I do remember Open Window and especially their bagels. But thinking it over I haven't bought anything from Open Window in a long time -- that's not because it was bad but simply because I was buying other baked goods from other bakers. I suspect lots of others did that and so Open Window closed.
From the Star:
Sweet memories linger as beloved bakery closes
January 24, 2011
Laurie Monsebraaten
Staff Reporter
Marina Campbell-Matthews remembers the "Russian ladies" who handed out chocolate cookies and gingerbread men at the Open Window Bakery on Bathurst St. when she was a little girl in the early 1980s.
And she'll never forget the "warm, fresh, salt-bottom bagels that were best eaten plain."
...
The Open Window Bakery closed last Monday throwing about 150 employees out of work. ...
Feig, a Holocaust-survivor who came to Canada in 1953 with just $7, opened the bakery in 1957 with two bakers and a truck driver. They arranged the shop so people could see the bakers at work through the front window, a concept that gave the business its name: Open Window Bakery.
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We should hold a postmortem;
Was it the products, labour, taxes, locations?
The similar products are readily available at Chicago Bakery and Delicatessen on Roncesvalles Village Toronto and Krakow Deli in Mississauga; They too have their own small bakery to produce organic breads and pastries.
If you do not support your local merchants they go away.
David Pylyp
Living in Toronto
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