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Cafés & Bakeries

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No visit to Durham is complete without checking out it's vibrant café culture or visiting one of the many local bakeries.

You don’t need to look far for somewhere to grab your morning coffee or for something to satisfy your sweet tooth as there are independent cafés and bakeries in every corner of Durham Region. Feel like a local by joining the ongoing debate about which bakery makes the best apple fritters or cozy up in a café with a signature latte.

Ajax

Baking At Its Best

Bean & Basket

Biscuits to Baskets

Cakes & Co.

Choko-Mocko Gluten Free Bakeshop 

Goldies Café + Eatery

Hollywood Donuts

La Casita del Cafe (Pink Coffee Trailer)

Nazareth Brothers Bakery

Our Little Bakery

Petit Delights

Sea Salt Seafood Café

Sweet Heart Cafe

The Plae House

Brock

Canter Coffee Café - Cannington

Canter Coffee Trailer - Sunderland (seasonal)

The Sweet Spot - Sunderland (opening March 2026)

The Shortiss Cafe Bar - Beaverton

Underground Bakeshop - Beaverton

Clarington

Coffin Creek Coffee Co. - Courtice

Enchanted Crystal Café - Orono

Krumbs Breadery & Stuff - Bowmanville

Orono Country Café - Orono

Paisley's British Shoppe - Bowmanville

Pound & Pestle - Orono

Roam Coffee & Nest Specialty Desserts - Bowmanville

Sift Bakery - Newcastle

Sugar Dust Sweets & Cafe - Bowmanville

The Toasted Walnut - Bowmanville

The Wellington Lofts Cafe - Bowmanville

Oshawa

Aves Coffee Company

Belle Vie Cafe & Bakery

BOND|ST Cafe

Brew Wizards Board Game Cafe

Cupcake Goodness

Crave Doughnuts

Cork and Bean

Frantastic Events

Isabella's Chocolate Cafe

Kareza Cafe

Olive Branch Cafe

Sweet Bites Cafe & Bake Shop

The Baker’s Table

White Feather Country Store

Pickering

Chachee’s Chai Cafe

Coco Cake Co.

Dessert Lounge & Café

Fuwa Fuwa Dessert Cafe

Heaffles

MacKay's Bakery

OpenStudio Art Cafe

The Breadhouse Bakery

Trebilcock Coffee Roasters

Scugog

Hanks Pastries 

Nexus Coffee Company

The Pantry Shelf Cafe

That Place On Queen

Uxbridge

Annina's Bakeshop

Little Thief Bakery Co.

Mani Tea

The Bridge Social

Tindall Farm & Market

Whitby

8-Bit Beans Cafe

Belle Vie Cafe and Bakery

BreadChubby

Brock Street Espresso

Caldense Bakery

The Concrete Cafe

Crave Doughnuts

Cupcake Junkie

Jacked Up Coffee

Melly's Marketplace + Cafe

Mitchel’s Cake & Dessert Co.

Picadilly Cakery

The Goodberry

The Station Bakery

The Souk

The Village Bakeshop

Tito Parley's

Truenote Coffee

Upshot Coffee Co.

Sweets and specialty stores

 Chocolate and Candy
 Ice Cream
 For more cafés and bakeries to visit in Durham, check out these blog posts: