Mighty Fine Bakehouse & Cafe

Mighty Fine Bakehouse & Cafe Serving mighty fine pastries, lunch, and drinks to the Ottawa valley.

PULLED PORKSALSA VERDE MADE WITH Castlegarth Farms TOMATILLO SLAWSAUCY QUESOCORN CHIPSCHALLAH BUN👍🏻Cheesy Cauliflower So...
09/24/2026

PULLED PORK
SALSA VERDE MADE WITH Castlegarth Farms TOMATILLO
SLAW
SAUCY QUESO
CORN CHIPS
CHALLAH BUN
👍🏻

Cheesy Cauliflower Soup 👌🏻

TURKEY DAY 2026 👏🏻👏🏻It’s got turkey and mounds of vegetables, excellent potatoes (Graham is a potato master), gravy made...
09/22/2026

TURKEY DAY 2026 👏🏻👏🏻

It’s got turkey and mounds of vegetables, excellent potatoes (Graham is a potato master), gravy made the proper way and those darn butternut squash dinner rolls I hate making but are too good to go without.

Please note we can accommodate single or additional portions as needed. We always make as much as we can but space limits us to 10 turkeys, so it’s best to order earlier.

You can msg us through FB or Instagram, although email is best (easier for us to keep track). There is a link to an email form on our website on the Turkey Day page, but I’ve also added a link through our profile on Instagram.

Pickups are for Saturday & Sunday only. Please note we will be open 10-2 on the Sunday.

The meals can be deceiving — they can appear small when packed but is a surprising amount of food. We are usually 4 people and always have enough for seconds.

If we have leftovers after orders are portioned, we donate them to the Paramedics through The Longer Table to be distributed to those who would not have a Turkey dinner otherwise.

Helllooooo Tuesday already? This week we have a smoky pulled pork, cauliflower soup, eclairs are back, and cheesecakes t...
09/22/2026

Helllooooo
Tuesday already? This week we have a smoky pulled pork, cauliflower soup, eclairs are back, and cheesecakes too.

We’ve been asked about TURKEY DAY.
Amazingly, I remembered that it’s essentially the same every year; the only change that usual happens is price, so I’ll be posting it here and to our website today, huzzah!

That is all, Megan out.

Some sandwiches lack photo pizazz — the Chicken Caesar is one of them. I suppose we could stick the strips of crisp baco...
09/17/2026

Some sandwiches lack photo pizazz — the Chicken Caesar is one of them. I suppose we could stick the strips of crisp bacon in so it juts out in several directions, filling the negative space with salty, porky goodness, contrasted by the frilly greens. It’s fine because you’re probably envisioning this jazzier sandwich right now.

Soup is Browned Butter Butternut, the Queen of soups. I refuse to debate anyone on that.

Hello! It’s Tuesday if you didn’t know. This menu is so hard to read, my apologies. Maybe if I used fewer words…….. it’s...
09/15/2026

Hello! It’s Tuesday if you didn’t know.
This menu is so hard to read, my apologies. Maybe if I used fewer words…….. it’s easier to read on the website.

This week!

Chicken Caesar Sandwiches

Browned Butter Butternut Squash Soup

Mozart Paris Brest (pistachio/hazelnut/chocolate but this time with raspberry because why not)

High Dumpsie Dearie Flan — I removed the “high” from the menu, but it’s the same, I just needed the extra characters on the webpage

Aaaaaaand since it’s my birthday week I’m treating myself with some extra labour so you can have a chance to enjoy Opera Cake because it’s my favourite cake. Thin layers of coffee soaked sponge cake with coffee buttercream and ganache. It’s a French classic for a reason. And I’m so picky about Opera, in pastry school it was specified they should be 1.5-2” tall slices with 7 layers, and since I’m a follower of rules, this is the only acceptable presentation. Maybe I’ll do a silly “oh gods the internet has so many scary Opera” post, you know, for birthday funsies.

Regular hours return this week! See ya Thursday

Hello! It’s Tuesday if you didn’t know. This week!Chicken Caesar SandwichesBrowned Butter Butternut Squash SoupMozart Pa...
09/15/2026

Hello! It’s Tuesday if you didn’t know.

This week!

Chicken Caesar Sandwiches

Browned Butter Butternut Squash Soup

Mozart Paris Brest (pistachio/hazelnut/chocolate but this time with raspberry because why not)

High Dumpsie Dearie Flan — I removed the “high” from the menu, but it’s the same, I just needed the extra characters on the webpage

Aaaaaaand since it’s my birthday week I’m treating myself with some extra labour so you can have a chance to enjoy Opera Cake because it’s my favourite cake. Thin layers of coffee soaked sponge cake with coffee buttercream and ganache. It’s a French classic for a reason. And I’m so picky about Opera, in pastry school it was specified they should be 1.5-2” tall slices with 7 layers, and since I’m a follower of rules, this is the only acceptable presentation. Maybe I’ll do a silly “oh gods the internet has so many scary Opera” post, you know, for birthday funsies.

