Avia bakery

Avia bakery Freshly made delicious hot, Nigeria sweet bread bakery was born out of my childhood memories. Avia Bakery is passionate about your health.

We make every loaf from unbleached Canadian wheat flour and quality ingredients using natural preservatives.

There's a specific kind of anticipation right before the first slice, when it's still warm enough to fog the knife a lit...
09/03/2026

There's a specific kind of anticipation right before the first slice, when it's still warm enough to fog the knife a little.

Clean label white bread, soft all the way through, worth the wait every single time.

Not visiting. We live here. Made in Ottawa, sold in Ottawa, eaten in Ottawa, all the way down to the water and the flour...
09/02/2026

Not visiting. We live here. Made in Ottawa, sold in Ottawa, eaten in Ottawa, all the way down to the water and the flour.

There's no version of this bread where a shortcut got taken because it was a busy week. Same recipe, same standard, ever...
09/01/2026

There's no version of this bread where a shortcut got taken because it was a busy week. Same recipe, same standard, every batch, whether it's one loaf or a hundred. Clean label was never a marketing line here, it's the reason the recipe took four years to finalize in the first place.

Consistency is the whole product. Everything else is just packaging.

Every recipe starts somewhere. This one started with a question that wouldn't go away, why does good bread usually disap...
08/31/2026

Every recipe starts somewhere. This one started with a question that wouldn't go away, why does good bread usually disappoint you a day or two in, and why does it have to. That question turned into four years of getting it right before this loaf ever had a name people could recognize.

Some things are worth taking the long way to figure out.

08/30/2026

Some mornings the whole table gets involved, fruit, coffee, whatever's in the cupboard, and a loaf that somehow always ends up in the middle of it.

Doesn't matter what else is on the table, there's usually room for bread.

Fresh out of the oven and still holding its shape. That is the whole point of clean label, nothing artificial to fight a...
08/29/2026

Fresh out of the oven and still holding its shape. That is the whole point of clean label, nothing artificial to fight against, just good ingredients doing what they are supposed to do. Same recipe every single time, four years in the making.

Find Avia Bakery products in stores near you, or visit us for walk ins at 1228 Old Innes Road, Unit 312, Ottawa.

08/27/2026

We're slowly showing up in more corners of Ottawa and Orleans, one stockist at a time. If you've been meaning to try it but weren't sure where to look, pop your postal code into the site and we'll point you to the closest spot.

Every family has a favourite loaf.Some reach for classic White Bread every morning. Others never leave the store without...
08/26/2026

Every family has a favourite loaf.
Some reach for classic White Bread every morning. Others never leave the store without Banana Bread. For many, nothing compares to the familiar taste of Nigerian Sweet Bread, while Sweet Bread has become a simple favourite for breakfast, snacks and everything in between.
Different recipes. The same care.
Every loaf is baked with quality ingredients, using recipes we're proud to share with our own family before we share them with yours.
From our family to yours.

You can find Avia Bakery products at a store near you, or visit us at 1228 Old Innes Road, Unit 312, Ottawa. We're open for walk-ins.

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Chaque famille a son pain préféré.

Certains choisissent toujours notre pain blanc. D'autres repartent avec un pain aux bananes. Pour plusieurs, rien ne remplace le goût familier du pain sucré nigérian, tandis que notre pain sucré accompagne aussi bien le déjeuner que les collations.
Des recettes différentes. Le même souci de qualité.

Chaque pain est préparé avec des ingrédients de qualité et le même soin que nous mettons à nourrir notre propre famille.

De notre famille à la vôtre.

Vous trouverez les produits Avia Bakery dans un magasin près de chez vous ou vous pouvez venir nous voir au 1228 Old Innes Road, unité 312, Ottawa. Nous sommes ouverts pour les visites en boutique.

In Lagos, the bread comes to you.Someone walks past with a stack of Agege loaves and the smell arrives before they do. Y...
08/24/2026

In Lagos, the bread comes to you.

Someone walks past with a stack of Agege loaves and the smell arrives before they do. You buy one still warm, and if it is morning you are eating it with akara, the bean fritters, straight out of the oil and wrapped in paper. Or with ewa agoyin, the beans mashed soft under that dark pepper sauce. That combination raised a lot of us.

The thing about moving countries is that you can find almost everything again. Almost. It is usually the everyday food that goes missing, not the special occasion food. Nobody warns you about that part.

So when someone here tells me the bread tastes like home, I understand exactly what they mean, because I spent years looking for that same taste and could not find it.

If you grew up on it, you already know. If you did not, come and find out what everyone else has been eating for breakfast.

You can find Avia Bakery products in stores near you. We're also open for walk ins at 1228 Old Innes Road, Unit 312.

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À Lagos, c'est le pain qui vient à vous.

Quelqu'un passe avec une pile de pains Agege et l'odeur arrive avant lui. Vous en achetez un encore chaud, et si c'est le matin, vous le mangez avec de l'akara, ces beignets de haricots, tout juste sortis de l'huile et enveloppés dans du papier. Ou avec du ewa agoyin, ces haricots écrasés sous une sauce piquante bien foncée. Beaucoup d'entre nous ont grandi avec ça.

Ce qu'on découvre en changeant de pays, c'est qu'on finit par retrouver presque tout. Presque. C'est la nourriture de tous les jours qui manque, pas celle des grandes occasions. Personne ne vous prévient de ce bout là.

Alors quand quelqu'un ici me dit que le pain goûte comme à la maison, je comprends très exactement, parce que j'ai passé des années à chercher ce goût là sans le trouver.
Si vous avez grandi avec, vous savez déjà. Sinon, venez découvrir ce que les autres mangent au déjeuner depuis toujours.

Nigeria is where I learned what good bread should be.Nobody had to explain it. It was simply part of everyday life. The ...
08/23/2026

Nigeria is where I learned what good bread should be.

Nobody had to explain it. It was simply part of everyday life. The smell coming from the neighbourhood bakery in the evening. A warm loaf carried home. A table where almost nothing was left by the end of the day.

Years later, life took me to England, then to Canada. The countries changed. The standard never did.
Avia Bakery is how I brought that tradition with me. Not to recreate the past, but to bake a loaf that feels just as honest, fresh and familiar.

Today, every loaf we bake in Ottawa still carries a little of where it all began.
📍 You can find Avia Bakery products in stores near you. We are also open for walk ins at 1228 Old Innes Road, Unit 312.

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C'est au Nigeria que j'ai appris ce qu'est un bon pain.

Personne n'avait besoin de me l'expliquer. Ça faisait simplement partie du quotidien. L'odeur de la boulangerie du quartier en fin de journée. Un pain encore chaud rapporté à la maison. Une table où il ne restait presque plus rien avant la fin du jour.

Des années plus t**d, la vie m'a menée en Angleterre, puis au Canada. Les pays ont changé. Mes attentes envers le pain, jamais.
Avia Bakery, c'est ma façon d'avoir apporté cette tradition avec moi. Pas pour recréer le passé, mais pour partager un pain aussi honnête, frais et familier.

Aujourd'hui, chaque pain que nous cuisons à Ottawa porte encore un peu de l'endroit où tout a commencé.

📍 Vous trouverez les produits Avia Bakery dans les épiceries près de chez vous. Vous pouvez aussi passer nous voir au 1228 Old Innes Road, unité 312.

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