Cedar Bakery

Light and airy. Coffee and yummy eats at front. Also sell a few popular cakes. Good store at back selling mostly middle eastern fare. Also at back a pizza oven and made on premises pies. Friendly staff. Busy on Sunday. Can see why. Choice, space, good food and good prices. Neighborhood gem.

This bakery has really delicious lebanese pizzas for only $ 3 – 4!!! I can’t understand why there are never more people here. You won’t regret buying any of their yummy wood fire baked goods

When you first see this place you may wonder why I have given it five stars. I was also very skeptical when my friend suggested we go here to help ease our prodigious hangovers. I had gone past this place many many times assuming it was a roadside bakery likely be the dining place of truck drivers on the long haul. I even had no idea it was a Lebanese deli, bakery and shop.
As you go inside you still may not be overawed with a sense that this place will deliver you five stars of goodness. It does after all look like a cross between said truck driver café and continental supermarket. But if you make your way to the back of the store towards the large brick oven stars will slowly start creeping into your eyes. You spot an array of delicious doughy baked treats at outstandingly low prices between $ 2.50-$ 5.00.
And then it will dawn on you that the $ 3 lLebanese pizza, the $ 4 spinach and feta calzone, spiced lamb minced topped bread, and haloumi cheese pie are all worth a star each on their own. Then you will bite into any one of these delights and shebang! The fifth star will hit your tongue.
Feeling stuffed full of doughy treats, you will head round the shop buying all sorts of delicious Lebanese delights. You will even buy some more expensive cheeses and olives from their deli section — because you know that you have already saved money by tucking into their ridiculously cheap and yummy baked goods. And then you will walk out the door swearing that you will tell everyone they absolutely must come here regardless of the fact that it is in the far flung streets of Preston.

Cedar Bakery in Preston is one of my favourite food shops and with good reason. For Cedar is a veritable Lebanese IGA selling everything from olives and orzo to spices and pickles alongside more instantly gratifying fare like Lebanese pizzas and pastries.
A Lebanese convenience store/​café serving pretty good coffee and damn fine cheesy, spinachy confections for next to nothing, Cedar Bakery may be located in the middle of slightly suburban nowhere but the destination certainly makes up for the journey.
One of the best — and cheapest places — to buy essentials such as a plethora of spices and herbs, lentils, rice and suchlike, you can easily spend an hour or so browsing Cedar’s excellent selection of foods and are bound to leave much heavier in the tummy but hardly lighter in the wallet after an almost obligatory stop at Cedar’s café. Foodie heaven.