Santo Domingo Bakery

This was a spot I’d known about for a while, and has been around for years, but I never found myself walking by at a good time. Came in on a cold New Years Day morning, happy as a clam for a good start to the year, excited to try something new to start the year. Instead, I, along with several other customers, experienced blatant racial discrimination.
The line was about 4 – 5 people deep when I came in to grab a hot cup of coffee and a hopefully delectable pastry. Everything was normal, as the man took care of ²⁄₃ people ahead of me, while offering mediocre service (smiles cost nothing).
In walks an older Dominican woman. She takes the liberty of skipping the line, and loudly addresses the man behind the counter… relax lady, it’s early and the store is small AND there are people here ahead of you. This is when it becomes a WTF moment.
The man immediately takes care of the woman who had CLEARLY just walked in. The main difference between her and everyone else on line? She spoke to him in Spanish.
The woman in front of me takes issue with this, and lets her know that she just skipped the entire line. The Domincan woman’s response? «Yeah, I know» *stupid smirk* (the kind that says ‘I’m sorry, but it’s too late for you to do anything)
So she looks to the guy behind the counter to see what he does, and he just continues fulfilling the skipper’s order.
The disgruntled woman in front of me walks out, and I followed suit.
Before I leave, the Dominican woman gives me a look, as if to say ‘That lady is crazy.‘
I say the only thing I can possibly think of, ‘You can’t blame her, you did just skip the entire line.’ I would’ve been next, but it was hard to stay and let racial profiling win.

Good desserts with friendly service. We tried a number of items. Surprisingly, the bread pudding, which looked a lot like the flan, was the tastier of the two. The tres Leche was indulgently sweet, but good. I like going to places like this!

Ordered a spidermen cake for my son’ s birthday, i went to pick it up the day before the party.
I did not open the box at storecause i was in a rush.
The same day of the party when i openwd the box a pink cake with flowers on thw sode came out and a spiderman toy smashed in the middle.
My hearth jumped and call immediately, thw person on charge was not very nice and was not really sorry about what happened.
He was insisting that the cake was red and fresh, mean while the cake was a left over, dry and with no taste.
I think that they forgot to make itfor me and just replaced it with what ever they had.
I would give zero star if i could.

Cash only, $ 1.75 bread pudding was pretty tasty. Cuban sandwiches are apparently quite good.

Nothing here that is sweet is great. I love that it is still here as the LES gets gentrified but I have to say the stand out item here is the Cubano. Really big and tasty. Fast service.

Cheap and Good! I come here for breakfast almost every morning. There breakfast is usually really good, but lately they have been slacking. I get a bagel with butter, but you have to tell them really toasted. Before they used to make it prefect, now if you don’t tell them they don’t do it. Sometimes they wouldn’t even cut the bagels, or cheese sandwich. There hot chocolate is really really really really good! I love it they don’t use water, they use boiled milk. Just tell them to mix it for you. Basically this place you have to tell them what you want. They are usually friendly besides one person besides that this place is good. It’s small and cramped up wish they had a bigger location that you could sit and eat.

No Bueno! I used to come here for their guayaba & cheese but now they leave out 95% of the cheese so its just all guava paste! I took a bite into it and noticed there was something really off about it– there were 5 tiny pieces of cheese in it! If they’re going to just fill it with guava paste, thats fine but they should change the name and not deceive customers who think there’s cheese and guava in it. AND don’t jack up the price to $ 2.50 for some filo dough and paste if there’s no cheese in it! What a RIPOFF!!!

know what’s sad? getting home and finding out the sweet milk from your tres leches cake had leaked out of the container and is spilt all inside the bag. :(
also a little part of me wished the milky syrup tasted less like high fructose corn syrup.
phooey.
not the best tres leche in my memory, but not terrible either.
$ 3.75 per slice now in 2012

We were in the neighborhood while on vacation, in need of breakfast and wandered in. lovely croissant with scrambled egg, good coffee, and a BIG slice of some sort of pudding, w/​coconut … i could have eaten it all day. also tiny coconut macaroons to take along for later… never made it back, but still thinking about it! great, authentic stuff, crazy inexpensive, and really friendly people. (please go and get something, think of me, it’s 2000 miles from here)

I LOVE Dominican cake! One bite of the cake from this bakery and I was instantly hooked. The people who work here are friendly, but they don’t speak much English, so I had to rely on my rudimentary Spanish conversation skills when ordering my cake.

Don’t go here for Dominican cake. I came to NYC for a number of things and finding great Dominican cake was one of those. This bakery came up with decent reviews so we tried it out. There are lots of options for other pastries as well as sandwiches. The cake was too dry and the piña filling was a flavoured syrup instead of the traditional pinapple filling. The frosting aka suspiro was way too sweet and tangy. However, I could be biased because Ive had the best and that was in Florida. Overall, it was disappointing.

None of the reviews for Santa Domingo Bakery has mentioned the guava cheese pastries. OMG they are off the hook! i’ve passed by this little bakery many times and I’ve never given it much thought. One day I do step in to see their selection of goods and my eyes immediately noticed the guava cheese pastries. I bought a few home ($ 2.25 each) and toasted it a little, and I devoured it immediately. I’m so glad I ate it at home because my carnage was not a pretty site. The guava paste was not too sweet, and the cheese was not too «cheesey». The pastry it self was flakey and perfect too.

Dirt cheap, café con lech cost you about $ 1.25
They run the gamut from sweet to savory, turning out quipes, pastelillos, flan, arroz con lech, etc
Only negative is that they close early so get there by 5 if you want the good stuff

Best Bakery!
Everything is good, the food, cakes, pastries, and did I mention that nothing is expensive.
My family and I, every year for our birthday parties, order this bakery cake because it’s the best :)
Also there BREAD, is to die for you. With or without meat and cheese

Mmmmm ohmigosh!
Ok, what I really love about this place isn’t even the cakes, although let me tell you, one of the best spots in LES to get some great Dominican cake. My passion here is the bacon egg and cheese. I don’t know what it is, but its just so damn delicious here! Me and a friend would come out of school and head here for breakfast in the afternoon. It’s just really good! And every now and again when I’m in the neighborhood, this is where a stop by when I’m in need of a little grub.
The flan is good too. Firm, but still relatively creamy.
All in all, great little bakery.

Being the kind or person who really, really enjoys an inexpensive (free), hearty (huge) and delicious breakfast, it only made sense that Santo Domingo and I would develop a rather healthy relationship. Living in the LES for roughly 6 years allowed my SDB bond to really blossom. I can only imagine how things would have been better had I been able to habla espanol. Even with my pathetic attempts to win over the staff with my broken Spanglish I was never let down by tasty breakfast treats. I highly recommend the arepas con chorizo, arepas con queso, and the wildly popular arepas con huevos y queso. All for under $ 4. If you and I share a love for breaking the fast on the cheap and you’re willing to travel to the LES, pre-​happy hour, visit SDB immediately.