Royal Crown Bakery

The best bread in Brooklyn and maybe NYC. Crusty, chewy, irresistible.

There is not a bad item here! So glad they re-​opened this location! So worth the trip! Try getting home without eating some of what you just purchased I am partial to the sausage and peppers bread! So fresh and the bread is like nothing I have ever experienced! Too bad they didn’t have the pizza bread when I was in. Because that is the star of the bakery! They do have the usual Italian pastries — but the bread is the reason to come back again and again They have added a few small café tables to enjoy some expresso and a pastry — so worth the drive!

I never tried this place before it closed for renovations, but was keen to try it after they complete. While there was nothing wrong with what we had, it didn’t seem quite up to the quality of some of the other bakeries in the area, such as Il Fornaretto and Sal and Jerry. The sesame cookies were a bit too sweet, the bread was OK, just not great. The standards of the area are high, and they may have been having teething problems. The people were friendly. I will give it another shot

I lived across the street from Royal Crown. They closed for a while to renovate. I walked by everyday for a year anxiously waiting for the grand opening, and they finally opened the week I was about to move to another neighborhood =(
But, I’m glad I was able to try a few things there before I left. Their coffee and biscotti were great, but the what won me over was their olive bread. It was so fresh and delicious! I’m about half an hour away now, but I’ll definitely be back.
The place looks great now, there is seating inside and out back.

Love this place. Chocolate bread is fantastic!

Original location has closed, they now sell loaves from their distribution point on 14^th avenue and 63^rd street.
Bread is still great, but it’s not really a «store» anymore in that sense, because all you can get is bread and nothing else.

Best Bread in Brooklyn. Possibly the world?
I am very lucky to live no where near the Royal Crown bakery or else I would be in serious trouble. Whenever we go, we have to get two loaves of the Prosciutto bread — one to eat on the drive home and another for the house. Olive load is also good and the seven grain baguette which they were not making last time I went there.
Brick oven, baked fresh daily — their bread does get stale by the second day so don’t let it sit at home too long (not that it ever does).
AND they are open on Thanksgiving (at least they are this year — 2012)!!!

They had a nice selection of sweet and savory. The prosciutto roll and apple strudel were delicious.

Stopped in for seeded semolina baguette and ate 75% of it in the 20 block walk home. BF not pleased but totally understood. Best, most soulful bakery of its kind in Brooklyn, no jive anywhere, you taste the love in everything. Get an Italian cheesecake (made with ricotta) instead of an «American» one next time you need to bring dessert to a dinner party and everyone will want to sleep with you. The little pizzas, not so much, they are hit or miss — seem to be better early in the day, stale later.

Royal Crown Bakery is the place to go for rustic, homestyle loaves of Italian bread. The bread’s delicious, in part for the right amount of salt, and in part for the real (and rare) brick oven. Now, usually bread-​makers are not good pastry-​makers, and vice versa, but this is my mecca for sfogliatelle as mid-​morning or mid-​afternoon collation, and the lobster tails make for fantastic dessert. 14^th Ave. & 65^th St., Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
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Everything in this place is good. Awesome rice balls and pizza.

so i called my friend one morning and made him get out of bed to drive to bensonhurst so we could go on a cannoli crawl. this crawl involved trying 8 different cannolis from different places in the area.
Weird peppermint flavor, worse than cannoli’s from the south
let me explain further, my friend is from the south, and he deemed these cannolis worse than those from the south, which makes me uncomfortable just thinking about. i would say the shell was stale and the ricotta had a peppermint flavor at the end which didn’t do anything good for it. i wouldn’t get their cannolis again
it appears as those this bakery is better for bread though, which may explain its poor cannoli attempt

Growing up around this neighborhood, I am proud to say that Royal Crown Bakery serves the best cookies, breads, and cheesecakes in Brooklyn! I am in love with the cookies. The best time to get the cookies is in the morning when they are warm and fresh. I remembered I got 6 pounds of cookies for my co-​workers and they were in loved with the cookies.
The best part of the bakery is not the breads but the cheesecakes! Yes — cheesecakes. I really like the cheesecake because it is moist and it has the right amount of sweetness that is not overpowering.

