Oct 4, 2010
Martha’s Country Bakery, Astoria
What we like here: The cookies. If that.
What to skip here: Almost everything else. Especially the gelato.
The short story long: We often end up at Martha’s Country Bakery when we have a hankerin’ for something sweet. We are almost always disappointed. Note to future selves: The cookies are the only things you’ve ever liked there — they’re not mindblowing but aren’t bad, either. Just pretty MOR. The cake is like something you’d eat at a coworker’s birthday or going-away party — adequate, inoffensive, and pretty generic. The gelato is just downright not good.
Also note the weird table service thing they have going on. You can’t just order an item or two from the counter and then go sit. You’ll get a waitress. Which tacks on extra expense. And the service is not always that attentive.
We wish there were better late-evening alternatives for our sweet tooths (sweet teeth?) — like an ice cream shop — so we’ll probably go to Martha’s again. But this time, I hope our future selves will just stick to a take-away cookie.