After changing ownership in 2014 (the shop’s now presided over by Canadian art legend Rodney Graham), Liberty Bakery underwent a full renovation, emerging as a brightly sunlit open-kitchen café with Livingstone-designed tables in pink and pistachio, original vintage oil-paint portraits and daffodil-stuffed vases on the window sills.
If that doesn’t sound like a little slice of heaven, try a rainbow slice: a light cream cake topped with multicoloured sprinkles. It’s one attractive new addition to the Liberty menu, joining stunners like Manjari chocolate pound cake with espresso ganache and glimmering gold leaf, ginger-sugar cookies shaped like Totoro (the cartoon character), chocolate cream puffs whimsically modelled after oysters (with a pearlescent white-chocolate sphere), limeade pie and thick wedges of frosted hummingbird cake. Everything is grandma’s-kitchen-meets-pastry-master flawless: absolutely delicious and created with artistic flair. Several favourites from the previous menu remain (lime and black bean soup, cinnamon-cardamon pinwheels) though bringing back their famous marzipan "potato" may take cajoling (join us).
If you’re looking to treat someone very nicely, especially a little one keen on cute cookies and pink-frosted princess cake, the new Liberty Bakery is a sweet dream. —Adrienne Matei
Liberty Bakery, 3966 Main St., Vancouver
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