85°C Bakery Cafe

My favorite bakery since last year. Usually 85 is not known for their boba so I was hesitant to try it but it tastes amazing. I don’t know if it is just this specific place or other branches as well because I haven’t tried boba at any other 85 degrees. I highly recommend their Regular milk tea and Jasmine green tea. Most of the time, their brioche is really good, soft on the inside. Their breads are always fresh and there are many cake options. I don’t really like taro but their taro cake tastes great.

85 °C Bakery Café is a Taiwanese chain of coffee shops and self-​serve bakeries and has over 800 branches located in Taiwan, Australia, and the United States. Known as the «Starbucks of Taiwan», the company opened its first location in Taiwan in 2004 and their first US location in Irvine, California in 2009. Now, there’s over 17 locations in the United States, but so far, only in California.
I went to the Buena Park, California location to pick up some pastries for an early flight. This store is located off Beach and La Mirada Blvd., inside a very busy Asian strip mall, hidden between a sushi restaurant and Paik’s (Korean) noodle shop. Parking is horrible, especially on weekends or at night, or when families go to the Korean market, H-​mart to shop for their groceries.
Inside, the set up is similar to that of any 85 °C store. On one side of the store is the self serve pastries and breads. Customers grab a tray and tongs, and hand pick the freshed baked bread item of their choice. There are variety of items from European multi-​grain breads, Japanese style milk breads, Taiwanese style sweet and savory breads, to sweet and savory Danish style breads. The description and price are usually posted next to the bread, and when finished, you take it to the cashier to pay.
On the other side of the store is a counter where you can order sliced or whole cakes, hot and coffee drinks, or hot and cold teas. In addition, there are a handful of tables and chairs for customers to relax and enjoy their cake and coffee, or to use their free wifi.
There was so many bread items to pick from, I chose the popular Japanese premium milk bread: a soft bread with a fresh milk taste, white chocolate filling with sweet powdered sugar on top, along with the Taiwanese «Berrytale», a bread filled with blueberry or mango cream cheese with a drop of blueberry jam on top.
I did add other sweet breads (not shown), and the total for 13 various bread items came to $ 20 and change, or about $ 1.50 for each item. What a bargain!

Their Iced Sea Salt Coffee is my favorite. I was bummed out after realizing there was no salt in my beverage after leaving and well on my way home in Alhambra and where I usually go to their Main Street location for my Iced Sea Salt Coffee fix!

Always love coming here! 85 degrees is the perfect spot ro fill my sweet tooth crave without being overly sweet! Love the brioche and the pastries. I’m always drulling over all the goodies in the glass windows! The mochas here are pretty darn good too! Love the frozen mocha with bolba!

In the little Korea area of Buena Park. Love love their deserts, such variety. Good luck getting a parking spot on weekends, this area is crazy, but worth it. I think I get the milk cake or something like that. One thing, only buy what you can eat, it’s not that good the next day.

I am a huge 85 fan. I love their taro lattes and their pastries. I was visiting my best friend out in Fullerton and no we went here, yesterday. Sad to say that this was the worst experience I have had with the company.
My latte came out barely above warm, my mango roll was really dry, but the taro bun was warm and delightful and the chocolate brioche was tastey.
I think it had more to do with the staff than the quality of the products. My friend and I were trying to figure out which items were on sale, and an employee just stood there with his back towards us seemingly ignoring us, when I am pretty sure he overheard us asking questions. Though when I very directly asked him, he gave a big smile and was helpful. Maybe he just didn’t hear me, hopefully. The cashier was very abrupt, did not smile or verify the drink order, and cut me off when I was trying to explain what I wanted. Then the other two employees making the drinks were rushed enough that they didn’t really care that a beverage that should be hot, was hot.
I love 85, but i wasn’t impressed with this one. I’ll always give this company my business, but maybe I’ll go to Paris Baguette, next time. On the other hand… A warm taro latte is better than no taro latte!

