The Ashbourne Gingerbread Shop

The name gingerbread is actually misleading, as they make many sorts of baked cards. our favorite was the cream donut. we order twice in 5 minutes! Dear staff also! highly recommended!

A very inexpensive and qualitatiw high quality breakfast. one of the few caffes early from 8.00 clock also open freshly baked brot etc.

Birds the gingerbread shop. Range of eat in options available. Good cooked breakfasts. Staff are pleasant and service is quick. Take out sandwiches and pasties are are available at the counter. Take away sausage cobs are lovely, as are the cream slices. Reasonable prices for the quality of food. Pre packed sandwiches often sell out quickly at lunch so don’t leave it late. You can park close by on the market place (pay display)

So disappointing! I had been to the shop as a child so I had fond memories of going along to buy a gingerbread man here. Bringing back my family years later sadly it was not the experience I’d hoped for. Considering it still had the same shop front I can’t believe it sold cheap looking gingerbread men, packaged up in cellophane, with tasteless edible paper icing on. It tasted more like shortbread. So sad. My daughter was so disappointed as gingerbread is her favourite treat. Thankfully we are staying in Bakewell so we were able to pick up a much tastier one from the Bakewell tart shop there!

Lots of sensible social distancing protection measures in place at the moment, clear marking and polite staff made it a simple stress free quick visit to collect fantastic Birds cream cakes and Pork pies. Cream cakes are pre-boxed at the moment which gave me an excuse to buy more as well.