Sugar Bakery

Really? No soy or almond milk for coffee? Not a single vegan baked good? What century are you people living in?
This place is simply the worst. Certainly won’t ever come here again.

I really like this bakery. The Italian Scali bread is excellent, it tastes good ever a couple of days later. The Brambles are a local favorite and very good. The staff is always nice and pleasant. I would definitely recommend this bakery.

I have no bad things to say about Sugar. This has been my go to bakery since it opened. The cakes are always fresh and the buttercream frosting is a must do. My favorite cookie is the bramble –cookies filled with raspberry jam — a fan favorite! There are a few tables inside of you want to get something and sit down, but I typically get it to go for family dinners, parties etc. Items can be a little pricey but it is definitely worth it!

I was asked to bring a baby shower cake for three of my coworkers for a joint baby shower. Not sure how to guide the design since we were celebrating the birth of three babies (2 boys & 1 girl) I left it up to the baker. I was pretty confident that the cake design would be fine since I have had great luck in the past with cakes I’ve purchased from Sugar Bakery. As you can see from the photo I was not disappointed! Sugar Bakery actually surpassed my expectations!!! Everyone young and old complemented me on the cake and asked where I had purchased it. As for the taste everyone raved about the cake. There was hardly any left to take home for leftovers…
If you are in need of a cake do not delay Sugar Bakery will not disappoint.

I live right down the road from this bakery and am I so glad that I do! I’ve been a few times already and every time I have gotten something amazing. We’ve had the scones which are moist and perfect, even the next day! The brambles are sugary, flaky and veeery sweet. The half moon cookies are to die for, with plenty of delicious and soft vanilla and chocolate frosting on a delicious cake-​y cookie. The mini pies are a perfect mini dessert. I never feel like the baked goods are older than baked that same day and nothing has ever been anything but delicious. The service is fine, but no one has ever seemed particularly friendly. In fact, each time I’ve gone in, it seems like I am annoying the person working behind the counter with my patronage. I always think smiling goes a long way, but luckily the baked goods will keep me coming back, even if the lack of enthusiasm from the staff doesn’t.

Cannot complain about this place. The pastries, cupcakes and cookies are all amazing. The staff is really helpful and very friendly. I would think that the prices are a bit over the top (a small miniature cookie costed me over 2 dollars). But its well worth it. I do wish the place wrapped your boxes in the traditional pastry box string rather than sealing it with cheap scotch tape. Hate to see a great product inside poor packaging. No other complaints besides that.

These guys did our wedding cake for us, and they got it right! Just blown away how accurately they made our cake — we had a costume wedding around Halloween. We were going as Wonder Woman & Capt. America. They made us cake for our selves & cupcakes for our guests. All done in Halloween colors/​designs.
They really got us. The head baker Lynn, came out and met with us when we first went in. She was very fun & friendly. And she got straight away want we were looking for. She then gave us some cupcakes to bring home with us to taste to see what flavors we liked. It was tough but we managed to get through it :)

The best coffee and pastries around! They also have specialty coffee. If you are more interest in dinner you can also have that too right next-​door at the Real Deal. There is an open door between the two shops. You can eat on either side. Comfortable fresh subs, salads, coffee and pastries, what could be better? With great service and it’s always clean.

Service is great! The cakes were just too dense and sweet for us. The red velvet’s frosting was extremely heavy and didn’t taste like the Red Velvets we are used to in NYC, and the Strawberry Shortcake definitely had an extra generous portion of ‘sugar’ in it :) No one could finish the cake at the birthday party, sadly.
3 stars for the kind service. 2 stars for the cakes.

Awesome local bakery. It’s one of those places where I can’t bring myself to try anything other than the cupcakes because that’s what I tried first and they were so damned good I have to get them! Awesome and the place next door makes pretty great pizza and sandwiches. This is a no brainer when you are in West Roxbury!

Visited on a Sunday afternoon. Nothing exciting to tell: neither the espresso nor the espresso éclair tasted like anything. Regular coffee was cold, and tasteless too. The ambiance not particularly exciting either.

