Cromwell Bakery — Restaurant in Cromwell Community

Bought a chicken and bacon pastry thing from here. Wife got the chicken and cranberry equivalent. Mine got microwaved and delivered to me soggy. Immediately on opening the paper bag I was greeted with a quite unpleasant smell. Had a couple of bites against my better judgement and it tasted how it smelt/looked. The chicken was like a slimy slab inside a pastry sleeve. Almost no sign of bacon. I think the chicken was properly cooked but maybe reheated more than once. Either way it was virtually inedible. Wife had same experience all round. Spent the next 24 hours waiting for food poisoning to set in, thankfully didn't. Really don't like leaving reviews like this, but it was bad. Service from younger woman was satisfactory but not especially friendly. Will not be going back here unless there's a huge change in...

As i put my foot in the door a rude older looking lady was mopping the floor i wiped my feet at the door as i didn’t want to ruin the clean floor she has done but as i looked up she started to have a hissy fit about my friend and i walking into the OPEN bakery she then dropped the mop as she looked at my friend and i and said “nah im not doing this” there was no welcoming us, im disgusted in the service i felt unwelcomed so i walked straight out and went somewhere else. Its not hard to mope the floor after you close that takes 3...

Coffee was good! Had to opt for a dry dry dry chicken and salad roll. Would have gone back and asked for mayo or something if we weren’t travelling through. No chicken pies (unsure if sold out, but generally it’s good to have an alternative to red meat). No spinach and ricotta rolls left. Husbands pie was average. Most NZ bakeries are top notch. Read some reviews after - maybe they have the travel through market so don’t try as much as they should. Get a Jimmys in Roxburgh (or the...