Andre’s Hungarian

I was curious about what laid underneath the hardened chocolate layer of Sacher. No one photographed a cross section of it. So, I did.
I knew it had apricot, nuts and chocolate. I was told the nuts are in the cake. Indeed it was. I can’t tell what kind of nut. Texture was ground not too fine, maybe thru food processor. I tasted and saw a hint of cocoa in the cake, but it doesn’t taste chocolatey. Unfortunately, the nuts in the cake get caught in the crevices of my teeth.
The apricot jam is the filling in this 2 layered cake. The jam is sweet. I would prefer a thinner layer of jam.
And lastly, the hardened chocolate exterior. That was decadent and sweet.
I’m glad taxes are included in the price.

Food look good but the woman behind the counter was Not inviting so I decided not to try anything. There was very limited supply but what they had looked fairly good but I also walked away because of the prices were too high. The only thing I tried was the Linzer Tart which was good but expensive at 3.50

As good as it gets if you want an authentic bakery product from a Hungarian pastry shop. That is the best from the XIXth century Europe…; please treat yourself and your family. You never tasted anything like this… the last one in NYC. It is with a price tag… but the quality is excellent; the culinary experience is priceless;
Everything is delicious there, their strudels/​cheese, apple, poppy seed etc./, honey slice/​incredible/​, chocolate layer cake/​with hard caramel-​sugar top/​, Rigo Jancsi /​chocolate mousse cake Hungarian version /​, chesnut, mocca, chocolate round format slices, nut and poppy seed beigli, floden,/Yiddish name/​, Hungarian home made apricot jam, apple, cherry squares, prune and cheese danish, small Hungarian biscuits/​pogacsa/​and of course sacher cake like from Mr. Sacher world famous bakery of Vienna.

I was in search for a cheesecake for my dad’s birthday recently and Unilocaled bakeries near Rego Park. Up came Andre’s Hungarian. I had actually walked along this street a few times before but never noticed this small bakery nestled right beside to a Chase Bank. A humble family bakery and a financial conglomerate side by side — quite a juxtaposition I suppose. All this is to say, if you are in search of a great tasting cheesecake at a fair price, this is the place. $ 16 gets you an 8-​inch plain and $ 20 gets you the same 8-​in cake with sliced kiwi and
strawberries. Some of their other pastries looked (and smelled) amazing too.

Apple cake was an OK way to spend $ 4 (the quantity bar is just way too high to enter the apple strudel game and the babka didn’t seem available). Both staff were pretty nasty, and there’s a UES café too.

The best linzer tarts in NY. Place doesn’t look like much. Doesn’t matter. Pastries are unbeatable

There is nothing in NYC that comes close to Andre’s for Hungarian and Viennese style baked goods, and I would be devastated if they were to close. I travel several miles to get their prune danishes, which are incredibly good: the pastry is buttery and there is a lot of prune filling. I love the poppy seed strudel, which cannot be found anywhere else, the rugulach, the dobos and rigo janci. Just try it once if you have never been there and you will find something that will lure you back.

Two words: «Prune Danish». I grew up with these as a kid during our trips to The Rascal House in Miami Beach. For years I’ve been trying to replicate that food memory. Some were too sweet, some not enough prune filling, and what was inside was always «close, but no cigar». Andre’s prune danish transport me back to my childhood days. Their danish is perfection. Once in awhile when I drive out to LI I literally let the Queens Blvd exit off the LIE call my name, park in front of Andre’s and take three or four with me. Each time I SWEAR I’m going to savour them s l o w l y, but their deliciousness always wins. If lucky I’m left with one the following morning. And I’m not ashamed, dammit. Remember the two words. «Prune Danish». You’re welcome.

I love this place, yes it’s tiny to walk into, but so what as long as the products are great. I alway buy for Passover and/​or any other high holidays. Yes the lady is rude what you expect, that’s how they treat people in Israel and in Hungarian. So expect a friendly place, so expect fantastic rugelach apple strudel and many other other options they are kosher. Price if high because it’s actually homemade so i expect the price to be pricey. I know me as a Jew we hate to spend that much but you pay for it 1once or more a year. ALSO did I mention it’s homemade.

What a disgrace!
*Very rude people work here.
*CASH only. Twice they didn’t have change for a $ 50.
*$ 24 for a poppy roll — whaaaaat?!
*The one time I got apple/​poppy rolls and some cookies — dry and flavourless!
*Place looks dirty and unsanitary.

I walked in here back in 2004 after driving by it for years.
Why? My girlfriend was Hungarian and she made me go in :/​
As we walked into this very tiny shop, the sweet old lady named Andre was standing there staring @ us.
Forward to 2014
I didn’t see Andre this time, but it tuns out the place was has not changed after all those years. It literally looks the same.
The pastries are still hand made and you can taste quality with every bite.
I love Croissant. Andre does not disappoint with it’s buttery tasting deliriousness, just add a cup of coffee and you’re ready to take on the wintery weather.
Traditional Hungarian Strudel:
I usually get ½ a log of apple and ½ a log of sour cherry for the holidays.
Both the apple and sour cherry strudel flakes perfectly and has a natural sweet caramelized taste with their own unique flavors. I like to heat it up in the oven and have it with ice cream. NEVER MICROWAVE (shame on u)
Other good purchases are the Hungarian breads and poppy seed roll (Bejgli) and it’s variants called «Kolache».
There are some new pastries I would like to try, but that will take many cheat days.
Note:
–These foods are extremely high in fat, cholesterol, and carbohydrates. (Diabetics, High-​Blood Pressure candidates beware).
Otherwise… enjoy!

