Rocio’s Spanish Bakery

I ordered a small Tres Leches cake for a coworker’s birthday and my office cannot stop raving about it! We even just at the leftovers for breakfast! I called earlier in the afternoon and they had it ready for pick up by 6:00pm that night. The cake was super moist, decorated beautifully with custom lettering, and fed 10 – 15 people for only $ 25. We had previously been getting cakes from Whole Foods for $ 30+ that were much smaller, no customization, and not really that great. Rocio’s has shown us the Tres Leches light and all my coworkers have requested that I pick up all our cakes here from now on!

AT $ 0.50 each, they dish out the cheapest donuts in New York. Also, totally not the worst. They’re actually kind of awesome, especially the chocolate frosted, which has some of the deepest, darkest chocolate you’ll ever find on a donut — unfortunately, it’s a also some of the waxiest and least sweetened. Oh well, at half the price of the wildly inferior, even waxier Dunks, you’re still getting more than what you paid for.
I’ve always refused to judge donuts based on price, mostly because on a dollar-​per-​calorie basis, they absolutely crush everything but lard and/​or refined sugar, possibly because the most delightful donuts contain generous helpings of both. But when you eat as many donuts as I do, and they become a measurable part of your budget, it’s kind of amazing that there’s a place where you can get six half-​decent donuts for the price of one overly wrought $ 3 Doughnut Plant cupcake wannabe.

My boyfriend and I stopped in here for lunch. He got the $ 5 hamburger deluxe with fries and a soda. While I decided to try the $ 5 cubano. Like a previous reviewer said it was huge. I ate ¹⁄₃ of it and was full. The bread pudding is $ 1.50 and delicious. In all it was satisfying and cheap. The only con would be how bland the cubano was but lots of ketchup solved that. BF didn’t like the unfriendly service so I won’t be able to go back.

Get your Café con Leche aqui.
This place has been here for YEARS. Growing up, it was 1 block away from my aunts house. This was where we came for cafes con leche and pan de colombiano. In english, bread with butter.
Its cheap. Its kind of dingy in here, but remember, its been here for years. Looks like the name has changed as i always remembered this place as Las Palmas.
They sell Dominican cake which is delicious. And not much has changed here. I like that.
I have never ordered any dinner or lunch items here. But for me the café con leche (coffe with milk) and pan con mantequilla (bread with butter) is a safe win.

Big fan of the flan. Prices are pretty good.

For what it is, inexpensive, and satisfying, for the most part, spanish food, its a good place to go when the wallet’s thin and you’re hungry. I stay away fromt he patries and go for basic sandwiches.

got tamales twice. Once great the next time spoiled.
Got some carnitas or pork in salsa verde once and the portion is huge but only fair in flavor.
Inconsistent.
Dear Unilocal.Please lose the «meh» in your rating. Lame.

Preferential pricing confirmed. My girlfriend and I went again the other day. I got an iced coffee and 2 pastries. Total should have been $ 4, but was charged $ 3.75. Woot woot. I don’t think it’s because I’m Mexican… probably just because we go there pretty frequently and/​or I’m extremely handsome.

okay, i’m not going to lie. i’ve been here a few times.
they have a hamburger… a very tasty hamburger… for $ 2.25.
it’s good late-​night food and there are always interesting people in there.
if you don’t want to eat, just go and look at the interesting spellings on the menu board. you won’t be disappointed. bread with cheese? sure!

I give 3 stars to the often stale baked good. I give a gazillion stars to the breakfast sandwiches. I have yet to have a better bacon egg and cheese. My boyfriend is Mexican and he often gets better prices on things which is a little fishy but you can’t beat a breakfast sandwich for less than 3 $. There isn’t anything elaborate and most of the things listed don’t have prices so you have to ask. Cheap, delicious and perfect for greasy no good for you food late night or early morning.

I actually like this place… One of the few good Spanish bakeries left. I went with two other of my guy friends (which have healthy appetites) and we came out full for $ 17 bucks including drinks. Can’t really beat that. Between all of us we had a Cubano (Very good but HUGE. It gave me meat sweats and I ate half) 2 breakfast platters (Home fries are really good and seasoned) and a bread pudding (Really good and not overly sweet). Go there! Oh and when you do (cause you should) check out the spelling on the menu it’s so adorably cute =]

I can’t vouch for anything else here but the tres leche cake. It was ONLY $ 1.75 for a slice. Other than the great price, the cake was delicious. It wasn’t too sweet and simply good! I had tres leche cake before and wasn’t a fan until now. My only suggestion is to eat the cake while it is cold.

it smelled SO good! but the croissants were stale. good look on the late night tho.

The best thing about this place is that they are open 24 hours. I biked on a late Saturday morning in WIlliamsburg, long before any of the hipsters are awake, to 9 taco eateries in the neighborhood of 11 211, none of which opened before 11 am. Number 10 on the list: Rocio’s. Success!
While Rocio’s is overly fond of scotch taping decorations to the ceiling, and yes, the Dominican cakes in the window displays could use a good dusting, the counter ladies are friendly and the breakfast basics are all available. There is an astonishing large range of foods for a small two booth and counter bakery. They serve batidas (milkshakes), tacos, eggs and bacon, faux Hostess cupcakes, alongside a range of bakery delights. My favorite choice: a most excellently flavored mole tamale. Give me a formica booth to relax in, a good tamale, a café con leche and I am all set to start the day with a followup dash of enthusiastic shopping at the 99 cent stores of Grand Street.