Astoria Bakery

Love! Best place to get cookies and bread. The staff is warm and pleasant. Anytime I need to bring sweets or my son’s school has a party I come here and it doesn’t break the bank. Oh lastly the coffee is on point.

Ok, the best rolls and Italian bread especially because the bread is cooked fresh everyday. If you live close at 4:00 in the morning you can smell the bread being made. Also, the cookies are insane and the coffee is good. Lastly, they sell fresh dough for pizza.

This is a lovely neighborhood bakery where the pastries, assorted breads, cookies, and cakes are delectable and delightful! It’s a pleasure to be able to find familiar Italian pastries that are homemade and freshly baked without having to drive to Italian neighborhoods in Brooklyn to find the same thing. The physical décor of the bakery may be a bit old-​fashioned, but the quality of the baked goods are of ‘old-​fashioned’ goodness and quality; it is getting more and more difficult to find that kind of know-​how today.

Love this place. The bread tastes so homemade and fresh and the pastries are the best… Sweet but not overly sweet… You can taste the from-​scratch ingredients. My favorites are the sprinkled donuts, cin sugar donuts and cheese danish. The only downside is they only take cash and there’s no tables or area to enjoy the goodies in-​house. But, not a big deal just would be nice if you want to enjoy a bite with a friend! Haven’t tried the cakes but hmmm… Maybe I need to get on that! :-)
Ok, so was able to order a cake for an event I had and had a really great experience with Sal and staff. They were so helpful with ideas and then also looking at a picture of a cake I liked. Also, the day I picked the cake up, Sal helped get it situated in the car so it wasn’t slanted! And the cake itself although a little different then I’m used to, was really nice… Very light sponge cake and light icing. The cake looked spot on with the picture and lived it. Thanks so much Astoria Bakery!!!

For Christmas, my mother brought over a little variety box of cakes and a cannolis. (They we’re opened Christmas morning) They were all absolutely delicious! I was surprised when she said they were from here. I’ve always gone here for the occasional coffee and black and white cookie passing by which has always been good, but never knew they sold items this delicious. It does look outdated and it does look like a basic whatever type of bakery that just has cookies, but apparently not. I posted a picture. The mini cakes were amazing and moist and soft. The next time I need anything from a bakery This is definitely going to be where I’m going to go. It was a pleasant surprise and a wonderful desert to wrap up our Christmas with. Thank you.

This place is Trash, when you walk in the décor is completed out dated looks like a nursing home with desserts I believe in taking pride in the appearance of your business, but I am not here for the décor I ordered some Cannolies chocolate & regular, it tasted horrible, like they been sitting there for a few months. I also bought 3 hero breads, 1 out of the 3 was just OK the remaining 2 were stale and hard. I would not recommend this place ever to anyone. The service is slow, and I don’t know why they weren’t even busy. I gave it 1 star just because 1 hero bread was OK.

I really love this place, and bonus points for being right across the street.
They have fantastic hours for a bakery (i.e. when I get home from work at 7 they’re still open!) and they have great classic Italian cookies and pastries.
Their bread is tasty but if you don’t put it in a plastic bag right away it will get stale quickly. And I don’t know anyone who can eat an entire loaf of bread in a day. But it is beautifully made.
Their pizza dough is also great, I use it all the time. And their Napoleans are heavenly. I might get one for dessert tonight now that I’m thinking about it…
The staff is super friendly and obviously proud of their establishment. It’s just a nice cheery, friendly local bakery. It makes me smile.

honeslty this bakery is just w. e …i come here alot because its convient and i also see who the owner is there he doesnt know who i am .he is an old man… i was shocked when i was walking one day and he had made a sexual comment towards me,…gross…so much for representing your business huh? ugh i think i wont ever come here again… go to marthas !!!

I love this place. Get the bagels. Better then most bagel shops. Only place I eat a cinnamon raisin bagel. You best bet is to order them for Sat or Sun brunch. And don’t for get the donuts. YUM YUM YUM.

So I’m torn between giving it more or less stars!
Ok, so my reasons why it’s good! The quality of the food is good. The Italian pastries ARE ITALIAN PASTRIES. I worked at an old fashion Italian bakery growing up, so I know how real cannoli’s, pasticiotti, and sfogliatelle’s taste like! The pastries here tastes legit. I’m a fan.
The other thing I’m torn between is the prices. The pastries are regular priced as good pastries should be. But the bread that they sell there, they were too expensive. I bought it not realizing I should’ve waited to go to the grocery store across the street and get the same bread that’s kept fresher and not left out for $ 1.
Also they hired some lady who didn’t even know anything she was picking for me in the mini pastry section. I asked her for a st joe’s cannoli filled mini and she got me a chocolate éclair. I couldn’t even say anything because I didn’t realize until I opened the box that she put the wrong pastry in there. I still ate it and it was delicious though.

