The Garrison Bakery

Rude staff, stale pastry and the lemon curd and cream cake had MOLD inside, went to return it but unfortunately they were closed. Disappointed as I've heard good things about the place. But safe to say I'll be warning people against it!

Fabulous local run bakery serving amazing take-away sandwiches and a HUGE selection of great cakes.We visit the Garrison Bakery every other week we are around Thorpe Bay and usually buy a sandwich made with their Granary Bread and then a couple of cakes. My husband’s favourite is their Egg Mayo sandwich which is tasty and generous in size – all freshly made to order. Their sausage rolls are good too. All the cakes sampled so far have been great – our favs are banana loaf, double chocolate brownie, apple turnover, Chelsea and bath buns (they are huge but very light), red velvet cookies (please make these again only seen them on the last visit). Last visit they had a new chocolate and pear vegan brownie which looked great and hope to try next time.The cafe has a few tables/chairs inside, and another couple of tables/chairs outside.It is always busy around lunchtime and the staff are always working really hard to keep up with customer demand, and always friendly/helpful.

Excellent sandwiches, huge lovely cakes and great coffee. Friendly service!

Very friendly staff, plenty of variety inside, fair prices

Love the portion sizes here. They also sell homemade piccalilli, chutneys and jams that are to simply lovey

Went in on the 31st of March to buy some lunch the women on the till wasn't very nice at all. I asked for a cheese and ham roll and asked if I could pay with card she said it has to be 5 pounds minimum spend which I'm pretty sure is illegal now but whatever. I looked around for more items to make up to five pound as I was hungry and didn't want to eat a sandwich from a shop. The lady who made my roll was quite nice she said thanks unlike the women on the till. One of the items was some fudge from the fudge people peanut fudge which was so nice but when I looked at the packet the best before date was the 29th of March. I know fudge would be okay but that's besides the point also my roll tasted like it had sat in a plastic wrapper for god knows how long.. collectively a horrible bakery that's overpriced but get away with it due to location and selling out of date products. Won't be going back there again. I advise others to stay away.

Lovely little bakery, with all the delicious things you could ask for. Friendly staff too

A lovely selection of cakes, Chelsea buns very good value and delicious. However all the other cakes are astonishingly overpriced and have gone up SIGNIFICANTLY. Example, chocolate brownie with chocolate mini eggs on top, 2 in.² slice, £3.65. It is so unbelievable we will not be buying cakes there again. The coffee is quite nice but nothing special. We have been visiting for 10 years or more . So disappointed!

It's a nice little bakery which offers other things like smoothies and sandwiches. The cakes are lovely however they are fairly steeply priced, which depending on the portion size of who serves you may or may not be worth it.The coffee could do with some work. I've tried both cappuccino and latte from there now neither which were both basically just coffee with milk. Perhaps some coffee training would improve things. I probably wouldn't purchase coffee from there again.

Amazing bakery and such a wonderful variety of pastries and breads for such a small shop!