Reception
Comic Book Bin's Avi Weinrib enjoyed DMP's scratch-and-sniff covers. Al Kratina found Antique Bakery "fluffy, light, and disposable". Chris the 4th Pip thought the characters showed "surprising depth".
Janet Houck, writing for Mania Entertainment, felt that the story of the first volume was choppy, using many flashbacks, and that the volume should have been given a higher rating due to its depiction of Ono's backstory. David Welsh enjoyed the character-driven story, especially the Christmas story, which was rooted in a business perspective. Jessica Brooks of Anime Jump enjoyed that although food-themed manga is usually about food preparation, instead Antique Bakery is about customer satisfaction. She also noted that Ono's homosexuality was essentially "played for laughs", although she did not feel this was a negative. Tom Rosin, for MangaLife, felt that the first volume was "about cakes more than anything else", and that he felt hungry after reading Tachibana's sales pitches. Katherine Dacey, writing for Pop Culture Shock, felt that the main theme of the series was a "slice of life friendship story". Johanna Carlson noted that the series is faux-yaoi. Robin Brenner, writing for TeenReads, noted that the series' plot is not "the point" about this manga - the funny character interactions and elegant character artwork are.
The series won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga. The English edition of Antique Bakery was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2007, in the category "Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan".
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