Atlantic Baking Co. — Restaurant in Rockland

Left a bad taste in my mouth. The cheese danish was dry, the ginger cookie was crunchy around the edges and the chai tea was just a teabag plunked in hot water, I had to add the sugar and half and half (no other milk options) to try and make it somewhat palatable. The clerks were decent, but an interaction at the end of visit left me wishing I'd chosen another cafe. An older man eating at an outdoor table with his wife came back in to grab something from the table near the door with all the coffee/tea fixings. He was inside the shop for less than 30 seconds and was 6 feet away from everyone, yet the clerk rudely decided to play mask police - as he was walking out the door. The whole interaction was awkward and unnecessary, and her actions kept him in the shop longer without a mask. Plus she got closer than 6 feet. Her actions actually increased the risk of infection while being rude to a customer. There's enforcing a mask mandate, and then there's using the mask mandate to shame and belittle someone for a moment of forgetfulness. His mask was literally on his wrist, and he'd been apparently wearing it to order a few minutes earlier, but she had to passive-aggressively offer him another? I'm guessing they just lost 2 customers forever...

I would give zero stars if I could. Ordered a vanilla wedding cake with an ombré design using rose gold butter cream frosting...meaning the frosting would have a gradient or graduating color from deep rose gold at the bottom to a lighter pink/white at the top. Spoke with the pastry chef directly about what we wanted and offered to send pictures of examples, but were assured that they understood what we wanted. When I went to pick up the cake it was white frosting with an orange stripe and orange rosettes. The staff was nice, but no one had a clue about what to do and could only suggest calling the pastry chef. It was clearly not what I ordered and the staff even agreed...they gave me a small discount, but I had to ask for it. The cake was very dry and crumbled like it had been frozen for a while before being frosted. I could have made a better one with box mix. I should have gotten a cake from Walmart or the grocery store!!! Extremely disappointing...especially since it was for a wedding and there was nothing...

Great big awning, can't miss them place. Friendly staff. Buy all the bakery goods, tap your card and off you go. It was my first time there as I was a dear in headlights. Staff should pay a little more attention to the guest's wandering eyes and perhaps share the house specialty or what's popular, or maybe even offer to warm up my chocolate chip cookie, which would warrant a tip from me. Otherwise, you're just doing your job. Why should I tip for that? 😘 I got 4 things, shame on me, but so good. Chocolate chunk cookie, cream puff with chocolate on top, blueberry bean muffin (I was surprised how moist it was.), Italian Cookie but in a mini muffin size 🤔 idk what that's called. ❤️ Thanks for being open on a Monday. You came highly recommended from Hartstone...