Bavarian Bakery & Cafe

I went today at 8am and it was closed. I call and just get an answering machine. I think it’s closed for good.

This used to be our favorite bakery & German restaurant in the DFW area. Sadly, the bakery & café have been sold & the German family that used to run it are no longer any part of the business, and it shows.
I brought a friend with me for lunch, not knowing the business had been sold and it was an awful experience. It took us almost 2 hours for lunch, as the wait & kitchen staff were so disorganized. We should’ve asked for our money back & left, as when the food arrived, it was the greater disappointment. I ordered the Goulash and there was literally balls of MSG/​bullion powder in the noodles. It was overly salty, as a result and just horrible. My friend had a sandwich with a ton of bread, and one thin slice of meat and one thin slice of cheese. Missing were the delicious sides of fruit and/​or chips for her sandwich.
I tried to give it another shot at Christmas time, but NOT for lunch or dinner. Every year it’s been a family tradition for us to get a Christmas Stollen from the Bavarian Bakery. I stood in line for an eternity, and a young man that could barely speak English told me they would have some on Friday. I noted, while I was waiting, that the bakery offerings were less than half of what they used to be, and what was there did not look good at all. I came back on Friday and am now told it will be Monday before they have Christmas Stollens. The original owners kept them in stock from thr weekend after Thanksgiving thru Christmas. I will not be back. It is difficult to say goodbye, but the new owners of the place are NOT German & it is truly no longer a BAVARIAN bakery or café…

New owners, terrible service, complaints about food from other diners that actually got food, other tables that had been waiting for over an hour, and people leaving demanding refunds, like myself. I loved this restaurant. We had been going there for years.
Not anymore.
This was me giving them a 2^nd chance and I regret it.

Amazing Bakery! Glad I don’t live too close because it could be a hard habit to break!

Great pastries, great lunch specials, and fantastic food
This fort worth German Restaurant is really good… nothing fancy here, when you walk in you are greeted by the pastry area, the cakes all lined up neatly are yelling eat me eat me… the german strudel, and the eclairs, or rum balls are just sitting there waiting to be taken home and devoured… There is fresh bread baked daily and coffee cakes as well… don’t forget the poppy seed cake (unless you are going to be drug tested) and the fruit filled delights! After all of that you will need to pass on and order your meal… for lunch the menu stands in front of your eyes on a stand… specials are around $ 9 but you get a whole meal for that price. They have everything from gulash, to schnitzel, sausage, to sub sandwiches and more. The food is fantastic and very authentic. If you speak german you may even be able to communicate here… The restaurant has one of the largest working german cuckoo clocks outside of bavaria, and the décor is really nice. I can strongly recommend this restaurant.

UPDATE — the business has been sold since my last visit, so I cannot vouch for the new owners. The review that follows is for the restaurant under previous ownership.
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I really enjoy coming here for dinner. Their sausages are really good and I enjoy their pan fried potatoes and the bread & potato dumpling sides. If you’re really hungry try the pork plate, which comes with a delicious smoked pork chop and either 2 or 3 sausages (can’t remember), the aforementioned dumplings and sauerkraut. Last time I just ate half of everything and took the other half home, and was perfectly full both times.
I don’t think the schnitzel or spaetzle are as good here as at the other German restaurants in town but they have the best sausages I think. The desserts that I have tried from the bakery vary from decent to very good. When I wasn’t dieting I’d bring a bunch of goodies home to eat over the next few days.
The atmosphere feels like you’re in a granny’s living room, with wall-​paper, mouldings on the walls and more knick-​knacks than an antique shop. Most of the clientele is older and white. Service is good, but rather relaxed which tends to be the standard for German restaurants anyway (and is also the standard *in* Germany).
Fort Worth is so fortunate to have several really good German food options. This one is the closest to my house, but is only open for dinner a couple nights a week. I wouldn’t say I like it *better* than my other two regulars (Greenwoods and Little Germany) but each has the things they do best, and BBC has definitely earned a place in our regular German food rotation.

Sometimes work sucks. Sometimes it sucks so bad that I really crave a pick-​me-​up treat.
I stumbled upon this place on one of those days. I spent several minutes looking though the glass at all the sweets before settling on an éclair. It wasn’t the most visually appealing desert, but I figured that a Bavarian bakery probably made Bavarian cream that would leave me filling filthy.
It did.
I gobbled the whole thing in 45 seconds, and it was super naughty. And for only $ 3.50, too. Pretty affordable splurge.

I’m very glad that I found this place close to where I live. Had driven by many times, and finally went for lunch. Cute place, lots of baked goods when you walk in. You order at the counter and they bring it out when ready. It was packed on a Wednesday. They had two big parties and the wait for the food was still not too bad. Good beer selection, though was more expensive than on the web site. Not really a menu sitting around. Everyone at our table thought their food was great, good size portions for lunch and they were like 9 bucks which I thought was fair. Definately going back. On the way out we got a huge assortment of desserts which were great, the only one that was meh was the struedel but everything else high quality. So beers lunch and plenty of desserts for 20 bucks a person. Sweet

Best éclair around! The Bavarian cream inside is just amazing, chocolate not too sweet, it’s perfect.
I ordered my wedding cake from here, three tiers each different, simple beading decorations. Huge cake $ 180, you can’t beat that. We froze the top and it came out perfect a year later. Ordered my baby shower cake, stunning polka dots, yummy chocolate cake. Ordered a wedding shower cake for a girlfriend, gorgeous flowers, huge sheet cake for $ 30. Great icing, great fillings, great cake.
That also have good pastries and breads and great cookies.
Only eaten here once, got a sausage plate and it was just like Germany, delicious!
This place is great, please try it. Amazing!

This place is really nice to go to for a family dinner where your not in a rush and want to sit and chat. They have good food. They used to do their salad differently and I was not happy with how they do it last time i had dinner there.
They have amazing cannoli’s that we always get to go cause we are too stuffed after our meal ;)