Joey & Pat’s Italian Bakery & Cafe

Love them. The tres leches and turnovers and danish are to die for, as others have noted, but even more than that, they’re a neighborhood institution. Some of the kindest people you’ll ever meet, and totally in touch with the pulse of the residents of this ever-​changing area. We are so lucky to have Pat and Joey nearby!

Had a very indulgent lemon bar here. So good!

This bakery made a fantastic birthday cake for my boyfriend, Mario! They customized their Tres Leches cake to include Blueberries on top and it said, «Happy Birthday Mario» in light blue frosting. The cake was to die for. Everyone at the birthday dinner went on and on about how yummy the cake was. It was also reasonably priced. So happy I found them. They are an Italian Bakery, so the tres leches is different than the traditional Mexican cake. It’s not wet. But, moist and delicious!

I had a ground beef/​croissanty thing, it was good. Strong hot coffee. It was weird using the bathroom with the back door left open, but nobody came in so it’s all good. A lot of flies inside, that I wasn’t so thrilled with. The staff were very nice. I wouldn’t make a special trip back.

My friend brought a cake into the office for someone’s B-​day. Wow! We were so impressed with the cake that we had to find out the name and location of this bakery. It is too bad that it’s far away from the office but we’re really looking forward for the next B-​day! :)

Dynamite.
Jon Heder’s Napoleon performance:
Joey & Pat’s Napoleon cake: Layers of rich chocolate cream between two equally rich crisp dough layers. Indulgent and delicious. Just one of many available desserts.
Paired with a smooth but not to sweet sugar free vanilla Americano. Appreciated being asked if there was enough flavoring. Yes there was. All around.
Four stars for the caffeine and sweets. Fifth star is for coming back stronger than before:

Great mocha, and the chocolate muffin wasn’t bad as well. This was my first time in this establishment, and while I wasn’t blown away, they are still a good shop. I’ll have to come back to try the other pastries that the other reviewers rave about.

The fourth stop on the Mission Sweet food tour. With two members down from eating, it was up to Mike and myself to keep going on. I told him to order one item as I went to use the WC.
When coming out, I saw two cakes on the table. Lianne and my partner took a bite and could not try any more. It was up to Mike and myself to finish the Princess cake and the tres leech cake. Both were good, but I found the Princess cake better. The raspberry filing really stood out and the green frosting was sweet and not a bland fondant.
The tres leeches cake was also tasty, but I’ve had better. Unusual for an Italian bakery to have a tres leech cake all of us though. Never the less it was a good try for all two cakes.

This place rocks! I am so thankful for being in a neighborhood with a good bake shop. Their Danish pastry, bear’s claw and scones are my favorites! Always nice to start your day with freshly baked pastries and brewed coffee!

We stopped by here on Saturday after noticing it had reopened.
Everything looked fresh and the clerk was friendly and helpful.
We bought some Biscotti and a couple other pastries.
We’ll stop by again when we are in the neighborhood.

They’re back!
Picked up a pain au chocolat and some other pastry with cinnamon/​chocolate on it. Yum!
Still friendly as ever, and grateful to be back in business. Only one of them knows how to use the espresso machine, though, so if she stepped out you’ll be out of luck. I’d say the baked goods are the star of this joint.

They’re back and better than ever. Maybe it’s that I missed them but those blueberry scones are to die for!
Welcome back, guys!

Picked up an assortment of treats on my way to the park today. Everything was amazing!!! We’ll be back.

I think this place is CLOSED?
My brother and I tried going here about 2 weeks ago and one side of the building is boarded up. I don’t want to give them a one star but I mean I don’t know what to give them and I feel like people will try to come here and they’re not open.

On my way to a morning meeting today, I was able to purchase a warm bear claw right out of the oven here. Made my day!
In the past, I’ve bought baked goods here to bring to work and have gotten rave reviews from coworkers. My favorites are the buttery rum raisin squares and the chewy meringue cookies.
Good, classic baked goods from friendly, local folks.

I had the taste of a bad taco in my mouth, and walking around Folsom street during the recent food fair, the desire to find something to flush it out struck. Walking past Joey & Pat’s Italian bakery, and seeing lots of very tasty treats, I decided to give it a shot.
Inside, there was an older guy, arms tattooed, dressed in the traditional baker’s uniform, chowing down on his own treats. He was speaking to a young customer who, like me, had never been there before. She asked if the desserts were any good, and he looked at her, then me, and said in an almost incoherent babble, something like «You a no like, you a no pay!»
Well, the young lady kept perusing the goodies, so he offered to take my order. Now, I judge the worth of any Italian bakery on the quality of it’s cannoli, and the trick is to find a bakery that separates the filling from the shell until you order it, and serves it in a modest size. Now, Joey & Pats takes a strike for the former, but hits a sweet tooth home run for the latter. The shell was crunchy, but not too hard, while the ricotta filling was delectably firm, yet moist, and offered a sweetly delicious bite with superb citrus/​chocolate flavor that I love so damn much. If they only separated the two until ordering, I’m sure this would be a five star Italo-​bakery.

The other reviews are so different from my experience that I will have to give this place another chance, but from I saw and tasted, I simply don’t believe the «they make everything fresh every day» line that others have posted.
Walked in here on the afternoon of February 18. Four days after Valentine’s Day, and there were big heart shaped cookies with red frosting in the display case. Baked fresh every day? I don’t think so. They could have at least bagged these and sold them for half price as day old.
This makes me question the freshness of everything in the store. Yes, there is a line at Tartine, but at least I know that every item there was made that day.
I chose two cookies that were flower shaped, covered with powdered sugar, and filled with raspberry. Sadly, the cookies did not have a fine texture. Far worse was the filling, horribly gummy. Others have posted that this bakery uses only the finest ingredients, opened their own place so they could make things the right way, blah, blah, blah. The proof is in the eating, and these cookies would have been much better with real raspberry jam than the chewy red goo they used.
Really odd: On February 18, there was a huge green, «Happy St. Patrick’s Day!» prefab sign in the window.
As I mentioned, I will go back. If the other things I try are any better, I will update this review. In the meantime, avoid the flower shaped cookies with the powdered sugar.

Interesting bakery and Café is in the middle of a residential ‘hood.
pour: «america’s best», italian roast: (m. 1.70)
–strong body, bold taste, little harshness. very surprised and satisfied
–blends better than the main roast.
eats: blueberry dainish (2.25)
–very fresh, buttery, fruity.
crumbs:
–little street parking available
–meter maids must have been at lunch, they missed me blocking a driveway.

I rarely get out this way… so when I was at SFSFF, I dropped by.
I tried their cannoli (which was light and perfect for the warm weather!)
I took home a slice of their tres leches cake and a slice of the cuban cake. The tres leches cake is pretty delicious and moist, and while the cuban cake is good, it’s a bit too heavy (but that might be because of the custard) and the flavor is definitely unique. They also have tons of cookies and pastries but I was out of room to carrying stuff!
Prices = moderate. Cash only.
I’ll be back for tres leches!

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Review #1058.
More like 3.5 stars.
A bakery in a more residential neighborhood. You can see the bakery behind them. The items were pretty big, for $ 3.75, the big croissant and bearcraw were rich in taste, slightly richer than my usual palate for breakfast. While the pastries were not warm or hot, put them in the microwave for 15 – 25 seconds will return to their softness.