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Good food at good prices, with a little bit of quirkiness thrown in. We help you start your day off right with our fantastic, freshly made bagels and… read more »
7 reviews for Bakers of Buffington
7 reviews in English
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Review from Kevin C.
Coatesville, PA
4/13/2012
From the first time our wedding planner suggested going to them for our cake four years ago, to my mother-in-law's surprize birthday from February of this year, Bakers of Buffington has been our family's goto place for cakes for special occassions. The cake is always moist and made exactly how you want it.
The price can be a costly, but it's not like I'm getting cakes from them every week; it's great to splurge a little!
The choice of fillings, and flavors will keep you coming back to try different combinations.
We highly recommend Bakers of Buffington over the competition becuase they are local, and continue to make a consistenly delicious cake! Too bad they do not have a bakery counter to buy individual pasteries, but it's worth the wait when there is a special occassion and I know the cake is coming from these guys! -
Review from Laura C.
Downingtown, PA
3/26/2012
Cakes taste great! However the staff is NEVER friendly. They are downright rude. I've been buying cakes here for 3 years but am looking elsewhere because I'm not giving my nearly $200 for a birthday cake to people who just don't care about providing good customer service.
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Review from Saul S.
Philadelphia, PA
7/4/2009
We had a horrible experience with the Bakers of Buffington. The only reason we're even using them is because our wedding venue uses them as their exclusive cake maker.
My fiance went to the bakery after calling and setting up her cake consultation. When she called, they went over what we thought was everything, even saying that you will be able to try all of the cake fillings with the three or four cakes we were ordering to taste.
Well, she gets there, and is told that there is no filling for her because she didn't order any. Wouldn't you think that the person she talked to would have told her that?
Instead of offering to just give her some fillings, the store employee berated my fiance and her mother, and then told her if they wanted filling, they had to order it, and they could come back to get it at a later date.
When my fiance told her that she wanted filling, and asked if she could get some from the back, she was told no. There were clearly people working in the back. Not once did an owner or manager come out and try to deal with the situation.
The only response we could get was that "plenty of people order cakes with no filling, I can show you the paperwork."
The customer service was so poor, I would not recommend this bakery for anything. If it weren't included in our wedding cost, I would go elsewhere. I have never heard of a bakery treating someone in such a disrespectful, discourteous manner before. It's not like we order a ton of wedding cakes, this is our first time. I feel like a bakery that claims to specialize in wedding cakes should understand this. -
Review from Kiera H.
Collegeville, PA
11/17/2009 3 photos
We used Bakers of Buffington for our October 2009 wedding. They were always professional and courteous, had the cake set up perfectly and on time, and gave me tips and advice on my cake. Best of all the cake turned out AWESOME!!
My recommendation to anyone looking to go there is to set up a consultation-- don't just walk in. They are an orders-only kind of place, and are usually very busy and don't have someone managing the front all day. Once you set that up, though, they'll sit down with you and go over everything (they have photo books, but definitely come in with some of your own ideas!).
And since, as I said, they are an order-only place, they don't have cakes sitting around for tasting, but they give you these SUPER TALL 6" (I think?) cakes for tasting. You get two for free and the others are $4 a piece (you can try 1 filling and 2 cake types in each, though, since they are double layered).
Oh, and my bridal shower cake came from them too! Equally as awesome and delicious.
Absolutely delicious cakes, wonderful staff, great bakery. Would recommend BoB to anyone. The best part was that my 90-95 person cake was only ~$300. Sweet. -
Review from Stephen Z.
Washington, DC
9/9/2011
First the good news......the cakes that they produce taste great! Now the bad news.....they are NOT the most user friendly from a business standpoint. A) They only accept cash so if you don't have enough cash or if you want to give them a credit card over the phone for someone else to pick up later, that's not gonna happen B) You have to order everything in advance....they have NO product onsite unless it's one of the cakes that have been ordered in advance so not a "traditonal bakery" in that sense, so if you need a cake at the last minute you're SOL! But like I said, they have a good product and they have a corner on the market because there aren't any other bakeries around so they can write their own rules.
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Review from Laura R.
Brooklyn, NY
10/16/2010
Ordered a single 8" yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Could not be simpler. Get a call the morning of, "we accidentally made a 6 inch cake, do you just want 2-6 inch cakes"...ok. Go to pick it up and there is only 1 cake frosted, with the wrong flavor frosting, and barely an understanding that they now messed up the simplest order a second time. Some real rocket-scientists running this place. No real apology either. "these things happen"...not at professional bakeries.
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Review from Phil T.
9/23/2010
The best bakery we have ever used. The cakes are delicious; I have never had cake in Philly that comes close. The folks working behind the counter are always courteous, on-time, and sensitive to allergies. We have requested cakes with no artificial colors and flavors and even cakes made using soymilk! The regular cakes are rich and dense, however the soymilk cake was light and fluffy yet still very tasty. If you're in the area don't go anywhere else.
