Roselle

For Roselle co-owners Bruce Lee and Stephanie Duong, happiness is a dish best served sweet. Toronto natives turned George Brown graduates (Bruce studied culinary arts, Stephanie glazed her way through the prestigious pastry program), the pair journeyed to Paris for a 2-week postgraduate stint in French pastry-making and developed a friendship over a shared fondness for cooking, food, and travel. Admittedly, the culinary aficionados didn’t always see eye to eye.

“The funny story is, at the beginning, Stephanie didn’t really like me,” says Bruce Lee, co-owner. “She was talking a lot behind my back apparently, saying that she was concerned this culinary student was coming and he’d be poaching a spot from deserving pastry students.” Following a year spent honing their craft in Paris and Hong Kong, Bruce and Stephanie, now an engaged couple, have re-established roots in Toronto in the form of Roselle: a picturesque yet approachable dessert shop located in the heart of Corktown.