I’ve shopped here several times. I think I’m addicted to the Italian cookies, especially when they are fresh! My favorite are the apricot filled. Even though I’m not very fond of lemon flavored desserts… I absolutely loved the Lemon Poppyseed Loaf. It is generously loaded with poppyseeds, with only a hint of lemon. In the past I tried several other desserts and took them to family for birthday treats. The Chocolate Bomb was decadent and delicious. But so far, the other desserts I’ve tried weren’t what I hoped for or expected. The bread pudding was the most disappointing. Perhaps the Italian version is supposed to be hard, dry and somewhat bland? The carrot cake was dry and stale. The tiramisu was a “little” dry. It wasn’t bad, but our main issue with it was flavoring. We couldn’t taste the coffee. It’s too expensive, to give some of these treats a second chance. I’d go there any day for the cookies! You will probably want to sit in your car and eat a few before driving away. Maybe, that’s why it’s so hard to find parking? lol
Parking: There are a few parallel parking spots on the side of the building. I’ve found these to be easier than trying to park across the street or in front.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Cookies
jennifer white
Great selection and very patient staff lol. So many good choices!
Amazing variety of desserts, bakery, and breads in this place! My family is from Italy and this tastes like their favorite bakery that they usually ate during their childhood. It was awesome, and the cannolis and bruschettas are super delicious! I will definitely come back to taste more variety of cakes, cookies and why not breads too 😋👌 fully recommended this place for taste some sweet and different food!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Cookies, Bakery, Italian
Güven Mengü
I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Savoia team for their kind, professional, and helpful approach regarding my online order for my daughter's birthday cake. I’d also like to mention how wonderful the cake was, which was designed according to what I had asked over the phone and in my e-mail. Thank you so much again to Savoia Pastry Shoppe🙏🏻😇
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Aurora Jean Alexander
This is not my first visit here, and it will most likely not be my last. Savoia is not an 'every day' pastry & dessert place. It is special. Serving guests, celebrating anniversaries, birthdays, or other special occasions, spending time with dear friends, and you don't have the time to bake and prepare yourself, then you serve pastries from Savoia You can find unique bread, European pastries, European cookies, French croissants, cakes, and more, most of them exactly the way they should be: a nightmare for people with diabetes, and other, sugar, carb, and calorie-caused health problems, with a truckload full of sugar, sprinkles, chocolate, buttercreme, frosting, icing, and everything else the dentist gets a toothache from, but it's fresh, enjoyable, and overall, pretty well done. In Savoia, you're served with a smile, and the staff is friendly and polite. No matter how long the shift, the line of customers, or the pastry list, they're always patient and nice. The atmosphere is a little bit like the back door of the bread and pastry factory in 'Little Paris'. I'm always under the impression that before Savoia, there was a butcher shop in this building, and originally, the store was built to sell meat, while in the back the butchers did their gruesome day's work... If you keep this image in your head when entering Savoia, you find yourself in the middle of a slightly chaotic, overloaded, tiled sales room. You wander between old ragged wire shelves that I consider should actually go into a cooler room and the pastry display. There, you find the goodies stuffed uncharitably without a visible order, unelegant, and uninspired piled or lined up behind the glass. Now, reading all this, one would think I really don't like Savoia, right? Nothing could be further from the truth. I do like it. Really. I'm just not entirely sure I understand it very well. Many of Savoia's cookies and pastries are supposed to be Italian. Well, except maybe some Italian cookies and the pizza, they're not. The cakes, breads, pastries, cookies, and pies, croissants, are from all over Europe, from France to Germany, from Denmark to Belgium, from Austria and Switzerland to Hungary. I tried quite a few of them. They are good. They are just a tiny bit 'off'. The éclairs are a tad too big, too irregular, the lintzer cookies are good, really, but from a 'pastry shoppe' I would expect them to be perfectly round, the top the same size as the bottom, perfectly symmetric, and one looking exactly as the next like they'd come out of the same form. Should you consider asking me mockingly: "Could you do it better?" I would have to say, yes, in fact, I do. The pies, the Danish, some of the bread and cake are so Americanized they have little to nothing in common anymore with their original making. The basic recipe was obviously lost somewhere in the 30s.
