Kala K.
Yelp
Elliott's used to be the most wonderful old time American bakery/doughnut/coffee shop. These family owned/operated bakeries were important gathering places across this country. Elliott's used to make the most delicious down to earth baked goods, and yummy old fashioned doughnuts. Their apple fritters were out of this world.
There were always old timers there, sitting at the counter, or in a booth, socializing with friends, neighbors, fellow community members, or with the staff. It was a friendly little place.
My husband and I were regulars since we discovered Elliott's back in 1997. We were always buying cookies, doughnuts, cakes, and other baked goods for friends, neighbors, family, church, etc. At Chtistmas we always ordered lots of holiday cookies,, and their special Santa Claus bread, a festive, great big Santa head, with a jolly face, rosy cheeks, and red cap, with the ball on the end made of fluffy, tasty bread that kids and adults loved. We always ordered several of them. The owners always thanked us for placing big Christmas orders, especially for always ordering do many Santa Claus breads. For St.. Patrick's Day we ordered Irish soda breads, and at Easter, we ordered several Easter Bunny breads, and boxes of Easter cookies.
We love supporting local businesses, and our friends and loved ones loved the treats. Sadly, a few years back, Elliott's was sold. We met the new owners,, not friendly at all. The quality of the baked goods immediately went down hill. The owner's son was said to be the new baker. He was given the old recipes, but he can't bake. We kept going back to give them a chance to improve, and at one point it seemed like the quality improved. We went ahead with our annual Christmas order, bad idea.
They had a display featuring Christmas cookies in boxes with ribbons, so we order several boxes of cookies. Plus 7 Santa Breads. My husband went to pick up the order l, and one of the owners was yrllung at an employee about our order. My husband approached the counter, greeted them, and asked for our order. The woman (owner) drove very nastiky to him, telling, "We don't sell boxes of cookies,we sell cookies!" He apologized, pointed out the display and the empty, boxes, asked if he could have the number of boxes we needed filled with the weight of cookies that would fill each box. She calmed down a bit, but was still not at all nice. The Santa breads were a disaster. They looked horrible, gone were the red cap and rosy cheeks. The balls fell off some of the caps, and they looked sloppily made. I asked my friend if it tasted the same, and she admitted that it did not taste good, and the texture wasn't very nice. So sad.