BF Bakery & Cafe

The 99 Ranch weekly flyers advertise baked goods noting that they aren’t available at the Irvine Culver store. It is true that there isn’t a 99 Ranch bakery at this store, but there is a bakery located in the store, BF Bakery & Café. It is located on the left side of the small food court area at the front of the store.
The baked good selection at BF is somewhat similar to 85C as the offerings are Taiwanese rather than Cantonese. The prices are pretty competitive. I saw many pastries priced either as $ 1.25 or $ 1.79. They have a BOGO promotion on a few of their buns. On my visit here, there were 4 items to choose from. My parents who frequent this bakery often told me that the BOGO selection changes. So don’t expect the same things to be BOGO every time you go.
I tried a few of their buns while visiting Irvine last week. I really like their custard bun as the bread’s softness holds up well after a day or two. I would also recommend the coconut bun as it also is delicious. The ones here are shaped differently than the ones at Cantonese bakeries. I can also vouch for their sandwich bread as it is the soft variety that you find at Japanese bakeries called shokupan. Though I would avoid the green onion bun that they have here as the taste was not to my liking.
If you are shopping at the Irvine Culver 99 Ranch, BF is worth checking out for their baked goods. Their prices are cheap compared to 85C and they have BOGO specials, so it is worth giving them a try for those reasons to see if you can find a new favorite pastry here.

Really nice bakery chain inside 99 Ranch Market.
They are constantly bringing out fresh items, load up a tray and they box it up for you at the register.
Selection is great, I have yet to try something I didn’t enjoy.
I love both their sweet and savory pastries, all of them priced right at under $ 2 a piece.
Service is nice, they have beautiful cakes as well, nicely decorated and tasty, perfect for a last minute party.

Locate inside the supermarket. Very easy to find. One of the best bread and sweet deserts I ever had.

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What? Bread Farm 2 stars? Yes :/​I came here expecting that the Bread Farm here would be similar to the one I had tried at the 168 Market in Rowland Heights. Wrong.
Located in the 99 Ranch Market on Culver Drive in Irvine, Bread Farm is in the corner of the market and supplies the 99 Ranch Market bread: P. They have the usual pan de leche, the cupcake. They had the green onion bread (which they just brought out) and I thought it was hot (since it had come out). As soon as I made my purchase… cold. Nope. And I was like what? O_​O BUT THEY JUST BROUGHT IT OUT. Wow. Just wow.
Their prices are the same as the other Bread Farm ($ 1.25 or $ 1.79 or $ 2.25+) and the selection is varied. But the way this Bread Farm looks doesn’t look as aesthetically pleasing as the other one I went to. Service is also nonexistent (I went around the shelf with the bread 2 – 3 times and no acknowledgement). I only got it when I was purchasing.
They have the mexican blueberry for $ 1.25 but it tastes a little bit more goopier. Their bread outside was cute and tasteful. But also cold D: Yep. They had bread and I thought some of them would be warm and just out but no :/​
I would rather go to the JJ bakery around the corner. Way better.

All the bread here looks really tasty! The cakes are gorgeous too. I got the cheese stick, garlic bread, and custard bun. All of them tasted really good! The pricing is reasonable and on par with the other bakeries. I also appreciate that under the name of the bread, they list the ingredients used.

Overall, better quality than the previous bakery that was here. Prices are on point for the quality and I definitely recommend giving it a try if u r tired of eating JJ bakery at the same plaza. The chef tries really hard and support smaller businesses. ;-)

Chocolate flower looks quite different and price just right for my taste. $ 1.79.
We bought a pink lady fruit cake for my dad bday. $ 20.00 for an 8 inch round, which I consider an average price for a cake. Basically, it is a two layer sponge cake with fruits on top and in between cream layers. Not sweet at all.
Definitely coming back and I think it is better than 85° bakery.

