In the event you're lacking the well-known patties and pizza stix from the Pickering Markets, look no additional — Snack Assault has a brand new residence.
When information got here in December 2020 that the Pickering Markets was closing, Snack Assault proprietor Kari Georgiadis apprehensive about the way forward for her enterprise, which began greater than 40 years in the past when her dad launched it as Scotty's Meat Pies.
“I knew I couldn’t let this enterprise my father began simply disappear,” she says.
Over the yr, Snack Assault has grown a devoted fan base — first on the authentic Pickering Flea Market after which on the Pickering Markets.
After a year-long journey to safe a brand new location, Snack Assault lately opened in a brand new residence at 6 Lincoln St. in Ajax.
“Happily a number of our clients have adopted me right here and I hope with phrase of mouth extra folks will know that we’re right here,” Georgiadis says. “We've got a number of the most loyal clients, folks inform me, ‘I grew up in your pizza stix.’”
The menu contains patties from George’s Tastee Patties in numerous flavours and spice ranges, in addition to a coco bread and a line of “stix” — deep fried egg roll wraps full of fillings like pizza, potato and cheese and broccoli and cheese.
“We’re a spot folks can come for a fast consolation snack that received’t break the financial institution,” Georgiadis says.
All the recent objects bought at Snack Assault are additionally obtainable from the freezer for purchasers to take residence and bake themselves.
Information of Snack Assault’s reopening was met with pleasure on social media.
“I’m so excited! I missed my patties!!!” one commenter mentioned on the Durham Area Eats Fb group. Others reminisced about weekend journeys to the Pickering Market made full by “addictive” pizza stix.
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Snack Assault
Tackle: 6 Lincoln St., Ajax
Cellphone: 289-660-7625
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