Balboa Bakery

She said:
Love the Baklava! It’s so good I haven’t tried anything else.
He said:
The baklava is a 5/​5, but overall the bakery is a ⁴⁄₅ for me. Awesome selection of middle eastern pastries and desserts. Worth a stop for the baklava.

This bakery is a good option if you need to buy sweets for a party or other occasion. I bought a selection of pastries, and they were very attractive. They also taste good, and they aren’t too sweet.
I’m glad we have this bakery in the neighborhood.

Do you have a date?
This place is nice and fancy.
The space is small, but romantic.
The cake is always fluffy and fresh.
If you are looking for a nice date this is the place.

We tried this place to have dessert after dinner at Sufi’s Mediterranean and it was amazing. I rarely use that word to describe food but it was so good. We tried several different pastries and they were each perfect in their own way. There was one small pastry that had «rose water «in it and it literally tasted like a rose. I guess I’m too naïve to know what that is but I was impressed at all of the different flavors. There was this one pastry that was a small croissant stuffed with a filling and pistachios and dipped in chocolate; it was like a cannoli only way better. We sat down with a cup of Persian tea and tried all of the different selections and it was awesome.
Also, the lady behind the counter was so sweet and friendly and so was her mother in the back. She took the time to explain each item to us and she was very patient and pleasant. Their service was the icing on the cake (pun intended) to our experience at this bakery.
Do yourself a favor and try this place out.

Omg! We found this place on a whim last night. We will definitely be back. The woman that I presumed to be the owner was so sweet and helpful. We ended up leaving with a variety of items. My favorite were the cream puffs and eclairs. The filling in both was so creamy and milky. Both were full of it. I couldn’t just eat one. The chocolate on the éclair was very pleasant. It was the perfect combo of sweet and bitter. Just writing about it now makes me want to go back now. I can’t wait to go back and try some of their other delicious delights. I definitely recommend this place.

Try the Napoleon! The young woman who helped me was very nice.
This is a great little bakery and perfect place to go for a custom order or just to grab something sweet and a cup of coffee.

Great little place to grab some desserts to enjoy with tea. The lady working there was very sweet & described all the different kinds of treats to us. Everything is sold by the pound. I like that you can pick & choose from the variety of cookies. We will definitely be coming back for these Persian delights.

Bought a few pastry items from here, they had very limited options of fresh pastries, and the stuff we bought was just ok.

Awesome desserts and pastries for a really good price. Loved the cream puffs and the eclairs.

i was craving delicious Persian almond cookies and they came through– also with beautiful pastries (napoleans and crème puffs!!)

I am a professional caterer and we cater many weddings. In the 6 years we have catered weddings, I have never seen a wedding cake being delivered not assembled. The father of the bride asked us to put a three tier cake together. If this bakery belongs to the same company than the restaurant next door (Sufi and Balboa Market) then I am not surprised by the lack of professionalism. The cake looked decent, but the flavor was like prepackage cake mix. The inside was a little dry. I won’t be surprised if they ask the caterer to decorate the cake next!!!

We were trying to find a new bakery near our house and decided to try this place. It’s nice and clean but we were pretty disappointed with the selection of desserts available. There was mostly just small little cookies that didn’t look very exciting. We ended up getting a couple pieces of chocolate cake slices that whole tasty and delicious don’t really make us want to go back for more.

My friend and I decided to give this place a try after stuffing ourselves at Sufi. The inside of the bakery is fairly small with a decent selection of yummy desserts. What caught my eyes right away is an assortment of delicious looking dark chocolate barks.
At a whopping of $ 1x a pound, we were a little taken back by the price. It looked too good to pass up though so we went with the dark chocolate with raspberry and peanut. It was delicious! You can tell at the first bite that they use high quality dark chocolate and it was definitely worth the price. The dark chocolate had the right amount of bitterness and the slight sourness of the raspberry complimented each other perfectly.
Definitely give this place a try if you’re craving for dark chocolate!

Small friendly neighborhood bakery specializing in desserts and pastries.