The Garrison Bakery

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!

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 pasties and sausage rolls, good but not great pork pies, a good selection of delicious bread and a good if rather traditional selection of rather tasty cakes, muffins and assorted sticky buns. They also make rather nice sandwiches. The toasties and butties look good as well. The staff are friendly and there are always people from the nearby industrial units there at lunch time, which is always a good sign.