We heard wonderful things about their red velvet cakes and decided to have Sal and his crew do our wedding cake. It was AMAZING. I’m not even a huge fan of red velvet but this was so moist and decadent and the cream cheese frosting so perfect (not too heavy, not too light). It was a huge hit. At the end of the night we could only bring home one tray of food due to space in our car. And it wasn’t even a decision, we brought home the rest of our cake. (Not even all of it! We ordered for 60 and it fed well over 100 people — and we still must have had half left over.) The price for delivery into Manhattan was very reasonable at $ 600. And the cake itself was beautiful — simple, elegant detailing with purple ribbons around the edges. It could not have been more perfect and we could not be more satisfied. Highly recommend — especially for brides looking to avoid the insane prices of cakes in Manhattan! Worth a trip out to Queens to see and order (and taste, too!)

I think this is the one that I went to… 43^rd and ditmar st. i went in one day and saw this pastry with crunchy crumble on top… omg, it was delicious. the lady said it was called ‘cheese’ something. didn’t get the second part of the name. so i went back again, and it wasn’t there!!! i guess it was a special kind of thing. it’s not the cheese danish. because i tried that and it was not the same.
it also has good italian cookies. could sit there and finish a whole tray of it w/​o realizing.
heard it has good coffee too. not sure about that.
but now i’m in search of that cheese pastry i had the first time. def going back whenever i can hoping they have it.

This place is great for their daily freshly baked bread. The prices are also very decent. I love to get the Greek bread sliced. It’s always nice and soft on the inside and just the right bread-​like crunchiness on the outside. This place is also very consistent, my dad (the bread fanatic) always bought the bread from here ever since I was a little kid and their recipe still remains the same, just so good.
Their cookies and canolis are pretty decent but I go here mainly for the bread, mmmmm… so fresh

It’s my favorite pastry shop. The best linzen tarts, napoleons (try mini napoleons), and cannoli I ever ate. Apple crumb cake is also delicious. Service is very nice.
I highly recommend this place.

This bakery is tiny. They don’t have a a huge selection. If you want authentic Italian stuff, there’s good places on 31^st. If you want variety, there’s Martha’s. Whenever I walk by this place it seems to only be patronized by a small older crowd.
But, they make change-​your-​pants unbelievable linzer tarts.
They have just enough crunch when you bite in, but not overdone. The jelly isn’t too sweet. They are what all linzer tarts should aspire to be. Biting into them is like eating sunshine.
I swear I’m not obsessed with linzer tarts. But if you are, come here and have theirs. Otherwise, go somewhere bigger (and stop here on the way).

I buy bread every day,
very friendly, family business,
always fresh.

My favorite bagel in NYC! Chewy on the outside, yet soft and doughy on the outside with the perfect pinch of salt. The only thing is that they don’t bake that many daily, so you gotta get your hands on ‘em early!

Nice little bakery where you can stop in and get a little cookie or mini cake walking home from the N. Great prices, nice service. No nonsense.

I searched high and low for an affordable, quality bakery for my wedding cake this past October. Let me tell you something: ASTORIA BAKERY is UNREAL. They made a gorgeous red-​velvet cake (I posted pics) and UNBELIEVABLE cream cheese frosting. I brought in a picture of a cake design I liked and they replicated it to a tee.
As if this wasn’t enough, they charged HUNDREDS of dollars less than any Manhattan bakery, delivered the cake on time to my Tribeca reception site.
Ask for Jack. He was amazing to work with, and the two times my fiancé went in to drop off payment and finalize plans, he sent him home with a complimentary large box of treats for «the bride» (that would be me!!).
This is real small-​town, old-​school Italian treatment and prices. They made us feel like family. And that cake… WOW. They blow Magnolia and Buttercup Bakeshop’s red velvet out of the park. Seriously!

Astoria Bakery is a nice family run business that has been serving the Ditmars area for the better part of 45 years. This place doesn’t get as much kudos as nearby rival Martha’s Country Bakery or La Guli but they still serve a decent variety of old school Italian treats and desserts.
Food always tastes best fresh. Their «just out of the oven» times usually in the mornings and afternoons, when during most of the day they’re in the back making up fresh batches of everything from mini-​cakes to depleted cannolis. The college looking girl (daughter?!) seems to be in the front often with a cute smile and friendly service enough to keep waiting customers happy while giving thorough explanations of every item.
Generally their fruit tarts and little cakes are what keep me coming back. Cannolis and various sweet breads are also pretty decent. The prices are also pretty solid, ranging from $ 1 – 3 per item and each one is fairly big.
I will say I’m not a fan of the mini cupcakes or most of their cookies. The dryness of the cookies and overly crunchy texture has kept me from wanting more. Another negative is the fact they close so early every day, leaving only Ditmars locals to sample their goods. With Martha’s opening till midnight on some nights, it’s no wonder they’re getting the bulk of the attention.