Try their poppy seed pastry — love it! Pretty much everything is so delish! The prune pastry is also so yummy! Fresh and baked on premises! Cash only!

Great Hungarian bakery in Forest Hills! Love their pastries and desserts.

I just moved to the neighborhood and have not eaten here, and now I will certainly not be a customer of theirs. I went in to ask for a napkin for my son who had just spit up all over himself, and the rude woman behind the counter said to me «no. you should have thought of that before you left your house.» With a comment like that, I am surprised this woman can run a business of any kind. Do not support ignorant morons like this.

Beigli about 6 inch long $ 14!!! This place is way to expensive for what it has to offer. Ingredients to make it prob under $ 4. I dont mind with businesses making a profit but this is too much. also i guess because of the high prices the stuff doesn’t sell and each time i got something from there it was never fresh.

Disappointing to say in the least :/
When I walk by their pastries, everything looked really good so I walked in. I saw they had the Napoleon so I was pretty happy at first (first time Ive seen Napoleon in NYC). I took it home and unfortunately it was a letdown. The taste wasnt bad, but it was not nearly as good compared with the Napoleon Ive had back when I was in Moscow. Whatever. What I was worried about more was the fact that I found something resembling an insect leg inside the tort, which is pretty disturbing. The fact that they have insects inside the pastries is pretty scary, and makes me think twice before coming here again.

Everything in Andres is always been good. I’ve been going there for years. You can’t go wrong with pretty much anything here.

Not sure how this bakery is still open. Don’t waste your time or money, just go to Martha’s on Austin.
Just wanted to try some cookies but they have a quarter pound limit (4 cookies) which came out to about 4 dollars for very tiny raisin rugelach cookies. The cookies were very dry and had a burnt flavor to them. I came in and told them I didn’t like the cookies could I switch them for something else, to which she replied no refunds. It would figure a place with prices like this would have no sympathy after serving their customers burnt cookies. Probably the cultural differences because she is from another country but the woman there came off very smug in telling me «no refunds» If you have never been to this bakery before consider yourself lucky and keep it that way.

So I had been looking forward to eating a delicious poppy-​seed roll for a few days when I strolled in here despite the mixed Unilocal reviews. Service was fine, pastries all looked fantastic, and there was hardly a wait. Life was good until she stated that it would be $ 14. THE ROLL WAS 6″ long and about 3″ in diameter. My crude approximation of prices that usually is on point with all things food-​related had drastically and disappointingly betrayed me. Begrudgingly I handed over the money and walked out with my measly pastry.
I tried to let go the feeling that I had been jipped but my shame hit me square in the face the next day in Borough Park Bklyn as I walked home from work and saw the EXACT SAME PASTRY BUT LARGER in a bakery window for $ 5. Ummm pretty sure I got jipped. Just sayin’.
The roll turned out to be pretty good. Still, it was only worth about half the price at best.

People complain about this-‘n’-that.
One reviewer called Andre’s «Eastern European» which it ISN’T; Andre’s is CENTRAL European; this reviewer is obviously very weak on geography.
Other reviewers have complained about the pastries not being so sweet; if you want really sweet pastries go to an Italian bakery.
Andre’s represents everything that is good in traditional, Central European-​Hungarian desserts and pastries; not too sweet but nice ‘n’ high in butterfat.
The chocolate mousse is great and so is the fudgy rumball; no single person should ever eat the latter by himself but I’ve obviously done it; it’s worth getting your liver turned into that of a goose all ready to have his liver turned into pâté, that’s how incredibly rich it is.
The seasonal blueberry cake is great; it’s such a simple creation. The shell is one, big butter cookie that’s loaded with high-​quality blueberry jam topped off with seasonally fresh blueberries; I cannot begin to tell you how delicious this is.
For the Jewish Holiday of «The Festival of Lights» (generally concurrent with Christmas) they make THE BEST JELLY DOUGHNUT (either raspberry or apricot upon request) I’VE EVER HAD, BAR NONE.
Also, for The Jewish New Year (late summer/​early autumn) they make great honey cake and sponge cake and lemon bars; for the Jewish «Feast of the Unleavened Bread» (generally concurrent with Easter) they have the absolutely BEST macaroons you’ll ever have and for both holidays they make the ABSOLUTELY BEST French Hazelnut cake with THREE layers of jam (two raspberry and one apricot).
Yes, the prices here are kind of high but this is not Continental Baking Company’s Hostess Brand «Twinkies;» really good butter, cream cheese, chocolate, jam and cream aren’t cheap and neither is the labor to turn all this stuff out in small, high-​quality batches.
If you resent these prices you can always get packaged snack cakes made with trans-​fat and machine-​made mass production all nicely hermetically sealed with a year’s shelf-​life at room temperature.
PS At one time the bakery made plain-​old, b-​flat brownies; this was obviously to appease those (mostly kids I would guess) who would turn their up noses with the usual angst over pastries with strange sounding names and shapes.
The owner subsequently stopped making these brownies and that’s his business, of course. But I’ll say this, they were among the greatest brownies I’ve ever had.