This is a fabulous little home bakery just at the top of the hill from our hotel Gran Sol. It's next door to a mini market with great deals. It usually has queues out into and down the street. We've been in three or four times already. It seems entirely female run and you can watch the bakers baking fresh daily through the day through glass at the rear of the bakery. The baking smells are divine and it offers real bargains like 3 butter croissants under £2 and cappuccinos just over £1. They do lots of buy 3 deals. We came back from a day trip to Benidorm and as we emerged from the tram station (Mercado) we stopped for sweet treats and a sweet loaf bread. 4 cakes 2 croissants and two cappuccino to go £7.23 according to Revolut. The sweet loaf bread had a plastic chicken stuck atop and a baked hard painted fresh egg in the middle (see photo). Personally we thought it gross so the egg went in the bin but the bread like everything else was delicious. The ladies who serve at the counter have as many words in English as I have in Spanish but they are friendly, laugh a lot and through laughter and gestures we get there in good humour. Tip just up from our hotel is a Sumo supermarket which will rip you off so keep walking to the top of the hill - another five minutes - and you'll reach this bakery and the superCor supermarket next door. You'll also be a few minutes from the huge, meat, fish, flower market that operates daily (until early afternoon). I believe it's one of the biggest such markets in Spain if not the biggest. read more

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