Gourmet Bake Shop — Restaurant in Town of North Hempstead

First off, I used the Yelp $10 for $15 deal and the girl who helped me was really nice and helpful as I putzed around on my phone looking for the code I needed.

As for the store, it's clean and has a lot of reasonably priced delicious looking desserts.

We seriously struggled to get to $15 as we ordered whoopie pies, cookies, a red velvet cupcake, a slice of rainbow cake.

Most of these wonderful desserts are in the $2.00 to $2.50 range.

There were many others I wanted to try. They had lobster tails, elephant ears, and Oreo cheesecake.

Many of the cakes looked great and were very reasonably priced.

As good as buttercooky bakery is down the road this place is much more affordable and almost as/equally delicious.

The whoopie pie was not dry despite being really thick. It was really good. The rainbow sprinkled cookie which didn't get a picture, was melt in your mouth good. Everything here was moist, tasty, and made me want to come back again.

Loved how friendly they were accepting the Yelp deal. I often dislike using groupons and other deals for fear of attitude or poor service at places. Everyone working here was so nice...

I’ve stopped by this place a handful of times over the past year, and honestly, it’s gone downhill fast. What really pushed me to write this review is the clear disregard for basic cleanliness and employee wellbeing.

I’ve seen a rat more than once running around inside the store inside, not outside the store and it wasn’t subtle. What’s disturbing is that the owner was present during at least one of these incidents and didn’t seem phased at all. No one cleaned anything, the store stayed open, and business just kept going like nothing happened. That’s unacceptable.

Also, I can’t help but feel uncomfortable seeing that nearly all the workers are very young girls, many of whom appear to be minors. It’s not inherently wrong, but the fact that it’s mostly young female staff managed by one adult man with no clear structure or other supervision just doesn’t sit right with me. It’s weird, and I’m not the only customer who’s noticed.

Bottom line: this place isn’t clean, and it doesn’t feel safe or professionally run. I won’t be...

Peet's coffee in Dunkin & Starbucks heartland!! That drew us in for a breakfast bite. Apart from coffee, we settled for toasted, buttered croissant, cheese puff, coffee cake. All spot on. Latter two delicately sweetened, in keeping with times. We'd have preferred coffee cake to be little more moist. The place attracted a steady stream of regulars; all helped by Ali & Fiona with friendly alacrity (even helped us by heating milk for coffee). Seemed like they bake breads in small batches. Also had an assortment of cookies, cupcakes, mousse, pastries, tarts, eclairs, cakes and, of course, New York Cheesecake. In an increasingly online world, they need to move away from a generic, nondescript website (that just does not do justice to ready for takeaway goodies); to a more available-here-and-now menu from what is already...