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I'm the third generation of my family to proudly go there when I'm in the area (which isn't too often unfortunately). The Beverlywoods Bakery is a hidden gem right on Pico Blvd and it's an incredible family-run business which has been producing some excellent little cookies of all sorts for years and years. The great thing about the place: it never changes! No matter how many years are in between my visits there I can always be guaranteed to walk in and the place will be just as I remembered, and that is great.
They have some mouthwatering black&white cookies and the other baked goods that they churn out are great as well. The prices are also good. Their rugula is very good as well.
I highly recommend trying just about anything there, honestly, especially the babka which I think stands out even more than the rest of their great baked goods!
THE BEST BLACK & WHITE COOKIE!!!!!!! I think Nate and Al's buys theirs from here. I haven't really had anything else from the Beverlywood Bakery, but that is because, these cookies are so delicious and I can't say no to them. This is a dangerous spot for me. As you will come to learn, I LOVE SWEETS! So I have to limit myself to 2 large items, so it's always the B&W. Perfect texture, not too dry or too moist, and the perfect level of sweetness. :)
I agree, the employees are not friendly, but when I go in there, I go with one mission...black & white cookies! In and out! I'm not going to let someone's bad attitude take away from me enjoying a cookie!
Okay, so yeah I agree, the service isn't the friendliest, but I don't go to a bakery to socialize.
If you're on the westside and you're looking for great breads and pastries, this is the spot to hit. Everything is so fresh, and the ingredients are high quality. I stop here once a week usually for some fresh bread for sandwiches, a baguette to go with meals, and some desserts.
The chocolate rugelach (had to google it to find out how to spell it) is the best I've ever had. So sweet and moist and delicious! The croissants are also great... and huuuuuge! Breakfast in bed? Make a croissant sandwich out of one of these, and cut it in half, and you have breakfast for two. All of the cookies are great too. Oh, and don't forget the eclairs!
4 stars, this place is the bomb.
two words:
CHOCOLATE BABKA. seriously, you have not lived until you've eaten this. oh, and the rest of their pastries/breads/cookies are amazing too.
I contacted the bakery with my concerns via email: no response; apparently they are not that concerned about customer feedback.
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As soon as my friend found out that I had moved to the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, she began raving about the chocolate chip rugala at Beverlywood Bakery.
So the other day I was off to a gathering at her house and thought I would stop by the bakery to find out what was worth lusting over. The chocolate rugala are amazing. They are flaky, with chocolate chips and a chocolate filling. Definitely worth a trip.
GROSS GROSS GROSS GROSS GROSS!! Been there a few times over the years. . .has been consistently average. BUT, I went today, got home with my chocolate danish. . . looked in the bag and noticed there were little FLIES trapped in the bag!!! In fact, if you go and look in their cases, you can see little flies swarming around!! You know what that means? There are probably maggots in the food!! GROSSSS!! I wil never go there again and I will tell the world how DISGUSTING this place is!!!
Just dropped by on my way out of W LA. I've driven past this place many times but today I finally committed.. Let me first say that I know nothing about the Jewish faith...or any faith for that matter. The reason I mention this, is that while I was in there, several people came in and asked which items were for passover. Huh? They all look the same to me....Delicious! Anyhow, pass-over, pass-under, tomayto, tomahto, everything looks fantastic. Now for the review of what I had. I bought an apricot and blueberry hamantasch and a rugelach -sp? and everything was muy delicioso!
I had to deduct a star for the overall "I'm working a dead end job with a gun to my head and as soon as I can pull myself together, get over this heroin binge and muster up the energy, I'm going to kill everyone in this place and burn it to the ground" energy you get from the employees.
Foods damn good though!
This review was so in my head as I walked this afternoon but here goes. When I'm not Yelping, I do a lot of other things, one of which, is teaching a senior citizen exercise class for Cedar ~ Sinai Hospital. Tomorrow is a student's 95TH Birthday! Well, not really, but we're celebrating it tomorrow because she'll be out of the country on the actual day to avoid cleaning her pantry for Passover.
Her 90TH fell during Passover and because all the bakeries were closed, her daughter informed me I would have to bake. Yikes! Major trauma! I cook. I do NOT bake. I said, "But my kitchen isn't Kosher." Fell on deaf ears. Bottom line: This shiskse successfully baked the birthday girl's, grandmother's Nut Cream Torte converted from drams and metric to measurements I could understand. (PM me if you'd like the recipe.)
