Ocean Grove Bake Shoppe — Restaurant in Neptune Township

I wanted to LOVE this place so much, but it was an instant heck no for me! We were walking the town of ocean grove with our pups and we wanted something sweet and our pups were thirsty! We literally stumbled on to this cute little spot and added bonus they had a doggy water bowl and outdoor seating! I volunteered to run and grab the goodies and ask for a fill up on the empty water bowl so our pups could grab a drink. Although, we have lived in a town near by for about a year, I’m sure I seemed like a visitor with all my excitement when I walked in. Two girls were working the front counter, one directly in front of me (not in charge) and the other to my right. I walk in with a huge smile and I say “hey y’all!” With no reciprocated response, so I then say can we get a fill up on your pup bowl and we are also gonna want some goodies. Still nothing from either, I then suddenly received a blank stare from the one in front of me and the one to my right was still with her head down ignoring us both. The young one in front of me, stumbled over her words and nerves as she looked at the one in charge for some back up and nervously said “uh, yeah.” I looked at the one in charge, who was still choosing to act like a paying customer was not in front of her. I could feel the awkwardness so I said, “ or maybe not?” The one in charge finally looked up and said “do you have a dog or something?” I said…reluctantly, yes….she then said “well we are about to close and we don’t want to waste water!” I said, ok, and what I didn’t realize, is that they were getting a bottle of water not faucet to fill the bowl. I said, “I will pay for the water.” The nervous girl in front of me said No, don’t do that. I then said, “I guess I just don’t understand why people have to be so rude?” She apologized and again stressed that I not buy the water. I said, no I will pay for the water and I will buy your most popular pastry. I intended to purchase something from the get go. The one in charge came back inside and said don’t pay for the water, I once again said, no I’m paying for the water. I fought back tears, because I wanted to just enjoy the night that had started off so lovely, and I wanted to love this shop so much. The young girl went to ring me up, gave me a crumbled cake she didn’t want to charge me for the water, but I insisted especially since there was a 5.00 min for credit card purchases. She charged me 5.00 and apologized again, but her supervisor never apologized or showed any kind of remorse for the way she treated us to begin with. Unfortunately, the pastry was not good either, one bite and we had to dump it. I can say that my pups did drink most of the water, so I’m grateful we were able to get that for them. I will always make sure to grab the water bottle I filled up out of the car go forward! Hard...

This bakery looks cute and quaint from the outside, so we decided to go in. The baked goods look great on the shelf; however when we went to order, the worker overcharged us. We got a cookie and a brownie. The sign on the wall says cookies $2.75 and brownies $3.00. She charged us $6.25. When we inquired, she said the brownies were $3.50. We said that the wall says only $3.00 so that is what we are willing to pay. The worker started getting really snippy with us and saying that the price increased but the wall wasn't adjusted yet. She gave us an attitude and shoved our baked goods at us across the counter. Then she slammed our change down on the counter. She couldn't figure out the change we were supposed to get back so my mom had to tell her how much we should get back. There was another lady working outside sweeping the leaves and she was very angry toward the people outside as well. She kept yelling and making rude comments to people passing by. They were closing down at 5pm on a Sunday but their website says they are open in the summer time until 6pm on a Sunday. It was not a pleasant experience by far and we have no desire to go back. When we got home, we tried the brownie and it was all dry and crumbly. It was definitely not delicious. All in all, it was a terrible experience and though it looks nice from the outside, it's not worth the overpriced and dry products and the rude interactions with...

i wish i listened to the reviews...

friend and i went this past weekend. we order the following: a cheese danish, a red velvet "lava bomb (?)" cupcake, and a zucchini bread loaf. the lady behind the counter was nice, i think, i dont quite remember the interaction other than when i asked for a zucchini loaf she responded with "which one?"

we took the baked goods home to eat them but i wish we ate them there to get a refund. the cheese danish was hard as a rock, tasting like it spent at least 2 days out uncovered. the red velvet "lava bomb" cupcake was very surprising, as its "lava bomb" filling was that of apple pie. my friend couldn't eat most of it, she ended up having to scoop the apple pie filling out of her days old refrigerated red velvet cupcake. the last chance for redemption was the zucchini bread, and it was the most dense loaf of brown coloured, cinnamon flavored, not-zucchini-bread-tasting zucchini bread i have ever had.

safe to say we were incredibly disappointed with the bake shop. i hope that in the future the quality of their foods improves, as well as their procedures on storing them if they intend to try and sell them again...