Bibiane Bakery

Please reopen! How about the space next to Fleet Feet? I loved walking downtown and having the best croissants and sandwiches in town. I miss you.

what a shame that it closed.
It was nothing short of spectacular
Some folks complained about the owner’s attitude, but frankly — if you want the fake smiles you get at starbucks just go to starbucks.
Their pastries and foods were fantastic.
I will miss that place :(

Best bakery and make to order bread pudding! I cant beleive people have complained about customer service. This is a small local bakery and we enjoy the casual conversations with those that work here. Its a part of the small town feel, slow your life down.

This place is snooty, unfriendly but at least extraordinarily expensive! Oh and hey, don’t bother going there after 5pm because they close! And ditto for any other convenient hour on weekends when you may way to saunter over with a cup of Joes from the Tullys coffee next door. 9-​out-​of-​10 times you’ll find the place shut!
Waste of time.

In looking for a bakery to pick up some fresh bread while I was in downtown Pleasanton, I stumbled across this place and thought I would check it out. Keep in mind that I frequent bakeries a lot, so I was NOT impressed by Bibiane (and now realize a huge a disparity among Unilocal reviews).
Upon walking in, you’re greeted by an elderly gentleman who clearly spends way too much time talking to his customers, seemingly about nothing relevant or interesting. A customer in front of me was ordering a cup of coffee and mentioned that he didn’t feel it was warm enough. The gentleman behind the counter tasted the coffee himself from a thermos behind the counter and then remarked that he had no way to warm it up and could do nothing about it! WHAT?! Are you kidding me?! A bakery serving fresh coffee has no way to warm it up? How the hell did you brew it in the first place, and what is that huge espresso machine behind you? Seriously whacked. If I was that guy, I would’ve demanded a refund and walked out with no coffee. Peete’s next door would’ve been a much better option in this case, despite being a coffee conglomerate. How irritating (and I wasn’t even the customer!).
My turn was up next, and I didn’t see a whole lot of bread options on the nearly empty shelves in this tiny establishment. I asked the gentleman what was available anyway, and he pointed to some sweet french baguettes and mentioned he had a cheese/​onion baguette in the back. The cheese/​onion bread was piping hot and obviously fresh, so I went with that option. It turned out to be okay. I was glad the cheese flavor was not as strong as the onion flavor, but the bread was soaking in oil. It pretty much soaked the paper wrapper by the time I got home 20 mins later. Not a pretty sight.
I can firmly say that I’ll never be back to Bibiane. I didn’t see anything that was tantalizing to go back for, and poor service is just a terrible turn-​off.

I wish I could rate the food and service separately. I am giving a 3 star rating because, all though the pastries are a 5, the customer service is a 2. I am a regular customer, buying sandwiches, pastries, croissants, challah, etc & everyone of my son’s birthday tarts for the last 3 years & my own birthday cake for at least the last 4 years, and yet they act as though they have never seen me before. Beyond aloof.
There is a bit of food snobbery/​self absorption going on there. Their pastry is traditional to the french way and done to perfection. The croissants are among the best I have ever had and the chocolate-​caramel tart is both beautiful and tasty. I only wish they were a friendlier bunch, like I expect when shopping downtown and when sending friends in to sample their pastries. Personality goes a long way.

I have been craving ham and cheese croissants and finally found one near work. It was okay, the croissant was charred a bit where it was crispy. It would of been great if it wasn’t over baked. Same thing with the chocolate croissant, over baked. Two croissants came out to be about $ 9 so pretty decent since the croissants seemed bigger than most places I’ve been too.
The overall bakery is a cute little place in downtown. There other goodies looked good, maybe I’ll be back to try the other things and hope they start baking their croissants differently too.

Came in today after finding online that they sell french macarons.
First off I surveyed the products most products looked severly dry or burnt.
Second upon asking if they had french macarons was informed rudely «Nope» then when I asked «when abouts do you make them» was informed rudely «when ever the chef feels like making them»
with that stated I wouldn’t want to try your dry burnt products and «when ever the chef feels like making them», I’ll see if I feel like coming in.
I wish Unilocal would allow me to put no stars this is a NO STAR place.

