The Olde Bakery Cafe

Cozy with excellent service. Delicious meal options and desserts. The all day breakfast sandwich was the best I have ever had. Can't wait to come back. Fairly priced.

Cozy, good prices and great food. Seating is a little tight so don't go there for a private meeting. Very friendly staff.

Sad but true but this beautiful restaurant is marred by poor customer service and underwhelming (to say the least) food. Long-term staff is unfriendly, unhelpful, defensive, if not downright rude which makes no sense if you want to increase your customer base with repeat business and free word-of-mouth advertising. Standard baked goods are beautiful and tempting, as are the lovely tea and coffee cups, pots and mugs and the large variety of teas/coffees for retail sale. What comes out of the kitchen lack imagination in terms of taste and presentation. Not that I'm into super-sizing my meals, but the portion sizes are a tad miserly...maybe it's to leave diners room for a slice o' pie or a brownie...who knows? If it's too busy, be prepared to be late for whatever you have planned next if you are there having a working lunch. And when the food does arrive (on a bad day...about an hour later), you may even have the experience of it arriving at your table stone cold. Hmmm...perhaps, kitchen staff tends to get overwhelmed by the lunch-time rush, or "chef" is battling it out alone? Once again...who rightly knows? The OBC takes pride in having a separate gluten-free kitchen but unfortunately, and most importantly THE GLUTEN-FREE BREAD is absolutely appalling!!! Remember the days, about 10 years ago or so when gluten-free bread was not exactly a supermarket feature (and only frozen) or available in specialty bake shops? Well that's what ya STILL get at the OBC in 2018. This stuff is heavy, crumbly and granular ... possibly good as building material but not fit for human consumption & to be avoided here at all costs! Hmmm...perhaps the "chef" and the "baker" need to take a couple of classes...upgrade their skills or something... And be warned, if yer a nobody, (because according to the owner ... name unknown as she didn't introduce herself to me when I had "trouble" with a meal...apparently EVERYBODY knows the gluten-free pies are 4 1/2 inches in diameter rather than the standard 9 1/2 / 10" size), make sure to negotiate (at your own risk) a larger size pie if you plan to share it with a family. The GF baked goods/pie ordering system seems to have been fixed (one time I ordered a GF pie and got a regular one), but this one unadvertised pie size issue remains. I s'ppose it helps to have yer ear to the ground in these parts... Now I'm the kinda gal who tends to cut folks some slack and I don't tend to complain that much about food/restaurants and lousy customer service, buuuut... boy oh boy, when I did finally speak up, the last time forever that I was here, this establishment demonstrated that they were not exactly keen on either listening and graciously accepting my concerns without being defensive and suggesting that perhaps I was the problem :-( . Maybe that long-term employee had a bad day or an anxiety issue or something? And yeah...everybody makes mistakes right? Or maybe I've just been unlucky or something when it comes to visiting this place or have been alive too long? I dunno, but pretty much every time I've been here that gal is STILL looks miserable and that stuff that comes out the kitchen still sucks to no end. The ONLY reason I'm giving this place two stars is because it's a beautiful space, the standard baked goods look yummy and the assortment of teas and tea drinking items is lovely. Such a pity, because this place could have SO much more going for it!!! P.S. My last visit was in October 2017, so perhaps at least the kitchen problem has been solved...

Excellent food! Excellent service! One of my most favourite places to eat. Love the breads, wraps, soups and specials. Lots of yummy desserts to choose from! Great place for breakfast as well! Everyone needs to eat here!! On top of that there's a large selection of different coffees and teas....you can't go wrong! :) Today I had the special which was Turkey Stew with a fresh bun.....SO SOOO GOOD! Added a piece of DELICIOUS cherry cheesecake and I was stuffed!

Cozy bakery cafe with classic baked goods and lots of gluten-free options, though the latter certainly isn't for me. ;) The carrot cake is worth a try, however! -- "Mimi's Cake Tour"