In your opinion, which supermarket has the best bakery?

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I absolutely love the Lidl bakery, I’ve never had a bad thing from there. I loved the cheese pretzels but I think they might’ve discontinued them now It’s all so cheap too! The Tesco bakery is good too, I like their bread batons, the tiger bread is lovely.

I like Waitrose and Sainsburys for decent enough loaves of bread. Lidl is also good but not on my regular midweek mooch. M and S do Pave bread but most of the rest of their stuff is less good.

We really miss the very good baker that had a market stall in the city centre. He retired.

There are 3 Gale’s, but the city centre one is not that good and generally their loaves are too big.

Sainsburys!
Their ring doughnuts are so pillowy and light. I don't t normally eat doughnuts! I also love their white chocolate and raspberry cookies.

Morrisons. Without a doubt.

Morrisons, but I love the lidl bakery too. Morrisons edges it for me as they have luxury items, but lidl cant be beat for price.

Have you tried the new garlic pretzle thing from lidl? They look a bit rubbish, just dark and triangular, but they are absolutely delicious!

I’ve never actually tried Waitrose or Sainsburys bakeries, we don’t have either that’s local/easy to get to so we just don’t go. I don’t think I’ve ever even been to a Sainburys tbh! Maybe once, but not that I can really remember.

Ooh no, I think I’ll have to though!

Waitrose is by far the nicest around us. The Lidl one is always a bit rubbish - everything is either over or under baked. Last thing I got there was literally just raw dough in the centre. Dc like it and it's cheap, so that's fine if we're stopping there already, but I don't usually get things there myself and I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

I always go with Sainsbury's. I avoid M&S because theirs is made up to a year in advance, fully baked, kept frozen and then unboxed and put on a shelf saying "freshly baked in store" and I'm not even going to start on what goes in their products

At my lidls the bread has a weird texture. I do get some of the other bakery bits, but it’s never very clean.

again this is a “my” lidl issue.

sainsburys is my go to.

Brownies from the Lidl bakery are amazing, and there are these ring donuts with chocolate on the bottom, and the hole part is full of Nutella (prob not real Nutella)

Just delicious!!

They’re not ring doughnuts at all I just checked.

when I checked I also discovered they do cookies! I will investigate further

Another Lidl vote here!

Morrisons for me. Depends on the store though. We're lucky in that we've a well managed store and the bakery is usually really good, both products and staff.

Been in a few others which were absolutely dire, so if I'm away, I tend to give them a swerve rather than risk it, and just tend to buy only from our local store. When away, I'll tend to seek out a Sainsbury.

Though, whether home or away, I'll always try to use a proper, local, independent bakery as first port of call, if one is convenient, as you just can't beat them and no supermarket comes close.

Tesco's for me. Ring doughnuts and vanilla creme crowns🤤 kind of wishing I had a Sainsbury's close by now though after all these posts 😆

Lidl or Morrisons.

Morrisons

I don't know who the best is but I do know it's definitely not ASDA. I've been there a couple of times recently and the bakery is shockingly poor. It's a big store but very little is interesting and what there is is low quality.

Morrisons. Waitrose loaves aren’t made in store, just “refreshed” (their term) in a hot oven, then put on display uncovered. They get squeezed and rearranged by customers’ mucky hands, and are stale within hours because they’re left open to the air, not to mention the French sticks stacked vertically in bins just at the height of a snotty todflers’s face. Just revolting.

I like Tesco tiger batons, and Morrison’s salt and pepper bloomers.

I would have said Morrisons, but they’ve revamped our local store and we don’t have the range any more. Very disappointing.

So Lidl get the vote.

I used to like the Waitrose near me, especially the yum yums, but they’ve gone now and been replaced by Home Bargains. I never buy anything in Tesco bakery except the white chocolate cookies occasionally. Asda lemon cake is nice. I try to avoid the bakery aisle these days as I could eat all the bread and cakes.

Lidl. For the bread and definitely not the Nutella doughnuts or the lemon Chelsea bun things, because I've never ever ever had those.

Morrisons do shit jam doughnuts - on one hand the jam has no moisture and is like a paste texture, on the other hand it still spurts everywhere.

Tescos jam doughnuts are always sweaty in the bag.

And I've never bought from the Asda bakery since I saw a bloke on the shop floor putting the baguettes into the plastic with his bare hands which he was also wiping his nose with in between baguettes. I had previously thought it was done someone in an apron with gloves and a hair net in a clean area.

I would have said Sainsburys as well until up to a few weeks ago when I saw the man packing cookies with no gloves on and continuously coughing into his hands whilst doing it 🤢🤮 never buying from their bakery again

Lidl followed by Marks and Spencer. The yumnuts are amazing

M&S is my favourite for most things,
Waitrose never have anything in stock when I go.
I don't think any of the others do decent loaves of bread
Morrisons do good croissants and bread rolls, DH loves the cookies and DD loves the doughnuts
My kids love Lidl cakes and pastries
Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda are all pretty similar IMO.

I am a sucker for a Co-op Tiger bloomer in the orange paper packaging. Just amazing. It's a one off though as most other Co-op bakery stuff is meh.

I like the M&S frozen garlic breads and their pretzels - also their individual bakery mince pies at Christmas are just unbeatable.