royal Dark chocolate
Tiramisu
All are delicious, and I especially recommend their cream puffs. When I first ate it about 10 years ago, I was so excited! Our family has been a big fan of this since. It is filled with a smooth vanilla custard in the puff with cookie dough baked on top, giving it an additional unique crispy texture.
Also, if you like Japanese-style cheesecake, Mon-K is the must to go. you will taste the rich flavor with perfect jiggly-ness, airiness, fluffiness,
lemony sourness, an extra-rich flavor, and a velvety texture from egg yolk - and it looks pretty, of course!
Mon-K is located in East York, NOT downtown or on a busy major street thus not very accessible. But worth a trip!!