BF Bakery & Cafe

If u wanna believe the reviews of people who bought watered down coffee/​tea and a piece of bread and called it good… Go ahead ignorance is bliss.
However u might want to listen to someone that tells u that cleanliness, customer service, and overall human decency is way down on the list of priorities of anyone at this store. Hope u like extra flys in ur bread cause u have to shoo them away before u pick ur bread.

My review is only for the Portuguese egg tarts there. They are probably the best I’ve come across in California. It tastes just like the one I’ve had in Portugal, so I find that to be quite impressive. I like toasting it slightly before having it, and it’s real addicting. Plenty of butter and sugar is used, so keep your cholesterol and blood sugar in mind when consuming these. It’s easy to wolf down 4 without really realizing what you’re doing because it’s so good. Use an oven toaster, not a microwave since it comes packaged in a little foil tin.

Blueberry Danish ! very tasty get some before I eat all of it ha ha
Say nice to nice nice lady

Located inside Chinese super market and the breads don’t look particularly fresh and or clean… but its good if you just need something quick to munch on.
Btw. the bag lady took a day and a half just to put four bread into baggies…

This review is way overdue…
So in love with Bread Farm, mainly because of the manager, Albert. Albert, if you’re reading this, you are what makes Bread Farm so awesome! He is so sweet and friendly, giving absolutely the best customer service in the world and the ONLY one there who knows how to make my husband’s and my coffee perfect. From the first time I ordered coffee there and Albert made it for me, I was hooked. The flavor was so delicious; I’ve never had such yummy coffee. I stopped going to Starbucks for a while because I wanted Bread Farm’s coffee more (I know, I know– a lot of people hate SB, claiming their product isn’t that great anyway but I do enjoy my occasional SB crack). I get their hot speciality coffee, regular sweet with caramel and my husband gets the iced Americana.
The breads are baked fresh daily– come early in the morning when they’ve opened for just an hour or so and you see them constantly pulling hot bread from the ovens and putting them out for sale. My family really enjoys them. They have flavors that other similar Chinese bakeries do not, like my son’s favorite: Mushroom Bacon Cheese. Bacon say what?! They also do Portuguese Egg Tarts, all warm out of the oven in the mornings. The crust is not as flaky as it should be but it’s so fresh that the flavor makes up for it.
They also have a good variety of cakes and desserts. Most of the desserts are mousse based and/​or made with fresh fruits and a mildly sweet whipped cream icing. They’re a little pricier than most places but good.
The bakery is very clean and they follow strict Health Department rules because all the breads are out in the open. Remember to use the tongs and bring those tongs to the register with you when you pay– you can’t put them back! It’s a sanitation thing; they have to wash the tongs after every use.
Definitely give this place a try– you’ll love the service, baked goods and coffee!

What a great mini bakery chain!
Set up like the other Asian bakery chains here where you serve yourself and they box it up for you.
Prices are low compared to most other bakeries, all single items run just under $ 2.
They also have beautiful cakes for super cheap, perfect gift.
Over time I have tried most of their products and loved them all.
Service is excellent, they pack everything beautifully and box it up for you which makes it seem just a bit more special, love coming here!

My review is solely for their sponge cake cupcakes filled with mousse inside. (I’m not certain of the actual name.) My review does not include experience (customer service, parking) at the actual location either which is in the 99 Ranch Market. They are a «Euro-​Asian» bakery.
My mom stops by my work to pick up something from me and she had bought a couple items from Bread Farm Bakery for me. (I know. she’s so sweet, right? I didn’t even ask her to.)
She called them «cupcakes», but they’re not your typical American cupcakes. She got me chocolate and lemon.
My thoughts:
Chocolate — It’s like a fluffy chocolate sponge cake with chocolate balls on top which were great for added texture. When I got to the middle, there was this delicious chocolate-​ty rich mousse inside. The entire thing was not overpoweringly sweet, which I like. (With typical cupcakes, I sometimes have to take a break from eating it to sip on a glass on milk or something.)
Lemon — This was also like a vanilla sponge cake with hint of lemon with an airy white mousse in the middle. It wasn’t too tart and once again, not overwhelmingly sweet.
It was actually a little difficult taking the wrapping off both cakes. As you can see in the photo, I had to rip it off and the bottom of the cakes stuck to the wrapper. This fact makes it hard to eat without a fork and plate, which is how I had to eat both.
It’s been a few days since I had the second one and I’m still thinking about it now. So that tells you. yes — this is «crave-​able».
Yum…
²⁰⁵⁄₁₀₀ Reviews for 2014

