Red Ribbon Bake Shop

LOCATION IS CLOSED!
SO SAD THAT THEY CLOSED DOWN!!!
This was our saving glory to have a Filipino restaurant SO close to home! Red Ribbon Bakery’s have really sweet and savory foods! I mainly came here for their great halo-​halos, chifon cakes, empanadas and anything with ube! Their cakes were always really good too, the chocolate ones I found to be light, yet indulgent. The more exotic flavors like the ube and mango cakes were always a huge hit! They have the art of making their cakes really light and spongy, yet so tasty with the sweetness. :)
This store will be missed… in the meantime, there are several Filipino restaurants and bakeries in West Covina.

…1 star for sadness…
Nooooo! This location is closed! Came here to buy a Ube cake and found out the business is gone!

NOTE: LOCATION IS NOW CLOSED. I was so disappointed to find that after my two-​month business trip, the location is now closed!
The only things that were good here were empanadas. The choco mocha crunch cake was the bomb, anyone who tried it, LOVED it! I got requests to pick it up for every occasion for work, and even for absolutely no reason at all. Everything else was less than mediocre.

Staff of teenage boys were pretty cool. They tried making my cute little cake for my guy friend’s birthday as masculine as possible, with blue gel and three exclamation marks.
These cakes will please all, frosting to cake ratio is perfect, with minimal amounts of sweetness.
The mango cake was super moist.
They have samplers or half + half cakes so you can try more of their different cake flavors. Heard their mocha chocolate cake was good.
I wanted to try their ube/​purple yam cake, but It’s actually taro cake. They should just call it purple potato cake, not to be confused with purple yams, which I love!
Potato, Potatoe.

The cupcakes they have here are amazing! I especially love the chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter crème filling. Every time my boyfriend and I come here, we always have to get a box of cupcakes. Whatever pastries they make are really good. =)

Based on reviews from the other locations, the overwhelming cake choice seemed to be the mango cake, so I picked one up for a friend’s birthday. It was really good! The chiffon cake and cream filling are richer than cakes from Chinese bakeries, but not as heavy or overwhelmingly sweet as an American-​style birthday cake. I think I might actually prefer this to the Chinese bakery cakes I grew up eating! It really depends on whether you’re in the mood for something a little richer.
Red Ribbon Bakeshop helpfully provides nutritional information on their products. I browsed through a brochure and then realized, «Why am I torturing myself??»
Great customer service; I called ahead the day of to reserve my cake and picked it up after work (but if you want to be on the safe side, it’d probably best to call a day or two before to make sure they have the cake you want). Bonus: the girl behind the counter gave me a coupon for a free slice for next time!
For the price (I paid ~$ 22 – 23 for a 10-​inch mango cake) and quality, this place is great for special occasion/​birthday cakes. Farewell, JJ Bakery. for now.

I’m glad they opened this location! It’s only about 10 minutes away from me compared to the La Puente one I used to go to.
ENSAIMADA FTW! Dangerously addictive. Brioche bread slathered with a butter sugar mixture and topped with cheddar cheese. Microwave it for 10 sec and you have a delicious soft pillow of crack.
They’re $ 1.65 each. They have a pack of 4(?) and a whole tray of it for like $ 11.
I’ve also had the mango cake and halo halo here. The mango cake is deliciously soft but I like having chunks of fruit in my cakes and not just purée. I’d buy this cake and a couple mangos to cut and throw on top myself. Halo halo ($ 3.99) is pretty good here, but they don’t put the ube ice cream on top. This is Red Ribbon’s description:
Red Ribbon’s popular shaved ice delight; a colorful mix of sweet beans, nata de coco (coconut jelly), red kaong (palm fruit), ube (purple yam) sweet coconut strips, jackfruit and milk topped with leche flan, pinipig (rice crispies) flakes and mango ice topping.
They’re open everyday from 8am-​9pm!

Man, is this stuff bad for you or what? I ordered the #5. Very tasty but mad oily. The rocky road cake was decent but man, oily noodles and cake as a combo meal? I think I’m going into diabetic shock.

very good cakes (ube and mango) and empanadas. both chicken and beef are good. the portions for their noodle dishes are kinda small but its very flavorful.
i wish they had the butter biscotti’s and sweet butter mamons (pound cakes) here like goldilocks. its crazy addicting! lol

They have good pastries and empanadas. I like their chicken and beef empanadas. They remind me of chicken pie. Its rather «doughy» so the proportions of crust to filling is not ideal.
I love their mango cake. They use the yellow mango in their fillings and frostings. One of my favorite cakes! It taste pretty light and the cake is moist.

The cakes are very good. I suggest this type of cake for those Asians who don’t like their cake too light and buttery (most Japanese, Korean, and Chinese bakeries’ cakes are too light and buttery. not moist enough) and not too heavy like mainstream America (aka supermarket cakes) cakes. I had the purple yam (ube or taro) cake and the rocky road cake. They were both very tasty and the perfect moistness for me. I will definitely buy another cake here in the future.
Oh, they also have some hot food dishes that aren’t bad. I tried the palabok, which wasn’t bad… it’s a glass noodle dish with some thick sauce and bits of dried pork, but I’d stick to the cakes. They needed some kind of meat in the palabok as it wasn’t filling. But great cakes!

I have never been to the actual location but we always order from this place for work and some parties and I am almost always happy that we did get our cakes from here.
The majority of the time we get mango cakes and it is delicious!
I love a fresh moist cake and we haven’t been disappointing once.

