Harvest Bakery

Definitely the best bakery in Bristol and if not all of Connecticut. The crumb cakes are just simply amazing and the reverse Boston cream doughnuts are unique and very delicious. However if you are stuck on what to order they have scattered free samples for you to try. I also recommend the rye bread and when you get home put it in the toaster on medium-​high, put some cream cheese or butter on it and enjoy a great afternoon snack! All in all a great bakery and will return soon!

I have to update my review for this bakery. That review was from a long time ago back when I was just staring to write reviews. I believe it’s time this bakery gets the credit they deserve. I did not realize how extensive their bakery was. Everything from sugar and chocolate chip cookies to cupcakes, brownies, cinnamon rolls, cake, sugar free options, donuts, coffee, eclairs, and more… and everything I’ve tried from this place is beyond amazing. Everything is fresh and you can just tell when you take a bite. I have the biggest sweet tooth ever and this place can satisfy any craving. I’m glad I’m about 20 minutes away – not too close to indulge too much but close enough to pick up a treat every so often.
Also: workers were super friendly and helpful. Love that!
Will be back a million times more.

My family has been ordering pastries and breads from Harvest for decades. Several times a year I bring in pastries for co-​workers and they always receive rave reviews. Recently, I had to purchase a large cake on behalf of my company. It was delicious and everyone was impressed.
The employees are nice and the store is clean. I would recommend this bakery from ornate cakes to a simple breakfast pastry.

Great bread! Soft, fresh and the best around. Parking can suck, as can getting in and out of he lot. The kids love the cookie monsters and the derby cakes are decent. Did I mention the bread is delicious? All I need.

Wonderful little bakery. As soon as you walk in the aroma hits you. All Their baked goods are delicious, however, I’m not a huge fan of their cakes. I come here every Easter to get their cheese babka. Their rolls are very good as well. I always pick up a bag of the butter cookies with sprinkles they have on the counter before I leave. They are buttery with a slight hint of almond and are very moist and crumbly. Delicious!

I love so many things here! The mandel bread is addictive, as is the poppy seed pastry. I also need to mention the butter cookies in paper bags at the counter. They are amazing – with subtle almond flavoring, and a melt-​in-​your-​mouth quality which can’t be beat.

2^nd time I’ve been to the Harvest Bakery in Bristol. This morning, went with some pastries, ordered all three of the «specialty sticks». Brought them home, honestly, we were not impressed. Very bland and flavorless, a bit dry too. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, but I’m just not feeling that my opinion will change in the future concerning those specialty sticks. Might still come back for a lemon cupcake sometime.

Definitely the best bakery in Bristol, offering a nice mix of baked goods. From their breads to desserts, I haven’t walked away disappointed with anything I’ve gotten there!

This is my families first stop when we come to Bristol. Our favorite is the donuts. All the different flavored are great! Chocolate filled are phenomenal. The butter cookies are also always a huge hit! Can’t go wrong number with this place!

I’ve been purchasing cakes, rolls etc. from Harvest for over 40 years. Some cakes are, dry some are fresh however never complained until now. Ordered a birthday cake for my son, picked it up and brought it home. Not until I opened the box did I see on the side they had written SHITTY. Who and Why would someone write that on the side of a cake box???

I love stopping here when we are in CT. Their crullers are amazing and my family loves to eat them with applesauce. I can eat 4 in one sitting. We also like their donuts. If you like almonds, you will like their almond horns made with almond paste and almond slices drizzled with chocolate.

They make the best donuts. White cream filled donuts are to die for. They make them with chocolate cream on top and white in the middle or chocolate on top and chocolate in the middle. If you get there early they can specially make them for you with white on top with white in the middle that’s the way I like them.

Love this place. I have been coming here since I was a child. In high school I used to stop before school to get the sprinkle butter cookies. That was my breakfast! They are the best. Now I pick up a bag for my nephews. They can’t get enough of them. I always order cakes from here. Yum. Their cakes always look prefect! Some of the other items I also love are their brownies and they have the BEST raspberry crumb cake. Love love. You can’t go wrong with anything you get! Oh I forgot, their hard rolls are so great! When I get them that day I will eat them just plain cause that’s how yummy they are! I can’t say enough great things about Harvest. I even have their number programed in my phone. If you go on the weekends the also make very large soft salt preztels and some other flavors. So tasty. I know my pretzels and these are in the top. Their prices are not bad either. Pretty cheap with all the work that goes into making these top notch baked goods!

Just a short drive from the Wesleyan campus, this bakery/​café serves high quality, simple food, alongside mouth watering pastries; with a happy smile. They also have a full coffee bar (we did not partake).
If you are in town and the hungry parking meters have eaten your last quarters, you can’t beat this place for a satisfying quickie.

