Michael P.
Yelp
An adequate replacement for Bakery by the Sea, in the same location.
I saw the sign last week but noticed that they wouldn't be open until Saturday (it's open S/S/M), so we stopped in on Sunday, about 9:15 AM.
I'm glad to see a new bakery realize that it should be open on weekends, if it wants to have the income that the tourists can provide. I would expect that Honey Bee will eventually open on Fridays, too, to catch the Friday coffee-break-party businesses.
I hope that, as the business grows, Honey Bee will graduate from a doughnut shop into a full-blown bakery, which Brookings has not seen since Delaney's closed.
To sample as much as two people could, we ordered a plain cake doughnut, a glazed cinnamon twist, an apple fritter, and cinnamon roll.
The glazed twist was superb!
The cake doughnut was excellent.
The fritter had good flavor but needed a few more pieces of apple. We'd rate the fritter as barely satisfactory and would try it again, hoping for an improvement.
The cinnamon roll was mediocre because it was closed, so it could be covered in a sealed glaze, instead of being an obvious roll moderately coated with glazing. Because it was closed, I presume that the filling could not have as much butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon between the layers as an excellent cinnamon roll requires. We wouldn't order this again unless we desperately needed a cinnamon roll fix.