It was funny how I was craving this during the week but there are no locations nearby… We were in town having dinner with friends checking out a Korean BBQ place nearby. As we parked I noticed this store! Can you say it was meant to be? LOL.
I’ve been to other locations before and sometimes it would be a hit and miss where they would run out of my fav breads so I wasn’t expecting much. I just wanted to stop in to pick some up while waiting for our table at the BBQ place.
I must say, the store was clean and appealing. It is smaller than others but has plenty of tables and chairs indoors and outdoors. There also seems to be a bit more variety of bread which I haven’t seen a few before. It was 5pm, so there were just a few people ahead of us and shelves were nicely full and stocked! The only downside is that it can get a little tight as you work your way through the bread section.
I picked up a variety of bread (love the milk pudding, berrytale, red bean) including toast, pastry and cookies…21 items for $ 36.01 (incl. tax). There were a few cashiers and the line moved rather quickly. Justin, the cashier was friendly and efficient. He asked if everything was okay and also offered options of bag or box. He quickly placed each item into a separate bag and placed them neatly into boxes. Although it got busy, a long line formed behind us and a lady stopped him to ask a question, he kept calm, answered her question and carried on without feeling rushed.
Overall, my experience here on Sunday was excellent, bread was fresh and fully stocked (I guess it was perfect timing… yes!), and service was great :)

Terrible customer service; good chocolate croissants. The only reason we come here is my kid likes their chocolate croissants, and I like the regular hot coffee. But the customer service is so bad here that I’m over this place, and we are going to make it a point to find a better place to get a quick breakfast before school.
I went here yesterday. I’ve got limited time. My kid picks out her croissant and we wait in line. Once again, there is only one person as a cashier and only one person making coffee at 7:45 in the morning — PRIME TIME for people picking out pastries and ordering coffee, in my opinion. ONE CASIER AND ONE DRINK PERSON, PRIME BREAKFAST TIME. So I’m waiting in line irritated because, of course, two people ahead of me and they have, of course, like 20 pastries each that they are buying and that the poor cashier has to individually bag and take payment for. As I’m waiting, I keep seeing a woman go out of the kitchen area bring more pastries out and putting them in the display bins (guess you call them). I see on her chest a badge with her name and underneath it says «supervisor.»
Really, lady? I’m thinking can’t you see the line which now has 5 people in it and only still one cashier? I can’t believe that she doesn’t stoop putting out the pastries and acknowledge the people in line and get herself behind the cash register. But what happens is the cashier who is working now asks the only drink maker to come up and help him service all the customers in line. So now I can’t even order a drink because the drink person is at the cash register. I even ask the drink person– «so you are the only person making drinks but now you are the cashier.»
She just shrugs her shoulders and says «yes.»
I say «what about the supervisor over here?»
«oh, she’s busy putting out the pastries.»
This place needs some serious training on customer service. We will not be going back. this place brought out the passive-​aggressive feelings in me yesterday that I did not like about myself.

Every time I’m in Buena Park I have to stop by and grab the milk pudding bread, a hazelnut latte and something I’ve never tried.
The milk pudding bread is the perfect amount of sweet for any time of the day, may it be in the early mornings or late in the evening. This delicious snack is paired greatly with a warm cup of their hazelnut latte.
I try to make every visit an experience to remember by branching out and trying something new or different. There is always something new to try or something I’ve yet to try, due to a vast variety of pastries, cakes and more.
The atmosphere is pleasant and plenty of room to sit indoors or out in the courtyard.
I hope this helps!