Savoia exists since 1929. It is now 2025, and I would expect an elegant, nicely renovated and welcoming store with an inviting store entrance, double doors, for several reasons. To keep the insects out in summer, the rain and the umbrellas out in fall, and the snow out in winter. Discrete water absorbent rugs on the floor during the wet seasons, and of course, mouthwatering, perfect, professional displays at all times. Obviously, Savoia is doing very well. I'm not entirely sure why it's supposed to be important to hang on a shop that should have been renovated 40-odd years ago, and serve pastry that has nothing in common with Europe anymore, except maybe, the name...
Savoia could renovate the shop, go back to really original traditional European recipes, and keep their awesome staff on the salesfloor, and they'd be known far beyond Rochester.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 5
KIMBERLY RAMSARRAN
Tasty cookies, pizza and pastries.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sylvia Morris
Always a great experience at this restaurant. The food is flavorful, and the service is top-notch.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Georgie Z
Wonderful breads, cookies, and pastry!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Italian Cookies, Bakery
Claire Bluhm
Gosh I love this place! Came looking for fruit tarts I had at a wedding that I can’t stop thinking about. Certain things are catering only but you can’t go wrong with anything they have if you just show up, there’s a lot of variety. I got a box of a bunch of different things but the flourless chocolate cake and mini cheesecake (both with a raspberry jam on top) were to die for and my personal favorite. A delightful place 😊
Me and my family came in here about 2 or 3 weeks ago and the girl who was boxing up the treats for my mother clearly was miserable and had an attitude clear as day the whole time. I get it was very busy but that is not customer service.... Her facial expressions screamed how she did not want to do her job and she had zero patience. It was very rude and we will not be back.
Awesome desserts for any occasion.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I’ve shopped here several times. I think I’m addicted to the Italian cookies, especially when they are fresh! My favorite are the apricot filled. Even though I’m not very fond of lemon flavored desserts… I absolutely loved the Lemon Poppyseed Loaf. It is generously loaded with poppyseeds, with only a hint of lemon.
In the past I tried several other desserts and took them to family for birthday treats. The Chocolate Bomb was decadent and delicious. But so far, the other desserts I’ve tried weren’t what I hoped for or expected. The bread pudding was the most disappointing. Perhaps the Italian version is supposed to be hard, dry and somewhat bland? The carrot cake was dry and stale. The tiramisu was a “little” dry. It wasn’t bad, but our main issue with it was flavoring. We couldn’t taste the coffee. It’s too expensive, to give some of these treats a second chance.
I’d go there any day for the cookies! You will probably want to sit in your car and eat a few before driving away. Maybe, that’s why it’s so hard to find parking? lol
Parking: There are a few parallel parking spots on the side of the building. I’ve found these to be easier than trying to park across the street or in front.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Cookies
Great selection and very patient staff lol. So many good choices!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Cookies, Bakery, Almond Paste Cookies, Italian, Carrot Cake
Amazing variety of desserts, bakery, and breads in this place! My family is from Italy and this tastes like their favorite bakery that they usually ate during their childhood. It was awesome, and the cannolis and bruschettas are super delicious! I will definitely come back to taste more variety of cakes, cookies and why not breads too 😋👌 fully recommended this place for taste some sweet and different food!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Cookies, Bakery, Italian
I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Savoia team for their kind, professional, and helpful approach regarding my online order for my daughter's birthday cake. I’d also like to mention how wonderful the cake was, which was designed according to what I had asked over the phone and in my e-mail. Thank you so much again to Savoia Pastry Shoppe🙏🏻😇
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is not my first visit here, and it will most likely not be my last. Savoia is not an 'every day' pastry & dessert place. It is special.
Serving guests, celebrating anniversaries, birthdays, or other special occasions, spending time with dear friends, and you don't have the time to bake and prepare yourself, then you serve pastries from Savoia
You can find unique bread, European pastries, European cookies, French croissants, cakes, and more, most of them exactly the way they should be: a nightmare for people with diabetes, and other, sugar, carb, and calorie-caused health problems, with a truckload full of sugar, sprinkles, chocolate, buttercreme, frosting, icing, and everything else the dentist gets a toothache from, but it's fresh, enjoyable, and overall, pretty well done.