Regular hours return this week! See ya Thursday

High Dumpsie Dearie.No one ordered the Paris Brest, which is a first. Everyone wanted this, the one with the silly name ...
09/12/2026

High Dumpsie Dearie.

No one ordered the Paris Brest, which is a first. Everyone wanted this, the one with the silly name and no Canadian Cultural Context.

IM SO PROUD.

This silly sounding compote is a mix of stewed apples, pear, and plums (we used the damsons Keith the cyclist delivered to us 🙌🏻), with a bit of lemon and some ginger. While it looks quite plain, the flavour is robust. With Bay Laurel custard, it tastes like something from my childhood but I can’t say what. It’s reminiscent of Christmas but not, it definitely feels like late summer-early fall.

It’s like the dessert equivalent to a string of pearls or a well tailored suit.

I assume we are meant to post regularly asking people to vote for the Best of the Ottawa Valley People’s Choice Awards, ...
09/12/2026

I assume we are meant to post regularly asking people to vote for the Best of the Ottawa Valley People’s Choice Awards, but it feels weird, likely because I overthink these things. Naturally, it’s wonderful to be nominated - knowing others think of you when they are asked what they like a lot is very nice.

But votes can be from recognition or marketing, similarly how in elections incumbents have an advantage: people recognize their name. If confronted with a list to choose one from, folks are more likely to choose the one they recognize. That’s not to say there aren’t people who struggle to choose their favourite or that it’s insincere! There is a reason they say to post about it many times.

Everything is subjective. The thing you like the most is based on experiences, not on what is actually the “best”. Best feels a lot like the word BIG — like it isn’t as descriptive as we think it is because what are we talking about here, consistency? Ex*****on? Feelings? Technique?

“Greatest degree of Good” that’s from Merriam Webster. I’d like to print that on a T-shirt.

I also overthink Cookies. Cookies are more difficult than they appear, and because most everyone has made cookies at least once, it’s not an area of baking that is considered complicated.

Not so. There are thousands of cookies.
They all have different qualities, they all demand different treatment, while being comprised of mostly the same handful of ingredients. Minor adjustments, major impact.

Given we were selected for the Greatest of the Good Cookie Category, I thought I’d shout out to our baker Alex who makes all the cookie dough that I meticulously bake. She has never admitted any issue with my cookie specifications, like when she comes to work and I say something like “I’ve made 6 test batches of the chocolate chip cookie and the best one has 5 different flours in it,” or “the best way to distribute the blueberry flavour in the oatmeal cookies is to divide the sugar and the dried blueberries and blitz half of each in the robo coupe, cool?” She’s always like “cool.”

Alex is the reason we have cookies, and she’s the reason we have potentially greatest of the good cookies. She’s the best.

This is that time of year when we awkwardly say:Some very nice people nominated us for the Readers Choice Awards (blush)...
09/09/2026

This is that time of year when we awkwardly say:

Some very nice people nominated us for the Readers Choice Awards (blush) and if you’d like to vote for us, you can (so long as you are willing to give them your email, I know it’s a pain, and yes you will need to allow them to send you emails but if you immediately unsubscribe you are free)

We are so fortunate to have such lovely people to nominate us, and we know many of you lovelies will go vote for us and for other excellent small businesses in the area. As I always say, it’s good to practice democracy by voting in business awards.

It makes everyone feel very warm and fuzz, as well as seen because while it is probably difficult to be a big business bought out by Venture Capitalists who are saddling you with debt and extracting everything that is good from the business, it’s also difficult being a small business.

Thank you! Link is in our profile 🥹

HellllllooooooReminder: we are closed tomorrow (Thursday), back Friday at 8:30amI feel the menu is fairly clear — if any...
09/09/2026

Helllllloooooo

Reminder: we are closed tomorrow (Thursday), back Friday at 8:30am

I feel the menu is fairly clear — if anything, I’ll say that if you don’t know what High Dumpsie Dearie is, it is an English compote made from Apples, Pears, and Plums, and lightly spiced with ginger and cinnamon. It’s delicious, and perfect for that shift into the Fall season.

Have a wonderful day!

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79 Madawaska Street
Arnprior, ON
K7S1S1

Opening Hours

Thursday 8:30am - 4pm
Friday 8:30am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm
Sunday 9am - 3pm

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