We arrived at the Bake shop and wasn't sure if we were at the right place. We looked inside and it didn't look like any bakery I've ever been to like you'd expect like a clear window of baked goods to choose from. It was a dark bare counter and a pretty much empty small I don't know what you would call a lobby. I immediately said that this place should have a D after its name for BAKED cause it looked like a weed shop not to mention the 5 teenage looking kids hanging out together. Some of the photos of the inside from other yelp reviewers I don't think is for this place because this place did not have any seating or inside bakery counter. You'll see when you get there. **Edit: this is for the Decatur location not DTS**
So we walked in to ask if it was the cookie place, but as we walked to the counter, we could see in a small glass display about eight different types of cookies available. The cookies were a little bit bigger than your average cookie, but not as large as like a shareable crumbl cookie. So we look at the menu of prices and see that a dozen cookies would be $52. It's not that it wasn't affordable, but I would not spend $52 for a dozen essentially regular sized cookies. I hinted to my friend that maybe we should go to crumble just cause it seemed overpriced for what it was, but since we were there already and wanted to try these cookies we opted for six cookies for $27. Ok, we really got them cuz my friend said she would pay for them. I, as a cheap person from immigrants, could not do it. Although I would if I knew these were to die for orgasmic cookies. My friend was in town and willing to take this gamble. Spoiler alert: they weren't. We got chocolate chip, of course to try, an ube cookie, lemon cookie and some other ones.
I thought after we ordered our cookies, they would be in a bag and we would go, but that was not the case . I don't remember if they said it would take some time to bake the cookies but after realizing that they weren't getting bagged up and I needed to use the restroom, I peered into their visible baking area. (That also gave me a glimpse behind their counter, which I noticed there was a lot of plastic strips of trash on their floor and cardboard boxes that needed to be thrown away.) In the "bakery"There were racks and racks for baked cookies and maybe freezers and ovens.I saw employee place cookies for maybe tomorrow's orders but they appeared to be frozen and just needed to be baked so I figured they were baking our cookies. After being told there was no restroom. I went next-door and waited to use the gas stations bathroom.
Anyways, back to the cookies they were individually packaged in a I guess what you would call a fancy logo cookie Ziploc for each cookie and then placed in a fancy logo box like a gift box. This seems unnecessary for cookies that are not a gift and are just going to be eaten. Also, I'm not a fan of warm goods being next to plastic due to the potential plastic contamination exposure.
OK, so the cookies. Sorry no cookie pics. I decided to do this review after they were eaten. They were good, soft. Taste was on point but really not amazing like not five dollars a cookie amazing just a regular good cookie that you'd find it any good bakery. Except at a good bakery it'd probably be half the price and not packaged so unnecessarily. And it'll probably be fresher maybe at a real bakery.
I read the description of the place by the owner before we went. I vaguely remember it's saying that it wanted to be maybe a place that is a better option than crumbl. So it seems like a place that is already geared to be franchised as noted by their elaborate packaging. I think it could be successful if they were priced for what you're getting, a good cookie. Not an amazing out of this world cookie. Or it would be successful if marketed as corporate business giftgiving cookies.
Anyways, that's my two cents. I hope it helps. read more