Cordi Italian Bakery

Our go-​to place to get fresh bread, pastries/​desserts, and deli. Everything is fresh and tasty, and the staff is very friendly. If only they opened earlier than 9am!

Cordi has been our family bakery forever. My parents have lived in this neighborhood for almost 40 years and I really don’t remember a time where we didn’t go to Cordi 3−5x a week for our fresh bread. They have delicious breads, Italian styles being their specialty… tho I do love the sliced rye for toast bread in the mornings. It’s not typical rye, def has an Italian twist. Their deli section is well stocked with all the Italian essential cold cuts and cheeses and their pizza dough is the best.
My hubs is obsessed with their chocolate and twist donuts and I love their cinnamon buns. The zeppole are quite good too.
Staff is alright, sometimes you find them really friendly and other times not so much. Either way I go for the bread not the conversation.

Moved to Mississauga for over a year now and found this bakery by chance. I just say I’m the luckiest person because my family and I go there at least once a week and for all special occasions, whether it be mine or friends, I always order from here (specialize and known for their Sfoglia) or recommend my friends to go there.
I have not regretted since.
The staff are all so friendly, knowledgable and helpful. That’s something you barely find nowadays.
Keep up the great work and please don’t leave us. Thank you guys for everything!

Another pit stop at a local bakery around my work, I’m going to get fat soon. Anyway, saw the previous review by Kat on this hidden little bakery that’s really close to my workplace, so I decided to stop by after having watched an episode of Cake Boss last night and feeling the need for a cannoli. I shake my first at you Buddy Valastro, darn you for destroying my diet!
Cordi has freshly baked Caldenese bread, rye bread, bagels, croissants, and an assortment of Italian pastries including cannolis, chocolate cannolis, zeppole, cinnamon buns, cakes and whatnot. They also had a deli section which had a few people ordering from.
I picked up a cannoli, a chocolate cannoli, a cinnamon bun and a zeppole.
My virgin experience with a zeppole, so I can’t really compare, but it the zeppole is SUPER creamy, sort of like a donut with massive amounts of cream and cheese. It was alright. I’ll have to try out zeppole at some other bakeries to really compare.
The cannolis had a crunchy shell and creamy filling with chocolate chips. A nice crunchy shell (nothing worse than a soggy/​soft shell on a cannoli) but the shell was a bit too thick for my liking. All in all it was good though.
The cinnamon bun was average, nothing to rave about and comparable to what you could get at other bakeries or a supermarket.
I’ll have to try the caldenese bread next time, which looked pretty good and the cherry and apple turnovers, but I’ll save those calories for another day.
Off first impressions, I prefer Nova bakery to Cordi, but I’ll give Cordi another shot since it’s a bit closer. Will update my review next time I go.

I only spent a few years in my childhood in Mississauga, yet after my parents discovered «Cordi’s» they continued to raid it for their weekly bakery run for YEARS to come, even after they had moved to London (Ontario) — in fact, it’s only been in recent times that they’ve stopped talking about it, but this review will surely reignite their interest. I’m not kidding when I say that not a single week between 1987 – 2003 went by without a drive to Cordi. It was a ritual.
We’d pick up loaves of rye and Italian bread and get them sliced in the back room. I can remember being tasked with waiting for the bread slicing while my mom picked out sandwich buns, bagels and croissants (all self serve). After we’d picked out our fill of bread we’d pick up some Hit cookies and other assorted European candies and treats.
The quality of the bread at Cordi’s is ridiculous — they bake everything right there and trust me when I say there would be fights in the backseat between me and my siblings over who got to eat the first bun. My parents used to get so mad at us for gorging ourselves on bread and making a mess with the crust because it was so fresh and crisp.
And because it’s a family business all of the staffers are young and learning the ropes from their parents about working in the service/​food industry. Lots of familiar faces over the years and everyone is really friendly and welcoming.
Really worth it if you have a car — it’s just on the border of Mississauga and Etobicoke and totally worth the drive! Or you can take a quick ride on the #20 bus from Islington Station.