A-1 Pastry Shoppe

I’ve been to Columbus Market countless times and walked past this bakery many times, mostly because I try not to eat sugary baked goods. Sunday towards the end of the day they were having a sale on «awesome» banana bread, fresh out of the oven, for $ 3 a loaf. I love banana bread so my boyfriend bought 2 loaves – 1 for us and 1 for his mom. It was awful!!! We all thought so. It tasted oily but was kind of dry and had only a slight banana flavor. Banana bread from a boxed mix would have tasted much better than that! Now I know why it was only $ 3. We ended up feeding it to the birds and squirrels. They were that bad! I’m sad to say it because the people who work here are upbeat, polite, and pleasant (unlike most of the merchants at Columbus) but I’m very reluctant now to try anything else from this bakery. The cakes look really bad too and like they were frosted by grade school kids. It’s really odd.

This was very cool and actually probably my favorite part of the indoor markets here. The food is good and so cheap. You really have to exercise restraint here otherwise you will go back with tons of sweets. I had these oatmeal cookies which were delicious. I dont have a sweet tooth and still wanted to have more of these. Also, getting towards the end of the day they will start selling things even cheaper because they dont want anything to go to waste. My gf had a field day here and we actually found it quite fun. Definitely make it a point to stop here!

Located at the Columbus Farmer’s Market in the «blue» building.
The bf and I were walking around and decided to check out this place tucked in the corner end of the building) closer to the Amish market side).
Not sure how it is in the morning, but here in the middle of the afternoon around 3−4pmish they have these random «fire sales» such as these delicious big cranberry oatmeal raisin cookies that are normally 2 for $ 1 and I got a bag full of some of these cookies and double chocolate cookies for $ 1. Someone else got like a whole tray these tomato basil and egg things for $ 3. First to call out is the «winner winner chicken dinner.»
The rest of the bakery items are so cheap that I had to stop myself from trying to find an occasion to buy a whole cake for $ 3.
Definitely can find something to try and will be well with it for the price! Would definitely come again!