Bakery King
Maple Old Fashioned
Raised and Glazed
Buttermilk Bar
Blueberry Bundt Cake
One of the few remaining bakeries on the Las Vegas “to-do” list it was entirely its proximity to breakfast at Black Bear Diner that finally saw a stop at Bakery King and with the strange smell of what can only be described as ‘machinery’ heavy in the air as I crossed the door’s threshold suffice it to say that it remains a mystery as to over whom, exactly, this strip-mall bakery holds sovereignty.
Small in size and stripped in décor it was just after 8:30am that I entered the Smoke-shop adjacent store and with perhaps a dozen total items available it was apparently a mother and son duo whose conversation was interrupted by my arrival, a few questions answered indicating that ‘some’ items are baked in-house while others are ‘brought in from our other location, a wholesale bakery’ – whatever that means.
Charged $4.68 for a quartet of selections with the comment “review us on Yelp” suggested as I snapped a picture of an old review on the wall it was only on relocating to more cozy environs that I actually took pictures of the carelessly bagged wares and began a sampling of each, the yeasted doughnut essentially inedible and almost undoubtedly a day old while the Old-Fashioned was also so dry that a single bite would suffice.
Moving on to a buttermilk bar that was more ‘butter’ than buttermilk, and perhaps better for it as it was at least kept moist compared to those already tried, it was finally in the hefty bundt cake that I stuck a fork and topped with plenty of icing plus a core of gelatinous blueberries the results were, at best, mixed – the best of the bunch, sure, but nowhere near as good as those at Nothing Bundt Cakes…though admittedly at about one-half the price.
ONE AND A HALF STARS: Largely an unmitigated disaster in execution with a storefront and scent that makes me wonder how they’ve managed to stay in business for more than a couple months it would be hard to name one reason to visit Bakery King when no less than a dozen local spots are making far better doughnuts at a similar price-point, though perhaps proximity to a smoke shop drives some business from the ever discerning ‘munchies’ crowd.
RECOMMENDED: N/A.
AVOID: Raised and Glazed, Old Fashioned.
TIP: Apparently the sister of a local wholesale/commercial bakery one must wonder exactly which one as I’ve yet to have a donut this bad in all of Las Vegas, the fact that this information was not disclosed when I inquired is perhaps telling…
WHAT THE STARS MEAN: 5 World Class, 4 Excellent, 3 Good, 2 Fair, 1 Poor
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