Heidi’s Finest Bakery

The one time I was there, the food was great, and the service was excellent. I loved the authenticity of the place. The cakes were delicious, and my German coffee was aromatic and sophisticated.

If this is Heidi’s Finest… Heidi is in big trouble.
I don’t know what happened to this place. It used to have a nice selection of baked goods. I walked in recently and couldn’t believe that the cases looked so empty. I ordered two cookies just because I felt weird to just walk out after seeing the sparse offerings. The cookies weren’t even that good. Not good.

The one star is for my disappointment in their inconsistent hours. Unilocal shows they are open until 10 on Friday. I just strolled in with my boyfriend at 8:15 and the girl working was sweeping up and said she would be closing in about 15 minutes.
This is the second time I have visited Heidi’s to find them closed before 9pm.
That being said, I do LOVE the cakes and pies here, everything I’ve had is delicious and I’d rate them 4 stars based on their desserts alone. I just wish they stayed true to their posted business hours.

I can no longer endorse this business due to the recent change of direction and ownership. Gone are the great breads, rolls, pastrys, cakes and other assorted baked goods it their place is couscous and quinoa salads along with sandwich wraps, yes wraps in a bakery!
I asked for a bowl of lentil soup the new owner went over to the glass door beverage case and pulled from the bottom shelf a container that had a puddle of old soup and started scraping around with a spoon, after a few moments he informed me that their wasn’t enough for a bowl as if I was going to eat that!
Shame :/​
BSE49

We were really disappointed by the pastries and cakes from here.
The bakery is beautiful and the girl at the counter was really nice and helpful. However, we got a selection of pastries for my family to try, and none of us really enjoyed any of them. Cheesecake slices, an apple pecan thing, a slice of chocolate cake, and a couple other desserts… nothing great. To top it off, our small selection of goodies was over $ 40, which was outrageous for what we got.

Absolutely amazing. The proprietor is an awesome guy who provides fantastic conversation and most importantly food. The coffee, the pastries, and the other food items are clean, natural, and delicious. We ordered a 100% German Black Forest cake for my wife’s Oktoberfest party. It went faster than anything else we had at the party. I couldn’t recommend this place enough. It’s refreshing to find a privately owned, authentic restaurant that really and truly cares about its products and customers. A++++

This little German Bakery/​Café is such a hidden gem! The interior is beautifully and tastefully decorated allowing the diner to really sit and enjoy the delicacies. If you are looking for a quick, but by no means Fast Food, light lunch or snack, this is the GO-​TO Place in Ridgewood. Every item is made with Organic ingredients and the owner/​baker is more than happy to tell you all about it. This lovely café bakery is the place to go with your parents, spouse, best friend, children and grand-​children. There is sure to be something for everyone’s taste. Now go and enjoy yourself… you will not be disappointed.
I do have a recommendation for the super-​friendly owners… why not offer an adult «class» on different topics… baking desserts… home-​made cold salads… warm vegetable pastries…
and… why not a similar children’s baking party (age appropriate, of course)… I recently attended such a party with my 2 granddaughters at a CupCake bakery and they LOVED it… and, you gain potential customers with the parents, grandparents, or whatever adult brought the child… I witnessed this first hand at the cupcake bakery.
… just a thought… I know how much both adults and children love this kind of learning, and, it brings in added business and exposure to your fantastic bakery!

This is a great little café to grab some coffee and cake. The cake is really good and a must try. Also the owner is very nice. He has made some great recommendations of the items they sell and what you may like. The price is also very good.

Just going to note that occasionally, the cakes taste quite stale, the cherry pastry is still the best but they do not have it often.

Love their cake. The owner is very nice guy. He is welling to explain everything to us when we have questions to his cakes. He also make good recommendation to us base on what we will like.

Great little café, definitely a hidden gem. All the desserts look delicious and taste great! Personal favorite is this hazelnut cake they have. It’s not overbearingly sweet, and is full of hazelnut flavor. Definitely worth a try.
What compels me to give this place five stars instead of four is the price. When you walk in, the décor and quality of the food may seem like it’d be overpriced like Starbucks products but the prices here are pretty reasonable considering the quality of the food.
Overall, great little bakery/​café, and a really good, quiet place to study or just a place to chill with a date.

I wanted to go to the Red Mango next door but they were closed so I found myself here instead. This street is packed– good luck finding parking. I luckily was able to and the minute I got to my car, several cars were already waiting for me to leave. All the sweets here looked super delicious and they also had a few different savory things. The girl working was really helpful and explained what everything was and offered some suggestions. I wasn’t too hungry so I just got a brownie with raspberries and an iced green tea (which was just brewed tea with ice; they don’t have iced tea already prepared which was fine). The brownie was pretty good. Not too chocolatey but also not too sweet, I enjoyed it. The raspberries do have seeds so if that is something that bothers you when eating stay away; I thought it was fine. Wished the iced tea was steeped and then iced as it didn’t have as strong a flavor as I prefer but pretty good. I’ll definitely be back to try more if their stuff as it all looked amazing.

