Martin’s Pretzel Bakery

Worth the visit if you like honey mustard pretzels! The owners were very friendly and welcoming.

Awesome snack. If you like pretzels these are tops. I usually order the broken ones at a reduced price. Once you have these crunchy, salty snacks you’ll never be able to eat mass produced pretzels again. These are a hand made product and I’m happy supporting a small business.

Visited here on 7-​22-​2013 & am just now getting to write a review.
Martin’s is a small, nondescript brick building on the middle of a residential street in a little Pennsylvania town. My main reason for visiting this part of PA was to visit/​see pretzel factories & naturally, this one was on my list.
By far, this is the most traditional of all pretzel factories you will visit in this area. It is staffed & run by Mennonites who wear traditional garb & speak their traditional language. But you will feel a bit like an intruder when you enter (through the back door).
On my visit, a young girl with a combination of a Dutch/​English accent came out to greet me. You can see everything the other workers are doing on the other side of the glass. But it’s kind of like staring at people & I felt a bit embarrassed. No other visitors were there at the time I went. I only spent about 5 minutes there observing. I saw the man that runs the place & the rest of the people there were women, twisting pretzels, loading up trays, etc. There were pretzels for sale but most all they had left were flavored (such as mustard) and/​or very large bags & I wanted something smaller. The girl kindly gave me a small hard pretzel for free that had just come out of the oven & it was delicious.
Martin’s is definitely a unique look into a completely different culture that I had never experienced before. Their web site is quite good & you can order from it as well, something I may do in the future. Of all the pretzel places I visited in the Lancaster, PA area, this one had the best tasting hard pretzels.

I have very little to say because this place is so tiny and there is not much to see, you are kind of in and out in 2 minutes. It is like going into someone home. A very small factory behind glass when you walk in, someone comes out, asks what you would like and you get it and leave, thats it. The pretzels though are awesome, if you like a hard pretzel, very hard. You can get them normal or extra dark how I like them. They are almost burnt they are so dark. I LOVE THEM!!!