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Credit Cards Accepted
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Parking Lot
Good for Kids
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Casual
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For more than six generations, the Longordo family has been baking everything from pasta to breads, cakes, and cookies. It all began during the 1800s in a small town in Italy where Gary Longordo's great, great grandfather began making pasta for the locals. The business continued until the early 1900s when Gary's grandparents, Nunzio and Annie Longordo, moved the family business to New Jersey. They changed the product from pasta to bread. The business flourished and their son Frank took over. Frank Longordo, Gary's father, took the business to a higher level. He hired bakers, sales clerks and assistants and created a full scale bake shop. During this time Gary, his wife Christine, and her younger brother, James got involved in the family business. Along with twenty employees, Frank baked, Aris, Frank's wife supervised, Gary decorated and Christine managed the finances. However things didn't end there. Having ties to the South, the family decided to move the business to Wilmington, NC, in 1984. Frank served in the Marine Corps at Camp LeJeune and Aris grew up in Swansboro, NC. The Longordo's opened Apple Annie's Bake Shop in Wilmington, NC. Since then the bakery has been known as one of the finest in the country and has been named the National Retail Bakery of the Year.
08/05/2011 - anonymous
I had heard such great things about this place from many locals in Wilmington. I placed a cake order 3 weeks in advance. It was a picture cake. When I placed the order the cake decorator was out of the office. I was told to email the picture to him. I called to find out more details about the picture size and such and they wanted me to bring the picture in. I went to Walgreens, had a 5x7 picture printed and brought it in. Almost an hour after I had dropped the picture off, I receive a phone call stating they had lost my order. The girl was very short and with me. She charged me $5 more than the original girl had quoted. She was very rude when I asked her to respell our names as they are both hard names. I never said anything nor complained. When we went in to get the cake on the pickup day, it was completely ruined. The colors were completely wrong. On our picture on the cake, there were black lines smeared across our face. I asked for the manager and I was able to speak with the owner. I explained all the trouble we had been through. She said that she was sorry and that this happens. She said that the decorators had already left for the day. She did not offer a discount whatsoever. We looked in the window and saw about 30 sheet cakes. We asked her if she would be willing to let us have a sheet cake to replace the ruined cake. She said she would give us 20% off. Really? And that's exactly what I said. She let us have the completely ruined cake for free and I told her I was glad that we could do her a favor by getting rid of it. THE OWNER?! REALLY? And how much money do you have?! What greedy people in the world!
01/08/2008 - TastyDumpling
Stumbled onto this bakery when I was still just a visitor to Wilmington -- bought my future in-laws a beautiful cake --- think that is why they might have fallen in love with me.....
Excellent bakery! Everything there looks so fresh and tasty....just pulling into a parking spot there puts a smile on my face.
11/20/2007 - MenuPix User
Wonerful!!!!
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