Location: 900 Rathburn Road West, Mississauga
Website: https://www.instagram.com/teaonebakery/

Though Tea One Bakery and Cafe has a whole bunch of tasty looking Chinese-style buns and pastries, they also have a whole display case filled with a variety of Basque cheesecake slices.  Clearly, that’s the thing to order.

Basque cheesecake, for the initiated, is a crustless cheesecake with a dark, caramelized top.

I got a slice of the original, and wow, it was good.  It had a perfect texture — nice and creamy, and just set enough.  It’s incredibly rich, but the relatively restrained sweetness and tart flavour does a great job of balancing things out.

I’m going to have to come back and try some of the other flavours, because it was legitimately one of the better slices of cheesecake that I’ve ever had.