Bakery:
Hotel Magenta (adjacent bakery/cafe)
Address:
Jatnavegur 31, Miðvágur
Website: n/a
Style: Faroese, Danish
Price: $-$$
It took me *forever* to find anything remotely resembling a name and address for this bakery and cafe in the centre of the small town of Miðvágur, where I spent one night upon my arrival in the Faroe Islands (though I certainly didn't have the budget to spend it here). I believe/hope that the bakery is in fact one and the same as the lovely old-fashioned hotel next door. At least, this I gathered from the Workaway post -- yes, this gorgeous hotel and bakery is on Workaway! ;__; If only I had known; I thought I already knew of everything worth doing!! Anyways, I really wish Faroese businesses would make it easier to get any sort of information on them; this is, after all, a hotel and pretty much the only cafe in town.
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| Walking around town... |
Anyways, while wandering around town, waiting for the bus to take me to Tórshavn, I excitedly came across this lovely bakery attached to the Hotel Magenta (I don't recall it having that name while there, but nonetheless....). The selection is limited and, seeing as the worker ran in from the hotel front desk next door, I suspect they don't get that much business. The bakery has mostly sweets and those being larger varieties such as cakes and large Danish-dough logs. Behind the glass, there were marzipan treats and the classic spandauer (danishes) which I couldn't resist as my start to the Faroese Cake Tour. :)
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| View from the main road |
And while nothing is priced or labelled, I paid a rather reasonable (at least I would call it "well-priced" for Danish standards) 12kr. I came out with it packed in a paper "Miðbergsbakari" bag and
assumed this to be the name of the bakery; however, seeing that another place
in Tórshavn used the same bags, I highly suspect and was sorely disappointed
that these baked goods seem to be produced by one main bakery outlet and
shipped throughout the small country? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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| All for the sake of my first Faroese bakery! :P |
Back to my spandauer, though: despite eating it almost immediately, the dough was soft and even soggy in the middle while the custard centre was so thick you could stick a fork in it. It was okay. Given the fact I hadn't had a Danish-danish in quite some time, it brought back pleasant memories and, once it was all in your mouth, it still had a good danish taste. Not to mention the fact that it sure beats buying baked goods from the only other store in town: the B
ónus supermarket.
Rating: **1/2
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