I like the location in a new-​ish-​er shopping area. I have frequented the Korean noodle house next door, but only been to this location once.
It’s a decent sized bakery, but not the biggest one I’ve been to. It wasn’t as crowded when we visited, so that’s a plus. Very clean inside, but limited seating. More outdoor seating that you share with different businesses around. Good selection of drinks and pastries, and fast service as well

I’ve been coming here for almost 2 years, and 85 has never disappointed me and always satisfies my cravings.
My favorite things from the bakery are brioche, chocolate cake roll, and egg tart. The brioche is great for breakfast, the cake roll is very fluffy, and the egg tart is creamy!
My favorite drinks are green milk tea — always sweet and milky — and passion fruit tea, which is clean and refreshing. Of course, I add boba to them.
85° holds a special place in my heart. They really never disappoint me, even when it’s constantly busy and a little loud. Keep on hustling those baked goods my friends!

Never a disappointment.
From hot fresh bread to warm milk tea on a cold night, 85 degree bakery is always satisfying. The hot dog buns and pineapple buns are delicious. My boyfriend discovered the honey loaf bread which he insists you’re getting the most bang for your buck.
One thing though: they didn’t offer grass jelly for as an add on option and I was craving it at the time. The girl taking my order hadn’t even heard of it before!
All in all, I’ll definitely be back.

Everyone knows about 85 degrees, and I know there was excitement about one opening up in Buena Park. I have mixed feelings about this location. The last couple of times I’ve been to this location, they were out of a lot of the breads/​pastries.
When I go to 85, I like to buy a bunch of stuff. I like how they put each one in separate plastic baggies, but I don’t like that they don’t «seal.» You pretty much have to eat everything you bought right away, or they’ll get stale.
I’m not sure how I feel about the staff. Some of the staff are super friendly, but there are a couple that are just like whatever (as if they hate being there). Also, the staff just don’t know what’s going on or something. During one of my visits in November, a female staff gave us one of those «bonus cards» (you know… if you buy 10 drinks, you get one free?). I noticed that there was an expiration date on the back, but I was thinking maybe they were disregarding that; otherwise, why would the girl give me that? I went back about a week later and bought a bunch of pastries, bread, and a couple of drinks. When I gave a male staff the card, he told me it expired already. I said I just got it last week… and he told me that’s not possible because that had already expired. Ummm… ok. I guess I had nothing better to do than make up a story and carry around an «expired» card.

This place is wonderful! I’ve never been to one of these self serve type bakery cafes, so as a newbie, it took me a few minutes to figure out the system. First I took a cruise around to check out the goods, then I went back for my tray and tongs.
I tried the chocolate croissant, the original crème buns, chocolate cream buns, the savory mushroom breadstick. The dessert case looks amazing, but I don’t eat a lot of sugary treats, so I just settled for looking at them.
They also make an exceptionally great glass of iced tea. I will definitely return.

I like going to 85 degrees mainly for their cakes. And so I was already in this plaza and decided to get a cake here.
~Location
Located in a huge plaza though parking can be difficult at times because this plaza can get pretty busy.
~Cleanliness
I didn’t stick around long enough to sit down on the tables, but based on my visit, the place looked pretty clean.
~Service
The girl that helped me out was cool. So I got a cake and I asked if she could put the piece of chocolate with the happy birthday on it, but unfortunately they ran out. Instead she gave me a couple of candles, which is rare because the 85 degree that I usually go to don’t give out candles.
~Sweets
So I came here solely for a cake. I normally get the tiramisu cake, but I wanted to try the mango crème cake ($ 29) for a change. The cake didn’t taste as good as I had hoped. First off, the taste of the mango tasted like they used unripe mangoes or it could be that they didn’t use mangoes from Hawaii or the Philippines. Second, the chunks of mangos that sat on top of the cakes was not ripe at all. They were very hard and simply tasted bad. But as for presentation wise, the cake looked really nice. Other than that, the cake didn’t taste horrible, but I wouldn’t want to get the mango crème cake again.