It’s like any other generic bread place.
— Decent selection
— Decent bread
— Decent staff

The mango mousse mini cake is my new favorite from the Bread Farm in 99 Ranch. There is a small chcolate cake layer under the mango mousse. My wife and I both enjoyed it better than the strawberry mousse cake from 85 deg Bakery. The price was very reasonable as well.

when this place first opened, i expected high end prices due to the name and décor of the place. in reality, prices for most of their breads are quite decent.
mexican blueberry bread: i tried this a long while back so i cant really remember how it was like, but i just remembered that i didnt like it.
some sort of diamond shaped puff pastry with cream and strawberries on the center: it resembled those super good puff pastries from paris baguette so i gave it a try. the cream was a bit too runny and definitely way too sweet. the puff pastry was decent, with a bit too much powdered sugar. if i remembered correctly, the strawberries were coated in sugar too, making it extra sweet.
there is one bread in general that i really like there though. it is served in those baskets in the center of the shop, and i never really took a look at the name tag, so i dont know what its called. they usually only have 2 pieces in a basket. the bread is coated with a sort of crunch layer, one brown and one white. the brown has a faint coffee taste to it, which is quite good. the bread is brown itself and has raisins, cranberries, and walnuts. it was pretty big for its size as well the last 2 times i went to buy it. and for only $ 1.79! but sadly when i went today, it shrunk in size. not sure if this is the new size now or if it was just an error, but i really hope the size goes back to normal.
havent really tried their other breads and im not sure if i will in the future, but we shall see.

Inside the 99 Ranch store. Long line in the morning to get Chinese breakfast items that are relatively inexpensive. Various pastries and cakes that all look so delicious.

It was ok. I heard this was like a 85 degrees and for the most part the concept is an exact replica. However, I think the cakes are cheaper but the breads are more expensive. I got the ham and onion bread, it was good but a little oily on the surface. Maybe it was the time I came, which was about 4 pm on a Saturday but there were a lot of empty racks. I got 4 breads and it was just under 7 bucks. 85 degrees is closer to me so I’ll probably stick with that.

Located inside 99 Ranch Market, it’s set up is very similar to 85 Degrees. All of the delicious baked goods are displayed and you go around with trays and tongs to select the ones you want. My out-​of-​town family had a field day and kind of went to town on these bread selections. Myself, I selected a savory mushroom, bacon and cheese bread and a cranberry whipped cream concoction. Both were pretty good. I want to go back and try more bread! My only quip with this place is that the bread gets pretty try after a day or so. The breads from 85 dont tend to dry out as quickly as these do. Overall, pretty solid.

I like their red bean bread, coconut bread, and green onion/​curry bread!

I kinda don’t get all the lower rated reviews. I’ve been here about 5 times and the pastries have been delicious. Best of all they cost something like $ 1.75 each. My kids favorite is the cheese bread. I’ve had the bacon mushroom pastry, the Mexican blueberry, and a few others. Give it a shot next time u shop at 99 ranch.
Btw if you’re hungry they hand out so many samples you can probably fill up a light meal just on their samples.

This morning i was rushing to JJ Bakery to get some morning bread for breakfast and all of the sudden i remember my sis told me about how 99 Ranch Market has this new bakery in there and it was pretty good so i went in and hoping to get some bombass breakfast.
As i walk into the Bread Farm area, i see they ave similar box for bread same as the one you would see from 85 degree. (the one that you have to open it up and get th bread). Anyways. i went in there, all the bread boxed on the left side of the wall were empty… nada!!! There were only couple choices this morning (like not more then 6 different bread)… very dissapointed i thought they would have wide variety of bread in the morning (ppl get bread for their breakfast! DUHHH)
After looking through their LIMITED SELECTION… i got the bacon and mushroom bread. It look a bit more appitzing than the other one. The bread was the same price range as the 85 degree bread.
Went to work, sat down and as soon as i start eating it… i noticed that it was super oily… omggg like reallllly oily… i didnt not expect this much oil from this bread. I think the oil is from the bacon but i had plenty of other kind of bread with bacon and they were ok to no oil…
I ate it. it was not bad. Te bread was a bit crispy from the cheese and they gave you fair amount of bacon and mushroom on top so not bad… except the oil. i don’t like too much oil on my bread.
I haven’t tried their other bread tho so this review can only count towards the bread i bought. Will go back and try their other type of bread or cake.
Taste: 3.5
Presentation: 3.5
Ambiance: 4.0 (decent décor, modern a little bit better décor than 85 degree)
Service: N/​A
Price: 4.0
~~ Chewie’s Rating: 3.75 oily thumbs up!!!
Han: dang can use that bread to fire my falcon engine!

