Sandwiches are big & could b easily shared. Has a deck you can eat on or inside if you prefer My tuna salad was good but, my whole wheat bread was stale around edges. My husband liked his chicken salad but I was not fond of the spice that was in it (Maybe tarragon?)
⚠️Since new owner/manager, Alyssa ?, has taken over this formerly excellent premises, I would suggest that the great reputation its previous owner, Daniel Pacheco, had established for warm welcomes and courteous customer relations must now, alas, be regarded as a culture no longer in evidence at the current Olde World Bakery -> abandoned, it seems, in the pursuit of a more officious, authoritarian "my way or the highway" attitude that no longer deems its prior customers' subjective points of view worthy of consideration.
I write this review reluctantly, but out of necessity, so that it may serve as a cautionary tale to anyone hoping, henceforth, to be greeted with a smile and, perhaps, a reasonable soupcon of bonhomie, to boot, at the new Olde World Bakery.
An account of the experience that has prompted me to write this particular statement of opinion is laid out below:
…having, in the fairly recent past, enjoyed the benefit of being able to purchase day-old patisserie items generously offered at a reduced price from Daniel P's Olde World Bakery, my wife and I dropped by last Friday morning to see what, if any, might be available. Not finding any such pastries in their usual area near the door, I duly enquired of the person standing behind the counter, who as it transpired was the owner/manager, Alyssa, whether such items might now be found elsewhere. She immediately became strangely and inexplicably defensive at my question…and in a very condescending manner, decreed that no such gestures of generosity were any longer forthcoming, haughtily stating, in no uncertain terms, when I politely invited her to explain, that providing such products would undoubtedly undermine the high standards to which her establishment was endeavoring to aspire, thus tarnishing its reputation for quality. I politely suggested that her explanation for this policy seemed to imply that similar places that offered this kind option, like Wild Iris, and other places too, were somewhat inferior to her own. I went on to suggest that in effect this exclusive stance might very likely be potentially disqualifying any less affluent customers from making a purchase, those who might happen to come in wishing to sample and savor some of the comestibles she might have on offer on a particular day. She was clearly unmoved by this observation and staunchly determined to preserve her strict adherence to the policy she had elected to put in place.
Meanwhile, a few moments before this comparatively lighthearted (at this juncture) dispute ensued, my wife had decided to utilize the restroom; espying this, and perhaps viewing us as possible vagrants, Alyssa opted to select this precise moment to inform me, in an extremely scolding tone, that her restroom facilities were reserved for customers only. Though, in itself, a very reasonable regulation, I was somewhat taken aback by the disproportionate and unnecessarily abrasive and patronizing tone of the admonishment she had deemed it necessary to deliver, and endeavoring to defuse the undercurrent of tension by joking that had she supplied day old produce, then we would ipso facto, be customers, she was clearly not amused, nor appeased by my ironic jest, and as my wife and I departed, she couldn't resist the opportunity to hurl at our backs a sneering, spiteful, and distinctly passive aggressive, "have a nice day now" dismissal, clearly designed to ensure she had claimed the last word in what was ultimately an unresolved interaction.
As a rule, in reasonable circumstances, I would take any issues akin to this directly to the management, before resorting to the scribing of a public review, to allow a manager to address my grievances personally, but since I tried my best to do this at the time of our visit, without any satisfactory resolution being acquired, it seems this review is thus deemed appropriate in this situation ⚠️
Went in for a coffee, as the first place we tried to go to was not open on time, the coffee was good, extremely hot. Ordered a breakfast burrito that took about 15 minutes to come out. The burrito was good but took way too long to come out. They did apologize and said the stove was not hot yet, but shouldn't that be the first thing you turn on when you get in the morning if it takes that long to heat up!
