Vesecky’s Bakery

Great local Euro style old world bakery in Berwyn on the old Bohemian Wall Street on Cermak Rd in Berwyn. If you enjoy breads and pastries from Europe, this a great place. Get there early for the freshest items!

. I walk past with my dog all the time so I have been dying to go in!
I went in today and the place look picked over and everything looked a little dried out. I did go in towards the end of the day so maybe the selection is better earlier. The items I purchased were just bad though… brownie wasn’t edible… apple slice tasted like canned Apple pie filling… cookies tasted old. I won’t be back

«To Die For! «Ordered 2 Koskas, should have done 6! Will do so next time & the hell with the
shipping charges!

This is a must-​stop bakery! My mom used to come here forty years ago to buy hoska bread. They still make it and other delicious treats at giveaway prices. The ladies were so nice to my daughter. They gave her some cookies to sample. In the way to the car, she dropped them in the floor so I ran back inside to buy more. When I walked in, the woman asked what happened. Before I could pull out my wallet, she grabbed more cookies and handed them over the counter. Please keep this iconic bakery going and visit them often. We live in Seattle now and always make it a must-​stop!

Vesecky’s Bakery is an old-​school Czech /​Bohemian bakery located on Cermak in Berwyn. The window display shows a selection of their lovely baked goods, but once you walk inside you will see even more of their goodies. My visit was on Good Friday, so there were some Easter-​themed items like lamb cakes. I bought a variety of treats for friends and co-​workers (and for personal consumption of course). I ordered a loaf of houska, which they were kind enough to slice for me. The houska is a popular Czech-​style bread, topped with some sliced almonds and filled with raisins, so it essentially is a subtler version of raisin bread. The hot cross buns were good, with raisins and orange peel mixed in. My favorite items were the kolacky cookies, with a soft texture more like pastries rather than cookies. Each cookie was topped with a generous dollop of topping, and all the ones I tried (prune, pineapple, apricot, raspberry) were delicious. I wish I bought more of those kolacky cookies!

We are so pleased we chose Vesecky’s for our wedding cake. The cake was beautifully decorated on the outside and delicious on the inside. We also ordered an assortment of cookies for the reception. They were absolutely delicious. Nancy was very easy to work with and understood exactly what we were looking for in a cake. We ordered a two-​tier cake for display and sheet cakes to be served, and the price was extremely reasonable. Also, their poundcake is mouthwatering and their apple pie addictive.

Absolutely delicious kolachy! Houska and poopy seed strudel were good too. We stuffed ourselves since we live in San Francisco. Too bad I couldn’t have come here with my mother (half Bohemian) and her friend (all Bohemian) who both grew up nearby or stroll by myself for more tomorrow.

We’ve been coming for years. Recently Al the way from southern California. The bakery is the best. Nothing like it in So Cal!
They packed everything for the flight back. The girls are hot too!

Not only my favorite bakery, but one of my favorite places in the world!
Vesecky’s is your typical Bohemian bakery, but better. They offer your typical Bohemian baked goods such as hoska, rye bread rolls and bagel dogs, as well as cookies, cakes and other tasty pastries.
Vesecky’s makes the best and biggest kolocky and their coffee cake is the best I have ever had.
If you’re in the area, you must give this place a try!

Oh, Bohemian bakery makes one’s soul sing. Woe to the poor gluten free and anti-​carb people.
Hot dogs in a salted horn roll? Yes, please. And, now they have them available in rye bread rolls? Life is pretty much perfect.
The almond and apricot horns were devoured. The chocolate donuts were equally enjoyed.
Rye bread is so good for the soul. And Vesecky’s has multiple… whether you are a fan of the potato rye or the bucket rye (I love both), you will find happiness here.
Houska isn’t my thing, but the rest of my extended family loves it.
Haute cuisine this is not. It is a good old school Eastern European bakery. I think the last to survive on Cermak, a street once crowded with them. The population has changed, but Vesecky’s has luckily survived. Go try some food from the Berwyn/​Cicero of days past.

