Bakers Dozen

Bakers Dozen sells bread, cakes, pastries and confectionery from a shopfront on Splott Road, in the tight grid of terraced streets built for workers from the old East Moors steelworks. It is a traditional counter bakery: bread, traybakes, doughnuts and Welsh cakes displayed for sale rather than a cafe menu, aimed at people buying to take home rather than sitting in. Splott Road still carries two of these old-style bakers within a short walk of each other, this one and Carlisle Bakery further along, at a time when many Cardiff suburbs have lost theirs entirely to supermarkets and chain coffee shops. The shop keeps its original signage and a straightforward till-and-counter layout rather than the exposed-brick refit common to newer bakeries elsewhere in the city.