Conveniently located right next to Walmart. Plenty of parking, nice new building. Food was decent & fairly priced. Not much selection on baked goods as well as food. Not your usual size Red Ribbon, service was decent.

Very clean in here and well organized. This place is great. Cakes, all kinds of pastries to chose from to satisfy your sweet tooth. Nice little menu and alls I can say is banana nut bread! Awesome stuff.

Best ensaymada for me. I could have it everyday! Even twice a day. A pan of 8 costs $ 9.99. Besides their baked breads, their cakes are also divine. I love their Black Forest Cake — always just the right moistness and sweetness. They also have good Moist Chocolate Cake. Their meal combos are also winners. I have tried and love to eat their pancit palabok (description from their website: «Red Ribbon’s signature noodle dish topped with our special orange sauce, sautéed pork, fried garlic, smoked fish flakes, green onions and eggs.», dinuguan (pork stew), mac n’ cheese and lumpiang sariwa aka fresh lumpia (description from their website: «Tasty sautéed vegetables in chicken dressing wrapped in a crêpe, glazed with peanut sauce and topped with ground-​roasted peanuts»). For heavier snacks, they have the best chicken empanada (flaky bun filled with chicken)! I am so thankful they now have a branch between Los Angeles and West Covina. Great location just off the 60fw with ample parking spaces. It’s in the Walmart complex.

We all have our sentimental favorites from our childhood. For me Red Ribbon is what I used to have when I was a little Filipino kid growing up in the SGV.
That being said, when I found out that this place opened up a mile from me, I was happy.
Being the sweet lover that I am, I take my cakes seriously. Their mocha crunch coffee cake is, hands down, my favorite cake. The cake is a perfect balance between sweetness, moistness, and coffee-​ness. Order this and you wont’ be disappointed.
My childhood favorite is their buttercake, which is awesomely sweet, buttery, and moist. If you like savory flavors, buy their Taisan, which is that same buttercake, but with cheese on top. Sounds weird, but its a popular item.
This Filipino bakery offers more than cakes… they also have some very nice savory Filipino dishes as well. Red Ribbon is NOT the best place to go to for Filipino food, but they make decent Filipino food, they’re fast, and they’re convenient.
If you don’t have any idea about what to order when you look at a Filipino menu, this is what I’d recommend to you:
1) Pancit Palabok: Flavorful noodle dish topped with orange sauce, pork, garlic, green onions, and eggs.
2) Fresh Lumpia: Fresh vegetables and chicken served in an egg-​crêpe and topped with a ridiculously awesome garlic-​peanut sauce.
3) Chicken Empananda: Meat pie in flaky crust.
If you’re feeling really adventurous, eat their Dinuguan and then ask me what it is later.
If this sounds good to you, they have locations in West Covina, Eagle Rock, Cerritos, Rosemead, and LA. Their West Covina location is their original location.

I was pleasantly surprised by the friendly and helpful service, and I was even more pleasantly surprised by how good the food was!
Even though it’s a bakery I didn’t get any sweets. I did get a chicken empanada, a beef empanada, and the sotanghon noodles. Everything was so yummy! I’ve had empanadas before and they weren’t as good as Red Ribbon’s. The ones here aren’t too dry on the outside, and they’re very moist and flavorful on the inside. The beef one has a kind of beef stew-​like mixture, but the chicken doesn’t really have a sauciness to it (still tasty and moist, though!)
I’ve never had sotanghon before so I can’t compare it to anything else, but I love glass noodles! The only complaint I have is that they could give a little more chicken/​veggie mixture on top :)

Came here on a craving to find red velvet cake but was disappointed that they didn’t have it.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was a Filipino bakery! They did have a large variety of other cakes that looked pretty scrumptious! I ended up getting the Halo Halo Roll which is a yellow cake with a little bit of ube in the middle (ube = purple yam) and thought it was pretty moist, not too sweet and flavorful! The frosting on the outside is this light cream with bits of tropical fruit that tasted very fresh!
Since they probably had there grand opening very recently, the placed looked very clean and fresh. Also, I got really good service and I even got a coupon for a free cake slice on my next purchase! I think the promotion is ending this month… so I’ll definitely be back to try something else very soon to try the other items that they offer :)

Lunch Specials
Dinuguan and empanadas were ok. The problem I had was the lack of diversity with the breads and bakery items. They had one type of pandasal and one type of ensaymada. The ensaymada was far below my expectations.
This store is brand new. I would expect them to get more products in down the road. For now, I am impressed with the lunch specials. I will return because it is two minutes off of the 60 freeway.
Super Convenient and parking is plenty.

This place is finally open. I’ve been wanting to post on it because I want to be the first one. Okay that sounds pretty sad. It’s finally open so I don’t have to go to Los Angeles or West Covina to get my ensaimada fix.
I got ensaymada for my afternoon snack today. It’s not as good as usual but it satisfied my sweet craving.
They have beef and chicken empanada. The beef is slightly better than the chicken. The empanada shell is not sweet. kinda tasteless. I prefer United Bakery and Kalahi over Red Ribbon for empanada.
Beef Empanada: sweet, a little spicy and creamy. 3 stars.
Chicken Empanada: it has raisin in it but it’s dry. 2 stars.
I prefer Red Ribbon over Goldilocks Bakeshop. I don’t really care for other products from here except choco mocha crunch.
I tried their cupcakes and they were not good at all. The quality of their cakes are inconsistent. I got bad baked goods from here twice =(I never experienced anything like that from other Red Ribbon. I hope they really pay attention to quality control.
2 stars!
Red Ribbon Bakery is not yummylicious!