Beachside Bakehouse — Restaurant in San Remo

Visited this Bakery 🍰 / cafe ☕️ in San Remo for the first and last time. The only things which saved it from getting an even lower 🌟rating was its range of bakery items 🍰🍩🥟🫔 We ordered a large cappuccino, a chai latte and a French vanilla slice to eat in.

The bakery presents itself as a cafe, with tables, chairs and an outside seating are. As such I expected the drinks to be served in cups and the slice to be on a plate, along with a knife and serviettes. To my surprise they were not. The drinks were in takeaway cups, the French vanilla slice in a paper bag. No knife or serviettes were provided. Though the slice was indeed delicious, eating it was a messy affair and having nothing to clean off our fingers with was a disappointment. Not the friendliest staff we have come across and their response when quizzed about the manner in which the drinks and food was served, bought about a ‘we only provide them as takeaway’. If that is their business model, that is fine. But if it is, then they should remove the seating and cease to portray the business as a bakery / cafe. To do otherwise is misleading and that is very poor form indeed.

Do we recommend this business? ❌ / ✅ As a Takeaway… perhaps. As a Cafe….. No we do not.

There are plenty of other cafes in San Remo that do it far better than this place.

For me I rated it 🌟🌟 whereas my partner...

Been coming to this bakery for years whilst living down on the island. Just returned after 2yrs away and am so thankful for this bakery! They do THE BEST Broccoli Cauliflower and Cheese pies I’ve ever had in my life here. I tried many of these pies whilst in NSW and QLD and never found one anywhere near as good! Their other pastries are excellent, as well as the desserts and hot drinks. In addition to that, the service is always served with a polite greeting and a smile! My only qualm is that I’ve usually gotta get in there before 11:30am to grab a hold of one of the Broccoli Cauliflower and Cheese pies before they’re sold out! You can however buy them frozen or wait for them to heat...

Stopped in for a spot of lunch on the way back to the city. Really glad we did, I had the steak, cheese & bacon pie and sausage roll. My travelling companion had the egg & bacon pie. Both pies were awesome so good in fact we ended up buying 6 cold pies to take home with us so we could have them at home. The place was really busy and there was a line and it took a good 5+mins or so to get served. They also had coffee, filled rolls & heaps of yummy looking desserts (I can recommend the Bee-stings which had a mountain of fresh cream in it, it's so nice to get cakes with fresh cream in them, instead of mock cream etc). So next time I'm in the area I will certainly be...