Overall very good! Nice atmosphere. Nice people. Pastries are a solid 4 out of 5. A rare gem of a gay-friendly Persian bakery. Let Love win! Let Love shine!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Kiana Y.
Amazing Persian pastries! They have a great variety of fresh desserts made in house. Looking forward to trying the ice cream next time
Sadie K.
The pastry is not as good as it used to be in the beginning. It smells and tastes greasy! The traditional sweets tastes like corn syrup! The one thing that is still ok is the cupcakes. Hope they decide to use better ingredients to make the quality better.
Denica Baeva
It's a one barista coffee shop and bakery so if there's more people it can be a bit of a wait. That said they had quite the variety of pastries, ice cream, and even turkish delight. The cream puff I had was delicious.They even had a fun selection of candles and one mini-cake.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Homemade Persian Ice Cream, Cream Puff
Baiju Patel
Zafferon ice cream was to die for. We also loved the mango flavor. Jalebi was an incing on the cake.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Aaron Ghee
As an Iranian I can say your pastries are too sweet and flavorless, and also caramel macchiato was very
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Pastries
Steven M.
Very disappointed in driving to this place. Drive from Mountain View to try this bakery based on yelp reflecting they stayed open until til 10 PM. Drive there and walk up about 8:30 and they are closed. Signage says open Friday and Saturdays until 9 PM. Do not understand why businesses do not understand people depend on what they advertise. If you're going to open and close your business on a whim and not stay true to your hour's posted then do not bother advertising any hours of business.
Sakshi J.
Love all the pastries here - very tasty and we generally get a boxful that gets over quite fast. There is a good variety of flavors and particularly like the use of rose, saffron, pistachio in pastries
John D.
Kandoo Attitude Persian and French inspired bakery located in Downtown Saratoga that's been in operation since 2017. They used to have a 2nd location** in Cambrian Park, but that's been closed (bought out?) since 2021. We were dining at a different restaurant close-by when our sweet tooths got activated, and a cursory search of the Yelps led us here. The Good: *Great branding and logos *Indoor and outdoor seating *Great location in DT Saratoga *Free street and lot parking *Friendly service *Display case was filled with beautiful looking pastries and cakes, so their presentation is definitely on-point. The Meh: *Finally got to try a Zoolbia (fried honey dessert thing), and it was quite greasy, and the flavor of old oil overshadowed any sweetness. *None of the cakes/desserts we sampled blew us away with flavor, if I'm being honest. The Napoleon Roulette might've been the best thing we had, but it had a little too much cream for our liking. The Ugly: *Nothing in their display case was clearly marked, and we kept having to ask the (friendly) lady behind the counter: What's this? What's that? What're those? She didn't seem annoyed, but I really hate to be that much of a bother. I wish they'd just mark their stuff with either signs or write on the display case itself. It would definitely save them a lot of effort. Conclusion: Nice bakery with friendly service in a great location, but don't expect to be too blown away by the flavors. **Now open as Jane Ellen Bakery, which is excellent fwiw.
Terrible experience, one girl cashier and she do coffee and everything at the same time. We ordered Napoleon and asked about cream : is it whipping cream? Answer was : no, special Persian cream ...when I got napoleon it was whipping cream! We also ordered coffee and earl gray tea, she forget about it, later girl bring terrible black regular tea. Terrible food and service it's a first time like that.
Boian Pachev
Well, really disappointed. I'm fan of Turkish and Arabian deserts. I've ordered baklava, tulumba and kadayif made baklava. Everything was too sweet. Even for baklava was too sweet. All three deserts tasted the same. You couldn't distinguish the ingredients. The girls working three were not knowledgeable about the products.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
Mariah D.
We stayed overnight in Saratoga on our way down the coast and we were pleasantly surprised to find this gem! The pasties were so beautiful and delicious that we had to return here for breakfast the next day as well as take some to go.
