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| - When walking down the main street of the North Side, passing rambling drunks and bums, a little ghetto, and more than a few denizens who appear to have just escaped the screen during a showing of Deliverance, one might think that a twister just sucked you out of Kansas and dropped you in OZ as you open the front door and enter the very fine and very out of place establishment that is the Priory Bakery. It's kind of like Dorothy exiting her black and white farmhouse and opening that front door to the technicolor wonders of Munchkinland...but with MUCH better 'Munchkins' than that 'other' bakery chain sells.
Cupcakes and cookies and donuts...oh my.
The Priory Bakery is a made-fresh old fashioned hometown bakery, but with an upscale flavor. They offer the full range of morning donuts, small pastries and danish, to full scale celebration cakes (and hell, let's just call it like it is...the occasional flat out taste-bud orgasm binge cake). Pull up a chair, pour yourself one of their morning coffees (their bold blend is very nice), order a few pastries, or one of their breakfast (or lunch if you're a late riser) panini sandwiches, and read your morning paper in a very comfortable and clean spot...or of course you could just sit in the window and watch the George Romero film taking place outside.
The staff is very helpful and friendly, not over the top, but not coffee-house uppity with multiple piercings hanging over your order.
They goods are a little pricier than the 'chains', but then these goods are actually baked in that big kitchen thing they have in the back. They're not shipped in in a giant freezer truck from a conveyor belt processing plant in Peoria. They're not pumped full of preservatives so that they'll survive the trip. They just come out of the oven, are put on a tray, stuffed and drizzled, and the longest distance they travel is from that kitchen to the front display counter. Unless of course you grab a dozen or so and take them home. I'll pay a few cents more for something actually made with real ingredients (was that actually a raspberry seed wrapped in berry pulp??) over something bio-engineered and artificially everythinged to benefit the dear 'shareholders'.
Of course there are still a handful of neighborhood bakeries around, Prantl's and Paddy Cake, and Oakmont if you're up for the drive. But Priory adds the extra touch of their seating and 'dine in' option. Paddy Cake doesn't have it, and Prantl's, at least the one in Market Square, isn't exactly a comfy little nook for hanging out. Oakmont has that option, but again...load up the SUV and take that drive. In the burgh of Pitts, the Priory is a pleasant little oasis. On the Northside, well, it's downright Oz.
I can also recommend ordering your office celebration cakes and such to pick up. That office worker's birthday deserves something good.
Make it a Priory-ority!
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