Review update! I liked it so much, I came back the next day and tried three cakes again:
— A strawberry-​lime torte
— A slice of carrot cake
— The bienenstich, again, because it was so good the day before and he had one piece left
The bienenstich was again as good a cake as I’ve ever had.
The strawberry-​lime torte was sweet and super tart, the flavors of the two fruits coming together really well.
The carrot cake was a more subdued, plainer slice of cake – very lightly sweet, and a good accompaniment to tea or coffee. It looked really appealing, speckled with tiny bits of carrot.
All the offerings at Heidi’s are sweet but, not overwhelmingly so. And they somehow don’t feel heavy or even indulgent. Mick L.‘s review (
) says the owner doesn’t use any added sweetener in the cakes and leans instead on the sweetness of the ingredients. I can almost kind of believe that, given how light these cakes feel.
Some of the restaurants in the area either don’t offer dessert or don’t offer anything worthwhile. Come here after lunch or dinner.

A good place to get some warm soup & sandwich. The bread & coffee are very good. A bit pricy for what it is, but that is due to the high rents in Ridgewood.

Adorable little café in the heart of downtown Ridgewood.
They have outdoor seating and seating inside too.
Reasonably priced delicious pastries and my boyfriend’s favorite: pretzels!
Coffee, tea, and soda also available.
The interior is a relaxing gray stone (delivered from Germany) with free Wii-​Fi, just ask for the password.
The owner is from Germany, so if you want to practice your German, go for it!
Need a break from the grind… try Heidi’s!

The coffee is really good. I like the pretzel croissant, the cheese roll, and the spinach pocket. My wife likes the almond croissant and the chocolate croissant. The owner is usually there and he’s a nice guy. Service is always good and we usually see the same people week after week when we go there. They have a small display case, so they rotate items, so you never know what they’ll have when you go back. The have a few regular items but a lot of stuff changes. He gets the ingredients from Germany and you can definitely tell the difference in quality.

I love a great croissant. If you can get past the prices, it’s just «ok». Coffee was very good, however. Croissant tasted very dry. It seemed like it wasn’t made in the traditional way. It tasted closer to a «bread croissant» than a true croissant. He had a couple of variations of croissants that I had never seen before. I just can’t get past the croissant I had… It just didn’t seem flaky and fresh. I felt like I was paying more for the décor than the food.
I haven’t tried their other pastries, since I just couldn’t get past the mediocre croissant.
If they just served coffee, I’d give them four stars. Whatever beans they use are really good, and clearly high quality… but for small pastries, I’ll go elsewhere for the money. for the $ 2.89 he wanted for most things, I just didn’t see the value.

We went just before Christmas and took our two small children. It is a cute, comfortable spot with very good pastries and excellent coffee. We had several baked goods including the croissant with «vanilla filling» (really, it’s custard), a chocolate cake slice, one with quark and another with apple. We had others, too, but these stood out. We also tried one of the pretzels. I wasn’t impressed at all with the pretzel but I truly think it was that I ordered the wrong one from what I wanted. I was rushed with the kids and just pointed and paid.
We loved the coffee so much that we’re going back to buy the beans as soon as they get them from Italy. (We liked the Italian coffee a little more than the German one. It was full-​bodied and sweet without being too much or burnt.)

Been to Heidi’s several times, for breakfast and dessert. Will keep going back as long as they are around. Everything including the coffee is quite delicious. The breakfast waffles are quite good and overly filling. The croissants are great. I just love the apple turnovers, they are a personal favorite. The dessert pastires I have had were awesome. Not overly rich, the perfect blend of sweetness, consistency, and flavors. Service is very friendly as is the owner. Atmosphere is quite nice.
Only possible complaints are a couple of times some items took overly long to be served. Also, the modern high tables have chairs which are slightly less than comfortable for me. They claim to have free WiFi but I was unable to log in with the password they gave me.
Not sure anyone could not love Heidi’s. I could see maybe a 4 or even 3 star review. 1 star is very suspicious, there is no comparison to Stop n Shop whatsoever. This is one of the finest pastry shops I have been to in NY, NJ and anywhere.

Just stumbled upon this place. I haven’t had a great apple turnover in years, until today, when I found Heidi’s.
If you like apple turnovers, they call it em’ «apple corners» here. It’s the bomb… They use real fresh apples, none of that canned syrupy apple crapola that you find at most bakeries.
Nice to see a real bakery, using real, fresh ingredients. So sooo sick of all this canned crap they serve everywhere.
Lovin’ this place and can’t wait to try their other baked goods.