Pastry Corner

Went with family to hotbreads/​pastry corner today evening. This place is sloppy, dirty carpets and can see food all over the carpets. Resturant is not properly lighted too.
We had ordered Samosa chatt and pappadi chat. Price was low compared to the other Indian restaurants around the area. Food came pretty fast and they brought the food to our table (In the Herndon hotbreads they used to call the token number for pickup).
The quality of both chats were poor and flavor less. We both were unable to take more than 3 – 4 spoons of the food and had to drop it in the trash. The experience was horrible and I never had this bad chat in VA area. I will not visit this place ever and will not recommend to any of the Indian food lovers (especially chat lovers)

Very bad experience the other day. The people in the counter were very rude and did not seem concerned about the quality of food being served. I asked the guys how fresh the puffs were and instead replied back saying the question was weird and even if they were stale and made two days back, they would still display them for sale mentioning it just made 3 hours back. They even laughed and made fun of me saying, don’t ask about freshness. It clearly meant the puffs weren’t fresh. I tried reaching out to the owner to make him aware of the situation but I haven’t received any response so far. Clearly lack of food quality and hospitality. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE UNTIL THEY COMMIT TO FOOD QUALITY AND FRESHNESS.

Stale, Dry Vadapav. Was frozen and not fried properly either.
Stale ketchup as well. panini was okay.
Wont be coming back again!

Nothing is great about this place. Infact the host looked totally disconnected .
The service is very poor. I had gone there once for Biryani and it took ages to get the biryani.
I will recommend this place for only few stuff– VADA PAV /​FRUIT CAKE/​PLUM CAKE. One of the best place for vada pav. Rest on menu are average or below average.

The staff isn’t very friendly and extremely rude when answering the phone. Who ever bakes the cakes and pastries should get a RAISE! I have had their chicken panini which is pretty good but the cakes and pastries are SOOOOOOO DELICIOUS!
Their business would flourish if the staff was friendly and welcoming.
Who ever the person is that bakes those cakes and pastries I’d like to personally meet him or her and give them a HUGE TIP!

I actually work near this, so I decided to pop in before work. Imagine my surprise when this place isn’t just a bakery, it’s a yummy Indian place! I ordered the chicken curry, mango lassi, and some samosas. It was delicious! The samosas were only a dollar each, and I shamelessly ordered three! It took about 10 minutes to get my order together but it was nice and the curry was even a bit spicy. Yum! The lassi was nice and refreshing for my taste buds. I was also offered some chutney for free on the side. Great place and I’m sure to go again!

I ordered keema mattar — ground meat– which is supposed to be just meat and instead they put the keema in the same sauce as the butter paneer. It was so horrible and such a waste of my time and money. Really disgusting and a shame you would serve something different than what the dish should be. I would have came back to get my money back but I discovered this after I got to work

Decent quality dessert, especially the cream puffs. They have enough variety for tea type desserts. Some of the cakes were a bit too sweet for my taste but i think that’s mostly just the icing. Could use some work on the packaging though. It’s better for pick up than staying in and sit down though.

I really wanted to love this place.
Seating is available. They have a nice selection of baked goods. Unfortunately, nothing looked incredibly appetizing. It didn’t seem all that fresh. We decided to grab some homemade White Bread, Puffs, and Cakes. Service is lacking. Employees aren’t all that friendly.
The White Bread was a bit harder than I would have liked. It was also lacking in flavor. The Puffs looked really good and I was excited to try this. Unfortunately, the pastry tasted old. Like it was sitting in the fridge for one too many days. The fillings lacked a depth of flavor. Pass.
The cakes were the best part. We enjoyed the Black Forest and Pineapple Cakes. It wasn’t too sweet, light, moist cake, and quite flavorful. Good.
Would I suggest traveling from afar to try this place out? Not really.

Horrid. Nightmare food. How can sag paneer be so totally mangled? Everything looks and tastes like week old food microwaved. Even the basmati. We ordered 7 different menu items; nothing was edible. I am so sorry, because we need this concept in the neighborhood, but this place is an insult.

So apparently, Hot Breads is a popular place for food, not only desserts. However, I can’t think of a single reason why that would be. I went with family the first time and ordered a Paneer Puff. No flavor and very little paneer. I also ordered a chaat; worst I’ve ever tasted. If I remember correctly, they didn’t even have yogurt on top. So the food is just terrible.
I kept coming back because I love their pastries. That’s all I would order. However, they just continue to have these up charges for whichever pastries are popular at the time, and it is VERY frustrating. A box of pastries means a box of pastries. Just make it one bulk price. When you have to add $ 0.25 more for most of the pastry choices, it’s annoying. Also, they just change their prices whenever they want for no reason at all. No customer loyalty + rude service + bad meal food = DO NOT GO.

We went there to pickup some Indian snack items. They do have a wide selection of items but most are just A-​okay. and service level is terrible at best. On multiple occasions they have messed up my order too.

