Bakery Crescent

Excellent, soft, loaves of Japanese style shoku-​pan. We only get bread here.
They also have beautifully lined up kashi-​pan. I love their anpan and an-​donuts!!!

The bento is wonderul. Great selection with terrific side dishes. Closest thing to Mom’s homemade…

Their bento, sandwitches, pastries and breads are awesome! Tip pre order your obento for pick up.

Portions are small but, for the price they charge which is inexpensive for super delicious real Japanese style Bento Boxes it’s well worth it! The pastries here are really tasty also!

Oh, the beaming smile on the very nice lady behind the counter as she noticed me coming back into the shop 1.11 minutes after leaving. «You taste, you taste?» How did she know?!
Yes, this place is that dang delicious that I had to run back in to buy more after sitting down and tasting the desserts with my mom in the car. On the way to Mitsuwa, I saw the sign of this bakery on the road and pulled a crazy turn into the parking lot to save time. The strip mall isn’t very noticeable as there isn’t much there, especially nothing that I had heard of, but I read reviews about this bakery on Unilocal and the name sparked in my memory, so I had to stop in and check it out.
The bakery is not that big or fancy, but oh my Jesus, when you look at the pastries, your mouth waters. Everything is so delicious looking and so cute! There aren’t millions of options, but there is a decent selection… and literally, I don’t think you could do any wrong with what you pick.
On our first visit before going back in, we got the coffee pastry, melon pan, and apple pastry. Where do I even start? The melon pan is this soft, bread-​like pastry. It is so light and fluffy inside, and it’s sweet without being a sugar-​ladened «I feel like I just downed 12 pixie stix» sweet. It had a very neat flavor — perhaps melon as in the name suggests? Who knows, but it is delicious. The coffee and apple pastries were both made out of crescent dough, and they just melt in your mouth. Once again, these are definitely sweet, but not some crazy disgusting sweet. You and your mouth and stomach feel so happy afterwards, even when they were trying to eat super healthy (hey, you need a little sweetness once in a while!). After trying these (we sampled… just a little piece [or 2 or 3] of each!), we came back to get the blueberry and cinnamon raisin pastries for the rest of our family. Once again, they were made out of the crescent dough. I didn’t taste them, but my father and brother loved them — and they smelled so good!
Besides the obvious deliciousness factor and prettiful presentation, the way the lady put each individual pastry into a clear plastic bag before putting it into the big bag — obvious care because it wasn’t just dumped in! The pastries were about 1.50 ish each, give or take, which may be a little more than buying a pack of 10 for like 4 bucks at Jewel, but one) no one should be eating 10 and two) these actually taste AMAZING, not just «good».
There were also some Asian drinks along the wall (this is a Japa

Melon buns!
The boo, his bro and I stopped in here after a brief but fruitful stint at the sushi & Korean restaurant 2 doors over where even walking in you could smell the baking buns from Bakery Crescent.
My boo spent the month of April in Japan and a from what I’ve heard, basically lived off sushi and baked buns similar to the ones sold here, so naturally, we just HAD to stop in so he could get his fix of Nippon-​style nibbles.
The dude chose 3 items to split between the three of us, the chosen trois wouldn’t have been my picks but all were surprisingly good. I would’ve gone with something a bit more chocolatey, or even the the crazy looking corn bun, but the guy got the red bean, the melon and the crème one which he knew I would have no part in because of my aversion to custard. The red bean was very PB&J reminiscent but with a bean’ier texture and sans the PB and the melon bun had a surprising amount of flavor for such a light and airy puffed pastry.
The service was swift and sweet and the prices were perfect and more than reasonable. I’ll be back, probably before the holiday weekend is over.

I’m a Hippo House fan, but when it’s only the pastries I want (not the groceries) I’d rather go here than Hippo that’s located inside the giant, crowded Mitsuwa Market. It’s simply more convenient at Bakery Crescent.
This is an old-​school bakery that offers the very basic items — anpan (sweet beans), cream pan, choco pan, melon pan, yakisoba pan, sausage pan, raisin pan, mayonnaise pan, choco danish, you name it. They’re everyday pastries, nothing special. Each is about $ 1-​$ 2, which is very reasonable. They also carry packaged crust-​less sandwiches, canned/​bottled beverages, rolls and bread loafs, etc.
Friendly staff. A bit odd to find a Japanese video rental right next to it, though… they share the same entrance.
* «pan» = bread
**Cash only