Fantastic all around. Spoke with the owner for a bit and got the details. The family has been…read moremaking candies for generations. There are many local items on the shelves here, ask for help from the staff. I can't remember ever seeing such a variety of styles of chocolate anywhere. We ordered a bunch and happy all around. Definitely coming back and definitely recommended!

Best chocolates I have ever had. However they source their ingredients (and almost all of their…read morecandies and chocolates are made in-house) they get some of the best chocolate I have ever had. I have walked into other small, family-owned, specialist chocolate shops, Cooked with Calebaut and tried more exotic chocolates that come with a certificate telling you where they were grown and on what side of the hill the plants faced. None of them were as good as Candies of Merritt. The best of the best. Plus, the family that owns the shop are wonderful people to talk to.

My family loves this place!! Super yummy chocolates, sweet family owns it and work there. Always so…read morenice!! We used to come every couple of weeks in the summer for their gelato, and their chocolate is our go to present for teachers and anniversary gifts and whatnot. I completely recommend Esta chocolates to everyone!

Googled to find "best" coconut cream pie. This place came up .Its my husbands favorite ordered it…read morefor his birthday. I'm not a fan of coconut cream pie but everyone that ate it said it was the best they have ever had. Highly recommend it !

For those that know me you know I smell out the best bakeries anywhere. Well I didn't have to…read moretravel far for this one it's right in town. Great goodies here including cookies, cakes, pastries and a great cup of coffee. This is a world class baker set up right in town check it out soon and often. We just ordered birthday cakes and the price was way under what I expected being the same or less then the grocery store garb. And what a selection of gourmet cakes. Yum yum!!!

Their chocolate is the best! And if you like chocolate, I suggest you try Walker's Chocolate…read more They are local, Main St. W. Hamilton, and another in Burlington, Both in Ontario.

Walker's Chocolates is located on the beautiful Main Street in Hamilton right beside the cupcake…read morestore. It had a beautiful interior with extremely cute designs of chocolate, initials, wedding giftsets, necklaces and boxed chocolate at reasonable prices. I came here for the first time and picked out a bag of coffe beans inside dark chocolate for $4.85 and I bought 100g of ginger milk chocolate for $5.70. There were seven pieces of them and they were THE LARGEST ginger milk chocolates I've ever had. They're the size of Godiva truffles! The ginger pieces were HUGE and i did taste the spice it in. Liked it a lot, but I would love it if it was a little more spicy (just cause I'm a really big fan of ginger) I like to use the ginger milk chocolates when comparing chocolate stores because this is an item I get at every chocolate store. Coming back for the blue blueberry chocolates and the red cherry chocolates!!

Quite surprised not that many reviews for this amazing place!! I first encountered it pre-pandemic…read morewhile hiking at Dundas Peak (across the street-ish). I saw a huge line out of the door if this tiny house by the side of the road and we decided to pop by and so glad we did! We recently just went and they now have a drive through window. A drive through window to BUY PIEEEEEEEE and other things :) The storefront is quite small but full of goodies. They have pies, apple fritters, jam preserves, frozen savoury pies, honey, cookies, and a lot of other baked goods and what not. Pies come in small or large size. First time we bought two smalls and thought we would slowly eat one at home and share the other with friends. We thought wrong! Devoured both before we even left Burlington Hamilton area!! This time, we got two again: apple crumble and raspberry. We went around 3pm and many flavours were running low or out of stock. I highly recommend getting any of the crumble pies because the crumble is a chewy, full of texture layer on top of the pie versus a normal pie crust top. Our friends ordered different flavours so we had a nice time trying each other's by the picnic tables outside. So far my top choices are any of the crumble (apple, peach, rhubarb, and others) and then it would be the berry ones. I love a little bit of tartness! The staff are super friendly as well and always offering suggestions if you are a bit indecisive. GET THE PIES. Stop by and see and taste for yourself!!

A visit to Christie Lake will always mean stopping by Tiny Shop bakery. They have changed their…read moreset up where you can now order through a drive through. What a great idea! We came here last year and the shop can fit only about 2 customers due to covid and lining up outside can be hard during the cold weather. We love their fresh mini donuts and butter pecan tarts! Be sure to pick up some for a picnic at Christie Lake!

Went in to grab an order for someone else and spotted their viral dot cake. Since that trend is…read moremostly down in the US, I had to grab one since we rarely see them here in Canada! The cake itself was super moist, absolutely delicious, and so fun with all the sprinkles on top. The frosting was a thick buttercream style and a little too dense for my personal taste, but that is just me.. it was still tasty! The staff is super friendly, the shop is clean, and prices are totally reasonable. Plus, I've had their cupcakes and cookies before and have never been disappointed. I definitely need to go back soon to try their cinnamon buns because those definitely have my name written all over them! This is not a place where you can go and dine in so just be prepared to grab everything to go!

I've always been a fan of the Cupcake Shoppe in Toronto. Prairie Girl is nice, but a lot of…read morefrosting. When I lived in Montreal, my go-to cupcake place (and probably my overall favourite cupcake shop) was D'Liche, which sadly didn't make it through the covid quarantine. In London, I enjoyed Chick Cake Boss and when I came to Hamilton, I went to Bitten. However, none quite lived up to D'Liche, or even the Cupcake Shoppe...until Beyond the Batter. One bite and I deemed it my new favourite cupcake place. I had been drooling over the flavour list for probably a week now and finally convinced my brother to go grab some. We ended up with an assortment of flavours that not only sound delicious but look lovely. Work fast though because my brother got to the shop about 2.5 hours after they opened and a few flavours were already sold out. He got home with the cupcakes while my sister was on a work call. We are impatient though so we decided to try a cupcake anyways and just grabbed the one we knew she'd have no interest in - Macaroon, a coconut cake cupcake topped with chocolate frosting rolled in toasted coconut. We split it and both fell in love at first bite. My brother is not a frosting fan so for him cupcakes are all about the cake and he has been raving about how light and fluffy, yet flavourful the cake was all afternoon. As for me, I love frosting and cake and the flavours were just so spot on and rich that I was happy. Often frosting/icing can be end up tasting like icing sugar above all else but that wasn't the case here at all. When my sister got off her call, we went in for a second - Men are from Mars, a chocolate cupcake topped with malt frosting dipped in a chocolate shell with a caramel centre. It sounds like a lot but once again they nailed each flavour and they all worked together so well. I normally avoid chocolate cakes but this one was delicious and I'd definitely recommend. In fact, I'd recommended everything I've tried thus far and I'm sure that opinion isn't about to change.

Delicious!!!! Everyone knows about the Portuguese egg tarts, but the Corn Bread is not to be…read moremissed. It's up on the shelf behind the counter without a sign, so kind of hard to spot. But it's incredibly crusty and fluffy, even after a day in the counter.

Been away for a few decades it was awesome to come back to home and find some authentic and yummy…read morePortuguese flavors !! Enjoyed the savory seafood croquets yummy thanks !!!

My sister stopped on a whim one day and brought over the best butter tarts I had ever tasted. The…read morenext week, I picked up 2 doz butter tarts, pumpkin pie and some meat pies, it was Thanksgiving...lol The butter tarts barely made it to dessert, the pie was scrumptious(very cinnamony) and the meat pies were inhaled. Unfortunately, I have discovered bakery heaven!

All the baked goods are so good ...worth the drive nice place to take a run out ... wonderful staffread more