Pre-Peysekh, I hit Beverlywood Bakery http://www.beverlywood... for Rugula and Pico Glatt Market for fresh strawberries. The party is in place.
Eight years ago, my students brought champagne for celebrations. I quickly nixed this tradition, as many of them were DUI post party. They were very upset with me but even I can't drink and drive at 10:00 AM. (I not only kill threads, but also put the damper on 90+ crowd parties.)
Beverlywood Bakery's got all the right stuff - traditional goodies on demand and made to order. Shalom!
woah, i'm on a bad streak.
have to rate it on just how plain rude the employees are.
there's a blond haired white looking girl there who wouldn't help/serve my girl. she actually stood there asking who was next, and when my girl said me repeatedly, just completely ignored her. she had to wait for some other employye to help her.
anyways, the pastries are ok. not sure why people dig it so much.
every time i've gone here i've had some issue with the employees being really unnecessarily rude.
I'm a baker. And I make it my personal pursuit in life to discover all the bakeries around me, compare similar items, try novel ones, and carry them with me on a Southwest flight up to the Bay Area so my parents can enjoy them too.
I am obsessed with chocolate chip danish, and to all you L.A. people, don't take these danish for granted! They are not made anywhere else in the country. Beverlywood Bakery's chocolate chip danish are among the best I've ever had. Far far far far far superior to the chocolate chip danish at Canter's Deli. To date, I have never found this kind of danish in a cookbook, and sadly, have been unable to reproduce it in my kitchen. So, I took it upon myself to overnight mail 4 of these danish from Beverlywood Bakery all the way to Montreal, Canada, so one of my hero bakers, Marcy Goldman, could taste them, analyze them, and try to recreate the recipe for me. These danish are just that good. I'm still awaiting Marcy's recipe invention...
Bonus tip 1: Free parking in the back for the lucky three people who grab 'em.
Bonus tip 2: If you take a walk on the sidewalk around the bakery, there is a vent coming from Beverlywood's kitchen. Breathe in and you will be in heaven. If only that scent could be bottled.
When I was a little kid, we'd always fly down to LA to be with my family for Passover. While you're technically supposed to abstain from eating leavened bread before breaking the fast, my grandmother would let me and my cousins pick just one cookie out of the big pink Beverlywood Bakery box before the seder.
Every single year, I picked the four-layered chocolate-covered cake bar. And now, Yahweh-knows how many years later, it's the only cookie/dessert I dream about. It beats out the hot pink cookies at La Victoria in San Francisco, lays waste to the baklavah at Gallipoli Bazaar in London, and trumps every black and white cookie I've ever tasted.
And while my family has been going to this tiny bakery on Pico for over 50 years, there's more than just history that keeps me coming back. It's the surly Russian employees, the heavenly chocolate coffee cake, those freakin' cake bars, and the fresh challah they have seven days a week.
When I walk in the doors, I'm home.
Amazing pastries! The chocolate pastries and Hamentashen are the best. I don't think I've ever found better, always consistent.
Uhm.... not a good way to start a review but I'm in lust. I just bought their onion bread rolls from Vons Pavillion in BH and I'm in love. I'm hitting that bakery asap. More to come!
(addendum: satisfied, whiner? the guy was scowling last week, as usual....)
Who is that sour-faced schmuck (shaved-head guy) I see every time I go into the bakery? Is he the owner of the place? Regardless, he's always got that look of "I want to kill you, but there are too many witnesses right now," even when he's standing right in front of me-- note: he NEVER says "hello" or asks to help anyone, that I've seen. His indentured servants, the super-sweet (asian) shicksas, are always smiling and helpful, though I never see him kindly interact with them, either. Must be the bad breath from the cigarettes he's huffing out back all day.
As I sit here already having eaten nearly a quarter pound of cookies in the last hour, I think of how much money I save because that man is so appalling to customers, leaving me with no desire to go back unless I'm really in need. It is one of my fave bakeries, the other of which I shall not name because it's too crowded already, but the other does not have the gazillion cookies that I savor so much here! Their pastries are just a little too sweet for me, but hell, I'll kvetch about most anything.
Again, that middle-aged, slender, salt-&-peppered-close-cut-haired guy is a poo head. Hence, 3 stars because service is SO important to me.
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