On an amazing Sunday morning in October, the Ibaraki Eats Duo was driving around Hitachi city on our way to a small neighborhood market when something caught our eye on the side of the road. A bunch of cars were parked at what looked like a really small house waving a German flag. Upon closer inspection, we realized it was a German bakery. We immediately did a U-turn and headed back to check out Rosenburg bakery.
Rosenburg Bakery
Rosenburg Bakery is located in the Ishinazakacho area of Hitachi city. Only way to get there is by car, unless you are up for a really long uphill hike. The parking area is small so you might have to wait a little while if the parking lot is full. Also, be careful when turning into this place. A lot of cars just fly by on this street so watch out.
My wife and I parked our car at the last space available and headed in.
Inside
The inside is like 90% of all bakeries in Japan. Grab your tray, grab your tonges, and grab whatever goodies are on display. This bakery is pretty small so we had to wait outside for a bit till the crowd inside thinned out.
My wife went in first and almost bought out the whole bakery. She kept putting bread after pastry after bread on our tray. So everything you see on the last picture, with the exception of the croissant, was her choice. I saw that Rosenburg made pretzels but unfortunately they were all sold out when we visited that day. The pretzels would have to wait till next time.
Outside Dinning
I loved Rosenburg's outside dinning area. You can buy all your baked goods and just have a delightful lunch outside at that long awesome looking log table. Unfortunately, we had a market to get to so that would have to wait for next time.
After my wife selected half the store's pastries and bread, we payed and headed to the small market we were on our way to.
Our German Bread Bounty
We enjoyed our time at the market and then headed back home to Tsuchiura. We opened up all our German baked goods and checked them out.
I'll start with the dark looking bread to the left. That is called cassis marron bread. We just got a slice of it and tried it. It was a bit hard and a little salty but went really well with butter.
Next to that we have Rosenburg's cinnamon roll. I bit into that cinnamon roll and that sweet cinnamony cream on top was heavenly. Then I got a raisin, and another, and another. I don't hate raisins, but there is such a thing as too many raisins, and this cinnamon roll had way too many. It took me out of my heavenly cinnamon roll bliss.
Next to that was the chestnut croissant. This was an amazing croissant. The frosting on top of the croissant, with a light flavor of chestnut, and warm soft buttery croissant layers an the inside was the perfect pastery for that afternoon.
That huge piece of bread over there is called "toast." Yup, that's it. I laughed at first when I read the label for that bread and then I made a toasted sandwich with said bread and stopped laughing. It went perfectly with ham and cheese, even though it was a huge ham and cheese sandwich.
Last but not least, my favorite part of the bunch and my failure of the bunch. Failure because I forgot to take a picture of the label at Rosenburg so I don't know what it's called. I can tell you that it was a cheese pastry. I heated up that pastry, bit into it, and got warm cream cheese like flavor with a kind of buttery bread on the inside. It was fantastic! I hope I can get whatever that was again in the near future.
Rosenburg was a delightful surprise on our drive in Hitachi city. Now that we know about it, we do plan on visiting again. I hope next time I can try the pretzels on that nice dinning table in the outside eating area.
So if you are in Hitachi city and want to grab some German baked goods to take home or eat right away, why not give Rosenburg a chance. Who knows, you might see me there, chowing down on a pretzel while enjoying the outside air.
Enjoy!
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