Federico’s Italian Bakery

Used to be such a nice bakery. Really gone downhill. Went in at noon to get a slice of cake. They were cleaning and all I could smell was bleach. Turned around and left. Someone later went back and got cake for the gang at work. It was tasteless.

A MUST DO ! THE BEST ITALIAN WEDDING COOKIES IN LA! I go to Federico’s for 1 and only 1 thing — the Italian Wedding Cookies. If I bring a box of these to a someone’s house or a party, there’s none left and not even a crumb in the box. Enough said. If you’ve never had Italian Wedding Cookies they are very similar to Mexican Wedding Cookies. Be sure to check in with Unilocal you’ll get 10% off your $ 20 purchase.

stale pastries … burnt coffee … and can you belive it … no restrooms for it’s customers … never again! good riddance ferericos

Federico’s is a place I like to go for «a little something» and coffee. There are many sweet delights to chose from, and the people helping you are friendly. Below is a photo of what I chose today:

Yuck, this is just a bad bakery. I’ve been to it 3 times and every time I got some old cake or bad tasting pastries. Their cookies are terrible, they taste as if they were made with every possible substitute: instead of butter they use oil, instead of sugar they use splenda, instead of eggs they use liquid substitute… that’s the feeling I get. I am not going back.

I stopped by to get coffee and a pastry to kill time while I waited for my car at the shop down the street. The girl behind the counter was very nice, friendly, and helpful. She answered all my questions and recommended items. I’d give the girl 5 stars if I could rate separately.
Unfortunately the pastries simply were not good. I had a petit four and a black forest cake. The petit four was just ok, the chocolate it was dipped in probably kept it fresh longer, and the black forest cake was just plain bad. It had a terrible checmical-​like flavor and smell, and it was very stale.

Nice smile from owner and I noticed her customer waited patiently for her to finish previous customer then bought a cup of coffee.
Very good at sales by telling me immediately noticing me as a price first timer and a sensitive customer. She gave me free refill then advised me patiently saying it’s ok you don’t know that after I bought a lot items.
Magazines were on the rack not messy on tables. She smiled at me while seeing me watching her accepting delivery from a truck driver after I parked at her rear parking lot.
Nice approach to a new customer. 2^nd time in two days I was treated warmly from a Mexican bakery owner. The first one was in Ventura county next to the bikers bakery, forgot that bakery name.
I definitely will return next time after or before I visit Huntington library.

It saddens me to write this review, I used to come here all the time with my family and we never had a problem. My daughter got married recently and she ordered a chocolate cake with chocolate Bavarian cream and fresh cut strawberries. Our first problem was around 2 weeks before the wedding someone calls us from the bakery saying they needed to speak with us because the baker was going to charge extra for a tiny and I mean tiny tiny logo. What?! When we first ordered the cake, we already were paying extra for the logo and now he wants to charge us more?! So we call the lady back and talk for a while and she tells us she will call the baker on Tuesday when he returns. On Tuesday when he returns, the lady from the bakery calls and tells me that she got our cake mixed up with someone else’s. How unprofessional! We were very close to cancelling the cake because they were giving us such a hard time for a small simple design.
Second thing that happened, When my sister picked up the cake, the lady insisted it be in the backseat not the trunk so that’s where she put it. When she got on the freeway all of a sudden (I’m not kidding you) all I see was the top of the cake slide right off! Like it had just been placed there with no skewers, nothing to hold it down, anything! So we got to the house we noticed that the Bavarian cream was WAY WAY to watery. To the point where you pick it up and it just plopped down like a runny egg. That is NOT how that cream is supposed to be made. We ended up fixing what was left and only keeping the bottom half. But when my daughter cut into the bottom tier, there was no cake! There was and I’m not kidding you, at least 5 inches of frosting all around. The cake was so small and we didn’t order a small cake, that they had a hard time cutting into it.
When we called the bakery that morning they said that it wasn’t there fault and that the cream was fine. They had made sure it wasn’t going to tip over or slide off. From the picture I’m producing you can see there was nothing there!
DO NOT COME HERE, VERY BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE AND AWFUL CAKES.

My daughter ordered a pice of tiramisu and I got a couple varieties of cookies. We took our first bites in the car and we had to throw the food away. It was all stale. No excuse for selling stale bakery … In a baker
We were considering getting my daughter’s birthday cake here. It’s so much better to drive all the way to Porto’s — you know: a REAL bakery that is family owned and cares about what they sell?

I have always been fortunate to get what I ordered. I have been happy with their product and service. The appeal for me is that they DO have classic pastries, old fashion or grandma style… whatever; they’re good!

Got a birthday cake and it was stale and old.
We also got some random pastries and they also were not very fresh.

Delicious and beautiful cake! It looked like a wedding cake. We got it for my mom’s birthday and everyone loved it! Buttercream frosting, white cake, filled with Bavarian cream and fresh strawberries, 9″ round all for $ 50. I thought it was pretty worth.
So glad we moved to this area as this is going to be our go-​to bakery for birthday cakes and everything else!
And service is friendly and they were patient while my indecisive self was trying to pick a design. I think I nailed it, no?

I got a few individual pieces of cakes. Can’t remember their names called but they had the almond paste. Delicious. The girl who served me was cool. Will try new things.

