The Brick Oven Bakery

I can’t think of anything negative to say about this place. My family has been coming here for the past 20 years for all of our buns, deli meats, and occasionally, Italian food supplies. In particular, the buns and croissants are excellent. Try them.
I personally don’t visit here very often, so the staff doesn’t know me personally, but despite this, they treat me as a regular. This is the way businesses ought to be. They put a personal touch on their service, and in a world where everything is sold in cookie cutter fashion, it’s a breath of fresh air. This review isn’t coming from a grumpy old man reminiscing about how businesses used to be in the good old days – I’m 28 years young, I just appreciate the personal touch and it seems like they truly care about their customers and want to make the world a better place.
Why would anyone buy their meats and buns at a giant corporation knowing they actively price gouge customers to please their (super rich) shareholders, when one can instead choose to support a local family business that serves high quality goods? It’s a no brainer.

I have been going to the Brick Oven Bakery for over 15 years and they have the best crusty buns in Burlington by far, you can not beat their roles and breads, and everyone in Burlington would agree.
The hot plate is great for a quick lunch and I can tell you everything I bring home from the Brick Oven is enjoyed by all members of our family. My son says it is the best lasagna he has ever had.
The Brick Oven has been a tremendous business in Burlington for 33 years and you don’t hang around that long unless you offer great products at a fair price.
The veal sandwich, lasagna, and pizza in the hot plate are my favourites. I find the deli meats great as well.
I have always found the people that work at the Brick Oven to be attentive, nice, and always friendly.
I am more then happy to recommend the Brick Oven Bakery, but honestly everyone in Burlington knows they are great, thats why its always busy and they are always baking to keep up to the demand.

Why is the food in Burlington so bad? I mean pathetically bad. I went looking for an authentic sandwich on fresh bread. Pickings are slim in this city, so I headed to the closest bakery, The Brick Oven Bakery.
The place was clean, with 3 or 4 isles of imported Italian groceries items. A nice deli, a homemade frozen food section, some baked goods and several prepared items including lasagna, chicken & veal parmesan, meatballs and meat pies. All looked fresh.
I ordered the meatball sub and chicken parmesan sandwich for my wife. I regretted my decision of the meatball sandwich when the clerk started pouring Kraft parmesan cheese on the sandwich after I affirmed my desire for cheese. Kraft processed cheese is not PARMASEAN cheese, so much for authentic. She wrapped each sandwich separately in wax paper and put each one in its own paper bag. No, oven heating.
Upon getting the sandwiches home, they were soggy. The meatballs were mushy, tasteless and had the texture as they had been stewed all day. No seared crust, just a stewed ball of meat on soggy bread.
The chicken parm was uneatable. The prepared breaded cutlets had also been stewing in tomato sauce which turned the breading into a substance resembling wallpaper paste coating the overly cooked chicken. The cheese was steamed to rubber. So if you are looking for a boiled tasteless chicken sandwich with glue and rubber on bread with way to much cornmeal grit this is the sandwich for you.
On a positive note the staff was very helpful but apparently no one likes working there, not one smile the entire time I was there.