Are you curious about the cronut – a croissant/doughnut hybrid – or its Vancouver counterpart, the frissant? If so, contributor Erin McGann has the scoop on where to eat in Vancouver.

I think most of us would agree that croissants are lovely. And that doughnuts are also very good.

It stands to reason, then, that a croissant-doughnut hybrid would cause New Yorkers to queue around the block for hours. No? Well, that’s what happened when Dominique Ansel’s bakery started producing a limited number each day. Stories floated around about Craigslist ads offering to wait in the queue and deliver a cronut for $20. Each.

Where to Eat in Vancouver for Delicious Pastry

Obviously this craze would spread, but surprisingly, Vancouver was one of the first with a bakery willing to take up the many-layered pastry doughnut mantle, as it were. Enter Swiss Bakery’s frissant.

Billed as a fritter-croissant, the Swiss Bakery also makes a limited number each day, so you need to arrive well before lunch to try one. Many layers of buttery croissant dough is shaped in a traditional ring, deep-fried, piped full of varying flavours of pastry cream, and topped with a bit of icing and sugar. My favourite, so far, has been the vanilla bean-speckled kind, but the chocolate was wonderful as well.

So add Swiss Bakery to your list of where to eat in Vancouver, and make a special trip down to try a frissant. You’ll need to walk off that sugar buzz, though, so I recommend that you plan an adventure in False Creek afterwards, to help restore you post-frissant.

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