Great bread but totally wonderful service at 7am by a female staff member. Polite, helpful and…read morecheery

I love this place. It's been around for years - I think maybe before I was even born. It's a staple…read morein my hometown. It used to be just a bakery, but in recent years they've expanded it slightly to include a small seating area where you can have a coffee or a spot of lunch. It's pretty basic inside, but it's clean and comfortable. You can see into the kitchen where everything is prepared, which is a nice touch. I personally can't eat wheat (I'm 'glutarded', as my sister likes to call it), but it always smells amazing in here and I bring my kid-brothers in regularly as a little treat. They love the cakes and the biscuits, and my parents buy fresh bread from here every week. They also have lunchtime extras like jacket potatoes, a salad/filling bar, sausage rolls etc. It's often hard to find a seat as it's understandably very popular.

Unfortunately not serving breakfast so we didn't get to try the food. Sausage roll is good, the…read morespinach and feta parcel was under baked

While in St Albans, my week doesn't allow me to always walk this way in the morning. I look forward…read moreto getting here. This is a very good bakery. It's a also a cafe, and you can have breakfast, but the baked goods are what it's all about. For me, it's the pain au raisin. It's so wonderfully baked. Crispy shell, tender dough, plump raisins. After coming here a few times, I finally got the breakfast. Perfectly cooked eggs, delicious mushrooms, bacon (pancetta) and fresh bread. The service is great. It's such a good local neighborhood bakery. Come here! You'll enjoy it.

Great fresh cakes. Plus there pretty fast at getting it prepared for you! The ambience is average…read moreand I like that you can buy tubs of their homemade ice cream! Great small business!

Every time I come to St Albans I have to make a stop off at Pudding Stop…read more I've been here twice now and time and time again the Cakes have been delicious. Pudding stop has bench style seating, so you may have to get used to the fact that you may be sitting with strangers and possible their babies. I tend to come in the late afternoon so the ambience is rather chilled out to my liking. I've ordered the Devon Cream Tea,(£6) which they give you bottomless tea in a teapot with cup and tea strainer. The scone is soft and fluffy and so perfect, and with generous lashings of clotted cream and jam which adds to the divinity of this British classic. Carrot cake is moist and not too sweet...just right. Chocolate flourless cake was a moist sticky chocolate gooeyness which needed some single cream to compliment it, but still throughly enjoyed. The staff are attentive and friendly. Their is free wifi also they have classic movie evenings.

This is a fab. little bakery. We actually happened upon it accidently! The power had been cut to…read moreour village and that meant no coffee! Horror of horrors. So we ventured out on the hunt for the closest non-supermarket/gas station-icky pretend-coffee and found Ushers bakery. What a pleasant surprise. Walking in and inhaling the fresh bread and hot pies and aroma of coffee made us wish the power had been cut earlier - so that we would have found Ushers sooner! After spending ages drooling over all the amazing and fresh (did I say how fresh everything is here?!) breads, pies, croissants, danishes, baguettes and more we finally settled on amazingly moist death-by-chocolate muffins (nice and big too!), fresh seeded loaf and two big cups of latte. Everything was hot and tasty and the coffee had that proper coffee taste. Plus, although we took ages deciding what to get and a queue was forming, the man behind the counter (not sure who though!) was super nice and patient. I highly recommend this place for an early morning treat. Don't get there late thoughthings sell out quickly!

The Copper Kettle has been in Southdown for ages. Its an old bakery, selling all sorts of nice…read morethings. Upstairs it has a little cafe, where you can order some nice snacks or a quiet lunch. I think they also do fry ups for brunch. Its not too expensive.

Sunday 27th October I've just been back to the Bakehouse for…read morethe first time since I went shortly after it opened and I'm delighted to say the service is excellent, the coffee is great, Monmouth I think. Had a wonderful breakfast today only slightly spoiled by the fact that we missed the boards with the full breakfast menu to choose from and we just selected from what was available on the counter. Anyway, now we know and we will be back. Beautifully sunny spot on an autumn day. One culinary point, your chefs should head to the Nordic Bakery on Golden square and sample their cinnamon buns for a few tips, they are vastly superior. Look forward to breakfast again soon. Monday 28th October Who would have thought, back so soon and such a change. My wife went back for breakfast one day later with the kids as they are on half term. She described the porridge as "made by someone who has never eaten porridge", dry and lumpy. when she went back to the counter to order something else the staff just studiously ignored her, so she didn't buy anything. How can the service be so changeable. Maybe the weekend staff get it and the week day staff just don't.

Lovely cheese scone: salty, fresh, soft and crunchy at once. Delicious with butter. My Latte was…read morenot as good, tasting a little bit astringent, and arriving long after the scone. I think it had been about 15 minutes since I ordered, and while it was busy, that's a LONG time for coffee to arrive. The other pastries looked amazing too though, and they have a nice view of the cathedral through their large windows that make you feel surrounded by greenery. I would go back here at a quieter time, or I'd just pick up some pastries.

I love this traditional bakery. There is a young lady there who has a smile for everyone and…read morebrightens everyone's day. The bread is absolutely delicious- especially their Sourdough!