Provincetown Portuguese Bakery

After coming here forty plus years and sending thousands of guests here it will be the last time. We always loved this place. They forgot to put sugar on the Malassadas and were so rude when I mentioned the error. Service was awful. This is the first negative review I have ever posted.

Get there early and experience the sensation of heaven. Everything. Single. Thing. Is. Amazing. Please try this place. Omg.

Desserts were okay, service… meh. I felt like I was intruding on their day. Can’t say I’d ever stop back.

My favorite bakery in town. It’s better than the trendy new places. Some of the pastries haven’t changed in decades, and they’re better for it. My favorites are the trutas, a fried pastry with sweet potato filling, and all of the savory seafood cakes. I’ve had better danish, but who cares about danish.

Service was poor and unorganized. they picked and chose who they wanted to serve first. Ridiculous wait and overrated. Fried dough looked good but nothing but a mouth full of grease. No big deal

Great little bakery with true authentic Portuguese pastries as well as some Eastern European influence.
Without a doubt that fried dough they have displayed on the window is the highlight. Must try!

A must in ptown! Linguica egg and cheese on a Portuguese roll also pork bifina sandwich is delish

Yum! Got there late in the day and they still had plenty to choose from. Delicious.

The Pasteis de Nata were amazing. Reminds me of Chinese Portuguese egg tarts, except with a less thick and more crisp crust. If you’ve never had one before, it’s kind of like crème brûlée but a bit more solid, and super delicious.
Also enjoyed the Berliner which had a delicious custard center and a nice donut consistency. Patinhas de Veado, a sponge cake flavored with rum and filled with cinnamon, Bavarian cream, and coconut, was super good as well and the different flavors came together splendidly.
The bread pudding wasn’t very good though. I’d stick with the Portuguese desserts.

Great fried dough and pastries! So so coffee and it adds up quickly but compared to the other ptown pastry shops best bang for your buck.

Unbelievable! The Linguica and Egg Sandwich was simple and perfect. The Malasada was 1 of the most delicious fried doughs I’ve ever had. Also, it was cheap

Great sandwiches. My girlfriend and I grabbed a couple to bring to our whale watch, knowing we were going to be out in the ocean for at least 4 – 5 hours. This was our lunch. The flavors were delicious! Although for the price the sandwich could be bigger but I guess we were in a tourist area. There’s also bakery sold here.

Excellent old school bakery and restaurant with authentic Portuguese and Azorean breads, pastries and foods. This place is really a Hybrid of Portuguese and Azorean food items, but actually leans more Azorean., especially with respect to it’s soup.
NO offense to other reviewers on here, but PLEASE try something OTHER than the FRIED DOUGH.
Why? Because although the bakery labels their fried dough as «Malassadas» (which are small round doughnuts, sometimes filled with a cream, excellent and more authentic in my opinion), but the ones they make here are actually «Filhos» (which are flat, stretched fritters, which are more similar to fried dough found at carnivals and state fairs here in the U.S.).
So, with so many items that are almost as good as you could get in Portugal or the Azores, why go with something that is that is pretty similar to what we already have here in the U.S. The answer is, you don’t.
But you’re now probably wondering, «well what do I order then»? And the answer is, many things! Specifically these Portuguese pastries, sausage and Azorean soup:
Pasteis de Nata — considered the National pastry of Portugal and known there as Pasteis de Belem, as that’s the name of the town outside of Lisbon where Catholic monks invented the pastry in the early 1800’s. It’s an egg custard inside a small flaky tart/​pie crust and it’s excellent.
Patinhas de Veado — translation is «hoof of a deer», and it’s a soft bread or sponge cake, rolled in coconut and filled with an egg custard.
Bolas de Berlim — also known as a Berliner and is a popular Portuguese summer pastry which originates in Northern Germany, but this one is bigger and uses an egg yolk filling that is visible as the doughnut is sliced into halves.
Pasteis de Feijao de Torres Novas — nineteenth century bean and almond cake from the city of Torres Novas in central Portugal.
Pastel de Truta — the original version in Portugal is a savory pastry filled with ground fish, Trout (Truta in Portuguese) to be exact, but here in Provincetown, they’ve turned it into a sweet pastry filled with sweet potato.
Penhascos de Amendoa and Chocolate — meringue of almond or chocolate, and seems like it might be Portuguese, but is actually of Swiss and French origin, so I’d pass on these.
Linguica — pronounced «ling-​gwee-​suh», it’s a peppery smoked sausage, one of my favorites actually as it’s less greasy than other sausages and well, I love black pepper so naturally I love this one.
Portuguese Extravaganza — linguica with egg and cheese on a Portuguese roll. If you’re in the mood for something heavy and savory.
«Portuguese» Soup — although the bakery calls it «Portuguese» soup, it’s actually «Azorean» soup as the kale soup with linguica and potatoes has kidney beans in it. Authentic Portuguese soup doesn’t include kidney beans, while Azorean soup does, and is a more rustic version as the Azorean version also uses whole potatoes as opposed to using a potato purée called for in the Portuguese version.
Portuguese Rolls and Sweet Rolls — excellent breads to take home, but make sure you slice and toast the bread with some butter as it’s 100x better that way.
All the Rest — they have many other pastries, like croissants, danishes, flan, crème brûlée, cheesecake, brownies, muffins, cookies, etc, but I’d pass on those as you can get those anywhere.
Overall, this is an excellent way to try authentic Portuguese and Azorean pastries and foods, so stick to those items for something different and delightful!

