Scarborough, Ontario
Sixteen years of award-winning baking, the Crawford’s butchery tradition and shelves full of imported favourites have finally come east to Scarborough.
British Pride Bakery
65 Rylander Blvd
Scarborough, Ontario
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A full British bakery, butchery and imported grocer under one roof.
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Scarborough took its name from a Yorkshire seaside town, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before a proper British bakery followed. Our Scarborough shop is the newest of our nine across Ontario, and it arrives with a simple promise for Toronto’s east end: the same handmade pies, the same butchery craft and the same well-stocked grocery shelves that have earned our family more than a thousand five-star reviews since we began in Cambridge in 2010.
Step inside and you’ll find the counter doing what it does best — golden steak and ale pies, flaky sausage rolls still warm from the oven, Eccles cakes, scones and proper pastries made the way they should be. Behind it sits our butchery range, carrying on the Crawford’s legacy: traditional bangers, back bacon, black pudding and haggis, prepared to recipes that generations of British families would recognise at once. And around you, aisle after aisle of imported groceries — the teas, biscuits, crisps, chocolate and sauces that taste of home, whether home is Leeds, Glasgow or just a childhood kitchen where the kettle never went cold.
We may be new to Scarborough, but we’re not new to this. Sixteen years, nine shops and a cabinet of awards have taught us exactly what a British shop in Ontario should be: warm, generous and utterly uncompromising about quality. Come and say hello — the east end has waited long enough.
Sitting on Rylander Boulevard in Scarborough’s east end, the shop is an easy stop for anyone across Scarborough and Toronto east, with parking on site so you can pop in, pick up a warm pie or a bag of groceries, and be on your way. It is built to be a quick, friendly local visit rather than a special expedition.
Worth the drive
For years, east-enders in The Beaches, Leslieville and East York had to cross the city — or cross the Atlantic — for a proper steak and ale pie. Not any more. Now the trip is a short one, and it ends with warm sausage rolls, fresh-baked scones and a butchery counter stacked with back bacon and black pudding. We’ve already met plenty of expats who swear our pies taste like their nan’s, and just as many curious neighbours who came in for a look and left with a boot full of shopping.
From Markham, North York, Pickering, Ajax and Whitby, the drive has become something of a ritual: down for the weekend bake, a browse through the imported grocery shelves, and a quiet word with the butcher about haggis before Burns Night rolls around. Whether it’s Christmas puddings in December, hot cross buns at Easter or simply the makings of a proper Sunday fry-up, families across the east GTA and Durham are finding that a taste of Britain now lives much closer than it used to.
Getting here
Rylander Boulevard is at the very east end of Toronto, just off the 401, which makes this the nearest of our shops for Durham Region and most of York Region. Drive times are without traffic.
About 7 minutes over the Rouge
Barely across the river. Close enough to call in for warm sausage rolls on the way home, or a pork pie for the weekend.
British food delivered to PickeringAbout 15 minutes along the 401
An easy run for the full shop: back bacon and black pudding from the butcher’s counter, pies from the bakery, and tea, biscuits and crisps from the aisles.
British food delivered to AjaxAbout 20 minutes west on the 401
No fuss, simply British food done properly: steak and ale pies, Cornish pasties, sausage rolls and the groceries you grew up with, about 20 minutes from Whitby and Brooklin.
British food delivered to WhitbyAbout 25 minutes on the 401
Worth the drive when the cupboard needs a proper restock. For the weeks in between, our family at The Great British Shop delivers to Oshawa and the rest of Durham.
British food delivered to OshawaAbout 35 minutes on the 401
A longer run, so it pays to bring a list: pies for the week, bacon and puddings for the weekend fry, and a full grocery shop.
British food delivered to Bowmanville and ClaringtonAbout 25 minutes from central Markham
Closer than it sounds, and worth it for a bakery counter, a butcher’s counter and British and Irish groceries in one stop.
British food delivered to MarkhamAbout 45 minutes down the 404 and the 401
Scarborough is the nearest of our nine shops to Newmarket. For British imports, fine British foods and a proper bakery counter in one trip, it is a straight run down the 404. For the weeks you can’t make it, our family at The Great British Shop delivers to Newmarket.
British food delivered to NewmarketAbout 30 to 40 minutes down the 404
Richmond Hill is about half an hour away and Aurora a little more. Come for a pie and leave with the weekly shop.
British food delivered to Aurora and Richmond HillCan’t get to one of our shops? Order online and our family at The Great British Shop will deliver, anywhere in Canada.
In Scarborough
Steak and gravy, steak and ale, chicken and mushroom, shepherd’s pie, all made with real short-crust pastry and a filling worth the fork. Warm one through at home and dinner is sorted.
Golden sausage rolls, a Cornish pasty packed with beef and vegetables, a Scotch egg for the road. This is the flaky, hand-held baking the shop is built around.
The teas, biscuits, beans, sauces, crisps and chocolate bars you cannot find at the big supermarket, the small daily things that make a kitchen feel British again.