The pastries and bread are mouth watering delicious! The bread is just to die for, that is what REAL bread is supposed to taste like! Home made goodness! The chicken sandwich is the best sandwich i think ive ever tasted. But… the prices are waaaaay to expensive. I think the sandwich is $ 8.75!
Although i love the pastries, bread and sandwiches, ive tried their cakes and tarts a couple of times and they’re just NOT good. The cakes are always dry and bland. The tarts seem like they’re a couple of days old. Not sure whats going on there with the desserts. I would stick with just the bread and pastries.
And yes, the man in the front is a little huffy puffy, doesnt seem to have much patience. I dont know why?, he has an easy job, just boxing up pastry!

Really good, really butter-​saturated-​to-​the-​point-​of-​being-​greasy cheese cream puffs. I would go back for these alone.
One star taken away for two reasons:
1. The day I went, I tried the almond croissant and the morning bun. Both were overcooked and slightly charred to a crisp in some parts. If the almond croissant had not been overcooked, it might have been very good, because it had almond slices sprinkled on the exterior and contained real marzipan inside, but not overwhelmingly so.
Also, the morning bun had a very strong citrus flavor from using way way too much zest.
2. Something every cake bakery should have is at least one cake or slices of one available for immediate sale. I wanted to order a normal cake for a birthday, but having never tried any of the cakes, it was hard to take a leap of faith, considering the other bakeries from which I could order. I can understand that they can’t make every flavor every day, but how about making one 4″ or 7″ cake daily for selling by the slice? And then publish which days will have which flavor. By the end of two weeks, they could have cycled through all their flavors.
To their credit, though, wedding samplers can be requested in advance, where they will provide 6 slices from cakes of choice. It’s about $ 25 for that sampler, but call to check first.

We met with the baker here for a possibility for our wedding cake:
Pro’s: Ultra nice– great customer service. Had the samples ready to go for us to taste either in shop or on our own time. Delicious choices in the bakery as far as breads and pastries were concerned. Buttercream frosting was the BEST I HAVE EVER TASTED. It wasn’t thin and flavorless like others– it was thick, which means it’s able to mold to what we were looking for. The creamcheese buttercream was absolutely the best ever. Vanilla was plain, but chocolate was outstanding.
Con’s: The flavors I selected were not all included in our samples. They don’t specialize in wedding cakes necessarily, but would be a great choice for birthdays. No catalog to look forward to. Not sure if we feel comfortable going with them as we haven’t seen pictures of wedding cakes, but we do feel what they presented was professional and delicious. Even their banana cake was good, and I don’t like banana much.
Once again– super friendly staff1

A year after the mangy cheesecake experience, I have to admit I went back, the lure of the pastries was too great.
Sad to say I was disappointed… greasy, and tough. Not nearly as good as before!
Counter service was arrogant, as S. B said! I was having trouble deciding, and there was NO ONE behind me, the «man» got quite huffy!
Not sure I will be back, but I certainly will not pre-​order again… just ‘sayin!

I always liked this bakery. I think it’s family owned and operated, and only a block away from where I lived. I’m always wandering in saturday mornings for their honey bread, on my way to the farmers market. The reason I gave them only one star is because of their customer service. I’ve never been treated well and ignored it until I came in to order a wedding cake.
A few weeks ago, my fiancée and I spent a Sunday at the bakery picking out our wedding cake. Everything seemed fine and the woman said that even though our wedding isn’t until another 10 months, she’ll call us within two weeks to set up an appointment for tasting. Three weeks later, we haven’t received a call back, so we walk in to make sure everything’s okay. When we asked why we haven’t received a call back, the man at the counter pretty much laughed at us for expecting one so soon. He told us rudely that we shouldn’t have expected a call back anytime soon, since our wedding is more than 6 months away. While I didn’t actually expect our whole tasting to be set up immediately, I did at least expect some assurance that we haven’t been forgotten. Why tell us you’re going to call us back, when you have no intention of doing so? It’s that dishonesty, the horrible customer service, that’s given me such a bad opinion of the place. I hate to judge a place solely on customer service, but everything they have at bibiane can be found with better quality and with much better customer service at Denica’s in Dublin.