I have yet to try their dessert here but their bread is ok. It’s convenient to have a nearby bakery but it’s probably not the one I would come back often to. Especially when the couple of times I came here, I’ve seen flies inside the bread cases. Just seeing a fly in there for so long makes me lose my appetite. Their cases here aren’t secure enough leaving gaps in-​between the door. Even worse is this bakery is right next to the main entrance of 99 Ranch. Not a big fan especially with something like this. I was nice to let the fly out but I don’t know how many times I’ve seen flies inside that case. Service is slow too.

Good bread and tasty! I love the bread with lots of butter and most of the bread here are heavy with butter.
The variety is huge and a lot better than the one in the food court. Service are great as well. This is a daily place that I visit.

They have weekly specials on the weekday… buy any bread and get one of their promotional breads for free!
The staff here is great and really friendly. The bread is pretty decent and is reminiscent of 85 degree bakery but smaller

Stopped by the 99 Ranch to grab some dessert to take it to a friend’s bbq and noticed this bakery. The bread looked pretty good and flavors look interesting.
Tried a bite of an orange bread and a slice of their tiramisu and was underwhelmed. Something was missing!
I also wanted to get the matcha frappé but they only had one person in the front, the cashier, so they couldn’t serve any drinks.
Really?

Depends on what part of Asia these lovely bread and pastries are born, a baby bun can cost $ 2.75 in Korea Town and here at Bread Farm Bakery & Café may be a dollar less!
Amazingly, at this price point, Bread Farm can still spends some TLC on its packaging! (I HEART it, I admit, I eat the mill works more than the food at restaurants.) The boyz at the counter are very mellow, speak easy and cute. They giggled a lot to make me feel better after a long dreadful day.
I broke a 2′ long bread stick into 2 pieces while struggling to pull it out from the sky high pile. I asked a staff nearby if the cashier may charge me for 2 instead of 1, such a silly question, we both laughed.
At the counter, they did a quick visual on all my purchases before ringing and bagging them up. That broken bread stick did not pass their QA, and they insisted swapping it out for me saying, «Our bread is very LONG, not that small.» I couldn’t help giggling to myself and said its ok I will take it home.
Overall, the great service from the staffs earns 3 stars on this Unilocal review, the quality and selection of the baked goods earn 1 star and another 1 star for affordability. So, 5 stars! !!!

