So happy we found this bakery! My Taiwanese wife couldn't have been happier ;)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jennifer Carpenter
Amazing pastries!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Buns
Yilin Chen
Yummy Asian pastry and good coffee. Honey yuzu tea is amazing. Must try!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tiffany New
This place is a must stop for great coffee and amazing sweet or savory buns! Plus, it's right next to an L station. My husband and I frequent Sweet Bean whenever we are in town from Cincinnati. Thank you for great food and service!
I have been walking past this place every day since I moved here (I use the CTA Roosevelt Station), but I finally visited Sweet Bean with some friends from out of town and LOVED it. The coffee was good, nothing spectacular, but the pastries are really the unique part. They are self service, and they have sweet and savory pastries - I have tried a few and they were all amazing. 10/10 HIGHLY recommend a visit if you're in the area
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Sarah Lam
Love it. Very good
Loan Chung
Delicious pastries, phenomenal drinks and laid back vibes. Everything you need in a good Taiwanese bakery.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hot Dog and Onion Bun, Bakery, Buns, Scallion Bun, Taro Bun
a new yorker
Pastries are good, but the boba latte was lacking in tea flavor. Service was amazing and cafe is wfh friendly!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Taro Mochi Pork Floss Bun, Egg Tart
Y MG
On sunny weekends, this tiny place on the corner of Roosevelt and Wabash gets packed to the brim with people rummaging around the self serve cases for their pick of sweet and savory treats. Every time I go there’s a different selection of baked goods, but in all honesty you can’t go wrong. Everything is fresh and baked in house and there’s nothing like it anywhere. The coffee is always on point, and their smoothies and lemonades are not overly sweet like most places. The staff is friendly and easy going even though it always looks like a chaotic war zone behind the counter. Though I miss the made to order dim sum foods like shrimp toast and soup dumplings, they definitely make the most out of this small space and somewhat sketchy corner location. Can’t recommend this place enough. Five stars all across the board.
Sweet Bean wasn’t a sweet experience. Oat latte was too milky tasting. Self serving got more complicated with the new smaller bags. Baked goods were labeled wrong; I purchased an item based on the label, after trying it I went back to ask if I can get a different one and the response was “well there is a picture of the item on the label, if it doesn’t match then pay attention.” Overall the food wasn’t pleasant, coffee is mediocre, and service could use a lot of help.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Buns
Olivia Denson
Sweet Bean was within walking distance from the hotel my fiancé and I were staying at during a visit to Chicago so we took a chance and check it out.Simply put - we went back twice before heading home! It knocked our socks off.The pastries are airy, flavorful, and an absolutely incredible display of artistry! The shop itself is an oasis with plenty of seating (if you opt out of the take away option) and wonderful staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Egg Tart, Buns, Sweet Bean
Christina Anagnostopoulos
So delicious
meiqi zhao
i go to sweet bean everyday for my coffee absolutely love this little gem but please avoid a staff member who is asian with long bleached hair wearing round glasses, i believe she just joined not long ago but every time i was there she was being extremely rude! everyone else is very friendly and sweet just like the pastries but she is so out of it, so if you see her there please run!
Dom Mattioli
Can you please offer trays to dine-in customers? The single-use plastic bags are excessive, bad for the environment, and cause people to leave messes on the tables for other customers to clean up.
SO GOOD. must go place when in downtown
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery
So happy we found this bakery! My Taiwanese wife couldn't have been happier ;)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing pastries!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Buns
Yummy Asian pastry and good coffee. Honey yuzu tea is amazing. Must try!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place is a must stop for great coffee and amazing sweet or savory buns! Plus, it's right next to an L station. My husband and I frequent Sweet Bean whenever we are in town from Cincinnati. Thank you for great food and service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Taro Mochi Pork Floss Bun, Bakery, Buns, Scallion Bun, Taro Bun, Sweet Bean
I have been walking past this place every day since I moved here (I use the CTA Roosevelt Station), but I finally visited Sweet Bean with some friends from out of town and LOVED it. The coffee was good, nothing spectacular, but the pastries are really the unique part. They are self service, and they have sweet and savory pastries - I have tried a few and they were all amazing. 10/10 HIGHLY recommend a visit if you're in the area
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Love it. Very good
Delicious pastries, phenomenal drinks and laid back vibes. Everything you need in a good Taiwanese bakery.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hot Dog and Onion Bun, Bakery, Buns, Scallion Bun, Taro Bun
Pastries are good, but the boba latte was lacking in tea flavor. Service was amazing and cafe is wfh friendly!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Taro Mochi Pork Floss Bun, Egg Tart
On sunny weekends, this tiny place on the corner of Roosevelt and Wabash gets packed to the brim with people rummaging around the self serve cases for their pick of sweet and savory treats. Every time I go there’s a different selection of baked goods, but in all honesty you can’t go wrong. Everything is fresh and baked in house and there’s nothing like it anywhere. The coffee is always on point, and their smoothies and lemonades are not overly sweet like most places. The staff is friendly and easy going even though it always looks like a chaotic war zone behind the counter. Though I miss the made to order dim sum foods like shrimp toast and soup dumplings, they definitely make the most out of this small space and somewhat sketchy corner location. Can’t recommend this place enough. Five stars all across the board.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Sweet Bean wasn’t a sweet experience. Oat latte was too milky tasting. Self serving got more complicated with the new smaller bags. Baked goods were labeled wrong; I purchased an item based on the label, after trying it I went back to ask if I can get a different one and the response was “well there is a picture of the item on the label, if it doesn’t match then pay attention.” Overall the food wasn’t pleasant, coffee is mediocre, and service could use a lot of help.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Buns
Sweet Bean was within walking distance from the hotel my fiancé and I were staying at during a visit to Chicago so we took a chance and check it out.Simply put - we went back twice before heading home! It knocked our socks off.The pastries are airy, flavorful, and an absolutely incredible display of artistry! The shop itself is an oasis with plenty of seating (if you opt out of the take away option) and wonderful staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Egg Tart, Buns, Sweet Bean
So delicious
i go to sweet bean everyday for my coffee absolutely love this little gem but please avoid a staff member who is asian with long bleached hair wearing round glasses, i believe she just joined not long ago but every time i was there she was being extremely rude! everyone else is very friendly and sweet just like the pastries but she is so out of it, so if you see her there please run!
Can you please offer trays to dine-in customers? The single-use plastic bags are excessive, bad for the environment, and cause people to leave messes on the tables for other customers to clean up.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Bakery