Parsons Bakery

All my favourite childhood (New Zealand) bakery items… went in as the place was getting ready to close but managed to grab the last Custard Slice.delicious. Just be careful that when you eat it the custard doesn’t slide out; a bit like eating a cornish pasty, nibble around the edges. Very friendly staff; a good old fashioned bakery feel; even though it is part of a chain!!!

As you can see the the stack of temptingly sumptuous treats placed just so in the window of Parsons, I couldn’t help but be drawn in. I’m just a sucker for freshly baked bread and pastries!
I have lived in London for most of my life so when I came to Bristol and had the Parsons bakery experience I found something that London is missing! I friend of mine that used to work in this branch once gave me a custard slice — I don’t even like custard slices but this one was very nice indeed, although it was a bit of a challenge to eat it without the custard squelching out of the sides!
This Henleaze branch was jam-​packed (like their donuts) at lunch time serving all sorts of people.
Lovely jumbly.

Builders, gardeners, students, locals and even the elderly all love the bakers. Who wouldn’t really? A range of delights ranging from the savoury end all the way to the scrummy sweet end. Every road needs a local baker.
In Henleaze, Parson’s Bakery fills these shoes. Pasties, spicy meat patties and sandwiches fill the savoury slot with such heavenly numbers as the prawn, lemon and rocket sandwich on fresh granary bread. All the old favourites are out in force for the sweeter side of things with the apple turnover being the man of the match. You can get a good old fashioned fatty sausage roll for £1.25 and any pastry plus a coffee for a mere £2.
Thank God for Parsons.

How can anyone fail to be drawn in by the smell of a bakers! You find yourself happily walking along, minding your own business, when this smell fills your nostrills, your legs become jelly and your feet carry you step by step closer to the origin, and before you know it you have crispy sasuage roll in your hand and you don’t quite know how it happend!
That’s what happened with me and Parson’s anyhow, I did also manage to pay attention to a few things! They do homemade sandwiches and cakes as well as the obvious selection of bread you would come to expect, the selection of sweet pastries is also pretty good.
They are very friendly in the shop and if you are after a quick take away snack for your lunch (and your in the area!) this is the obvious place to come. You can garantee you will be getting quality food at a reasonable price.

I like Parsons they a have a really good selection of fancy stuff. A bit more on the up market side of the bakeries, therefore a bit smaller and more expensive. Do tend to go to another bakery if there is one in the area.

Very tasty pastries in here and nice and large. On the pricey side, compared to Greggs etc. Sandwiches are really nice and the cakes a dream. A pastie from here WILL fill you up, not like some other bakeries. Or am I just greedy???