Wide view of Bonanza's deli meat counter, with handwritten menus in chalk posted on the walls. Pastries and deli meat are shown behind the front glass counter.

Bonanza Bakery

Bonanza Bakery has been a part of the local Hamilton community for the past 70 years. Many of our customers have been visiting us since they were children.

Located in the Beasley neighborhood, we might not have a large shopfront with signs, but you will know us from the irresistible smell of freshly baked bread.

We welcome you to come on in and have a member of our jovial staff make you a sandwich to your specifications. We’re sure you’ll be back again and soon be a friend!

And if you hear yelling coming from the bakery, we aren’t fighting, we’re just Portuguese!

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A Taste of Portuguese Delights

A person holding a submarine sandwich with lettuce, cucumber, ham, and sliced cheese.

Deli Sandwiches

Bonanza offers a large selection of meats to customize your sandwich. We make our sandwiches fresh in-house.

Many Portuguese egg custard tarts laid out in a honeycomb pattern on a baking tray.

Pastéis de Nata

Portuguese egg custard tarts are flaky on the outside and have a rich and soft filling on the inside.

Trays of a variety of hot foods, such as Bifana cutlets and sausages.

Bifana Pork Cutlets

Thinly sliced cuts of pork cooked in a savoury blend of pimento sauce and hot sauce.

A basket full of Papo Secos (Portuguese Rolls).

Papo Secos

These Portuguese rolls are crusty on the outside and light and airy on the inside.

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Hand-Baked for Over 70 Years

A woman manually creating dough from scratch to be used for baking bread.
A selection of different shaped dough on several rows of large, metal pans, ready to enter the oven.
A row of bread-shaped dough inside an industrial oven, ready to be baked.
Trays of freshly-baked bread.

Our baker starts the day by putting proofed and shaped dough in the oven at 3:00am every Monday to Saturday.

After the day’s bread is baked and put out, the bakery crew makes and prepares fresh dough for the next day. The dough is rolled and shaped mostly by hand.

Most of our bakery crew first learned their craft while they lived in Portugal.

When the dough is shaped and put away to proof, daily pastries such as pastéis de nata, bole de Belem, and mille-feuille are made.

The proofed dough is put into a fridge for the next day, to repeat the cycle again.

Every couple of weeks, bread that has been left to go stale is grounded into fine crumbs and used to coat our chicken and veal cutlets.

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A person holding a chicken cutlet sandwich outside.
A person holding a bacon and ham sandwich in front of a red brick wall.
A close-up and detailed shot of someone holding a Portuguese custard tart, showing off the flakey exterior and the gooey, molten filling.
A chicken cutlet sandwich with sauce on the side on a plate.
A person holding a turkey, onion, and lettuce submarine sandwich.
A tray of 3 deli sandwiches containing turkey, lettuce, onion, and tomato in front of Bonanza Bakery in Hamilton, Ontario.