Paris Bakery Cafe

I went today and there was three flys in the cake & pastrie display they sell daily, I’m studying food safety and that’s cross contamination.

Pleasant atmosphere and beautiful display but Paris Bakery needs to work on croissant… Tastes like a dinner roll and obscenely overpriced for what it delivers… Butter seems to be replaced by shortening… No color or flavor to speak of. Come on bakers, this is pastry 101!

Great pastry shop. Have tried some of their quiches –very tasty. Also, their broccoli and spinach croissant is very good. They are small but have some outdoor and indoor seating.

Ordered a presentation cake for a 90^th birthday. Good fondant work but was a little disappointed for the price seeing that is was only one layer. Napoleons were wonderful and they cut them in half as requested when other Bakeries wouldn’t Pricing was good. Communications could have been better. Will use them again.

Stood there for five minutes and I know the lady seen me walk in. no one said anything to me. I turned around walked out and said thank you. I don’t understand that type of customer service when you have no customers. Thanks anyways

Bought a lattice cherry pie. Almost no cherries. Just a gummy filling. Very disappointed. It was pretty but I didn’t buy it to take a picture. Would not buy again unless I could see real cherries.

We came in today for a loaf of Sour Dough and left with a few pasties. We tried the Apricot Danish, Cherry Danish, Apricot croissants and their Bear Claws. The Sour Dough loaf was very good. Their Danishes and Crossiants were ok. The Bear Claws were a little lacking. So now were on the search for the best Bear Claws in Monterey County, any suggestions?

Awesome croissants. We love ‘em! Ham & cheese, almond, chocolate… we love them all. Best in the area.

Love, love, love this place. I don’t care if it’s authentically owned and operated by French or not… the quality and freshness of these pastries and sandwiches are amazing. Great place to bring out-​of/​town guests. If you order a mocha: get it to go. The «in house» cups are half the size of the to go cups!

love paris bakery!
the skinny mocha is the best on the peninsula IMO. yes, this location is smaller, but it doesnt have the parking problems of downtown monterey. always fresh bread-​the sourdough and the squaw bread are my favorites. yum, squaw bread…
friendly staff !

Great bakery and always a stop for my husband and I. What I just noticed on my receipt was a service charge. On reading the review prior, I found out this is a service charge on a debit card. They should make that clear when you pay for it or I would have used cash. Not good business practice and a little deceiving. Stars are for food only and I am not happy about this above practice.

Great pastries here! Came here remembering the Monterey location. I was very disappointed to realize this location does not have all the same options as the Monterey one I had eaten lunch at previously :(
I figure this bakery must be making most of the bread and such for the commercial operations and I do still stop by for breakfast items. but I would certainly recommend traveling to Monterey if you would like a cappuccino or sandwich.
Do visit!

I went here for the first time last friday for a loaf of french bread and a pastry. I can’t believe I haven’t been here before considering I live so close. I was amazed that parking was a breeze, but I forgot it was veterans day so there was hardly any traffic.
This place is really small, I didn’t have time to look around further, considering I had to get going to work, but right when you walk in, theres a counter of pastries and other things and on the wall behind the counter their breads.
I am giving it 3 stars cause the bread wasn’t as fresh tasting, the girl at the counter said they bake every morning, but I don’t know. I ordered a round cake looking thing with a raspberry in the center, its kind of an inside joke with my boyfriend because we have seen this same time of cake served at other restaurants… and it looks… like a womanly body part.lol. But that tasted ok, but it did have that sitting there for a while taste.
I am still on the hunt for a great bakery, I really miss my Austrian one back home, that one has my heart completley and I would consider moving back just for them.
But going back to this bakery, I haven’t tried their other location in Monterey, but I am willing to compare.

I am very adamant about checking Unilocal before trying a place. The first bakery I tried here was Angelina’s and I had a great experience while Paris was surprisingly disappointing. I had a sweet tooth craving and Paris is on the way home so I figured I would stop by. There was very limited selection and normally I am excited to see the display but hardly anything looked appetizing. I settled on a slice of black forest and chocolate mousse… not the best ideas. The black forest was soggy and the mousse tasted like eating a jar of frosting. The girl said I couldn’t do credit and I was charged a dollar for debit on a 7.00 bill. It is a lesson learned and I will take the extra effort to go somewhere I enjoy.

Yum!
Good baked goods, both sweet and not. I’ve not had their sandwiches, but since they use their own bread, they’ve got to be pretty good.
Picked up a hazelnut bûche de noël here. Very nice, if perhaps too sweet.
Unfortunately, the service is spotty – downtown is much better.
The coffee is so-​so. I wouldn’t come here just for that, but it’s drinkable if you happen to be here for something else.

I came here for the almond crossiants so I bought two to take with me. However, I was disappointed about the coffee since they were served in the pump-​it-​yourself carafe unlike the one in downtown Monterey. I had originally asked for a cup of cappacino but the machine did not work.

Best bakeries on the Peninsula … Another location in Monterey.

This bakery is top notch! They have some of the most amazing pastries, cakes and tarts I’ve ever had. Paris Bakery actually helped us put together our wedding cake. We came up from out of town and recently got married in Monterey. There is a small price if you want to try samples of their wedding cake, but they give you four individual mini cakes to try out. Well worth the cost. It was all very good and was difficult for us to narrow it down. We ended up actually have two tiers of their raspberry sponge cake, and then their delicious chocolate gnash in the middle. All of this was covered in a very sweet almond marzipan frosting. It was a big hit at the wedding. We received lots of positive comments about it. I would recommend this bakery to anyone who loves a good daily treat, as well as for anyone wanting to impress their guests for a major event such as a wedding or birthday party. Enjoy!

I come here for the pastries. I especially love their fruit tarts!
So far no other place I’ve been to makes as good a tart for the price.
Not too sweet, fresh, and creamy… Yummers!
Small and quaint with a huge selection of goodies and bread.
Another location in downtown Monterey is bigger and has tables to sit down and eat at.

I love the pastries here. They have princess cakes, of which I adore completely. They transport some of their delicacies to MPC’s library lounge which is a great way to experience it while at school.
The customer service could be better.