Parsons Bakery

A delightful small village bakery with everything you could need or want at reasonable prices. The pasty of the day is £1.50 (today was steak and veg) was the nicest pasty I've ever had. Staff were friendly and efficient.

Wide selection of pastries and pasties. Very good quality and tasty products. They also sell bread and sourdough bread with the possibility to cut your loaf in shop to ease you once at home.

Perfect pit stop. 2 veggie sausage rolls for £2, and a novelty biscuit. Great stop if you’re traveling through.

hakuna matata

Rude staff. Not constant size of baguette.

My husband stopped by in this bakery a week before and was raving how lovely it was, how nice the guy who serving him was, how tasty the bread was. So he insisted we ho together on our day off and he'll treat me to something from there. Well... For the start off, we were not to allowed to go in there together (we live together for goodness sake), so not much of choosing something nice together. Then when asked for a batton (baguette) it was much shorter than one my husband brought back a week before. When asked, the girl who was serving us was ademant that it was full length, not half. Was rude about it. Bread was in a plastic bag, sweating and not in a paper one as before. Staff like that can lose you customers in one sale. Will not be coming back.

Update.
Stopped for coffee and croissant this morning. Would not open for an hour after their stated opening hours. Even though sales person was inside the bakery. Also, forget croissants 😂 not a sign of continental baking here... Cupcakes, Chelsea buns, custard slices... Too sweet British cakes 🙈

Fantastically fresh sourdough rolls and cakes. So tasty plus only £3.75 for a big roll, cake ( custard slice) and a coffee. Best slice I’ve eaten in recent memory. We all enjoyed it sat by the river. Thank you

Great choice of cakes and good coffee stop for cyclists through USK

Usually good however today food hygiene was non existent with a member of staff. Witnessed her drop and retrieve a cherry topping from the floor, place it on a tray with food for sale and further attempt to reuse it.

Lovely food but staff are rude not a smile or a good afternoon from any of them.
I think they need some training.