Disappointed for the second and last time. Years ago I purchased a custom order cake for my sister's baby shower. Spent hundreds of dollars on the cake and it was just meh. All sugar. Nothing special. Today I decided to give them another try for a custom cake for my nieces birthday. Spent $169. This time it did not even taste good. Ordered chocolate cake with chocolate fudge. The filling flavor tasted nothing like chocolate fudge. The texture was also just off. Had a chemical like, unnatural taste. Was terrible. Could not eat it. Never again, not wasting my time and money here. I should have gotten the shoprite cake as originally planned......always good cakes.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Hunter Murphy
We traveled way out of our way to visit this place and it was a bust. First, I had to go to another restaurant to take my child to the bathroom due to them not allowing customers to use it.. we order canoli, e'clair (about $7) and donuts and we were very disappointed. The cream inside the e'clair was frozen or suuuuper hard. The canoli's tasted like soggy bread at almost $7/ canoli thr donuts were just plain. For us 4 dishes was about $30, the place wasn't clean. Just unwelcome and not what I'd expect. There was no waiting as it was 4pm on a Saturday. Never been to NJ and my one stop 1hr out of our way was this bakery. Our excitement died when we open the door. :(
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Adeline Leriche
Terrible customer service, order cancelled just when it was supposed to be delivered (birthday cakes !) no one trying to help fix with a decent solution, avoid !
Cheri
We had to visit since we’d known this location from the Cake Boss. So many choices of pastries it was hard to pick but we got several different ones to share. We did get breakfast sandwiches too and they were delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Lobster
Shawn V
A great place to stop In for a nice treat! They not only have cake and pastries but also breakfast sandwiches and pepperoni flatbread.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Himanshuray Vaidya
Excellent bakery
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
C C
Cake slices are prepackaged, so went with brownie. Eyes deceived me as it looked far better than it tasted. Extremely dry - Little Debbie’s are better.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 4
Susana Sollazzo
It was so fun visiting Carlo’s bakery! Even though that Buddy was not there, we got to hang out with his beautiful sister, Madelainna…she’s better than his brother! The lobster Croissant WAS the best ever!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jemlnlx
Solid baked goods and an excellent staff.
Prices are on par, if not slightly higher, with the current market...though I understand given the location and fame of the bakery.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Telly Bitsakakis
Walking into Carlo’s Bakery today felt like stepping into a mausoleum of dead dreams. This place, once a symbol of passion and family artistry, is now nothing more than an abandoned shell trading on a faded TV memory. It is a disgrace to the family name, to the kids who grew up idolizing this bakery, and to every customer who still walks in hoping to experience even a shred of the magic they once saw on screen.
The staff? Rude, detached, and actively uninterested like serving you is an inconvenience. The desserts? Bland, lazy, made with the cheapest ingredients money can buy. Nothing is labeled properly, presentation is careless, and there isn’t an ounce of pride in anything behind those glass cases. What was once craftsmanship is now factory mediocrity.
This bakery didn’t just fall from grace it completely surrendered. It now survives on nostalgia alone, scamming tourists with name recognition while offering nothing of the quality, warmth, or spirit that made it famous. Carlo’s Bakery used to inspire young bakers. Now it serves as a warning: success without care rots.
If you loved the show, do yourself a favor protect your memory. Don’t come here. The dream is gone.
Came all the way from Wales uk the service was terrible.Asked if i could have a photo with one of the family as I am well I was a big fan and was told no
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
My Travels, My Stories
I bought a cannoli, a cheesecake, a lobster tail, and sfogliatelle, and honestly, everything was just inedible. Each pastry tasted like pure sugar — so extremely sweet that it was impossible to eat. I don’t know if they keep adding more and more sugar or if they use some kind of syrup instead, but the result is simply awful. The cheesecake didn’t taste like cheesecake at all — it was more like slippery, greasy butter with no real cheese flavor. The cannoli shell tasted like stale bread, and the sfogliatelle were not fresh. The so-called cheese filling was hard and didn’t even taste like cheese. Trying these desserts is enough to cure anyone from eating sweets ever again. Absolutely not worth the hype.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
Mari Tey
I was on vacation and traveled from Puerto Rico to New Jersey! I was so exited to visit Carlos's Bakery at Hoboken after visiting Time Square location I arrived and there was no costumers... when I asked there was no lobster tails... I asked for 2 regular canolis, 1 pumpkin spice, 1 peanut butter and 1 smore... I get home with one regular, one pumpking spice and 2 peanut butter... What a deception they weren't fresh... after having them at Time Square location fresh this is so disappointing 😞 I brought them back to Passaic to share with my family... now I know why my cousin doesn't like the bakery at all, I get her if this was her first impression...
Food: 1
Service: 4
Evelyn Rodriguez
My brother, visit me from Georgia. Stop by Carlos bakery and bought several desserts, which they were not that great brownies were dry and cookies tasted old and the lobster tails we're crooked as a Baker, everything needs to be the same look at picture.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
April \u0026 Will F
Just doordash a mini rainbow cake, donuts, cookies and cannolis since we are in Jersey celebrating my daughter 5th birthday. Got her a rainbow cake and decided to get some desserts. The desserts all tasted old. Cannoli filling tasted spoiled. I did a late night order, early morning delivery so it appears the desserts were from the previous day or two.. everything went in the trash. Luckily I bought the rainbow cake for the look (since it’s bright and colorful) and not for the taste as i’m sure that will also get trashed. What a waste of money! Would never recommend and tell anyone I know to stay away from this bakery in Hoboken. Absolutely the worst!
