Ann’s Bakery

In Dublin for a business trip, I don’t want the massive breakfast from the hotel so I decided to go on Mary’s street to look for a café early morning and I end up in this fancy café! That’s was not a bad idea at all! They do some massive muffins and they look to be homemade (he took it from the baking tray… They might have just warm it in it but anyway it look like it was homemade)
I have also order a latte.
I can say that the muffin was really good! It was a blueberry muffin, I could not see to much blueberry on it but the muffin in general was pretty good
The latte… Honestly, I should have just wait to be in the office and get it from the machine because I did not really like it!
I went back the next day for the muffin again but they did not have any which is a shame! So I had a scone with chocolate chips! Not bad decision look less greasy than the muffin and it full me up for the morning so I can go back there again for it.
That’s only what I can comment on, they get the 3 stars because of the muffins not available and the latte that could really be better. they do savoury food also and cheap lunch menu so maybe to try one day and if I do I will review this and/​or confirm if they should have more stars

I wanted to give the pastries 4 stars, but the experience overall was only 3. It takes a minute to see the hot food in the back, once you make it past the coffee, pastries, and standing people. The food itself really isn’t that bad, and it is cheap for what I’d call a hearty meal. However, the task of actually getting the food, touching the not always clean trays, trying to find a seat downstairs before having to walk upstairs (again past the standing people), then finding a seat and trying to fit comfortably with a giant grey tray in the way, gives this establishment a ³⁄₅. Thank goodness the pastries are redeeming and the fresh bread smell at the front exists.

Weirdly enough I had never been in Ann’s Bakery before. I wanted tea, cake and a place to read. Their cakes did look particularly nice and I chose a nice fresh banoffee, tea and a bottle of water, which I think came to about 8 euro. Downstairs was pretty packed and so I went upstairs to sit by the window and look out onto Henry Street.
It isn’t really a comfy place to sit and read, as its mostly plastic chairs and tables. A radio station was piped in and was at the time playing talk radio, which I just found annoying. I’ve no quarrel with the food, but I did feel that if I was going to pay that much for tea and cake I really would expect a more comfortable and relaxing experience.

Solid full Irish without too much atmosphere. There were construction works underway while I was there so it might soon have a nicer interior in the future. Handy location and a nice Dublin crowd though.

Great to see Ann’s hot bread shop still going after all these years. I remember eating cream cakes here as a kid that lightyear ago! A lot of yummy temptations around. You first have to sneak by the numerous array of delightful cakes and then try to blank the other lot in the fridges when paying.
It doesn’t get my full vote as it still has the old dear smell when you first walk in but it goes after the nice waft of dinner delights that awaits. I had a very tasty beef pie with all the trimmings. Good price and definitely better for you rather than a micky d’s after a hard days shopping. The inside has been done up since the last time I was there, so looks ok and a lot of friendly folk about.
Difficult to get up stairs with the aul tray and swinging diet coke cup but it is what it is!

Line up, select pastry or some variation of hot meat & potato, select drink, shuffle towards counter balancing said sustenance on greasy tray, dash towards free table, now maddened by the wafting aromas of your lunch and the fear that you might miss the one free table, that you might, maybe, have to go upstairs. Where the stairs are steep and your drink will fall over and your food will be nearly cold.
Ok so that might be a little bit dramatic, but that was my last visit to the lovely Ann’s Bakery. At the end of the day, it does exactly what it says on the tin. The food is there ready and waiting for ya, the staff are just a little bit jaded by it all, and there are loads of tables upstairs, but the grannies have control of the ones downstairs and you ain’t gettin near them bud!
Seriously though, it’s a grand spot if you’re just after something quick, cheap and cheerful. And if you’re a pastry fan, well good luck in choosing, as they have a whole section dedicated to the creamy, the jammy, the crispy and the sugary.

Usually overcrowded and completely overpriced. It’s hard to get a seat once you’ve purchased your food. And by the time you do get a seat, the food you’ve paid too much for is already cold.
A friend and I went here and each had a fairly small plated breakfast and with drinks out total was nearly € 40. Not at all worth the price for the cafeteria style food, service and seating.
Ann’s does have a wide variety of baked goods for takeaway, however… and they are pretty tasty. So skip the cafeteria, grab a cake for takeaway and you should be satisfied.

Stopped in for a quick coffee-​an-​a-​bun during Christmas shopping, really just based on my memories of 20 years ago when Ann’s was one of the best places in the city to do so.
unsurprisingly it has changed a lot in 20 years, it is no longer the small, slightly grotty but amazing little bakery, it now has more the feel of the canteen you get in places like Ikea, a little soulless over all but still has a tremendous array of fresh pastries and cakes.
Deffo stop in for some takeaway goodies, try to avoid staying for coffee or worse yet, a meal.

I have to say that the food is delicious but they seem to change the prices every time i go in. Its 2. 50 euro per scoop of potato which is a little pricey. Im a veggie so i normally get extra potatoes. At first when i started coming to Anns Bakery everything was included on my plate, now i pay for my extras. My sons meal is also gone up in price. I understand you get what you pay for but constantly changing the prices is a bit to much. I have since tried other eatries that KEEP the same prices.