Constant
Nice little dessert shop! Good assortment of Persian pastries. Friendly
Delicious and authentic Persian
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pastries, Birthday Cake
Overall very good! Nice atmosphere. Nice people. Pastries are a solid 4 out of 5. A rare gem of a gay-friendly Persian bakery. Let Love win! Let Love shine!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Amazing Persian pastries! They have a great variety of fresh desserts made in house. Looking forward to trying the ice cream next time
The pastry is not as good as it used to be in the beginning. It smells and tastes greasy! The traditional sweets tastes like corn syrup! The one thing that is still ok is the cupcakes. Hope they decide to use better ingredients to make the quality better.
It's a one barista coffee shop and bakery so if there's more people it can be a bit of a wait. That said they had quite the variety of pastries, ice cream, and even turkish delight. The cream puff I had was delicious.They even had a fun selection of candles and one mini-cake.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Homemade Persian Ice Cream, Cream Puff
Zafferon ice cream was to die for. We also loved the mango flavor. Jalebi was an incing on the cake.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
As an Iranian I can say your pastries are too sweet and flavorless, and also caramel macchiato was very
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Pastries
Very disappointed in driving to this place. Drive from Mountain View to try this bakery based on yelp reflecting they stayed open until til 10 PM. Drive there and walk up about 8:30 and they are closed. Signage says open Friday and Saturdays until 9 PM. Do not understand why businesses do not understand people depend on what they advertise. If you're going to open and close your business on a whim and not stay true to your hour's posted then do not bother advertising any hours of business.
Love all the pastries here - very tasty and we generally get a boxful that gets over quite fast. There is a good variety of flavors and particularly like the use of rose, saffron, pistachio in pastries
Kandoo Attitude Persian and French inspired bakery located in Downtown Saratoga that's been in operation since 2017. They used to have a 2nd location** in Cambrian Park, but that's been closed (bought out?) since 2021. We were dining at a different restaurant close-by when our sweet tooths got activated, and a cursory search of the Yelps led us here. The Good: *Great branding and logos *Indoor and outdoor seating *Great location in DT Saratoga *Free street and lot parking *Friendly service *Display case was filled with beautiful looking pastries and cakes, so their presentation is definitely on-point. The Meh: *Finally got to try a Zoolbia (fried honey dessert thing), and it was quite greasy, and the flavor of old oil overshadowed any sweetness. *None of the cakes/desserts we sampled blew us away with flavor, if I'm being honest. The Napoleon Roulette might've been the best thing we had, but it had a little too much cream for our liking. The Ugly: *Nothing in their display case was clearly marked, and we kept having to ask the (friendly) lady behind the counter: What's this? What's that? What're those? She didn't seem annoyed, but I really hate to be that much of a bother. I wish they'd just mark their stuff with either signs or write on the display case itself. It would definitely save them a lot of effort. Conclusion: Nice bakery with friendly service in a great location, but don't expect to be too blown away by the flavors. **Now open as Jane Ellen Bakery, which is excellent fwiw.
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Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Terrible experience, one girl cashier and she do coffee and everything at the same time. We ordered Napoleon and asked about cream : is it whipping cream? Answer was : no, special Persian cream ...when I got napoleon it was whipping cream! We also ordered coffee and earl gray tea, she forget about it, later girl bring terrible black regular tea. Terrible food and service it's a first time like that.
Well, really disappointed. I'm fan of Turkish and Arabian deserts. I've ordered baklava, tulumba and kadayif made baklava. Everything was too sweet. Even for baklava was too sweet. All three deserts tasted the same. You couldn't distinguish the ingredients. The girls working three were not knowledgeable about the products.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
We stayed overnight in Saratoga on our way down the coast and we were pleasantly surprised to find this gem! The pasties were so beautiful and delicious that we had to return here for breakfast the next day as well as take some to go.
Nice little dessert shop! Good assortment of Persian pastries. Friendly
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Pastries, Cream Puff