Peppers Bakery and Cafe, Ubon Ratchathani Thailand

I have been wanting to go to Peppers Bakery and Café, it is owned and run by a guy who I have known for a while through the internet. We had spoke many times over the World Wide Web but never met in person. He is an Aussie (so has to be alright) and his partner in the business is a Kiwi, but a decent kiwi.

Okay I am joking nearly all the kiwis I have met and have as friends are great people and I love New Zealand, it is a beautiful country. If you ever get the chance to travel to New Zealand definitely do it but get out into the amazing countryside and away from the cities.


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Okay back to Peppers Bakery and Café. It is in Ubon Ratchathani or the gateway to Isaan. How do you find Peppers Bakery and Café, you can click and this link will show you from their website. Or look at the pink marker on my map of Ubon.

So today I finally loaded my amazing other half, Miss Noot into the car and our lovely niece Nong Ja and headed to the bakery 5 minutes away. When we got there and I finally met Memok, his alias and he also writes a blog which I follow but he hasn’t been able to update as often because of the new business venture. Check out the blog if you get a chance as there are a lot of interesting archived posts to read about his life in Thailand and abroad to date.

Back to Peppers, I’m sorry. Now I am an idiot, I already know this so you don’t have to tell me. I forgot to take pictures of the bakery from outside. I did get this shot from inside the bakery. The bakery has been set up well. It has the ambience many businesses miss here in Ubon. It is spotless and the relaxing atmosphere makes perfect for eating breakfast, lunch or a late afternoon snack.

I decided to wreck this peacefulness and aura, I brought along our lovely niece, but today she was going to be a little monster. Well she wasn’t so bad. She is after all just 1 year old and was more interested in being toured about the shop than sitting at the table.

As the name suggest, it is a bakery and a café. We ordered our meals and I had a chat with Memok about this and that. Before we knew it the meals had arrived. One of the dishes we ordered was a Thai staple, spicy seafood salad. It was delicious and not ridiculously spicy. The squid was fresh and cooked to perfection, many times squid is overcooked and too rubbery but this virtually fell apart in your mouth.

I ordered the chunky beef pie, Memok asked if I wanted chips and salad or peas and mash. Now any real Aussie already knows what I ordered, mash and peas of course and Memok said he knew I was going to say this. The pie was very good; to have an Aussie staple the meat pie with mash and peas was such a great trip down memory lane. Finding pies in Ubon is hard and I don’t have an oven to make them. Plus I cannot cook. I savored the pie and took my time enjoying the flavours, also I had to wrestle Nong Ja at times who was crawling onto the table.

Miss Noot ordered chicken fried rice; this was mainly because she was sharing with Nong Ja. She would have tried something different but she can do this another time. The fried rice was given ‘a big thumbs’ up by Nong Ja who ate a truck load and also Miss Noot who helped polish the plate clean. I didn’t get to try any at all.

I said Nong Ja was being a monster, she wasn’t being one of those horrible kids throwing tantrums or such but the high chair that Memok offered us, Ja was using it as a ladder to make her way onto the table. Ja has never sat in a high chair before and it showed.

Now to the bakery section, when you walk to the seating you pass all this lovely golden looking bread. It is all baked fresh by them and is sugar free, here in Thailand nearly everything is full of sugar and bread is so sickly sweet.

This is the white loaf and wheat loafs for sale, the white loaf is huge and I will try this at a later date, I bought a loaf of wheat bread which is on the right. I can happily tell you as of 30 minutes ago it is a pleasure to taste bread like it was back at home. I made a vegemite sandwich, now that is Australian and I still have a huge grin on my face.

These are almond coated croissants, they looked mouth-watering. There is a big range of pastries and slices to tempt you.

When you first walk into Peppers, you are greeted by a display case full of cakes and other goodies. The temptation to go straight to it and gaze at all the delectable looking deserts is too strong. I had to remember I had to eat my lunch first, actually order my lunch first.

The cakes, wow! There are plenty of cake places about Ubon but the cakes are basic and coated in cheap toppings, these cakes made me want to forget the lunch menu and just start sampling them all. This butter coffee cake was only 200 Baht and I wanted to buy a whole cake but Miss Noot wouldn’t allow this.

The chocolate strawberry cake was also so tempting. The presentation of the cakes is top class. A friend had a 3 pound cake made by Peppers for his daughter’s birthday but I haven’t seen him since to ask what it was like. Miss Noot ordered a cheese cake that is currently sitting in the fridge but mightn’t be for much longer. She is at work until midnight.

I am a big fan of these; they are a chocolate ball that has a soft filling inside. I had to try these, no questions asked.

Then I saw these choc balls with almonds. They were quickly ordered and placed into a bag. I can now honestly say there are none left, I ate 5 of them. They were so, so good. I should have bought 2 packs.

Peppers Bakery and Café serves an all day breakfast menu, that offers an Aussie breakfast I am going to try in the next few weeks. There is a good range of western and Thai food all at very reasonable prices. The bread, cakes, slices and pastries are a definite must try.

I am going to have a go at the hamburger next time; I haven’t had a proper hamburger with the lot since I left home many years ago.

So if you live in Ubon Ratchathani or are visiting, be sure to drop by Peppers Bakery and Café and show some support to the two expats and their wives.

Brunty