Sweet Lucy's Bakeshop — Restaurant in Bernardston

This is probably the best bakery I've ever been to. Like I've been to Europe and most major American cities, but the raspberry cornbread and croissants from this place stand out in my mind as the best baked goods I've ever had. Their quality and consistency on those core items is great, but their diversity of offerings are awesome, too. You can pop in on a Thursday and get one of the best donuts you've ever had, or if you're having friends over, buy a quiche and impress everyone.

It's honestly surprising the amount of effort that this crew puts in - you wouldn't expect to find an institution of this caliber in between a tire shop and pizza restaurant in Bernardston, MA (population: 2100).

Somehow, Lucy decided the bakery itself wasn't enough, so she recently built out a cooking classroom and began offering classes. My wife and I did a pasta class recently. To be honest, I was initially a little skeptical of the $120 ticket, but after the class, I thought it was kind of a steal. The amount of ingredients, time, and attention made this feel like a great deal. Copious amounts of lemon-cream bowtie pasta and savory mushroom rigatoni was consumed, with leftovers brought home. Also just thinking about the cleanup they would have to do afterwards with all the dishes and flour spilled everywhere made me think the value was great. It was an awesome experience to use their equipment to make special pasta dishes, and the only problem was that Lucy wanted to teach us more stuff than she had...

Update September 2021 - To the management at Sweet Lucy's: as the COVID situation continues in our local area, please consider requiring your staff and customers to wear masks. I had a very unpleasant experience this morning at the shop when an unmasked customer was exiting the store through the entrance (not the designated exit) and shouted to staff members within 1-2 feet of my face (I was masked) and other masked customers in line. Considering most of your customers are wearing masks again, I think it would be respectful and considerate of your staff to also wear masks. It is a small bakery to begin with and social distancing may not be possible at busy times. As a loyal customer, I urge you to consider requiring masks again. So happy that we have this sweet bakery in the area as most bakeries around here have been so disappointing. I actually drive 30 minutes for their stuff because the quality is so good. The baked goods are always fresh and made in an artisan way. The donuts are amazing and it gives us something to look forward to each Thursday. I am writing this review because I really want this bakery to do well and last...

WOW! Sweet Lucys Bakeshop knows how to bake and then some! My wife and I used SLB for our wedding and we were bummed we didn't have the opportunity to taste test the cakes with our schedule, but the cakes were out of this world!

We had trouble narrowing down our cake to just one and ended up having 4 cakes. There were some leftovers after our wedding and I don't think it all made it more than 2 or 3 nights on our honeymoon - I devoured all of it, with my wife's permission of course!

Thank you so much for everything and making our celebration all the more special for us and especially our guests!

I've now been able to visit the shop - it's the perfect spot to sit down and have a pastry or grab some sweets to go! I picked up a few cupcakes as well as some speciality pastries and they were fantastic! This will be a regular stop on my route home from Vermont...