They honored my 10% discount when checking in. It’s not a birthday party at my house without getting a cake from this bakery.

Every birthday needs a cake. The idolized birthday recipient requested chocolate. So, I found my aunt a square chocolate cake with chocolate barvarian cream, chocolate frosting and curls of chocolate. The desserts that exist are completely surreal. Birthday cakes sure can become a foodie find. Federico’s has like a bakery plant that makes everything fresh for the bakery and local sales. The coffeecake danish looked delicious. Okay, everything was pretty much eye candy, but I was there for birthday cake. I sampled cake, but not the same as purchased. Tasty. Friendly staff too.

Great cake, melt in your mouth delicious. Highly recommended! Myong was very helpful in choosing the design! It was the best I ever tasted!

Yo, Federico’s, you know I’ll always be loyal to you, right? Your desserts were a staple of my kitchen counter growing up! And still are. Except now I don’t try to pick the dried frosting off the wedding cakes decorating the back of your store… I’ve matured.
Ask them what’s fresh for the best! Some great go-​tos: rum cake (nice thick layers of chocolate and custard), rum baba (so soaked with rum), and princess cake. You can’t go wrong!
A pretty wide assortment of cookies, from chocolate to raisins to cinnamon and fruit and pastries mmmm… again, ask what’s good! There’s a rectangular cookie with fruit filling and vanilla frosting that’s absolutely bomb (and big).
If you order a cake and ask for extras, they’re very generous! Just got a rum cake with Mother’s Day with extra buttercream and loads of flowers, and I was not disappointed.
The parking lot always has space! Very easy to drop by, grab some sweets, and enjoy them at home (or in the car on the way there).

How does this place even have three stars? Old, dry, overpriced pastries and horrible customer service! I had issues with this bakery in the past but this last time was the final straw. They charged me extra $ to write happy birthday on the cake. I’ve bought many many many cakes in my life and never paid extra for having them write something on the cake. Who does that???
Screw the convenience of it being on my way to work. I’m never going back.

I hadn’t been to Federico’s in ages… The one thing I remember my friends that live in Pasadena go crazy for from this bakery was this white cake with a sweet pineapple center, buttercream frosting & filling that was covered with almond slivers in its entirety. I don’t know what it was called. I thought it might have been a pineapple upside down cake. So I call my buddy that introduced me to this crack and he didnt know it’s exact name either but it wasnt an upside down cake. That he was certain of… It was so good, so moist and the combination of flavors was so perfect.
I read all the Unilocal reviews to see if people wrote about this mythical sweet creation and I was a bit put off at all the negative reviews. This was not the bakery I remember visiting in the past. I really expected the worst walking in but I wanted to get this cake so bad for my mom’s birthday.
So this was my exact experience… Found parking out front on Colorado Bl like I did in the past. I walked and there were no other customers inside. Immediately I was like, Uh oh. what did I walk into? There were two employees that I saw. One asian lady at the far end that seemed to be working on something behind the counter. She immediately looked up from what she was doing and welcomed me with a smile and hello. Whew! The blonde lady with an apron was on the phone taking an order. It was quiet inside and again, I was the only customer so I could hear the conversation, for the most part. While on the phone she excused herself quickly from the phone order to say hello and to say that she’d be right with me. Nice! Ok… So far so good. I was waiting, browsing all the italian cookies and pastries for less than a minute when the asian lady came over to ask me if I needed help. I’m glad she did and to be honest I thought that was the proper customer service action at that point. I described to her what I was looking for and she smiled and gladly pointed out that they had what I was looking for and there were two more in the display. Score! And it was called BURNT ALMOND TORTE… Yesss! Chee-​Huu! She told me the 2 that were on display were 8″ round cakes but they do have bigger sizes available, if needed. Awesome to know but that was plenty enough for us. I told her I thought it was a pineapple upside down cake and that I remember how it tasted but forgot how it looked. She mentioned the torte is MUCH better than an upside down cake. Haha… Touché! She asked if I needed anything else and if the cake was for a special occasion. It didnt look like it could be written on because it was totally covered in almond slivers but she said she could write «happy birthday» on a rectangular fondant and place it on top. But the look of the cake was good the way it was so I graciously declined.
Not sure what day everyone’s negative review fell on but that was far from what I experienced on this Thursday late-​afternoon a half hour before the bakery was about to close. I was very pleased with the way I was acknowledged and helped on my visit. The customer service was great. It was the Federico’s I remember and the cake is just as good as I remember. Delicious… I suggest you guys try it.
ps — Huffington Post says that the burnt almond torte from a certain bakery in Pittsburgh, PA was the best cake in the COUNTRY. Hmmmm… We’ll see about that.

Everyone deserves a second chance, right? It was my dad’s birthday, so I decided to surprise him with his favorite dessert — an Italian rum cake. I thought this was a great idea, especially because my parents knew I made it very clear I refused to step foot into Federico’s (see my original review).
The young girl that helped me was pleasant and helpful. When I got to my parents house, my dad was shocked and excited to see the Italian rum cake. He cut into it, and it started crumbling! The cake was obviously old. I took a bite and it was super dry, definitely not the cake we remembered.
I’m sorry Federico, but we are official over.