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| Gary Wise |
Wisey’s Pies and Bakehouse has plans to open a second location in the Roncesvalles neighborhood this Spring. The dynamic young company run by New Zealander Gary Wise and his Canadian wife Karen has become part of the lives of many Leasiders since the first shop opened in June 2014 at Eglinton Ave E and Laird Drive. You read about it first in the South Bayview Bulldog. Now the couple has teamed up with friends Anthony Spinley (another Kiwi) and his partner Jen Orenstein. This good news is transmitted from the Hawkes Bay area of New Zealand where Gary and Karen are catching some rays and conducting baking R&D on new products and varieties of pies at the Wiseys NZ bakery in Napier. That business is managed by Gary’s brother. Gary says that the perfected items will also be made at Wiseys in Toronto when he returns in March. Particularly, Gary notes a new scone recipe. So you heard it here first. The new scone is called the DOC — an acronym that stands for Date, Orange, Cinnamon. We are told it is divine. Gary also has an imaginative idea for a “bakers’ exchange” program by which well-known NZ bakers could work in Toronto and a Canadian baker would work at a Hawkes Bay Bakery in exchange. Wisey’s Pies and Bakehouse is up and running everyday even though the boss is away. Today’s output was right up to standard. (Saturday, February 7, 2015).
