Bakers & Larners Of Holt

It’s ponsy and snobby, but you just have to love it. A real quality act, the range cookers are to die for. Great furniture department (further down the road) real old fashioned service. Foodhall as other reviewers have said is a mini Harrods… go

Bakers & Larners is a huge (for a town, anyway) upmarket department store with a great range of goods. It is located in the town centre of Holt in an impressive building dating back to the 1630’s.
I love the food hall because it has so much to offer — it has your typical range of staple foods from great brands but also offers fancier and more specialist foods. There is a dedicated section for health foods; vitamins, specialist diet foods (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, etc.), a wonderful deli counter with a wide selection of fresh foods, a good range of teas, wines, coffees, organic food, baking produce. The list is huge! They’re also very competitively priced.
Other sections of the store include; homewares (a very large selection of kitchen goods, electrical appliances, lighting & decorative items), household goods (which stocks bulk products such as Ecover!), perfumes, make up & beauty, womenswear, underwear, menswear, a book store and a café. I believe they also stock building supplies (as Bakers is a builders merchants) but I have never had to use that so I cannot really comment! It is well laid out with two main front entrances — one dedicated to the groceries and the other in the homeware. I believe there is also a back entrance for the building department with access to a car park but we are usually on foot! Each department has it’s own section with it’s own counter & staff so most of the time you don’t have to queue, and when you do it is not for long (unless it is the height of tourist season, when naturally most shops become a bit overwhelmed!) It is much nicer than visiting department stores in the city, and Holt is such a beautiful town!