Bon Ton Bakery

 Bon Ton Bakery was started by a Hungarian couple back in the 1950's. In 1998 they decided to sell it to the current owners who are from South Africa. The Bakery claims that it offers customers high quality and European style baked goods. I'm not so sure about that.

Looks great, right?

 So this has to be at least my tenth time inside Bon Ton Bakery and I hate to say it, but this place just doesn't jive with my taste buds. I have always tried to write positive reviews, but I just can't this one time. I find the baked goods here just terribly tasteless! The reason I've kept coming back was because I thought I had bad luck; maybe that loaf of bread was having a hard time rising, or there was a bad batch of poppy seeds, maybe someone left the pastries out over night and they all got dry... I have made excuses for this place for so long now I had to come back one more time and test one more thing.

 I figured with the price of their poppy seed loaf being abnormally high it couldn't be bad, plus it is kind of hard to really mess up poppy seeds rolled with vanilla and some sugar in a bread. Right? Wrong. I was utterly disappointed for the tenth time with this place. The poppy seeds inside the loaf had no flavour, the dough around them was stale and dry, old. I really shouldn't have to butter up a slice of this stuff. It should be moist and overflowing with poppy seeds so that the next time you look in the mirror it looks like you ate dirt for lunch. I was really, really disappointed.

 Some other things I have tried in the past are their cheddar loaf (lacking cheese), cookies, pastries, buns, muffins... and more. Almost everything I have bought from this place lacks flavour. It seeps B-O-R-I-N-G. They have now hired a french pastry chef and are making more delicate type pastries, but I cant be bothered to come in here again and hope that these are better. I have spent too much time feeling guilty about not liking this place and I will not be back here anytime soon. I'm sorry Bon Ton Bakery, I just dont like you!