Goodale’s Bakery

Great place for a lunch or a doughnut and coffee.
Freshly prepared deli sandwiches and a limited daily selection of hot entrees
All are generous portions of home style food.
Last visit, I enjoyed a BBQ Pulled Pork sandwich on a freshly baked Kaiser Roll.
And don’t to get a pastry or elephant ear for dessert.

It’s a small town friendly meeting place with great cookies, breads and donuts. Which, truthfully, is all I’ve sampled in my 10 or so years of visiting Grayling once a year to hunt or fish. Good munchies to take along in the woods or on the river. Prices are reasonable.

Goodale’s is awesome. I have been going there my entire life — from when my grandfather would take me to now when I go with my own family. If you’re looking for a hot meal, I can’t speak to that but the donuts and elephant ears are amazing. My husband dreams about them all year until we come up for our annual vacation.
The service is efficient… you’re not going to get someone’s life story or anything but the food is worth it. It’s best to know what you want when you step up to the counter. There may be lines or they may be out of stuff if you go later in the day, especially on weekends.
Donuts are flavorful, moist and they have tons of flavors to choose from. We like apple cinnamon cake, cherry cake, and sour cream the best. The Elephant ears are huge, crispy, sweet, and flaky.
We love you Goodales! Please never change!

Krispy Kreme and Dunkin have nothing on this local place! I always look forward to some Goodale’s when I come to town. Also a great place for fresh deli sandwich in town as well.

Wonderful little gem in town. Stopped in whole traveling and celebrating my daughter’s birthday. The staff was very helpful and the baked goods were delicious. Pasties and lunch fare available too. Definitely worth a stop when you’re in Grayling.

Two stars because the donuts are good. Went for lunch and we had a few different items. Mac & cheese– kids liked. Beef pastrie was ok but cold and definitely not homemade gravy. Chili dogs were not good. Would go for donuts again, but that’s it.

Yeah I don’t know… I really did not see it here in this bakery. I bought a «cream cheese rich coffee cake» for $ 7.59. It is really a chocolate pan cake with a bunch of gaggy rich too sweet frosting
I noticed that they have «Albie’s» pasties… where am I, Traverse City? Albie’s is all preservatives and garbage. If you want to serve great pasties, you have to make them fresh.
I ate one slice of the coffee cake and the rest was thrown out…

While we were checking out Grayling and what it had to offer, we caught eye of Goodale’s and saw numerous people going in. I’m all for pastries and goodies, so I followed suit.
Some of the shelved items seemed pricey, but maybe that’s just me. ($ 5 for six cookies) Anyway, they had a nice variety of items. We ended up getting a couple of Danish elephant ears, a cherry turnover, a long john and an almond paste bar. I didn’t hear complaints from my son about the long john. The almond bar was okay, but not enough filling. My cherry turnover was pretty tasty and had a decent amount of filling. The elephant ears were crisp and sugary.
The staff person that waited on us didn’t seem too friendly. I don’t think she broke so much as even a slight smile.
From our viewpoint, it wasn’t anything to die for, or outstanding, or amazing or one of those places we MUST get back to every time we get close to it. It was an average bakery. We’ve definitely had better elsewhere.

Best cookies in Michigan! Donuts are very good as well.
Always feels like a small town mtg spot.
We stop every year on the way to Traverse City!

Without a doubt my favorite bakery in Michigan.
Be careful, gets busy on the weekends early in the morning. Don’t be afraid to approach the counter for service otherwise you will be standing around.
We haven’t ventured to far from an occasional doughnut, kind of hard to when they are so delicious. Their other items look good.

You can be pretty sure a place is good when the locals stream in and are greeted by name. This is the kind of place Goodale’s Bakery is.
I can’t attest to the sweets, although they sure smelled good. But the chicken pasty with gravy was delectable, with a tender, flaky crust, and a filling containing plenty of identifiable and taste-​able veggies along with the chicken.

Thank you Unilocal!
I needed a last minute birthday cake (yes I’m a horrible husband) but we were in rural Michigan during my time of need.
A quick google of «grayling, bakery» only gave me one result and it was good. Real real good.
With only a day’s notice I was provided a perfect vanilla cake with custom messaging, but also during my pickup I grabbed a couple of different flavors or white bread (english muffin and «hearth» which was chewy and wonderful) as well as some DELICIOUS doughnuts.
Service was remarkably helpful and friendly, but the food was also solid. Atmosphere was seriously old school, and the coffee shop area was filled with amazing Grayling old timey locals.
Highly recommended! For what it is, and where it is, Goodale’s Bakery is perfect.