I was craving my usual italian pastries and came to this store because it was closer, but they didn’t have a good selection at all. They only had a couple of pastry choices and lots of cookies and bread. If you are looking for a better selection, go over to the 90’s in bay ridge for tpaneantico. The royal crown restaurant a few blocks away has great sandwiches though! Anything on their fresh bread would taste delicious though!

I go outta my way for their bread.
My fall routine on Sundays have been this so far: church, bakery then pass out in my living room watching football and eating bread. It’s a beautiful life.
I tried looking for bread in Park Slope, but everything was too limited compared to Royal Crown. This place is known for their oven brick baked bread and their pastries are good I hear, but you must must try their prosciutto or chocolate bread. I am not alone in this recommendation either. I find that these breads keep especially well through the week if it even lasts that long. As long as I’m living in Brooklyn I’m coming here for my fresh bread needs.

Bread.
Royal Crown has me loving bread.
My palette has changed. As a child, bread was an edible utensil — it kept me clean (er) by sandwiching meats instead of my then preferred method of grab-​and-​stuff, and provided some nutritional carbohydrates. I never thought much about bread, how it tasted, how it felt. Then I got older and began to see bread as a side dish or as a alterable addition to a meal a la «Yes, the dinner rolls are good here.» «I’ll have it on 7 grain please.» Now however, something has changed, and for the better in my opinion. Bread is the meal. At least it is whenever I buy from Royal Crown.
Royal Crown doesn’t make bread. They make BREAD. They manage to infuse their loaves of love with such hearty flavors, it becomes a meal of its own. It’s great with a little oil, some soft cheese, or (my favorite) a spread of hummus, but best of all, it’s perfect alone. Never has a loaf made it from store to home fully intact. Inevitably there’s a chunk missing, usually in the shape of my fist.
I must warn those as eager as I however, the underside of your loaf is heavily covered in flour. Be careful with your clothes.
Bread.
Soft and light you are
With a delectable crust
Yes you will be mine

This place has the BEST rainbow sprinkled cookies with raspberry filling. None of those other fancy, popular Little Italy bakeries can even come close. And at 8.50/lb, the price is cheap! The Napoleon and Cannolis are pretty good too!
The bread seems to sell pretty well too. Whenever I come in, people are leaving with a loaf or two of bread. I have tried the chocolate bread based on the recommendation of a fellow patron. It definitely was a good call on her part. Absolutely amazing after you slice it and toast it slightly.
This place is 6 stars in my book!!!

An old-​fashioned Italian bakery, not dressed to impress, no frills, but this small space is stacked with piles of bread loaves, cookies, cakes, and other traditional Italian pastries. Came one early Saturday morning for bread and was most definitely impressed with the quality. Bought plain rustic round loaves and baguettes, which were some of the best I’ve had, and even held up well for brunch the following day after being left out. The jam cookies were terrific too, soft and crumbly. Will be back for more.

Bread porn at it’s finest. As I stood eyeing the dark, round loaves, I was taken aback by their big round beauty and felt a litlle faint. I haven’t been to Royal Crown in years, and was enjoying the moment.
The smaller baguette sized loaf, just out of the oven and sprinkled with flour was warm. I bought it for $ 1 and ripped off a piece. Hmmmmm. Best Italian bread in town. You can buy the bread in Manhattan at some gourmet stores for a substantial markup, but live and in person it is a treat.

A good, old-​fashioned Italian neighborhood bakery and more-​or-​less the only one around the immediate area. They have the typical assortment of Italian pastries (lobster tails, cannoli, mille-​feuille, etc.), but the real reason to go is the bread. I have gone around 8:30am on the weekends and you can buy loaves of rustic, crusty, flavorful, but light bread still hot and what a glorious thing it is. Royal Crown is known for its bread (Zagat-​rated and the whole nine), and it really is great.
The shop is cute and sells a lot of other really nice Italian goods — Torrone, pannetone, croissants (which were a little sweeter than I would have liked), Danish, cookies and various cakes among other things. It’s really nice to have a place like this around and the bread makes it completely worthwhile.