{"id":34276,"date":"2025-09-19T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34276"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:07:53","slug":"new-bakery-fills-a-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34276","title":{"rendered":"New Bakery fills a gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091906.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/ockriverbakery.co.uk\/\">Ock River Bakery<\/a>, which opened just a week ago, has already proved very popular. This morning the courtyard and cabin had a steady flow of visitors, with queues at times. It looks like they\u2019ve found the perfect gap in the market \u2013 and in Ock Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091905.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe bakery is at the site of a former outdoor flower and plant seller \u2013 neatly filling the gap between Abingdon Baptist Church and Coxeters \u2013 and offers fresh, locally made breads and pastries. Three courtyard tables give customers a sunny spot to enjoy patisseries with hot drinks. I tried a Double Chocolate Pain au Chocolat with hot chocolate \u2013 a very good way to fill a mid-morning gap.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe bakery is run by Maria, formerly Head Chef at The Eyston Arms, who has spent time honing her patisserie skills at a local bakery. The bread is supplied by a nearby baker, to keep things all local. It was selling fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ock River Bakery, which opened just a week ago, has already proved very popular. This morning the courtyard and cabin had a steady flow of visitors, with queues at times. It looks like they\u2019ve found the perfect gap in the market \u2013 and in Ock Street. The bakery is at the site of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}