Typical cafeteria food. Not open until 11:30 on Sunday? They need to consider opening earlier, they are missing out on the Sunday morning breakfast trade.

I think everyone will agree that the café seating part sucks, it reminds me of Kylemore on O’Connell Street *Shudder* which every time I am dragged in there I come out feeling like a need a good chemical shower (The germs, not the germs!)
The bakery part is wonderful though, the staff all seem like they are good friends with each other giving it that good-​bit-​of-​craic friendly atmosphere.
The cakes, bread and other delicacies are so fresh and calling out from the behind the counter (yes that means you reading this). They do have a meal part down the back but it looks fairly bland and it’s never tempted me to sit down and have a lunch so I’m not too impressed with that one. Hence not the full 5 stars vote.
I have gotten a few birthday cakes in there now at this stage, obviously not for myself (insert image of me sitting alone singing happy birthday sniff sniff) and all of them have been nothing but decadent and delicious (the calories however are a different story but until mankind invents a fat free, no sugar and full of vitamins that doesn’t taste like seawater mixed with rubber. I think I’ll stick with this place thank you very much).
Price is amazing too and they often do 3 cream cakes for a fiver deal which is great to grab to sweeten everyone in the office. Also a fantastic place to get that extra special quirky cake for that oh so special occasion (like a ball and chain wedding cake, hey it’s just an idea)
Would be even better if they took a wrecking ball to the décor and set it up as a proper old fashioned bakery because let’s face it, with the introduction of the frozen dessert era, they are a dying breed.

If you treat Anne’s like a bakery where you go to get some fresh bread and cakes it’s a pretty nice place. The cafeteria-​style café part though is best avoided. It’s cold and lacks atmosphere and it’s also pretty loud so definitely not a place to sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee and a chat. Never mind the fact that the coffee here is pretty bad as well… very weak and tasteless.
But the staff are friendly, their cakes and pastries are nice and if you order it in advance you can get a very nice pavlova here.

A bag of fresh scones, a loaf of batch bread and a few cream cakes and I’m in carb heaven, courtesy of Ann’s Bakery.
There’s very little to differentiate the sit-​down offering inside from other cafeteria-​style eateries in the city centre.
Coffee and tea, check.
Dry sandwiches with a scraping of butter, check.
But there’s a few lovely faces behind the front counter who say hello as you walk in, and the price here for a pan of brown or bloomer are on par with the grocery shops in the area but fresher by far. A bag of five fresh scones sets you back about € 2.50,I always leave two out and freeze the rest. Mmm.
So, artisan bakers the good folk at Ann’s are not, but a fast dip in can net you a few sugary favourites made fresh… how terrible is that?

Ann’s bakery has the potential to be the ultimate salt-​of-​the-​earth tea shop but it obviously just couldn’t care less.
It’s a prime location, a great name and it’s baking cakes like it ought but they’re missing that Granny-​ish feeling.
They need floral wallpaper and bent wood chairs. They need it to be rainy and miserable outside and cosy within. They need to turn the heating up to 11. They need to turn off that racket. They need to spit-​wash the clientele on the way out the door.
I think it was a misstep — this McDonalds-​like canteen corridor type of thing, what they should’ve done was make the architect watch Mrs. Doubtfire a few times, or for that matter as many times as it takes.
Ann’s Bakery you are underachieving, get the finger out.

I used to love this place, but I’ve gone off it a little since they did it up a few years back.
Before, it was like a canteen or something — in the back they did old school proper dinners like roast chicken with spuds and veg and chips with whatever you wanted thrown on top. Now, it’s all clean and shiny, and they have set prices for set things — you can’t really mix and match like you used to. It’s just got a bit fussy and proper, and the lack of it before was here it had its charm.
The bakery at the front is still quite similar — yummy cakes like éclairs and breads freshly baked.
I preferred it the old way — an oldie but a goody. Some things just shouldn’t be changed.

Ann’s Bakery isn’t one of my favourites. There’s something about the decadent cakes, sealed loaves and cafeteria that irks me. The whole decoration and presentation lacks sophistication, if you ask me.
There’s nothing wrong with the quality of the food. I just miss the added thrills that other bakeries employ to entice customers.
Here’s an example of what to expect when you come to Ann’s. The cake fridge is filled with sickly sweet, white icing cakes. One of the cakes even had a scanned photograph of a baby on it. I later saw this service advertised in the window.
The back section of the bakery has a hot food counter where you order fast food style. There are seats upstairs and downstairs and a whole lot of screaming children.
Overall, coming to Ann’s feels like eating in a school canteen.

i used to love anns café until the changed the décor a few years back.
the whole feel of the place changed when the changed the docor to red and yellow, put me right off the place! but in saying that, the food is nice and it isnt too expensive and you can get small plates for the kiddies.

Though it’s more like a canteen than a café, this is a nice, friendly place to stop in if you’re shopping on Henry Street. The food’s not high cuisine — greasy fries, lasagne, roast chicken, soup and sandwiches etc — but it’s all tasty and the portions are decent. There’s a nice selection of cakes, which are baked on the premises, as the name would suggest. They do birthday cakes and so on too.