I was highly recommended to reach out to Sugar Bakery by a friend of mine who’s a major sweet tooth and loves her desserts! she bought the oreo cookie cake for her niece/​nephews 3^rd birthday.
when i was planning our wedding, i contacted sugar and they generously offered us a sample of a dozen cupcakes to try! we narrowed it down and agreed on strawberry shortcake.
i spoke met w/​Lynn, the baker, and we discussed the cake. i was such the non-​bride and had no real ideas or preferences as to how to design it. she helped me out based on some pinterest pins i had. maybe i should have had some flowers from the florist to add to the top to add a little extra something… but that was more me, than the baker.
everyone at our wedding loved the cake! they couldn’t stop talking about it — it was moist and delicious — not too sweet like some cakes/​icing can be.
i HIGHLY recommend sugar bakery for cakes, cupcakes and cookies (love the mega chip cookies!).

I’m not much for sweets, but their mini pies and tarts are great! If you get there early they have hot cross buns and their specialty cookie is a must-​try!!!

For some reason we thought this place was organic but it came that it was just a no preservative place which is also great Food was delish I had French Toast with eggs and turkey sausage Sausage could have been cooked a bit more and eggs also but Canberry Mimosa and everything else great

Everything I’ve gotten at Sugar has always been great (so sad the Roslindale location closed); breakfast muffins & pastries, fruit tarts, and cookies (including their signature cookie the bramble) included. Cupcakes are great, but I do love that you can get cake slices (boston cream pie!) and mini tarts (key lime!) for when you just can’t commit to one whole thing.
Today I walked in and purchased a cake for a birthday right out of the case. !!! The staff was kind enough to help me decide on a flavor and write a birthday message on it for me. The pastries can be a little on the pricier side, so I was pleasantly surprised to learn this beautiful 10″ red velvet cake was only $ 25. And it was delicious!
Everything is fantastic, but my favorites there are the cigars, fruit tarts, and m&m cookies. Oh and they make authentic sfogliatelle that pass my Italian grandmother’s test. That’s no easy feat.
They also serve hot & iced coffee in the back to wash down all the sugary goodness.

Okay so normally things like this don’t bother me but this one was huge. My son had his baptism today and I figured I could get the cake at Sugar. Had heard great things about it and I love getting their cupcakes from the Real Deal in Jamaica Plain. When I ordered the cake a week in advance, I ordered a half sheet strawberry short cake. The day of the party I was given a 14″ round cake with a little bit of strawberries in the middle of the cake. The cross that was placed on the cake looks like something my son could have done and he’s 6 months and the writing looked horrible and rushed. I was extremely disappointed with this cake and not to mention it couldn’t feed everyone at the party. Needless to say I will no longer have anything to do with Sugar

We were there this past Saturday and got a few cupcakes and cream puffs. I have to start with the cream puffs… They were amazing. The cream was so good. We also got the following cupcakes: Oreo, peanut butter, caramel, and vanilla. All were good but my favorite was between the caramel and the peanut butter. I loved how the caramel cupcake had caramel in the middle… Made me wish the peanut butter one had a glob of peanut butter too lol. I will definitely be back to try the red velvet and carrot cake cupcakes, as they were out when we went. I also want to try a couple other pastries from the reviews here on Unilocal.And of course another cream puff! :)

Apparently all the sugar goes into the baked goods, ’cause you won’t find any sweetness in the staff. We got a variety of goodies here — cupcakes, blueberry tart, cupcakes and a couple brambles. They were all good. Not terrific. Not bad. Good.
The guy who helped us though was anything but sweet. He had all the charm of wool underwear. He was an older guy and I could tell he was just wishing he could tell us to get off his lawn.
Oh well. If you need something sweet and are in the area, It’ll do. Kinda.

Brunch — 10 stars.
Dinner — 3 stars.
Who cares about dinner? Brunch is amazing! Get there early to avoid the inevitable line and eat EVERYTHING!

