Green Bakery
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. - Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
49 reviews
Palo Alto, CA
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19 Reviews for Green Bakery
I love the mocha cake at this place. Haven't ventured into alot of other goods, but everything I've had has been good.
I like the cream puff.
3 for 1 dollar.
but it is 2 for 1 dollar now.
I am disappointed.
But I will still go..I think
I also tried the birthday cake with sweet potato inside, very special.
oh, it's best if you eat the puff at the same day when it's fresh.~
Super duper nice lady behind the counter.
But the folks sitting down (the older age bracket) totally stopped what they were doing when I walked in..uh...okay. So I'm not Korean...look! I brought along my Korean husband! (But he doesn't count, he just stands there..psh dead weight).
Grabbed the pumpkin bread, red bean bread, and cheese sticks. The ajuma was really nice and used delicate hands handling each pasty as if it would break. Right next to the counter are these huge sesame bread ball things...they looked GREAT! i didn't want to ask what it was b/c the hubby was getting antsy, but man they look sooooo good.
cheese sticks are horrible! bread was incredibly dry and dense w/ no hint of cheese or anything! AHHH! stay away! took one bite and couldn't talk for hours after - tooooooooooooooooo dry!
pumpkin bread - awesome! especially those who LOVE pumpkin anything (pies, cupcakes etc) the filling is incredibly light in terms of sugar but you can really taste the pumpkin...delicious!
red bean bread - perfect ratio of red bean paste and bread, but watch out, this pastry is so dense, it's pretty heavy! no matters, the red bean is perfectly blended and the bread is light and airy and so moist!
i'd stay away from the breads..b/c they look a bit stale. BeQue restaurant is located in the same shopping complex
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I've been a customer of Green Bakery since they opened. However, I rec'd terrible service 2 days in a row. I went in to order a cake for a 1 year birthday party (to feed 70 people).
The lady I spoke with said she could NOT take the cake order and that the baker had a day off and to come back the following day. I found if hard to believe that she could not take an order for a half-sheet. I went back the next day at noon and the same lady told me the baker was only available in the morning.
She did not offer to take my information. The bakery has good cake, but not good enough to tolerate bad service. Too bad, as I will now always go to a competitor. That bakery must be crazy to turn away that much business!
Ahh, yummies! So, the cool thing with Korean bakeries, at least in Korea, was that they would make the most creamy decadent desserts (decadent to me, anyway) but would use like, low fat secret diet methods so that all that whipped cream and goodness was actually FAT FREE. It might also have been sugar free, I can't remember.
But this is pretty standard. So I love love love the creamy chiffon fruit cakes that are like soft creamy pillows of fruity love you can just fill your mouth with and know, despite eating excess calories, aren't as BAD as the calories you'd get in a true, full fat, full cream creamy pillowy extravaganza.
ANYWAY!
I like this place, because the owners are very sweet and even though I speak about 5 words in Korean of which only 2 are useful (thank you, hello/goodbye), our encounters are always fluffy and sweet, just like the pastries.
CONS: Sometimes their cream fillings lean more toward a buttercream (leaning heavily toward butter) so they taste less like cream and more like ... butter. Which no one wants to feel like they're eating. We are not Homer Simpson.
Bread is not as moist and light as it could be. Sometimes it is rather dense, but being dense, not actually moist. Sometimes it is light and fluffy (individual chiffon puffs) but not as moist as it COULD be. So i agree you could probably get better BREAD somewhere else, especially if you like your bread to melt in your mouth all moist and squishy like. You know, like the pillowy blooms in an anime.
Case in point, if you compare their chiffon cake to the chiffon cake sold at Hong Kong bakery off Castro Street in Mountain View, HK Bakery wins, hands down, giving you triple the size, with it being moister, sweeter, and way better.
Agreed, they don't always label the items. They label 100% of the items, usually, in Hongul at least, but only 60-70% of the items in English. Since I like to learn by experience, I don't ask what's inside and just grab things to try.
PROS: Cheap prices, lovely service, good selection. Great location. Very clean, everything seems fresh, which is as a bakery should be. And generall you walk in and right there are fresh racks of completed baked goods so you can see them with your own eyes.
FAVS:
- peanut cream anything
- madelines
- mochi
- crunchy almond cookies
- their giant cream roll round, split down the middle and filled with cream is good for bringing to someone's house for a gathering or a "thank you" gift. Or splitting with friends. At least 5. :)
- bean paste pastries are pretty good. as others have said, you get a lot of good creamy paste in the pastry.
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It's hard to control myself here. Once inside, my new year resolution of eliminating simple carbs becomes history.
The buns are often freshly baked and delicious. The cream puffs and the pumpkin buns are my two musts. Not too sweet or heavy, yet sinfully satisfying. We also don't leave without the crunchy, flat almond cookies. The smell alone is irresistible.
