Ann's bakery has the potential to be the ultimate salt-of-the-earth tea shop but it obviously just couldn't care less. It's a prime location, a great name and it's baking cakes like it ought but they're missing that Granny-ish feeling. They need floral wallpaper and bent wood chairs. They need it to be rainy and miserable outside and cosy within. They need to turn the heating up to 11. They need to turn off that racket. They need to spit-wash the clientele on the way out the door. I think it was a misstep - this McDonalds-like canteen corridor type of thing, what they should've done was make the architect watch Mrs. Doubtfire a few times, or for that matter as many times as it takes. Ann's Bakery you are underachieving, get the finger out. read more