The newly opened Bread Farm is located by the south entrance in the somewhat remodeled Ranch 99 Market in Arcadia. It took the place of Desir Bakery. This was much needed to update the market’s image & bring more foot traffic. (as if they need more customers)
As for Bread Farm itself, it would be easy for people to compare it to 85C in ways that you grab a tray & tongs and go around the display case, picking your carb loaded treats from behind the plastic barrier, then proceed to have the cashier bag ‘em and ring you up. When fresh items come out from the kitchen, they will yell «hot bread!», just like 85C.
However, that’s where the similarities end. Bread Farm is much smaller and there’s not too much space to maneuver. The selection is a fraction of 85C, and so are their prices. As for the friendliness of the cashiers, the day we went, they must have been overworked without a break. Both guys were a bit lethargic and lacked any facial expressions.
We bought:
Dried buttermilk danish. The sample they handed out by the entrance was hot, flaky and delicious. But after taking it home, it quickly lost its crispy, flaky texture. To reheat and recapture that flaky crunch, I used the oven at very low heat. Tough it was flaky again, for some reason, it tasted greasier.
Jalapeño hot dog, one of the better savory breads I’ve had from various bakeries. Slight kick from the pepper and fresh, soft bread. I ate it fresh & it was very good. But a few more pieces of jalapeño wouldn’t hurt.
Some blueberry danish (don’t know the name) It’s long (like a rectangle), has the right amount of blueberry spread and not too sweet.
A strawberry cake (similar to 85C’s half moon cake, but not as good.) It’s 2 layers of pan cake, cut in half with a thin layer of strawberry cream in the middle. I won’t miss this if it went away.
My conclusion is that these breads are pretty good when fresh but don’t keep well, even for later in the day, so it’s best to just buy what you can eat in the next few hours. Go for the flaky ones first as they tend to lose their crispy texture rather quickly.
Bread Farm also tries to be unique (understandably, there are so many Asian bakeries around the 626) but with creations like cheese bread & taro paste, some things just shouldn’t be together. The greasy cheese on the outside does not work well with the sweet, creamy taro inside.
As they get busier in the future, I see a traffic jam by the entrance into the market. There’s barely enoug room for the staff to bring the bread out from the kitchen, and when the free sample tray comes out, the vultures swarm, nearly clearing out the whole tray before the employee makes it to the front of the bakery.
Still, it’s nice to have an updated bakery with different fresh breads than say JJ, which is a few minutes away.

I will be coming back, and will avoid their «creative» inventions. 3.5 stars!

Nice imitation of 85 degrees bakery. The staff yell out every time there is free sample or fresh bread which is pretty funny. They don’t have as much variety and pricing is pretty similar. They are inside the 99 Ranch super market. If 85 degrees is too far away or the wait is just ridiculous, this place would be a decent alternative.

HOT BREAD! HOT BREAD! That is their chant here as new pastries are being brought out. This wanna be 85C puts forth a good effort but they’re not quite there. They have some funky bread combinations that I’ve never seen before. I didn’t they try any as they seemed a little too funky,
Prices are reasonable and they also have a display case of cakes and tarts that looked good. They have a menu that includes coffees and teas, but not quite as varied as 85C offers.

I kinda miss the old Desir bakery.
Bread Farm is the bougie version that is trying to become a mini 85, but I’m not digging all of their «new concept» buns. I’m a fob at heart, just give me a plain taro bun and I’m a happy camper.
Bread Farm is trying to jazz up the menu with items like:
Teriyaki bread– Pineapple on a stick encased in bread topped with teriyaki sauce and shaved bonito flakes.
Jalapeño cheese hot dog bun– Sliced hot dogs embedded into a bun with a sprinkling of chopped jalapenos and cheese.
Bacon, mushroom, and peppers bread– Large bundt sized loaf. Good, but on the soft side.
99 Ranch still carries some of their staple items from Desir in the acutal market, so fear not, you can still get cheap Asian cupcake bread, Pan de leche, white toast, and coconut raisin bread inside.

I went on a Saturday night and was worried they would be out of pastries. Nope! There was plenty! This place is comparable to Paris Baguette but I personally like it better because it’s so much cheaper and tastes great. We bought several pastries: mushroom bacon bun, hot dog bun, strawberry tart, pineapple butter bread, and 2 danish fruit boxes. They were all good but my favorite was the tart, fruit box, and mushroom bacon bun. Most of the pastries are $ 1.25-$ 2.50 and are very fresh. The area is small so you have to squeeze between others to pick your buns but it’s not bad. They’ve got a wide variety of sweet and savory treats and the place is nice, new, and clean.

