Carlsbad French Pastry Cafe

We've been coming here for their signature strawberry cakes for years. The cake has fresh strawberries, real whipped cream on the cake and inside on a layer between the moist white cake and also covered in slivered almonds. This cake was for an 89 and 90th birthday celebration for my parents and everyone loved it!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I wasn’t told that I had to pick up my son’s birthday cake by 5 pm.
I had to pay another $49 dollars for a just a plan cake

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Local bakery. Asked for a rushed cake and they were able to make

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very low quality deserts. Has nothing to do with how French pastries are made. They charge $7.90 for a mini crème prulee. Bad ingredient very high prices. Avoid this place.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

I had a lovely breakfast 🥞 🍳 🥞 🍳 outing with my granddaughter at this cozy spot! From the moment we stepped in, the friendly staff made us feel right at home. My granddaughter was super excited about her favorite, the Almond Croissant 🥐🥐🥐, and she absolutely loved the Banana 🍌 🍌 🍌 and Nutella crepe she ordered!

As for me, I can't resist anything with Cinnamon, so I went for the delicious Cinnamon Roll with Raisins, and it was fresh and oh-so-good! For my main dish, I treated myself to the Chicken 🐔 🐔 🐔 🍗 🍗 and Avocado 🥑 🥑 🥑 Omelette 🍳 🥚 🍳 What a delightful meal we had!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

All around great! Not too be missed!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The best pastries in all of California! I would, and have, driven hundreds of miles for their florentines! I used to live five miles from them but now live in Tempe, AZ. The drive is still worth it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Breakfast Croissant Sandwich

Everyone was so friendly!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very mediocre food.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

The croissants and the thumbprint cookies and their la Crema Café was awesome! Every time I go to Carlsbad, I always make sure I get up every morning and go there. IThe croissants and the thumbprint cookies and their la Crema Café was awesome! Every time I go to Carlsbad, I always make sure I get up every morning and go there. I absolutely love it and everything about it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food is good. Service is bad.
The lady with glasses ask me step away right after I paid.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 1

Have had great service and items in the past but this week tries to call in an order for Saturday only to be met with a voicemail not being set up so calls couldnt be taken. So i emailed in an order - no response after 2 days.
Finally got thru after the 4th day of calling and an email only to be told that i couldnt order an assortment of the mini pastries, as i have done in the past, and could only order a dozen of each item. This was disappointing. The pastries are great but the service was very very disappointing and u expected after previous experiences.

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Carlsbad French Pastry Cafe has specialized in French pastries and custom orders since 1998!

What we ordered:
• breakfast croissant with fresh fruit
• Cajun shrimp omelette with house potatoes
• fruit tart
• Pistachio cake
• almond croissant
• iced latte
• cafe lysette

I loved their croissants! I had it in the breakfast croissant plate and the almond version. It was so buttery and perfectly flaky!

I had the Cafe Lysette which is a hazelnut, white chocolate latte. Loved the flavor combo and they did let me know it is a little on the sweeter side so if you want it a little less sweet, let them know!

It really is such a cute bakery and you could tell they had a lot of regulars by how they interacted with their customers!

I have been a customer of this bakery for over 10 years and today was the 1st time I’ve experienced Horrible customer service. Not welcoming at all!
It’s understandable if the bakery is full of customers or under staffed however, this wasn’t the case. At least 5 employees working the front (2 cashiers , 3 serving pastries) and only 3 Total customers.
We ordered over 10 pastries and were served in 3 separate boxes, per our request, yet we were charged for 2 of those boxes.
It’s a little ridiculous to have been charged for 2 small boxes, after spending over $60 in pastries.

*** if you try this bakery, stay away from the older blonde, curly haired woman, with a nose piercing and tattoos… she has a terrible attitude!***

I’m mot satisfied with an 8 inch cake I bought on Saturday afternoon. I’ve had french cake before, but this one just no flavor it tasted plain. Everything in the cake like if it was sugar free taste even my family noticed it and we ended up wasting 1/2 the cake. Tasted weird for a cake. I won’t buy here again. Spent $38.00.