The Bakehouse
135 Colman Road
Norwich
United Kingdom
NR4 7TJ
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The Bakehouse is located down Colman road, close to the junction where the Avenues cross over near the university. It's a burberry hotspot, clearly nothing quite hits the spot after a leisurely morning mugging the locals and vandelising public property than a delicious cornish pasty. Inside, it was a bit like an unbranded Bakers' Oven. The woman at the counter had the same striped pinny and hairnet, and the walls and counters were all made out of the same cheap materials that you find in department store window displays. There was nowhere to sit, it was very much a takeaway counter styled offering. Frankly, tables and chairs or not, it wasn't a particularly nice place to be anyway, so it was probably for the best. I ordered a cornish pasty, and was told that, 'I'm sorry, they're all sold out'. Firstly, she didn't look very sorry. She looked pleased at this temporary downturn in my fortunes. Secondly, it was ten in the morning, and I could only wonder what sort of mamoth pasty order had they received so early in the morning as to remove them as an option for the rest of the day? It was unbelievable. I went for a steak slice instead, and it tasted pretty good. There was quite a lot of filling in it, and didn't cope well with partial consumption. in short, it fell apart. Perhaps that was as much the fault of myself as its constructor, maybe I'd just aproached it the wrong way. Maybe I'd been too quick and careless, and not made it the military operation it should have been. Still, for £1.45 it was difficult to find too much fault with any of it.
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Verdict: Overall, a cheap and cheerful sort of place, where the service is equally cheap but not quite as cheerful, and the food is fairly standard sort of fare. Buns, pies, rolls and cakes are plentiful, and on a cold day in the middle of winter, hot food is a nice option to have.
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