rockland bakery

It took me by a surprise that I was able to go in the factory to see the bagels and dinner rolls just come out of the machinery inside. The smell was marvelous to the bread lovers for sure. When you go in , you put your gloves on for sanitary reason and then grab on a brown bag to fill up your bread for the week. The breads are at a plain sight of everyone which did take me by a surprise. Many types of breads for any types of bread lovers. The pastry they have is good as well. My personal choice is definitely the dinner bread as we always use this dinner bread for Thanksgiving.

Rockland Bakery is an iconic place. Where else can you see bagels rolling out of the oven and grab a fresh hot challah on Friday afternoon? The bakery has everything you could ever want from black and white cookies to delicious rugelach. The bobka is to die for. The only problem can be parking.

PROS: They make very good bread at Rockland Bakery.CONS: 1. They don't make Sourdough bread2. Their bagels are not good quality3. Their pastries don't taste good

bread of all kind and a very good prices, cakes not bad also. and deli, pretty good also. eggs cooked to order and all kinds of sandwiches plus hot dishes to take out. can be VERY CROWED on weekends.

Talk about hands-on! One actually gets personally involved in picking out the delicious choices in baked good. The bread products-outstanding...the cake items-incomparable! And, they do soft pretzels now! What more could you ask for!

The smell of fresh baked bread is so wonderful! There are racks of fresh bread to choose from and you can pick your own "hot off the conveyor" bagels. You pick your paper sack size, put on a plastic glove, and pack your bread. The bagels and bread are so soft, even when they are eaten at home two days later. This is my must visit place whenever I am in town.

I grew up not too far from Rockland Bakery but moved 4 hours away 25 years ago. However I make it a point to stop whenever I'm in the area. There's nothing else like it! From their breads to the rolls, bagels and pretzels, not to mention the pastries, cookies, cakes and the deli, I rarely make it out of there without spending $100. I have even brought friends with me to experience the huge ovens and the wonderful smell that is RB. I'm never disappointed with a visit here!!

Great. Looking forward to going again to pick up cakes for the Hoildays. I love the smell of the bread and rolls as they are being made.

Much of Rockland retains the charms of the Eisenhower eraA perfect antique is The Rockland Bakery. You enter a warm ,tempting sales area,don a pair of gloves and head to the back where the rolls and breads come fresh baked out of massive ovens and wind their way on mobile cooling racks toward a predestined bin. The whole trick is to grab the product at the hottest possible state and rush to checkout with it. Properly done, your car windows will steam from the hot breads and you will cackle a bit over your coup of tomorrow's bread today.This is fun,but the bread is charitably mediocre. The Italian bread is OK, but the bagels belong in a supermarket, and the "health bread" is simply white flour colored with molasses. Not bad for the early '60's, but there is much better bread available in the County.Ah,tradition! One of Rockland's prime virtues.

My wife and I were on our way back from Mohonk when I opened up the Tripadvisor app to see what was interesting on the way home. Since I like my sweets and Vietnamese food and we had time we first stopped at a small Vietnamese restaurant for lunch. While we were there, I looked again, always on the look out for a new experience. What I found was Rockland Bakery, I was unsure from the reviews but thought why not, they have pies, cookies, cakes and bread, how bad could it be? I do not think in MY opinion the reviews give it justice. When you walk into the bakery it is a room FULL of cookies, cakes and assorted deserts. Off to the left there is a hallway that had a rack with pies (today they were 50% off!) and a shelf of paper bags and food prep gloves. Not until I had the lay of the place did I realize that you were to pick up a bag or 4 and the gloves because the hallway leads you to the ACTUAL bakery! There are at least 25 large racks of breads such as bagels, french baguettes, rolls and some I had never seen, I wanted to eat them all. I picked up a dozen onion bagels and 6 plain for my parents and for us, club rolls, pumpernickel rolls, raisin bagels, it is self service. On the way out, we grabbed a chocolate cupcake, strawberry shortcake for my brother in law (fresh berries), a cherry pie and a fruit tart. We have most of the items frozen for enjoyment later. I will post photos of the visit, it really is neat to see the bagels roll out of the oven and it is rare that you get 100% fresh baked bread! The prices are very reasonable, the only expensive items was the strawberry shortcake, I am sure because of the berries. Lots of fun, educational for the family, highly recommended.

I do have a regret -- my granddaughter wasn't with me to experience this bakery! It is a real adventure, bagels spitting out . . . trays and trays of breads and muffins sitting about for one to select their favorites . . . and, at the same time, overhead are breads flying along on a conveyor belt to . . . heavens only knows where! And the smell, absolutely, gorgeously delightful! I did see one reviewer questioned the cost, but $0.95 for a HUGE, fresh warm muffin and $2.95 for a medium-sized, warm, onion bread seemed more than reasonable to me! So, grab your bag (or two if you wish to segregate your sweets from your savories), stick your paw in that ugly plastic glove and just try to show enough self-restraint to leave with just the bread you can eat in the next day or two! Betcha can't do it!!!!

There seems to always be just baked bagels coming down the conveyor belt. Many types of bread from french baquettes to holy, to health bread, rolls and pretzels and breads I have not seen elsewhere. Prices are reasonable. It is as much a tourist attraction as a commercial bakery. There is also a deli.

This bakery is super. Not only you can buy real fresh bread, they have lots of diffrent breads. But the best of all is that you can get IN the baking area and pick them yourself.

Rockland Bakery has a great variety of freshly baked breads and cakes all at reasonable prices. As locals know, even supermarkets often get their baked goods from them. They must be good. Recently, I even saw a Rockland Bakery truck in the outer reaches of Brooklyn, 40 miles away. I make an effort to buy their bread etc. for all special occasions. The bakery is certainly not the closest to me but it's worth the trip.

Rockland bakery is huge and a very unique place to buy bread rolls specialty breads and pastries cakes cookies etc. these are very hard-working and hugely successful owners servicing many surrounding states who do an amazing retail as well as wholesale business. The facility is spotless clean, plenty of counter help to move the lines well. However, In my opinion the quality of the pastries and foods is fairly good some of which very good. Not remotely compared to what you would expect from an Arthur avenue bakery or Bensonhurst Brooklyn, Staten Island, even manalapan New Jersey bakery...but certainly the best for these parts of New York.