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the bakehouse

Ashridge House, Ashridge, Berkhamsted HP4 1NS United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Open Today: 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM

Amenities

Service options
  • Outdoor seating
  • Takeaway
  • Dine-in
Highlights
  • Great tea selection
Accessibility
  • Wheelchair-accessible car park
  • Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Wheelchair-accessible seating
  • Wheelchair-accessible toilet
Offerings
  • Alcohol
  • Beer
  • Coffee
  • Free water refills
  • Organic dishes
  • Prepared foods
  • Small plates
  • Vegan options
  • Vegetarian options
  • Wine
Dining options
  • Breakfast
  • Brunch
  • Lunch
  • Dessert
  • Seating
Amenities
  • Gender-neutral toilets
  • Toilets
  • Wi-Fi
Atmosphere
  • Casual
  • Cosy
Crowd
  • Groups
Payments
  • Credit cards
Children
  • Good for kids
  • High chairs
  • Kids' menu
Parking
  • Free parking lot
  • Parking
Pets
  • Dogs allowed

Best KPortal Reviews

Lovely little cafe in the school. A beautiful courtyard to enjoy a slice of cake or a cookie with a cup of chai latte when the weather is nice.
Food is OK, prices are sky high, for a few cakes, and a few teas and a Sausage roll, sausage was was oozing fat, which was off putting. All this was £26, after a long walk we needed refreshments, would we go back? probably not.
Absolutely awful food. We had the full English breakfast and there was not a grain of salt on the food. The sausage and hash brown looked and tasted like they came straight from a supermarket box. The beans were poured straight from a can. No flavour what so ever. And for £12.50 that is unacceptable.
Never mind the food, the service was lacking any warmth and staff walk straight passed you as you enter the cafe. So sad because a place like this has so much potential. I definitely will not be returning
My wife and I used to come here every second weekend, and loved the food and atmosphere. It appears management or the chef has changed in the last year and a bit as the quality of the food and pastries have really gone down the drain (please, bring back the old prawn and salmon open sandwich - the new mayo drenched thing is just disgusting). This place has so much potential, and whilst I appreciate you need to raise prices, it shouldn't come as a double whammy by also dropping food standards...
The cakes/pastries and drinks we got were good however improvement is needed with wait times and cleaning. There was a huge queue today at the open garden day and obviously they would have anticipated more visitors than usual. However basically all of the tables outside were not cleaned up and most people were sitting amongst the previous persons mess whilst eating their own food/drink. The queue was extremely long and took nearly half an hour to get to the front and order and then we had to wait additional time for the other half of our order to come out. As the queue was so long also, we had planned to get proper food but the second we got to the front it turned 3:30 EXACTLY and they told us they had just that moment stopped serving food so a bit of a waste of queueing. The place is beautiful to sit at and has potential but considering the prices here, an improvement is needed with the cleaning and wait times. Maybe it is not always like this but on a busy day like today it feels there should have been more preparation beforehand to make sure they could cope.
The service was really good! 4 coffees and 2 hot chocolates in a few minutes, meals 5 minutes later. Very accommodating with dietary wishes etc. fully recommend. Thanks
Very busy.
The designer who set this business out needs to be made to work in the shop.
The staff are hampered in every way
The main queue cuts across the coffee station for orders , the small prep areas seem unworkable for the staff
as do all prep areas.The work flow is needs re designing.
The food offer and coffee were good
Friendly staff and tasty coffee. What more do you need?

Quick Facts About the bakehouse



Today

Opening Hours

Monday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Tuesday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Wednesday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Thursday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Friday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Saturday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Sunday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM

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