Mrs. was very excited when this store opened last year. In the past we used to go to the 85 Degree on Jamboree when we were visiting our friends from Irvine and Aliso Vijeo.
Pros:
Cheaper and tastier compared to chain groceries stores like Albertson’s, Walmart etc.
Pastries are only alright in my opinion. I like the sweets on the sweeter side. However, my colleagues as well as the Mrs. love the cakes from this place. (+1)
Mrs. was actually addicted to their Sea Salt Coffee for a few months (+1)
Cons:
Always out of bread (–1)
Parking is a problem during busier times. We avoid going here at times due to the hassle to find parking (–1)
However many negatives I might think this place has, at the end of the day, we are repeat customers of this business due to their proximity and value on the products that they do have in stock.

I’ve been hearing about 85 °C Bakery for years from friends when they get back from LA, so I knew I had to make a stop when I visited Cali myself. Luckily the place I was staying at had this 85 °C Bakery less than two miles away and this left me with the opportunity to sample a ton of their bread!
My favorites were the taro puff, taro cake slice, egg tart, and chocolate chip bread. I also had their milk tea, sea salt jasmine milk tea, and sea salt coffee, all which tasted good! The sea salt foam was fun, I tasted it alone and lets just say they weren’t kidding about the sea salt. Be sure to milk it up in your drink for the full effect.
If you find yourself coming here a lot they do have a punch card for drinks. If you buy lots of bread they can put it into boxes for your convince (I was able to buy 2 boxes worth of bread to bring back to TX [:). All of the staff was really nice, and they have seating inside and outside the shop. I really hope 85 °C Bakery comes to Texas!

I came here on a Sunday and it was PACKED. We made our way to the bread section and honestly there wasn’t a huge selection. There were a lot of cases but each case had the same breads. We got the :
Taro Bread — Fave. Soft and not too sweet
Chocolate Bread — Husband had it this morning and raved about how good it was
Mushroom Flatbread — Delicious
Brioche — Was excellent as well
Overall everything I’ve tried was super soft and delicious. Wish they had a bigger variety and were a little cheaper.

The mantra of 85 Degrees is «Fresh Bread!», which is what the employees yell out when the fresh bread comes out. I have always liked 85 Degrees because like their mantra, their bread has always been fresh. I recently stopped by this 85 Degrees and was super disappointed in the quality of the bread.
My normal go to 85 Degrees has been either Torrance or Gardena location. On my way to visit a friend, I decided to stop by this location. This location is part of an outdoor shopping center. There seemed to be a good amount of parking spots, but because I came on a Sunday afternoon, all the spots closest to the bakery was full. I was able to snag a 20 minute spot right in front of the store. When I first came into the store, the first thing I noticed was how small the bakery was. Everything seemed to be cramped in together. I wanted to order a cake, drink, and a few pastries/​cookies. I got the cake pretty quickly and munched on my cookie while I waited. The cookie was very stale and old, which was disappointing as every other cookie I had here has been chewy and fresh. My drink order also took forever to come out. About 8 numbers were called after my number, I finally had to talk to the guy who was making drinks and he found my drink order. SIGH. To make the experience worse, the cake that I bought was also very stale. The bread part of the cake tasted old. I was embarrassed and annoyed as I had brought this to someone else.
Overall, a very disappointing 85 degrees. This was very different from the other ones that I have been. I upped on star for this location as the employees were very nice (the guy who was making my drinks was very apologetic for my late drink order). I would go somewhere else for my 85 Degree fix.

SPACIOUS!
This location definitely does not seem to be as busy as the crazy out the door line IRVINE location so it is definitely nice to grab a quick thing or two w/​o having to wait in line for a bit.
Employees are nice & quick
It seems like they have less baked breads here… or it could just be the layout of the place is just way more spacious.
SEA SALT COFFEE — always my go to & they do an awesome job of putting extra sea salt foam when I ask for it & I can taste it!
Also grabbed a small cake here for my friends 26^th b-​day & they packed it up all nice w/​plates & candles & knife for cutting w/​utensils since they saw the big crowd of people come in to by the cake w/​the oblivious b-​day boo present & since I told them we were gonna be eating it outside.