(Review based on 3.5 stars)
I came by here last Saturday evening with my husband, a little after 7:30 pm (they close at 8 pm). There was still quite a selection even close to closing. I think the name of this place (Bread Farm) is kind of cute and quirky. If I was a little kid, I would probably take the name real literal and think there was a little corral of bread all kept in one little area or a place that produced bread (not the ingredients to make the bread but actual loaves of bread grown straight from the grown). Yea I know that is real random, but when I told my cousin that I went to this place bread farm, he thought that was what it was, lol.
Anyways, this is what we purchased:
Chocolate Bread– I liked this bread because it was not dry and a little moist (even after 2 days after purchasing it). I liked the chocolate coating on the bread, but the chocolate fell apart (best to eat this with a plate). I thought I would mention that this bread has raisins in it, fyi (I know not everyone is a fan of raisins).
Coffee Raisin Bread– I did not like this bread because it was rather on the dry side. But my husband liked it. I am not a real big coffee fan, so the flavor also wasn’t that appealing to me.
Danish Fruit Box– This was the best item we got here. This fruit pastry was moist. I liked the cream and the fruit in the middle. I would definitely purchase this again.
Service was like a mixed bag, depending on who was helping you. This one Caucasian woman behind the register was very friendly and bagged the bread items very quickly and also was able to ring up customers quickly as well. But these 2 Chinese people who helped us were a lot slower, as they were trying to scan the bar codes that are in this binder (to ring up our purchases) and bag up our items. One guy was bagging and one girl was trying to ring up our total, but yet the other woman was able to do both at the same time. But waiting just a little longer at the check out line wasn’t a big deal to me.
This place is kind of like an 85 Degree Bakery, as you can get your own tray and pick the items you want with tongs (make sure to get the white paper to line your tray) and go through the little selection of baked goods. I like the wooden case the baked goods are stored in (an all wood décor just has a nice look to me). But of course this place is not 85 Degree Bakery (they are Bread Farm remember?) so no one is coming out and announcing «fresh bread» and the baked goods we got on our tray were not hot/​warm. But of course we did go less than 30 minutes of closing time, so maybe if we come earlier next time (as there will be a next time) maybe the baked goods will be warmer (but not a deal breaker to me if they weren’t).
At Bread Farm, you can also get some selected coffees and cake (also individual slices of cake) in the refrigerated display case (again, similar to how 85 Degree run their show). I think overall, this place is pretty good and glad it isn’t overly crowded, but I can see how it may begin to as more and more find out about this place. I plan on coming back here.
FYI, just as an additional note, this place is located in the 99 Ranch Market, where the old bakery, Desire, used to be. Parking isn’t really that bad, as long as you are willing to park a little further away. Also this place takes credit card.

This new bakery inside the 99 ranch did a huge make over from the previous one. This one is a lot closer to 85C and Paris Baguette. They offer some similar bakery but with some twist such as pork meat in the cake roll. A tons of staff work here, you can see through kitchen. A lot of way is an improvement from the same boring Chinese Bakery. I think they need some improvement especially in their cake department, it lack the style that 85C or Paris Baguette. They also serve coffee and tea but selection isn’t much. Overall I gave this place a nice effort but quality is still need improvement.

I totally thought Bread Farm was going to be another Asian bakery, and in some ways, it is. They have Asian breads. They have coffee and tea drinks. They’re trying to be… a smaller, lesser version of 85c.
What I thought was really odd was the lack of Chinese on the bread labels. This IS located INSIDE a Chinese supermarket… in a predominantly Chinese part of Arcadia… What do you tell the Asian grandma who has never learned English who’s trying to buy bread? A problem that could be somewhat remedied by help from staff members… except that most of them weren’t Chinese. So, if I could not read or understand English, I’d just be left buying by sight or guessing.
A poor user experience execution aside, Bread Farm has vast and deliciously inviting bread varieties. I saw a number of flavors I’ve never seen before, including paprika hot dog bread, teriyaki danishes, and masago bread. Who came up with these combos? Hopefully I have a chance to try all their unique flavors.
The bacon/​mushroom/​cheese bread is up for breakfast.