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| - I breezed through here tonight after seeing "Bakery" on their sign and thinking a sweet treat would be a nice end to the day (I just moved near this shopping center and am still exploring what is available). I checked the hours sign before entering, although there were a few people seated at tables, and saw it was 30 minutes until closing time.. realizing that they aren't going to make cupcakes while I wait, I thought I could run in and check it out. The shitty look I got from the young lady mopping the front of the house made me think I should have just gone to Starbucks next door for a slice of lemon pound cake.
Well.... Meh pretty much describes it. At 6:30 pm the bakery items consisted of 2 6-packs of cupcakes, 2 muffins, 2 lemon bars, some cookies and a few Inside Out Peanut Butter Cups. There was a young lady mopping the entire front of the store, including the ordering/cashier area (there were wet floor signs posted, but shouldn't closing clean-up be done after closing?), a gentleman that appeared to be cleaning up the ktichen-ish area behind the counter and a very nice young lady working the cash register/bakery area. I told her this was my first time visiting and asked what was good. She said the lemon bars and the Inside Out Peanut Butter Cups. I took two of the lemon bars and one of the IOPBC's (which is a peanut butter cookie-ish concoction in the shape of a muffin, with a chocolate frosting in the middle) for a grand total of just under $8. And .... meh. Both were fine, neither knocked my socks off. The boxed mix of lemon bars that you whip up from the grocery store are more lemony. The crust was okay - not too crumbly or hard. Not bad. *shrug*. The IOPBC was interesting, but again nothing stellar. The peanut butter cookie/muffin part was a tad dry, but I did visit at the end of the day, so not exactly the peak of their freshness.
I did look at the food menu while the young lady was boxing up the sweets and it looked pretty good. I will probably go back and check out lunch, but for dessert I will head next door to Starbucks for some kind of calorie-laden coffee product, I wasn't wow'ed by the bakery portion at all.
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