‘Through ecstasy I say: it’s perfect’: The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop reviewed

‘Through ecstasy I say: it’s perfect’: The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop reviewed

The obvious thing to say about themed restaurants is that they are usually bad. The Rainforest Café in London, for instance, was nothing like a rainforest, though it is slightly more like a rainforest now it has gone. But there are exceptions. The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop in Bakewell, Derbyshire, for instance. Perhaps the sort of tourists who go to Bakewell for tarts are more dangerous than the ones who go to Bath for buns. They certai…