La Teresita Cafe and Bakery

Great little Cuban bakery for very affordable sweets. The guayaba pastelitos are great, and they stay crispy even after sitting in the display for hours. The café con leche is also quite good.

I was a little disappointed when I saw that a young fair skinned blonde woman was working the counter, which was quickly reversed when she asked me what I wanted in a lovely Cuban accent. Just can’t judge those books by their covers. I really enjoyed my guayaba pastelitos with café con leche, it took me back to a time when I worked an ambulance across from a Cuban grocery. But the afternoon is way past the time to be getting these, the proper time is in the morning when they are very fresh. A short walk from Raymond James Stadium, the 15 bus has a stop just a few steps away.

Great food! I had the arroz moro and baked chicken and it was super tasty. The portion size was great. I had to take some home. The mamey shake is really great but ask for it without sugar and just add your own. The service was wonderful as well.

I feel like I’m having a Harold and Kumar crisis looking for a Tres Leche to satisfy the need. My last two experiences just didn’t cut it.
I am at La Terresita looking for a new angle. Maybe it has to be grittier. From the streets.
The area definitely looks more dangerous than it is. There were new cars parked there, but you know I double checked my locks.
I went straight for the bakery. They had other pasteries in two displays, but one display had a fly doing cartwheels. So my options were cut in half, but let’s roll with it. I get a cream horn and ask for a tres leche. The guy goes to the back and I swear I hear a crying baby back there. I don’t care at this point, sacrifice that newborn if it means a killer tres leche.
Sadly not. The cake part was great, but the condense milk at the bottom was unchanged and overpowering. The whip on top had okay texture, but overly oh so sweet. I’m still not satisfied.
Thankfully, the cream horn was pretty good. I didn’t catch very fresh, but it was flakey and interesting. Enough to sustain me for now.

Sweets galore! A nicely sized bakery right by the restaurant for you to pick up some tasty treats to go or stay and chow if you’d like.
The flan is fantastic and also you’ll have to dig into their pastries. Yum. Guava and cheese. Double yum.

Trying to find a parking spot in a very full lot told me I had the right place. The aroma wafts through the door as you walk in, and I was greeted by a very nice lady who seated me. The room was full of families enjoying lunch. I opted for the Sunday special of roast pork, arroz Moro and the garbanzo soup. They served a basket of fresh buttered bread that had a nice crust and a wonderful flavor.
The meal arrived quickly and was nice and hot. The pork was very tender and flavorful, and the rice was full of flavor. The soup was not quite as hot as I expected, but the flavor was quite nice.
The serving sizes were very plentiful, and I was unable to eat it all. I finished my lunch with a very nice café con leche. All of this for around $ 10, an unbelievable deal.

We are from Houston and find a very hard time to find real Mexican food at other places in the U.S. So when we decided to get married in Florida I was in a desperate search to find a tres leches cake to use for the wedding. After an exhaustive search for authentic Mexican confections we found La Teresita.
Their tres leches cake was great! We ordered a few days before the wedding and picked it up the day of. The cake was even better than I expected. Everyone at the wedding loved it. I have not tried many of their other pastries, but what I have tried are really good.

Was here on a Sunday afternoon. Some of the bakery items had run out. Got me some beef empanadas… was amazed how cheap things are!

Open late and great taste and value! I like the chicken and rice and coffee!

I visited this bakery with the rest of the Latin Crawl Unilocalers after chowing down on lunch a block over. The girl working was definitely surprised and overwhelmed with the large party she had to deal with all of a sudden. Nor a big deal, no one was in a rush.
This is definitely a small location and they don’t have the most comfortable of seating, but it’s not a place I would linger at normally. I eyeballed the case to decide what I wanted. I settled on getting a dulce de leche napoleon and a tres leche packaged to go and nursed a large café con leche while I was there. All of it cost under $ 10 so it was a pretty good deal. The tres leche was good and definitely worth getting again. I was kind of apathetic about the napoleon though. The caramel was so sticky and it was already difficult cutting through the pastry layers. I’m glad I opted to cut it with a steak knife at home or I would have butchered it with plastic cutlery there. I’m not sure what I expected when I ordered it, but hey, there were two other positive votes (cut it into 3 parts and shared it) for my apathetic one.
This definitely isn’t a fancy little shop, so don’t expect anything too elaborate. Just lots of traditional pastries and coffee. Yum!

Our 2^nd stop on the Latin Crawl, and more firsts for me. We totally overwhelmed the beautiful young lady working alone in the café, but she handled us all with her pleasant manner and efficient service.
I saw that lots of my fellow Unilocalers were ordering Café con leche, so did I. Wow, so sweet, but delicious. Next time I’ll know to ask for ½ the sugar or Splenda.
Given that this is a bakery I wanted something different that I’d never tried. Enter a puffed pastry with Guava. Having never tasted guava before, it took a few bites to appreciate what I was eating. Yes, I now like guava!
So on this day, everything I ate was totally new to me. Special thanks again to our «Latin Kings» and also to Unilocal.Without becoming a Unilocaler, I never would have experienced all these new and enjoyable cuisines.

I had such a good dessert here… It was flan on top, vanilla cake underneath, and topped with a cherry. The two textures juxtaposed actually blended together nicely. The flan was standard (not a bad thing, mind you) and the vanilla cake was oh so moist and sweet.
My favorite part of this bakery is the pricing. For Christoph, Bobby, and I to get dessert it was less than 10 dollars. In Tampa, that’s a pretty durn good deal!
Next time we’re in town we will definitely make a stop here.

Nice very affordable bakery to get your sweet fix on. I wish they did have signs to tell u what the desserts were along w prices next to them but hopefully they can do that in the future. We tried a nice light chocolate cake and it was super moist and good. I do not know how often I will be in the area but glad I had the opportunity to go. Now I know it is there, it won’t disappoint and it won’t break my bank.

I joined steve and 20 others for today’s UYE visit. Be aware that the bakery is not new, but rebranded again after a while as a Tex-​Mex Café and Bakery and earlier life as bakery alone. So earlier reviews are under the Tex-​Mex name or buried among 200+ reviews for the cluster of La Teresita outlets. For old-​timers, it is in the building that used to be the original La Teresita lunch counter.
Latest planned change is to add ice cream. The place is still looking for a profitable niche, considering it has 4 La Teresita eating places/​sources within a block, and a major Latin bakery nearby
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La Teresita Café and Bakery is located at the intersection of W. Columbus Drive and Lincoln Avenue, immediately adjacent to it’s famous sister Cuban restaurant — La Teresita.
The café and bakery looks like a little pink out building next to the main two-​story restaurant and cafeteria /​lunch counter next door, but walk through the doors of this smaller building and you’ll find a terrific little bakery, serving Cuban and Latin pastries, cakes, cookies, meat pies, and Cuban bread.
As you step inside you’ll be looking right into the bakery area where the guys are busy baking Cuban bread and other goodies. Your eyes can’t help but drift over to the display cases filled with an incredible selection of cookies, flan, cheesecakes, pastelitos, buñuelos, croqueticas in the display cases, and all of the amazing cakes in the big cooler.
Inside, you’ll also find a small counter which serves the incredibly popular Cuban cortado coffee which is an espresso cut with a small amount of warm milk. You’ll be buzzing along happily after one of these! : —)
This is also the place to come to place your orders for catering and party platters with roast pork, turkey and ham as the top favorites, along with all of your favorite sides and spectacular baked goods to go.
Ask the Unilocalers if they enjoyed their visit at La Teresita Bakery. We cash-​mobbed the place this afternoon with about 20 people who were all smiling and rubbing their tummies after this stop.