Windsor Business Spotlight: Kava Café & Bakery

A LaSalle bakery built on scratch-made bread, real pastries, and three years of showing up every morning before the neighbourhood wakes up.

Kava Café & Bakery sits at 5841 Malden Rd in LaSalle, and it has spent the last three years doing something a lot of newer cafés skip entirely: baking everything from scratch. Owners Emily and Aaron built the shop around boulangerie and patisserie, the kind of bread and pastry work that takes real time and doesn't shortcut well, alongside a rotating selection of scratch-made meals.

It shows in the details customers keep coming back for: fresh bread baked daily, pastries made in-house rather than trucked in, and a menu that changes with what's actually good that week instead of running the same laminated card year-round.

Why it's worth the drive

LaSalle isn't downtown Windsor, and that's part of the appeal. Kava has built a loyal, local following rather than chasing foot traffic, which usually means shorter waits and a shop that actually knows your order. At a 4.7 rating after three years in business, the consistency is clearly working.

Visit Kava Café & Bakery

You'll find them at 5841 Malden Rd #164, LaSalle, ON N9H 1S3, or reach them at 226-782-4448. Full details, hours, and a link to their menu are on their YQG Business listing, or visit cafekava.ca directly.