Harvest bakery made a re-​creation of my parents wedding cake for their 50^th anniversary celebration. They were incredibly helpful with the details of the cake and they did this last minute, fitting us in just a week before the party. They delivered the three-​tier cake for a very reasonable cost and the cake looked beautiful and tasted absolutely delicious! To me they were a gold standard of customer service, just a pleasure to deal with. I look forward to using them for more cakes in the future!

Doughnuts loaded with so much stuff,
They fit in your hand and are perfectly puffed.
Service was nice and extremely quick,
Now let’s all eat doughnuts until we get sick.
Came on a Sunday morning for breakfast. I ordered a «Reverse Boston Cream» doughnut which was topped with vanilla cream and PACKED with light, sweet, creamy chocolate goodness. The amount of cream in there could fill an entire 12 oz bottle. I liked the combo of vanilla and chocolate; very unique. The only negative was that the exterior was very spongy and doughy such as those served at Dunkin. A good doughnut is a slightly crispy doughnut.
I also got a «Custard Filled» doughnut, which was their take on a typical Boston Cream. Once again, loaded with custard, but still easy to eat given its compact size.
The iced coffee was just OK. They had plenty of nice, efficient employees, so we were in and out.
For 4 pastries and 2 or 3 iced coffees I only paid about $ 10. Nice! Gotta save that paper stuff.

Sprinkle butter cookies, sugar cookies, lemon cupcakes, and snowball rolls.
I can’t get enough of the treats that Harvest Bakery makes!
My family and I have been coming here for over twenty years, and it is safe to say that Harvest has stayed the same, consistently making the best and most delicious baked goods around.
From breads, to cookies, to cakes and cupcakes, Harvest has it covered! It even offers gluten free treats, including cupcakes. Everything is baked perfectly and made to perfection, and always fresh! The sprinkle butter cookies are so outstanding and taste as they did twenty years ago – melt in your mouth sweet (but not overly so) perfection. These cookies always make me feel good, and help when I have a restless stomach. The plain sugar cookies – which are a good 5 inches in diameter (a perfect and generous size) also melt in your mouth; they are so fresh they break apart the second you open the baggie they are nicely wrapped in and bite into them. So. Good. Each cookie, no matter what kind, is soft and easy to chew. Also delicious and a classic are the lemon cupcakes, which are sweet, but not too sweet with great flavor and lightness, and are simply perfection.
The prices for these baked treats are very, very reasonable, especially for the generous amounts you receive!
The staff at Harvest is very friendly and efficient. When we visit, there is always a staff member asking if s/​he can help us the second we walk in. It’s a family owned and run place, and has withstood the test of time because of these hardworking individuals.
The only problem with Harvest – if you really need to find one – is that it is a relatively small place, stretching long in a rectangle with no area to sit and munch on your delicious treats. It’s more of a take your goods home bakery, but my favorite is to take my stash up to Buster’s Drive-​In, get a Michigan hot dog, and snack in my Harvest goodies for dessert! But if a lack of someplace to sit is the only problem, does it really matter, especially with treats so outstandingly amazing and tasty?
It is, hands down, worth a trip to Harvest Bakery. I live almost an hour away, but that doesn’t stop me from going almost every other week. Once you taste their baked goods, you will find yourself craving them and wanting more! It is a delight to visit Harvest – a high recommendation!

Very good for small treats and desserts. Could have more choices and better descriptions if items. Very good service and employees to help you out… And give you free samples. I would give it a four and a half if I could!

OH MY GOODNESS. I had a LivingSocial deal for this place and figured I’d give it a try. I wanted everything. It all looked and smelled so good. I bought some goodies, took them home, and stuffed my face. The jelly donut was perhaps the most amazingly delicious jelly donut of my life. Seriously. It was so. good. The apple danishes were perfect. Sugar cookies in various animal shapes were very cute. And the cupcakes? My favorite. I am very picky when it comes to both cake and frosting, and Harvest Bakery made both to perfection. The cupcakes are seriously out of this world amazing. Prices are fair, service is friendly. Does it get any better? No. My only regret is that I am soon moving out of state and won’t have nearly enough opportunities to feast on Harvest deliciousness before I leave.

Biased? Yes, yes I am, and I don’t care.
i’ve literally been coming here my entire live, and I have never been disappointed. Ever.
The breads are amazing, and the hard rolls are the best I’ve ever had and once you’ve had fresh Harvest Bakery bread, it will ruin all other bread for you. Forever.
The pastries are numerous and delicious, and having just walked in there after being away for 10 years or so, I was thrilled to see old favorites stocking the shelves as though I had never been away. Even the bread slicing machine and cake cases were the same, and it was so wonderful to see that.
Sugar cookies, donuts, breads, loaf cakes-​this place is a Bristol institution. You’ll love the place even before you meet the family and staff that run it – they’re all amazing and wonderfully friendly. The community there is so strong; it feels like a throw back to when every grocer knew every customer by name, and the most packaging that food came in was a bag for carrying home. The place is a Bristol treasure.
Huge fan. Enormous fan. Try it; you will be too.