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Star Bakery
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9 reviews for Star Bakery
My friend once wandered in here on a Sunday morning, following the scent of freshly baked bread and the sight of a long line... when she got to the front of the line she realized she didn't have any cash, but the woman at the counter insisted that she have a loaf of the bread and just come back later to pay.
Aside from their bread and hospitality, the variety of Persian cookies seems to be their strong suit, though they also have the usual assortment of standard pastries (e.g. eclairs, napolean, fruit tarts), all of which are notably inexpensive.
This out of the way bakery is just a couple of doors down from the highly rated Nook restaurant. The bakery items are primarily Persian and there are no crusty artisan breads available here.
Cookies represented about half of the items offered and were fairly conventional with a Persian influence. The almond cookies stood out with a delicious crispy outside and soft, chewy inside.
While there was no baklava, the items that used a flaky layered crust were remarkable for how well separated the layers were. The eclairs and creme puffs were both very well done (a firm but not egg-tasting pastry with a generous whipped creme of custard filling) and remarkably inexpensive ($1.25-1.50).
The woman who helped us seemed to be genuinely interested in helping us in an almost maternal way. The other reviewer with the anecdote regarding the customer who forgot money and left with bread and instructions to return later with the money seemed like a perfect example of the proud, generous and unwaveringly ethical attitude of the woman who we assumed was the owner. I really felt like I wanted to reward her generosity by patronizing her store.
Overall, the items offered here were similar in quality to Portos (very good but not great) but with a much smaller selection. Very much worth a trip, particularly if you are interested in items that are Persian influenced.
i love this place!!!!
I love pastries. I only bought the Rolette ($12), which is a Persian roll cream cake, which was very sweet and fluffy and yummy to my tongue. The service wasn't that great--the lady seemed to have no expression at all. Whatever, the cake was.
I also thought this was a Mexican bakery, but was delighted to find it's Persian. They don't have the regular, fried dough syrupy things I ususally think of and used to eat as a kid, but rather their almond cookies (i think #17) and cardamom mini muffins are fantastic. What a nice change of pace.
The small pieces of pastry at this place are ok tasting and inexpensive, but don't ever buy a birthday cake here. The big tiramisu had nothing to do with small pieces we tried first and they had told us it'd be the same. It was some bready caky un-fresh stupid thing that didn't make us look too good.
it wasn't horrible but it was just bad and not worth the money. we expected a tiramisu this wasn't it. the persian hand writing (one reason we went there) they did was also very ugl. I asked them to it on the ribon nd Igot it a lot better than they in 1st attempt ever at this.
Nestled in a shabby plaza that also houses a pizza parlor and a chinese take out place, this bakery is truly a lotus among the sludgy mud. We were falling short on time on getting a cake for Mother's Day dinner at home. Luckily this bakery was still open after at 5:30pm on Mother's Day Sunday (probably to serve the procrastinators like we were). This was my first time walking into the store. Before this, I thought it was just a Mexican bakery which one can find in abundance of sweet breads, birthday cakes, and flans. However, I was surprised at the numerous selection of petit fours that they had here. There were Strawberry Napoleon, some German Chocolate cake bites, tiramisu bites, etc. We finally settled on a fruit tart that was surprisingly cheap for $20. From my previous tasting of fruit tarts, good tarts can be distinguished from bad tarts with the crust. This crust was not flaky and not too crumbly, sweet but not overly sweet. I was enjoying every last bits of the tart, as were everybody else. It was definitely a good last-minute buy that was perfect to end a coma-induced stomach-expanding Mother's Day feast.
i wish i could give this place a good review but our eclaires were sour, i think the cream went bad.
i went in getting some stuff for my co worker's b day and everything looked so good, i got some mini tarts which were scrumptious and a cappuccino cake which was equally good and some really good looking eclaires. when we first tried the eclaires we were wondering what that taste was, like maybe lemony sour taste, but upon further eating it turned out it was just sour cream.
eww
so from now on i am baking my own pastries for birthdays..or maybe i will try someplace else
they have good tarts but i can't trust them any more, glad i didn't get the cream puffs.
Jonesing for a Mexican concha, I walked into what I thought was a Mexican bakery because of the Spanish signs outside. The place is actually Persian. The scrumptiousness of the pastries in display case is made even more scrumptious...er by their reasonable prices. Canolis, tiramisu, eclairs etc., were under $2 for the most part. There was a section of just Persian pastries. There were no labels, and the service rep was reluctant to give me the name of the 'cookies' I wanted. I had to show the mystery cookies to a Persian friend and have her tell me that it's a kind of pastry that goes with tea.
