Greggs the Bakers

I love Gregg’s. I first found out about them in Manchester U.k. And it’s perfect for the American on a budget. The pies are amazing, and the pastries are even better. I recommend them to anyone on the run for a quick bite or a budget lunch.

when am out and about on oxford road and only one hour for lunch
then this is the place for me.
pies pasties and cakes, something to fill my belly for under two pounds
that taste pretty ok! and on a hot summers day you can stroll down to
whitworth park to sit and enjoy your food.
greggs bakery! may you be around for many more years to come.

Sometimes in life, all you want is comfort food. Dirty, greasy, cheap comfort food filled with enormous amounts of salts, fats and various globules of mystery meat. Whenever I’m in this mood, there is only one place I head to. Greggs.
Being Northern, I am pretty much hardwired to love Greggs. I think they must stick something in the water around our way to ensure that we always come here to satiate our pastry-​based desires. All Greggs are pretty much the same, staffed by the same cheery looking women in hairnets who call you ‘love’ and ‘duck’ whilst passing over your three Steak Bakes for a quid. However, being situated slap bang in the middle of student and office worker territory, this one always seems to be particularly busy at lunchtimes, when you’ll often see a huge queue of people stretching halfway down Oxford Road.
This is not gourmet cuisine, but neither does it position itself as being so. It’s the culinary equivalent of a quicky behind the bike sheds — cheap, dirty and oh so satisfying. It’s not the kind of thing I could eat every day, but there’s something really comforting about the fact that if I’ve ever got an empty belly and a relatively empty purse, I can always come to Gregg’s for a fix of delicious pasty goodness.

The most distinguishing trait of this Greggs must be its location. Unlike many other Greggs shops in Manchester it has the bus stop just in front of its entrance. The lunch hour attracts long queues, and people have to crowd in that tiny space in the street, while the passers-​by have to wriggle between those who are trying to buy some lunch. As a result, there regularly assembles a rather unattractive heap of people who are only trying to buy some buns and pies for lunch…

Ah, Greggs — the finest purveyor of pasties in the world! As a teenager, I used to work in a branch at the weekends. On Sunday mornings, after a heavy Saturday night out, I nearly always had to ingest a hot, greasy pastie and a bottle of Sprite, just to get through the day. It’s still my favourite hangover cure!
This particular branch is right opposite the BBC. So sometimes I fantasise about bumping into Radio 4’s Jenni Murray or 6Music’s Marc Riley when I pop in for a cheap salad sandwich or a pie (depending on my mood, obviously). It’s never happened, though.
My one gripe about Greggs is that they seem to have stopped making gingerbread ghosts at Halloween. If you’re reading this, Mr Gregg, please bring ‘em back!

Quite why anyone would review one Greggs over another is quite beyond me. It’s like reviewing McDonald’s or extolling the virtues of ‘the sky’.
Basically, you know what it is. It’s a place that sells cheap pasties, cakes and bread. It’s a bakery with people taking money from you in exchange for goods. Sometimes the goods are hot. Sometimes the goods are cold. Sometimes the goods are somewhere in between.
So, to liven up this review, I’ll recount a tale from some years ago which involves Greggs.
A good friend of mine found a rotten swan’s egg and decided to hurl it at the queue which had formed in a nearby (ish) Greggs.
On impact with the sandwich stand, the rotten swan’s egg turned into dust and left the patrons hurling themselves onto the street, dry heaving at passers-​by thanks to the contents of the swan’s egg being so rancid.
I suppose, in defence of Greggs, they got the shop cleaned up and fumigated in no time at all and we were soon back in buying cheese and ham pasties.

always something you fancy in here and hot food for less than a pound. its well organised so that at busy times in the day they dont run out the popular pasties and their always warm so they taste great. they do a small but adequate cake range various cakes and dougnuts so you can have a pasty and something sweet for around £1.50 bargin for dinner time. as it is in the cente of town at dinner time it is a very busy and there can be queue out the door but its well worth the wait for a ceap tasty lunch. they also do a small sandwich range also very well priced.

Greggs the bakers in manchester do fabulous cakes. Nobody can beat them for their cakes! I don’t think there pastries taste as good as what hampsons do but with saying that i cant really fault them becasue all of there food is always very fresh and comes straight from the oven. I like the fact that greggs always have something new to try and there sandwiches taste better than home made ones!
The only really bad point about this greggs is that it does get quite busy in here very often and the ques are often outside they are that long! Sometimes you have to wait a while before you are served.

Greggs is a cheap and cheerful shop to buy a quick bite on your lunch break. They serve hot and cold food, such as sandwiches, sausages and pasties. The taff are very quick at serving you and the food, although probably quite bad for you tastes really good. The only downside is that it gets very busy and the queues can be a bit of a pain.

How can anyone have a bad word to say about this amazing tasy little chain selling quality budget baked snacks and delectable sarnies. Ohhhhh yes many a time I have popped into greggs on the way home, way to work, way to the pub, way to do a spot of shopping, way to anywhere that passes Greggs… and purchased a quick pastie (cheese & onion being the fave) or sausage roll to keep me on the move. Cheap, hot and tasty, theres no prizes for guessing why there seems to be about 100 of these little scrannie nooks scattered around Manchester. It was even hard to find one I could comment on because they are all as equally consistent and quality-​giving as each other — thats not to say I’ve visited EVERY one though… or have I?!
If Im looking for more than a quick bite its still just as easy on the purse as it is tasty for the bigger sandwiches and baguetes, a particular fave of mine is chicken with mango mayo — oh I really fancy one right now just thinking about it! They also do meal deals which are quite reasonable. For pud pud, mini doughnuts or a traditional empire biscuit is like a little taste of pud pud heaven… If you aint hungry you could always just pop in anyway to savour the smells and warm your cockles on a cold manchester eve in January.