Victoria sponge, Eccles cakes, Empire biscuits and custard horns, the tea-time treats that turn an ordinary afternoon into a bit of an occasion.
New to haggis, black pudding or a bridie? Our Scarborough team is happy to explain what everything is and point you to a good place to start.
Fresh from our counters
Sirloin steak and sweet onion in a rich brown gravy.
Hand-cut sirloin steak with thick, sweet slices of onion in a deep, savoury gravy, wrapped in golden short pastry. The onions soften down and sweeten the gravy - a simple, honest combination that has fed British tables for generations.
The old-school classic - steak and kidney done properly.
Hand-cut sirloin steak and tender chunks of kidney in a deep, savoury gravy, under proper short pastry. Steak and kidney is a true British classic - the kidney bringing a rich, slightly minerally depth that gravy-lovers know and cherish. Made for those who want the real, old-fashioned thing.
Sirloin steak in a dark, velvety Guinness gravy.
Hand-cut sirloin steak in a deep, savoury gravy carrying the unmistakable richness of Guinness, sealed in golden short pastry. The stout adds a dark, almost velvety depth that makes this a proper cold-weather pie - hearty, familiar and full of flavour.
Sirloin steak and sharp, creamy Stilton in rich gravy.
Hand-cut sirloin steak with chunks of Stilton melting through a deep, savoury gravy, under a lid of golden short pastry. Stilton is England’s great blue cheese, sharp and creamy at once, and here it turns a classic steak pie into something quietly indulgent.
Comforting mince and onion, just like you remember.
Seasoned ground beef and diced onion in a deep, savoury gravy, wrapped in golden short pastry. Mince and onion is the humble, comforting pie of British childhoods - soft, rich and endlessly familiar. Simple food, done properly.
Tender chicken, peas and carrots in a homely gravy.
Diced chicken with peas and carrots in a smooth, comforting chicken gravy, under golden short pastry. Lighter than the beef pies but every bit as satisfying - a wholesome, homely plateful that suits just about anyone.
Good to know
Right here. British Pride Bakery’s Scarborough shop is our newest location and brings handmade pies, sausage rolls, scones and fresh British baking to Toronto’s east end, backed by sixteen years of family baking across Ontario.
We do. Our butchery range carries on the Crawford’s tradition, with haggis, black pudding, traditional bangers and back bacon all prepared to time-honoured recipes. They’re firm favourites with Scottish and English families across the east GTA.
Absolutely — Scarborough is an easy drive from Pickering, Ajax and Whitby, and plenty of Durham families already make the trip for warm sausage rolls, steak and ale pies and a proper browse of the grocery shelves. Many stock up the freezer while they’re at it.
Yes — our shelves are full of imported British groceries, from teas, biscuits and chocolate to crisps, sauces and pantry staples. If you’ve been missing a particular taste of home, there’s a good chance you’ll find it here.
We welcome wholesale enquiries from businesses across the east GTA. If you’d like our pies, sausage rolls or baked goods on your menu or shelves, get in touch through the contact details on this page and we’ll be glad to talk.
We certainly do. Haggis takes pride of place ahead of Burns Night, hot cross buns arrive for Easter, and Christmas brings mince pies, puddings and all the festive baking you’d hope for. Seasonal favourites go quickly, so it’s worth coming in early.
Our current hours are shown on this page and on the store’s Google listing, which is always kept up to date — including any holiday changes.
Yes. Our Scarborough shop at 65 Rylander Boulevard is in Toronto’s east end, with a bakery counter, a British butcher’s counter and imported British and Irish groceries. Our Mississauga shop is the easier one for the west side of the city.
The nearest British Pride Bakery to Newmarket is our Scarborough shop at 65 Rylander Boulevard, about 45 minutes down the 404 and the 401. It has a fresh bakery counter, a British butcher’s counter and imported British and Irish groceries. If that is too far for a weekly shop, our family at The Great British Shop delivers British groceries to Newmarket.
At our Scarborough shop, the nearest of our nine to Newmarket. Imported British biscuits, chocolate, tea, crisps and pantry staples sit alongside our own pies, sausage rolls and butcher’s counter, so the fine British foods and the everyday imports come home in one trip.
Yes, at our Scarborough shop. Steak pies, sausage rolls and Cornish pasties come from the bakery counter, and black and white pudding, back bacon and bangers from the butcher’s counter.
Yes. Our Scarborough shop is about 20 minutes west of Whitby on the 401, and it is simply British food under one roof: pies and sausage rolls from the bakery, back bacon and puddings from the butcher’s counter, and imported groceries. Our family at The Great British Shop also delivers to Whitby.
About 20 minutes from Whitby and 25 from Oshawa, west on the 401 without traffic. Pickering is about 7 minutes and Ajax about 15.
Yes. The Scarborough shop carries Brennan’s and Celtic Gourmet Irish-style bacon, pork bangers, cocktail sausages, black pudding and white pudding, along with our own Irish sausages and soda farls.
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