I really want this bakery to succeed. The first try was ok. The second time was like… Meh. And yesterday, the stuff I bought yesterday were all spoiled. Geez how long had they been sitting on the shelf? It is good that they don’t add preservatives on their bread, but if something is stale, throw them away please.
I had such high hope for this bakery, but I am not coming back anymore.

I just discovered the renovated/​renamed/​reowned «bakery section of 99 ranch» called Bread Farm which I hope does very well.
You get the idea of what it’s like based on the other reviews, but what I will say that I do like the selection better here than I do at 85 degrees. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I prefer savory breads and there is only so much cream cheese filled Rose Bao that I can eat from 85 degrees, or other similar counterparts or permutations of those ingredients.
Bread Farm has an awesome pork sung and green onion muffin. MUFFIN! It’s a glorious combination of all things yummy and wonderful and also satiates the part of me that does like sweets. I usually don’t like salty and sweet together but it works out well since the muffin isn’t too sweet but moist and soft. I ate the top off with the pork sung first and then worked my way through the muffin.
The other thing I love is anything with cheese and jalapeño — and they’ve remastered the traditional hotdog bun by putting jalapeño on it. Simple but genious. Also they make a taro and cheese bun that looks better than it sounds and tastes better than it sounds (cheese on top, taro filling on inside). Cheese with any type of starch = win.
Lastly the boro bao (pineapple bun) is in a muffin shape, but still glorious, light and fluffy. It’s a highbrow version of boro bao that I like a lot mostly because I always found boro bao kinda rough and dry in it’s most natural form. I enjoy this version of boro bao lot better.
Overall I am a fan of the bread selection and quality, also a fan that there aren’t out the door lines, and fan that they have more savory options.
I would have given it 5 stars but the individual plastic bags the bread is put into are too horizontal, so the bread falls out of its individual bag very easily. It was irritating to have to collect the bread and put it back into its baggy. For sanitary reasons I would make a special plea that they reformat their bag dimensions and use a stiffer plastic that will hold its own shape so that the bread stays put in the bag to keep it from falling out. That is my one huge huge plea that I ask they change!
otherwise i highly recommend!

Throw in another number for Asian bakeries in Irvine…
This bakery inside 99 Ranch market replaced the previous no-​name (if it did have a name, I don’t recall) bakery. Now it has a spiffy makeover and dubbed Bread Farm. It’s a farm… full of bread. Sounds a lot better than Yeast Farm, doesn’t it?
There’s bread, pastries, and cakes everywhere. And they’re all so gigantic. Decent selection of bread. I only tried the green onion one and I thought it was fine — maybe a bit on the dry and stale side from sitting out (versus churning them out fresh like 85C).
I will slowly but surely try a few breads at a time when I’m craving carbs… which isn’t that often. In the meantime, I’ll wait for Meat Farm to open somewhere.

Bread Farm replaced the Desir Bakery that typically accompanies 99 Ranch chains. It is a Taiwanese-​operated bakery that carries traditional Taiwanese bread, Euro-​inspired pastries, and Chinese-​style cakes. Their head chef is Haruka Lin, a talented baker who trained in Taiwan. The story behind Bread Farm’s formation is summarized on a placard against the wall.
The pastries at Bread Farm are «contemporary», along the lines of 85 Degree’s, but Bread Farm offers its own creative variations. For example, I spotted a «green onion pork sung muffin» and «chocolate flower bread». Prices are competitive to local bakeries like JJ and 85 Degree, with pastries in the $ 1.25 to $ 2.50 range and most for $ 1.59.
Hours:
Monday to Saturday: 7am to 8pm
Sunday: 9am to 8pm