My husband and I used to live in Philadelphia, where we were surrounded by great bakeries and bread shops. Bibiane reminds us of those places. Awesome bread… great pastries (I’ve tried them all) and wonderful service. It’s a small bakery, so be aware that not everything is always available in the shop. They do take orders and will make what you request.
They’ve just expanded their menu items to include pizza and sandwiches… what’s not to love? :-)

I want to give this place more stars but I just can’t after I had their carmel chocolate tart… eeew. it was hard and probably stale and the carmel was so thick… I couldn’t even poke my fork all the way through to eat a bite… oh yeah and my sister wants me to add that their peanut butter cookie almost broke her tooth… nuff said there.
However their scones were really really good… so i may go back for those but nothing else…

While the assortment of pastries (cream puffs, croissants, cakes, cookies, morning buns, brioche, quiche, baguettes, tarts, scones) looked promising, the appearance didn’t match up with the taste.
* Broccoli & pancetta mini quiche ($ 5.95). Now that I think about it, it was expensive for the size. The quiche barely had any egg and it had too much crust. A good quiche should be tender and have volume. This one barely qualifies as quiche. It had big chunks of cheese in it (gruyère perhaps). The crust was very dense and heavy.
* Spinach & feta croissant. Possibly the worst croissant I’ve ever had in my life. The outside tasted burnt and the dough wasn’t buttery. The spinach was tough and bitter and there was too much moisture inside the croissant. Really horrible.
Even the Peet’s Coffee tasted worse here. Maybe I ordered the wrong things? I tried to take advantage of the free wi-​fi and the connection was super slow. The bread schedule changes daily and includes ciabatta, baguettes, foccacia, challah, etc.

Was going to Pleasanton for lunch with my clan and remembered Bibiane bakery and how i took to their Traditional Foccacia bread. We went to the bakery a couple of times and they were out of certain pastries but they told us that we could call in and they would put them to the side for us to pick up so i gave them a holler and they take my order. I got the pastries that i wanted. The cheese puffs are killer and their scones can hold there own.
Here’s the best part. I told them what restaurant we were going to and they said that it was one of their customers and they would deliver it there for us to pick up. I had no problems with that saves me a trip. We we got to where we were going to eat I told them that I had a order from Bibiane and they had it waiting for me How great is that. 4 stars for the bakery + 1 for making the delivery so 5 stars for me.
Now going back to eating my Foccacia bread dipped in olive oil, baslamic vinegar, and a taste of lemon. What a way to start the day.

Heaven on earth!
Love love the cheese puffs: blueberries and apple are both delicious!
They also have good muffins and scones.

I happen to stumble across Bibiane Bakery after searching for a bakery that would have delicious scones to serve at a bridal shower we threw for a friend of ours. I searched on Unilocal!and found Bibiane Bakery.
Bibiane Bakery is located in downtown Pleasanton next to Fontina’s and across the street from Stacey’s. I gave them a call on Monday and placed an order for 16 mini scones — buttermilk scones with currants. They said they would have it ready by 11:30am today (Sunday).
I arrived to Bibiane Bakery — small inside, but full of yummy treats. The delicious smell of the bakery was enough to get a few other folks to come in to smell the delights.
I was pleasantly surprised to have my 16 scones ready to go and all I had to was pay. That is great service! The best part of these scones is all of my girlfriends enjoyed them with the delicious jam I had brought — courtesy of the company I work for ;)
I will definitely come back to try more delights — certainly a great find in downtown Pleasanton!

I really like this new bakery downtown Pleasanton, some highlights for me are:
— brioche (walnut & cinnamon)
— potato bread
— mexican wedding cookies
— carmalized onion & cheese baguettes
— cheddar crackers
— rugelach
I felt their quiches, sausage rolls, and savory pies could do with more spices/​herbs since they tasted a little bland to me.
I would recommend getting there around 10−11am when they take a new batch of bread and cookies out of their ovens and buying whatever is fresh and hot. Everything there is pretty good.