We love having this bakery on our doorstep, fresh bread daily and a range of delicious pastries. Once you start getting your bread here you won’t be able to go back to shop bought!
Every thing is made fresh each day so they stock until they run out - if you want your pick of everything they have to offer, advise heading there early.
The staff are always helpful and friendly and the coffee is fab. Diolch!
Firstly this is an amazing bakery - great bread - amazing buns, lovey hot drinks - 5 stars every day but what time is tea time? Surly it’s 4pm in the UK? well not here sadly. The door was still open at 3:35pm on Saturday so I walked in with my reusable cup looking for a tea to take away (kettle and tea bag only I’m guessing?) I was also after a couple of the lovely looking buns, but the very well manned lady explained to me that I’d missed out. I thought she might have been persuaded by my own mug, but no… so no tea for me.
It’s easy to see why Starbucks and McDonalds do so well in the UK now, with traditional outlets shutting up at 3:30pm, tea-time, despite the town being full of visitors, luckily someone pointed out BLOC just over the road - amazing tea - and still open at 4pm!
More tea later please!
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We really love coming here and supporting a local business, but to run out of sandwiches / baguettes at 12pm on a warm sunny Monday is disappointing. To be honest there was hardly anything left in the counter and they didn’t seem interested to help. Needless to say we ended up spending our money elsewhere…
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Came here for pain au chocolates, sourdough loaf and an iced vanilla latte. Food absolutely delicious. The sourdough bread was to die for. Service great, wasn’t much choice but I was down after they’d been open for an hour already. Drinks do take awhile to wait for. I would come back here as another treat.
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We visited three Pettigrew locations during our stay in Cardiff!
Stuff we tried:
1..Creme brulee croissant (10 out of 10): creme diplomat is divine, crunchy exterior tops it off...visited two days in a row for this!
2. Plum Danish (10/10): really top notch laminated dough, jam filled center, and generous cream with lovely slices of plum on top. On par with the creme brulee croissant as my favorite
3. Cheese Mustard Crown (7/10): very good, savory deliciousness, with tear apart cheesy goodness
4. Sausage Roll (6/10): decent sausage roll, but nothing to shout about
5. Semolina sourdough: review is TBD!
Customer Service: we dropped one of our coffees on the floor while fumbling with our bag of pastries. The barista was kind enough to brew another Americano for us, and quickly mopped the floor while we apologized profusely. I really appreciate their gesture and reassurance that it was ok and that things like this happen 🙏🏻🥺
Seating: There is no seating inside at the Victoria Park location, but there are picnic tables outside.
