Uh......really? Mostly 4 or 5 star reviews?Just been to Thunders Home Bakery there. We got a loaf of bread and a few sweetie treaties and back to the gaff for a nice bit o' coffee......then i came online here and flipped through the reviews and i was seriously side-swiped by the rave reviews. One lovely chap even used the term "an institution". Bollocks to that! Charmless staff, no seating, over-priced, and inedible cakes (Cream donuts - flavorless dough, old cream, bad jam/Chocolate eclair - stale, flavorless chocolate topping/ biscuit cake - too much sugar and butter/ chocolate brownie - maybe a teaspoon of cocoa powder used, and it was spongy like just a normal cake and, yes again, flavorless). Now, the place has been going for decades, and the people who work there are presumably skilled and wouldn't be happy with anyone giving the kind of bad review that i'm giving. So, I don't enjoy saying this, but the bakers really should know better than to sell stuff of that low standard. And as for people who buy these cakes and enjoy them.....travel more, try bakeries in other countries, Brazil, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain....and come back at tell me that Thunders Home Bakery is up to snuff. Shameful.
I'd like to go again and try the coffee and some other bread and 1 other cake, just to get a more rounded perspective. And maybe the staff were just on an off day. But then again, we decided to patronize a local bakery on a quiet afternoon, and we are treated like we are a bother. Again, totally shameful. read more