So happy that we were able to experience this goodness! The fried dough was such a great/​surprising treat. It’s really freshly fried dough with cinnamon and sugar. It’s almost luck a puffy churro??? PS– i took some back to the place we were staying, heated it up in the microwave the next day and surprisingly, it was still pretty good!
We had the «Portuguese Special» breakfast sandwich. It was pretty good… A little too much meat for me but it was definitely good!
Besides the fried dough and breakfast sandwiches, this bakery has so much more to offer and everything seems to be extremely fresh! We wish we could have tried more of their yummy looking goodies.
This place is super busy but the family-​owned business has service down packed to a science. We were served very promptly.

Was in need of a snack to hold me over and stumbled upon this bakery. Saw the malasadas in the window and decided to try one. I didn’t have anything to compare it to as I’ve never had one before, but it was kind of like a donut but not sweet enough. It probably would have been better fresh too, but oh well. The other stuff in the display inside the store wasn’t very sexy so I just had the malasada.

Another neat shop right on Commercial St. in Provincetown. This place is easy to pass with the hustle and bustle of crowds walking down the touristy area. The inside of the place is pretty old, and it doesn’t look like they’ve done a whole lot to it, but I’m not looking for glamor in a place like this. We were lucky enough to get in here at a lull, because right after I was done ordering, there was a line out the door.
They have all kinds of delicious treats here, so I got a little bit of everything: a couple cannolis, Bolas de Berlim (custard filled donuts, basically), hermits, flan, and a few other things.
Honestly, I’ve had way better cannolis and flan, so that was a bit disappointing. The cannolis have a lemony flavor to them that I wasn’t a big fan of, and the flan just tasted like a loose cheese with syrup on it. I was going to get a Napeolon, but it looked like it had regular cream rather than custard in between the layers.
The real winner here is the Bola de Berlim. That homemade custard filled concoction is absolutely delicious and speaks true Portuguese bakery to me. I could eat those all day until I got sick.
My tip if you decide to check this place out is to stick to the Portuguese specialties, because the rest of the pastries didn’t do it for me. Be sure to at least grab a Bola de Berlim if you stop in.

Based on just the minimum, not the whole. I saw the bakery and remembered the rave reviews on Unilocal for the fried bread. They did not disappoint. I purchased 2 drinks, and asked for 1 glass of ice with a lid (most shops require a lid on drinks). He started handing me that little courtesy cup of ice. When I explained I needed a lid, he looked at the iced coffee cups, then shook his head no. That’s where your other Unilocal star went.
The interior looked clean and cozy. Many were getting some hot sandwiches made to go, as well as dine in. Few table campers at that early hour from the heat.

Since we began talking about our little daycation to P-​Town, I had been dreaming of popping in here when we first got ashore, and picking at a fluffy sweet roll as we walked commercial street.
Unfortunately, a rough ride in on the ferry made food unappetizing for the first half of our stay but before heading back on the return ferry (a much better trip), I suggested we stop in.
Since it was later in the day, they were out of sweet rolls (sad face) but I did grab a sweet loaf, some hard rolls (always ironic because they are actually like little pillows you can eat), a macaron and a fig bar.
I sampled the macaron as soon as we got on the boat and it was delicious, though unexpectedly lemony. I saved the rest for dessert that evening and favored every bite. My husband’s fig bar was meh in my opinion, the crust was too hard and wasn’t buttery as I would have expected by looking at it. The hard rolls were as expected and the sweet roll was (almost) everything I dreamed of (less sweet than I’ve had before but definitely yummy with a little butter or a bit of jam.)
The service was friendly and the selection was sill decent even at 4 pm on a busy saturday during the height of the season. I’d love to try a meat roll next time.
If you find yourself in the area in the morning, do yourself a favor and grab a sweet roll and make my dream come true.

When in P-​Town, you got to stop and get yourself a Malassada from the Provincetown Portuguese Bakery — it’s a sweet fried bread better than a donut. Delicious! The Portuguese Golden Meat Pie has a beef filling & an olive inside. It was wonderful toasted later that evening.

Yummy fresh donuts regularly made throughout the day.
Hot breakfast and lunch items from the counter on the right. The Portuguese extravaganza is super filling with 2 linguicia patties, egg, and cheese on a Portuguese roll. Great to bring to the dock and eat by the water.
A big assortment of baked goods are available on the counter on the left, but with the fresh donuts around I never really try them.
However 4 $ for a regular iced coffee is a bit pricey, especially when there’s better iced coffee around for cheaper.