Okay, I am updating my review to five stars because the brambles are so freaking good. This is literally a review for the brambles, not the bakery in itself. I was lucky enough to be in the area again and so I came in again to get four brambles. 99 cents each and SOOOOOOO delicious. No need to get anything else here. I bit into it and took the time to appreciate it — the pastry is REALLY flaky. I was observing that the pastry had very distinct layers and there is a thick crust of granulated sugar on top. The filling is just the right amount of sweet/​tart and a perfect consistency — not too sticky.
This is like the best mini berry pie or fanciest, most delicious pop tart you’ve ever had. For real, this is top stuff and I don’t say that lightly. I will definitely dream of these and miss them. I can say it’s one of the best food items I’ve eaten in the Boston area, up there with a Mike’s plain cannoli. Don’t waste your calories or belly room on anything else except for the brambles.

Courtesy of a Groupon voucher deal, we picked up an 8″ Strawberry Shortcake $ 28.99 and a large cannoli $ 3.35 for nearly half off.
The cannoli was meant for another’s tummy, so I didn’t get to enjoy it, but… I did scoop up the sizeable glop of filling that had stuck to the paper plate that the bakery had used to carry the pastry before they placed it into a box for the trip home. Mmmm… creamy dairy goodness…
The Strawberry Shortcake consisted of two layers of light cake (cake, not short cake biscuit), filled with fresh whipped cream and a semi-​cooked strawberry filling, topped with several strawberry halves. It looked yummy, and was yummy. Not too sweet, fruity, creamy, goodness.
*** ¹²⁄₂₀₁₃ visit ***
Decided to try to well touted Brambles (99 cents) — a light flaky pastry encasing a seedless raspberry filling. They’re actually pretty small at about 2 ¾ inches in diameter, but they are tasty, and I preferred it over the raspberry turnover ($ 1.79) in all manners except for cost. The pastry in the turnover was a bit thick.

I was torn with a 3 or 4-​star review ~ actually, I have been thinking about it since last night, so this really did bother me… but I’m going with the 3 stars.
Went in yesterday around 1:30PM to pick up some goodies to bring to my friend’s place; she is 8 months pregnant, and deserves some snacks… and her husband and I do as well. Ordered two half moons (which were good), two whoopie pies (I love a good whoopie), and two cupcakes (caramel and a chocolate with a shark on it for «shark week»… duh-​duh, duh-​duh, duh-​duh…).
The two cupcakes were in a container that smushed both of them (maybe they need a higher container, because to put less frosting would be downright criminal), and the shark took a dive into the blue frosting. I guess you really can kill a shark easily.
Alas, the cupcakes both wound up being dry (maybe that is why the shark was dead?), but the saving grace was that I ate a Bramble in the car. I guess on a repeat visit I will stick with Brambles and other items, but just say NO to the cupcakes.
The icing on the (cup)cake was the surly girl who waited on me (so, Sugar Bakery, if you are reading this… that’s 1:30-ish on Saturday 18^th): dark hair, brown/​black glasses and ZERO personality. No hello, barely a «thank you» and would not engage anyone in conversation.
Even the ladies at the Shaw’s bakery like to talk… and I actually LIKE those cupcakes (at half the price)!

This place is the right balance of oldschool bakery (they have all the goodies my grandma would have picked up on her way home from the hair salon, back in the day) and new-​school technique and flavor. They are super reasonably priced, friendly, and everything I’ve had is delicious.
I gave up sweets for Lent and THIS was the place I chose to break the fast of 40 days. They did not let me down. Some favorites:
Red Velvet Whoopie Pie: Perfect moist cake, tangy-​sweet cream-​cheese filling
BRAMBLES — Fruit-​filled pastry shells. SO DELICIOUS
Chocolate/​Vanila cupcake — a classic done RIGHT
Scones — moist and light, not heavy and dry like so many other bakeries
Only thing I wasn’t super-​impressed w/​so far was the caramel cupcake.
Conveniently located next to ‘Real Deal’ (and share a door) so you can stop in for lunch/​dinner there and pick up dessert on your way out. LOVE.