Gayle's Bakery - Capitola, CA Review

504 Bay Avenue • Capitola, CA 95010
831-462-1200 • www.gaylesbakery.com

Overall 5.00 of 5 (by 1 user)

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kaycie
Sacramento, CA

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Delight your tastebuds with something, anything, from Gayle's

impressed with this product, an eager eater, health conscious, quality conscious, Love desserts, newlywed, expecting good, fair service

Pros

delicious, friendly staff, fun place to eat, quirky decor, lots to choose from

Cons

Extremely crowded at typical meal times

JAN

2008

Gayle's Bakery is simply the best! Once we selected our wedding location in the Santa Cruz Mountains, friends told us we had to go to Gayle's for our wedding cake. They were married in San Francisco and had almost given up on finding a quality wedding cake, until they were referred to Gayle's.

On our first visit to Gayle's we had lunch and made our appointment with the wedding cake consultant. The place was packed and the lunch was fantastic. From then on, each time we visited the area, we stopped by Gayle's for something, anything.

Working with Irene at Gayle's was a delight. At our first appointment, she had several samples of cakes, icings, and fillings for us to try. We spent the afternoon tasting and enjoying every bite. There was no doubt that Gayle's would make our cake. Once we were booked, they created two more samples for us based on what we wanted to see combined.
Every cake was all delicious and we ended up going with the carrot cake - too yummy.

Irene kept great notes and each time I spoke with her she was able to pick up our conversation right where we'd left off the time before. Personal service on top of great cake at a reasonable price - who could beat that? She even referred us to the florist we used.

As for decorating the cake, Irene showed us notebooks of photos of previous cakes they'd created, we viewed the cakes being prepared for the day, and she was completely open to do anything we could show her. We had until the week before the wedding to make our final decisions on the decorations for the cake.

On our wedding day, a bakery person delivered and setup the cake right on schedule. It looked beautiful and tasted great. Most people expect wedding cake just not to taste fantastic - this one was. Even our wedding photographer said it was the best wedding cake she had ever eaten - and she eats wedding cake a couple of times a week! I thought she was being nice, until I saw that she'd made the same comment on her MySpace page and included a link to Gayle's, saying that all her Bay Area brides should give Gayle's a try.

As all of our guests traveled to attend our wedding, we had events the day before and a brunch the day after. Gayle's provided the food for the brunch and we referred our guests to visit Gayle's for other meals during their visit to the area. Everyone absolutely loved the food from Gayle's Bakery, from the wedding cake to the quiche to the sandwiches and more. You can not go wrong by going to Gayle's!