In Savoia, you're served with a smile, and the staff is friendly and polite. No matter how long the shift, the line of customers, or the pastry list, they're always patient and nice.
The atmosphere is a little bit like the back door of the bread and pastry factory in 'Little Paris'.
I'm always under the impression that before Savoia, there was a butcher shop in this building, and originally, the store was built to sell meat, while in the back the butchers did their gruesome day's work...
If you keep this image in your head when entering Savoia, you find yourself in the middle of a slightly chaotic, overloaded, tiled sales room. You wander between old ragged wire shelves that I consider should actually go into a cooler room and the pastry display. There, you find the goodies stuffed uncharitably without a visible order, unelegant, and uninspired piled or lined up behind the glass.
Now, reading all this, one would think I really don't like Savoia, right? Nothing could be further from the truth. I do like it. Really. I'm just not entirely sure I understand it very well.
Many of Savoia's cookies and pastries are supposed to be Italian. Well, except maybe some Italian cookies and the pizza, they're not. The cakes, breads, pastries, cookies, and pies, croissants, are from all over Europe, from France to Germany, from Denmark to Belgium, from Austria and Switzerland to Hungary. I tried quite a few of them. They are good. They are just a tiny bit 'off'. The éclairs are a tad too big, too irregular, the lintzer cookies are good, really, but from a 'pastry shoppe' I would expect them to be perfectly round, the top the same size as the bottom, perfectly symmetric, and one looking exactly as the next like they'd come out of the same form. Should you consider asking me mockingly: "Could you do it better?" I would have to say, yes, in fact, I do.
The pies, the Danish, some of the bread and cake are so Americanized they have little to nothing in common anymore with their original making. The basic recipe was obviously lost somewhere in the 30s.
Savoia exists since 1929. It is now 2025, and I would expect an elegant, nicely renovated and welcoming store with an inviting store entrance, double doors, for several reasons. To keep the insects out in summer, the rain and the umbrellas out in fall, and the snow out in winter. Discrete water absorbent rugs on the floor during the wet seasons, and of course, mouthwatering, perfect, professional displays at all times.
Obviously, Savoia is doing very well. I'm not entirely sure why it's supposed to be important to hang on a shop that should have been renovated 40-odd years ago, and serve pastry that has nothing in common with Europe anymore, except maybe, the name...
Savoia could renovate the shop, go back to really original traditional European recipes, and keep their awesome staff on the salesfloor, and they'd be known far beyond Rochester.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 5
Tasty cookies, pizza and pastries.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Always a great experience at this restaurant. The food is flavorful, and the service is top-notch.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wonderful breads, cookies, and pastry!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Italian Cookies, Bakery
Gosh I love this place! Came looking for fruit tarts I had at a wedding that I can’t stop thinking about. Certain things are catering only but you can’t go wrong with anything they have if you just show up, there’s a lot of variety. I got a box of a bunch of different things but the flourless chocolate cake and mini cheesecake (both with a raspberry jam on top) were to die for and my personal favorite. A delightful place 😊
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Everything about this place screams excellence !!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best cookies ever
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Italian
The best pastry shop in the world. They did my wedding cake the connolies are incredible
Vegetarian options: Great place to get vegan breads everything is wonderful
Parking: Great area
Kid-friendliness: My kids and grandkids love the staff
Wheelchair accessibility: Yes they have access for anyone with handycaps
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: French, Italian Cookies, Sicilian, Bakery, Birthday Cake Neopolitans, Wedding Cake, Italian, Ding Dong Cake, Carrot Cake
Always wonderful
Service: 5
Me and my family came in here about 2 or 3 weeks ago and the girl who was boxing up the treats for my mother clearly was miserable and had an attitude clear as day the whole time. I get it was very busy but that is not customer service.... Her facial expressions screamed how she did not want to do her job and she had zero patience. It was very rude and we will not be back.
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