Restaurants: Nana’s Bakery

Is a bakery a restaurant?  You can eat there, so it’s a meal-procurement-place, like a restaurant. 

Well, I want to talk about ‘Nana’s Bakery’.  The wonderful baker is Doug, and his sidekick wife, Barb.  It’s the only GF bakery that I can get to in less than 4 hours and without crossing any national borders.  Thankfully, he makes good stuff.  Not only does he make gluten free baked goods, but he can customize your order (doesn’t Burger King say they do that, too?  Gluten free bun, please!)  You can have sugar free, egg free, reduced sugar, dairy free, along with gluten free.  His bread is the second best I’ve ever had.  (First being one from Whole Foods, which I didn’t keep the packaging, so I don’t know what it’s called!  Duh!) 

He makes good chocolate chip cookies, ginger snaps and peanut butter cookies.  The breads I’ve tried are the regular loaf, the cheese loaf, and the pizza shells.  (All good.)  Also, his island muffins (banana, pineapple) are GREAT, but I didn’t love the blueberry ones so much.  He also makes cakes.  All of this is gluten free.

Usually, he has GF foods available on Thursday and Saturday.  And it’s best if you call ahead and place an order at the beginning of the week.

Doug is very active in the community, visiting schools and nursing homes educating about gluten intolerance and diabetes.  His motto is ‘Every child should have a cookie.’  How sweet!  (No pun intended.)

Doesn’t this sound like a cheesy article in a small town paper?  Or a speech you wrote in grade six?  Such as ’Frogs like water and are green.  Their babies are called tadpoles.’  So much for any literary awards coming my way!!