I love their cakes and cookies! As a kid, I always looked forward to a birthday or special event with my family because I knew we’d get a cake from Vesecky’s. Now that I live closer I was able to get a cake for my sisters graduation, everyone loved the cake!

This bakery takes me back to my childhood when we used to go a bakery in Chicago called «Ernst’s». They have been gone for years and I have really missed this food. However, I have found a bakery that has the exact same pastries that I have been craving for years! I love the cookies. I really hope that they NEVER lose that close family environment that takes many of us back to our childhood.

Amazing bakery. Living I’m florida I miss the bakery so much! There was this amazing cream cheese cake that I think they only make on Wednesday. I just wish I could remember what it was called! :)

My family’s been coming here for over 40 years!!! There bread is the best the only bread i eat at home. There cakes and pastries are fabulous. And there service is amazing. The lady IRENE has been there ever since I can remember. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad thing when you walk into a bakery and they call you by your first name. I love this place.

A wonderful local bakery that’s been around for generations. My family frequently gets kolacky, and kolach (a large almost pie sized kolacky) as well as hoska and rye bread. You simply can’t find bakery like this anywhere else. The bakery also makes a wide assortment of cookies and cakes as well as paczki for fat tuesday. Call ahead to place an order to ensure you get what you want.
Well worth the trip!

This place is great! Small bakery with amazing pastries. The prices are very reasonable and the counter staff are very nice. Excellent almond cookies :) I also really like their éclairs!

This bakery is fairly decent. The problem is, even getting there just an hour after opening the display cases are pretty empty and pastries are good but I feel it lacks in other categories. Some products didn’t look so fresh but again delicious pastries from the few you can choose from

Bought their classic Houska — a slightly sweet Czech bread with nuts and dried fruit — for a Czech friend who grew up nearby and still misses «her» Vesecky’s and it was a big hit. I bought one for myself and now I see why — amazing! Not too sweet, very flaky, wonderful paired with coffee. If they weren’t so far from Oak Park I’d go here a lot more. Worth the trip!

My family is as Czech as apple pie is American — Heck, 95% of my fam still lives over there! Couple that with the fact that I grew up eating Czech food seven days a week on both sides of the pond, and you have some highly-​trained tastebuds!
With that, let me say that Vesecky’s brings me tastes of the Motherland faster than Lufthansa can take me to them.
You MUST try the hotdogs. Get the ones in the darker bread with caraway seeds. They are phenomenal! They taste like hotdogs I buy at the town square back in CZ, except a few hours old (not in a bad way, but they’re obviously cold by the time they make it home with me). You can also freeze them, so we buy bags at a time and heat them up when we want. Sometimes they last more than a couple days, other times…
They have a ton of other nicknacks that will evoke warm-​and-​fuzzy feelings in anyone with a fondness for Central and Eastern European goodies.
Thanks for existing, Vesecky’s! Too many before you have long shut down.

I’ve been going to this place pretty much since my infancy (I assume). I don’t remember NOT going to Vesecky’s. I grew up in Cicero and back in the day, there were various European bakeries along Cermak Road. And now, not so much. There are still bakeries, but not the ones I grew up with.
Thank goodness that Vesecky’s is still there. It’s still got a «ticker-​tape» number taker (I don’t know what you call that!). It’s still got the same old school style baked goods (houska, koláky, and even strudel). I love their stuff. I love their pull-​aparts. I will admit that if as good as their stuff is, half of the reason why I love this place is that I have an affectionate nostalgia about it. But Vesecky’s deserves it. They’re terrific, and I hope they never go away.
I’d also like to clear something up about the guy who wanted a «sausage kolacky». That’s not a thing. Maybe where he lives, somebody invented something called a sausage kolacek, but I’ve never heard of that. And I used to live in the Czech Republic. The thing the guy ordered from Vesecky’s, I assume, was a hot dog in the bun. That actually IS a thing. In Czech, that’s called a «párek v rohlíku» (sausage in a roll). At Vesecky’s, they bake the dogs in, and then it’s up to you to heat up the bun when you get some time. Or eat it cold in the car. Whichever comes first (probably the car).