Gambles - Queensbury

BEST CAKES EVER !!! Rye bread is also OUTSTANDING !!! A must if visiting or vacationing the Lake George region.

I went to Gambles Bakery yesterday. I called ahead and asked if they sold sour dough bread the man told me well the only type sour dough bread we have is the sandwich sliced. wich was perfect! Was in line for 20 min the woman behind the counter had a terrible cough (yikes I 'm thinking Pandemic going on), the elderly woman behind the counter then tells me we don 't have any I mentioned I called ahead! She went in the back and yes I got a FROZEN loaf of ? sour dough bread, was not labeled. I am not going back. I have never gone to a Baekery expecting a FROZEN loaf of bread! whomever, I spoke with when I called ahead never mentioned the bread was frozen! In addition, the store looked like it needs a good cleaning! Seems like a Shadey Operation!

Our favorite bakery!! They have so much yummy stuff, and the staff is wonderful! You might have a hard time picking out a moderate amount of stuff to get, because it's all so good!

This bakery is amazing! There Italian wedding cookies are the best I've ever had! They taste just like my grandmother's who is from Italy. They have an assortment of baked goods. Right now they are only open Fri and Sat 7am to 12pm. They also make birthday cakes.

That Gambles doesn 't even have its own name on its sign speaks to its complete lack of pretension. One might even read the simple green sign advertising Bakery Eatery as a subtle rebuke to the brightly lit chain restaurants and garish tourist traps that dot this stretch of Route 9 in Queensbury. There are even fewer frills inside, which features a small breakfast and lunch counter and tables for perhaps 40 50 guests. The menu is cash only, and as best I can tell no single dish costs more than $8 (they do have an ATM). The long bakery display cases filled with donuts, pastries, and other treats should tip you off on how to order. I had the Paska, one of five types of French Toast made with their own bread baked in house. The three slices were a bit heavy on the egg and light on the cream (nothing syrup and butter can 't solve), but the challah underneath was fresh and fluffy. The coffee is vintage diner, which is to say watery, but I kind of enjoy it that way and the refills successfully raised my caffeine levels. I also ordered four fresh baked cookies to go for $3, which boggled my downstate mind. It 's a traditional American bakery with down the middle choices from bread to cake, cookies, and donuts and limiting my order required considerable willpower. Gambles is the kind of breakfast counter my grandfather would have loved where you could shoot the breeze over coffee with your friends and pay the tab with the change in your pocket. And while there is no shortage of good breakfast spots in Queensbury, Gambles ' old school simplicity is worth appreciating.