They also have non-sweet pastries, which I have yet to experiment...
The prices are very agreeable. The buns are less than $2.50 each!
Lastly, the lady behind the counter is always smiling...as if to tell me to go ahead and indulge.
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Note, this is more of a 3.5 star review.
Green is one of the first Korean operated bakeries I've been to, and have had a number of items here but my favorite are the madeleines. Why? My conclusion after having sampled some of Green's goods is this: they love butter. Everything I have had from Green is incredibly rich, and what better way to make madeleines than to enhance that creamy, rich and deep butter flavor that is such a part of their experience?
However, this does in the general realm of things, offset me. The madeleines have fantastic flavor but are rather greasy, covering the plastic packaging, the plates I displayed them on, and my own fingers with a glossy sheen that I was not at all keen on. Butter cream fillings, raisin breads, all had the same effect on me--too rich.
Green Bakery is a great place to get some affordable Korean-spun baked goods, and I have every intention of coming back to try some of the items that other reviewers have listed, such as the cake with the sweet potato inside, but I would have to defer this bakery as a favorite until I've had a more exhausting search.
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For anyone that's read my review of Clover, I'll say that the bread at Green Bakery is more of what I had in mind, in terms of being light and fluffy. This was my first time going to a Korean bakery, and not knowing what to get (and it didn't help all too much that some of them were only in Korean), I just grabbed a bunch of random things that I thought would taste good.
As an overall summary, I like their fluffier pastries, which I think are done very well: they're neither too empty nor dense. Their denser ones I don't like as much, but that might be a bias from not particularly enjoying dense pastries. And another plus is that the place isn't too pricy, especially given that eating just one of their pastries is probably enough to fill you up for a few hours. Also, they take credit when you order at least $10 of bread, so that's another plus to me.
For those who care about the individual things I bought, keep reading:
- Almond Bread: Don't know why I got this, because I'm not a huge fan of almond desserts, but it was alright.
- Cream Puff: These were amazingly good. I forget how much Beard Papa is, but I think you can get more quantity (and size) wise for what you pay here. The cream isn't too heavy and isn't too sweet. And while I'd prefer if the actual puff part wasn't soft, I can't recall ever having a cream puff that wasn't like that.
- Croquette: Awesome stuff. I'm a fan of croquettes in general, but this is one of the better ones I've tried (granted my experience in this area isn't that great :p). Fluffy, not overly fried, and has tasty fillings (cabbage and sausage I believe). Definitely enough to fill you up a bit.
- Mini Manju: Tasty little things, but a bit too thick and on the sweet side.
- Mochi: Really really good. The mochi is soft and springy (QQ for those who know), and has tons of red bean filling. They do a good job of balancing the two, not having too much mochi or filling. I kind of wish they had a black sesame one though.
- Red Bean something (Something like solgofu? That's probably horrendously wrong, but it's a a bit like pineapple buns on top): Pretty similar to pineapple buns (though not as toasted), or the custard filled buns you can get at some dim sum places. Has the yellow flaky crumbs on top (custard?), and the amount of bread provides a good balance.
- Another Red Bean something (it's a flat, thin breaded pastry w/ red bean inside): I don't know why I got this also, considering how many of the other things had red bean. I definitely like the previous one more; while this was good, there was too much paste and too little bread.
- Sweet Potato something (a small wedge-shaped bread with cinnamon on it): Didn't particularly like this one. Not sure if it was the sweet potato, the cinnamon, or something else, but the overall taste didn't sit too well with me. A bit too sweet I think, and the cinnamon just seems to clash.
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Mmm. Love Asian bakeries. Something about the subtle sweetness rather than the over-indulgence of western bakeries appeals to me.
We ordered a potato cake for a coworker's birthday. Happy Birthday LK! :D
I was really surprised by the potato cake. I know! POTATO? Yeah! It was creamy and the potato was a really interesting texture. It replaces the fruit filling and cuts down on the sweetness.
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I went to Green Bakery to grab couple of pastries for a brunch get together with couple of friends. I was surprised to see so many selections and could not make up my mind. The $$$ ranges from $1 to $2.75, which is pretty cheap. They are also pretty big so eating a whole pasty will fill you up.
My friends really enjoyed the pastries. It was super light and spongy..we couldn't stop eating them.
Finally a Korean bakery close to my house...on the other hand....totally bad news for my thighs.... but I would definitely return!
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I came here for one item based on a recommendation from a good friend. My favorite dessert in the world is Korean shaved ice dessert called "pat bing soo". They come in various combinations but the basic pat bing soo has shaved ice, sweetened red bean, and fruit toppings. A good version has more goodies like Green Bakery (aka Bread one, bread two). For fruit, they had fresh kiwi and strawberries accompanied by really soft delicious mochi, strawberry pudding (?), some type of syrup with a small scoop of ice cream and flat crunchy almond cookie on the side for you to crumble or eat separately.