Disappointed for the second and last time. Years ago I purchased a custom order cake for my sister's baby shower. Spent hundreds of dollars on the cake and it was just meh. All sugar. Nothing special.
Today I decided to give them another try for a custom cake for my nieces birthday. Spent $169. This time it did not even taste good. Ordered chocolate cake with chocolate fudge. The filling flavor tasted nothing like chocolate fudge. The texture was also just off. Had a chemical like, unnatural taste. Was terrible. Could not eat it.
Never again, not wasting my time and money here.
I should have gotten the shoprite cake as originally planned......always good cakes.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
We traveled way out of our way to visit this place and it was a bust. First, I had to go to another restaurant to take my child to the bathroom due to them not allowing customers to use it.. we order canoli, e'clair (about $7) and donuts and we were very disappointed. The cream inside the e'clair was frozen or suuuuper hard. The canoli's tasted like soggy bread at almost $7/ canoli thr donuts were just plain. For us 4 dishes was about $30, the place wasn't clean. Just unwelcome and not what I'd expect. There was no waiting as it was 4pm on a Saturday. Never been to NJ and my one stop 1hr out of our way was this bakery. Our excitement died when we open the door. :(
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Terrible customer service, order cancelled just when it was supposed to be delivered (birthday cakes !) no one trying to help fix with a decent solution, avoid !
We had to visit since we’d known this location from the Cake Boss. So many choices of pastries it was hard to pick but we got several different ones to share. We did get breakfast sandwiches too and they were delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Lobster
A great place to stop In for a nice treat! They not only have cake and pastries but also breakfast sandwiches and pepperoni flatbread.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent bakery
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Cake slices are prepackaged, so went with brownie. Eyes deceived me as it looked far better than it tasted. Extremely dry - Little Debbie’s are better.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 4
It was so fun visiting Carlo’s bakery! Even though that Buddy was not there, we got to hang out with his beautiful sister, Madelainna…she’s better than his brother! The lobster Croissant WAS the best ever!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Solid baked goods and an excellent staff.
Prices are on par, if not slightly higher, with the current market...though I understand given the location and fame of the bakery.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Walking into Carlo’s Bakery today felt like stepping into a mausoleum of dead dreams. This place, once a symbol of passion and family artistry, is now nothing more than an abandoned shell trading on a faded TV memory. It is a disgrace to the family name, to the kids who grew up idolizing this bakery, and to every customer who still walks in hoping to experience even a shred of the magic they once saw on screen.
The staff? Rude, detached, and actively uninterested like serving you is an inconvenience. The desserts? Bland, lazy, made with the cheapest ingredients money can buy. Nothing is labeled properly, presentation is careless, and there isn’t an ounce of pride in anything behind those glass cases. What was once craftsmanship is now factory mediocrity.
This bakery didn’t just fall from grace it completely surrendered. It now survives on nostalgia alone, scamming tourists with name recognition while offering nothing of the quality, warmth, or spirit that made it famous. Carlo’s Bakery used to inspire young bakers. Now it serves as a warning: success without care rots.
If you loved the show, do yourself a favor protect your memory. Don’t come here. The dream is gone.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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Came all the way from Wales uk the service was terrible.Asked if i could have a photo with one of the family as I am well I was a big fan and was told no
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
I bought a cannoli, a cheesecake, a lobster tail, and sfogliatelle, and honestly, everything was just inedible. Each pastry tasted like pure sugar — so extremely sweet that it was impossible to eat. I don’t know if they keep adding more and more sugar or if they use some kind of syrup instead, but the result is simply awful.
The cheesecake didn’t taste like cheesecake at all — it was more like slippery, greasy butter with no real cheese flavor. The cannoli shell tasted like stale bread, and the sfogliatelle were not fresh. The so-called cheese filling was hard and didn’t even taste like cheese.
Trying these desserts is enough to cure anyone from eating sweets ever again. Absolutely not worth the hype.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
I was on vacation and traveled from Puerto Rico to New Jersey! I was so exited to visit Carlos's Bakery at Hoboken after visiting Time Square location I arrived and there was no costumers... when I asked there was no lobster tails... I asked for 2 regular canolis, 1 pumpkin spice, 1 peanut butter and 1 smore... I get home with one regular, one pumpking spice and 2 peanut butter... What a deception they weren't fresh... after having them at Time Square location fresh this is so disappointing 😞 I brought them back to Passaic to share with my family... now I know why my cousin doesn't like the bakery at all, I get her if this was her first impression...
Food: 1
Service: 4
My brother, visit me from Georgia. Stop by Carlos bakery and bought several desserts, which they were not that great brownies were dry and cookies tasted old and the lobster tails we're crooked as a Baker, everything needs to be the same look at picture.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Just doordash a mini rainbow cake, donuts, cookies and cannolis since we are in Jersey celebrating my daughter 5th birthday. Got her a rainbow cake and decided to get some desserts. The desserts all tasted old. Cannoli filling tasted spoiled. I did a late night order, early morning delivery so it appears the desserts were from the previous day or two.. everything went in the trash. Luckily I bought the rainbow cake for the look (since it’s bright and colorful) and not for the taste as i’m sure that will also get trashed. What a waste of money! Would never recommend and tell anyone I know to stay away from this bakery in Hoboken. Absolutely the worst!
Food: 1
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