This review is obviously based only on this item, but it was good. A bit different than the really good L.A. versions I've bad. They're both good, just in a bit different ways. The main difference seems to be that Green Bakery used Japanese style mochi, instead of Korean style dduk. Try it, its gooood! It was about $5 for a huge bowl enough for 2 people looking for a nice sunny day treat. :)
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They have really delicious "Pot Bing Soo" which is a red bean sherbet with huge of amount of many different fruits and ice cream topping. It tastes so much better than the crushed ice at chinese/taiwanese pearl tea cafe which is mainly ice and little bit of fruit and condensed milk. Go try their "Pot Bing Soo" with thier breads before the summer ends!
Found this tiny Korean bakery in an empty strip mall.
The corner has shelves of non fridgerated pastries, some have english descriptions, others don't. Pretty cheap, $1, many other places charge more.
Two cold cases of full size cakes, only a few selections, sweet potato, mocha, strawberry and fruit. Wish they sold individual slices. They all looked so good. Like Japanese bakeries, the cakes are light and not too sweet with whip cream. Love that. They had some great cream puffs, 6 for $2, medium sized with custard, not too heavy. Great deal.
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I prefer American styled baked goods, but I love Korean bakeries, because they're really into presentation. When I purchased a sweet potato bithday cake for my friend's birthday, they also gave me long, skinny candles & a plastic cake knife, all bundled in an adorable cake box. The cake was about $25 - $30. They don't have a large variety of cakes but if you enjoy whipped topping and fluffy cakes (versus rich, dense cakes), then you wil likely enjoy their cakes.
They also offer a decent assortment of buns.
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I came to Green Bakery since a friend of mine recommended the cream puff. I ordered the cream puff (it comes with 3 cream puffs in a package for $1.00), fruit tart, and the rainbow roll (I guess) when I first came to Green Bakery. The cream puff is good and I think it's better than Beard Papa's. The custard is not too sweet and light. The second time I came here, I ordered the pat bing soo and my bf bought the garlic bread and fruit tart. The pat bing soo is okay but the garlic bread is really good. The fruits that come with the pat bing soo are sour but fresh. Compared to Clover bakery (near Mitsuwa Japanese supermarket), I think the bread here is just okay. But I really recommend their cream puff and fruit tart.
Okay... if you like desserts... this is the place to go. Pat bing soo, is a korean shaved ice yummay fruity cakey crack addicting dessert they serve at the green bakery. I dont know why they call it green bakery cuz i dont see any green anywhere. BUt yes... that pat bing soo is like crack cocaine. Its sooo goood. BTW... i never smoked crack or any drugs. Im drug free thank you very much.
Prime, easy to locate on El Camino, in the heart of Santa Clara "Korea town". I find it funny how they came up with name because it also says in Korean, "Bread one, Bread two". I went there after lunch and a lot of the baked goods looked sold out. But, I was able to find my usual Asian bakery staples.
I liked the red bean pastry. It has a good bread to bean ratio - more beans and the bread is actually kind of flat. The red beans, oh so creamy and melts in your mouth. They also have potato, chestnut, cream, and pumpkin filled pastries amongst cakes and loaves of bread. For savory tastes, you can find hot dog pastries and fried doughnuts filled with potatoes and meat. Prices are reasonable and similar to other bakeries in the area ($1 and up). Some items are not translated into English, so be sure to ask, as even I had to.
That little shopping center is still mostly vacant, so parking is plentiful, but I can guess not for long.
thanks yelp for helping me find pat bing soo during this very hot summer!
even if i had to drive from santa cruz all the way there, it was worth it. the dessert was huge...i wasn't sure whether to get one each for my sister and i or just share it...glad we decided to share it because it is a monster, full of fruity icy goodness that is.
their cream puffs were good too. light, fluffy cream and small enough that you don't feel like you've eaten too much (smaller than beard papa's puffs).
Some friends and I came here a few weeks ago to try the shaved iced that had been raved about. But sadly, we were disappointed. It really wasn't that great. It looked way better in the picture than it looked or tasted. I've had the ones in LA and they are piled high with lots of fruit and ice cream. This one was a pretty decent size with a good amound of fruit and ice cream, but it just didn't taste the same. I think the thing that killed it was the powder stuff, which was gross. It tasted like dust! According to my fiance, it's supposed to be good for you? Well, thank you for the thought GB, but I'm trying to eat dessert here, not drink a health shake. Anyways, that just made the whole thing kinda icky. We also had some cream puffs which were okay, but I'm not a huge fan. Also, two fruit tarts. Those were not bad. A little on the sweet side though. All in all, I doubt I'd come back here. For breads and cakes, Sogo is 1000% better. Shaved ice, I'll just go to Breaktime for regular non-healthy dessert.
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