I heart Hot Breads!
Delicious and cheap samosas, puffs, wraps, etc. It’s basically Indian fast food, but everything is super tastey, fast and dirt cheap.
It annoys me that people comment on the need to update the restaurant area — that’s part of the charm. This is just a little hole-​in-​the-​wall kind of place, they’re not going to be pumping money into fancy chairs or booths any time soon. Nor should they. Just keep focusing on pumping out delicious food, and that’s all you need.
The lunch special is something ridiculous like $ 4.95 for a wrap, soda and pastry for dessert. Seriously, where else are you going to find that kind of deal?
I just wish it was closer to home or work so I could swing by all the time!
(and for the record, the samosas and paneer wrap are my favorite so far)

Not clean, needs major improvement with the quality of the restaurant space.

I likke this place a lot. The food is quite good. Their lunch specials are great and their samosas are tasty too. I come here for lunch every once and a while. They make cakes and bread that do not have eggs which is good for people with special dietary needs. If you spend under 10 dollars you are heavily encouraged to use cash (or you get charged extra. Just keep that in mind!)

I ordered a ¼ sheet cake from Hot Breads for my hubby’s birthday only because they make eggless cakes and my husband is allergic to eggs. From the moment I walked through the the door, I should have known this was going to be a disaster specially when the guy at the counter could barely speak english. Every request I made like changing the color of the cake to a simple light blue icing, I was told they could not do it. I was really frustrated and walked away telling them I would look for some pictures online to represent what I wanted. I even told them not to call me on my cell phone number but email me because I was surprising my Husband. They almost ruin the surprise by calling me over and over. Every picture I emailed them they said they could not do it the way I wanted. We send about 10 total email back and forth about what they could not do. Finally when I picked up my cake the colors looked completely off. The orange I requested looked red. There were some yellow blobs of icing that the decorator decided to randomely place all over the cake. It was tacky and poorly created. I paid extra $ 20 for them to put three extra colors on a cake? Oh and I was told by others that ate the cake (I could not eat it!) that the top part tasted like paper.
I will never eat anything made at the this place and you should not either unless you are looking for extremely poor quality food, stale food and a poorly managed restaurant. The cake maker/​decorator has absolutely no talent!

And… I’m back bitches!!!
So I’ve been frequenting Hot Breads for lunch on a weekly basis for the past month or so. Reason being… their lunch time «Value Meal».
But let’s start at the beginning. The first time I came to Hot Breads I had their «puffs» and «croissants», which is why I stopped coming until recently when one of my coworkers urged me to join her for lunch. Bottom line, their Puffs and Croissants are under filled and not always fresh, no bueno.
My coworker ordered a warp and swore by them, so I tried one also… a chicken tikka wrap to be specific. A Value Meal comes with an «entrée» so a wrap, sandwich, panini, sub, etc., a drink, and a slice of cake for $ 4.99 + tax. They charge additional for the following… wrap + $ 0.70, a bottle drink instead of a can drink + $ 0.70, any cake choice except Mango Mousse or Black Forest + $ 0.70. Any of those up charges are worth it though because of the quality and amount of food given.
For my first value Meals I order a chicken tikka wrap, Mango mousse cake, and had a bottles Mango Juice to drink… total came to $ 6.70 for lunch which included dessert which qualify’s as extreme value in this area.
The wrap itself is homemade flat bread and filled with shredded chicken tikka’s, a cilantro based chutney, mayo, fresh white onions, lettuce, and slices of tomato. It wasn’t very spicy so I added some of the red spicy chili sauce sitting on the table which did the trick. I crave these wraps now. After consuming a few of them though I give the following warnings, they can have extra moisture in them — but I think this depends on how much «juice» the tomato has, and the lettuce they use it not always fresh — on the not so fresh days I just remove the lettuce. But when they’re good, they’re good.
The Mango Mousse cake is delicious and refreshing. Perfect for lunch.
If you consume everything given to you in this value meal you will leave stuffed… even an over eater such as myself.
This place is very easy to find and parking is a breeze.

I must admit like others that this place used to be one of our fav joints. But no longer!!. Today was my LAST visit to this place.
For the last 3 carry out orders, believe it or not, there was one main item missing. Never got a refund as well.
The guy at the front desk, as others said, is rude (moustache and glasses). I told him today about my last 2 bad experiences and he laughed as if I was crazy or something and he did the same thing again.
I forced him to crddit my credit card back immediately.
Same with the quality and service, they have gone down the slope.
Oh, by the way, have you checked their records on the Fairfax Health Safety site for compliance and hygene? Go to —
Enter «Hot Breads» and enjoy!

YUCK! This place is DISGUSTING!!! Check their food safety inspection reports, available online at the Virginia Department of Health website,
and see how many visits it took to get rid of the COCKROACH PROBLEMS!!! One report said the inspector found them in the dirty, soiled aprons’ pockets even. YUCK does not begin to describe how FILTHY this establishment is. Shame, too, since they charge a lot for the food they actually give you, so they should respect their customers enough to not make them sick from rodent droppings and body parts.

I love Hot Breads. I’ve been here probably about two dozen times over the last couple of years, and introduced quite a few folks to the wonderfulness that is this restaurant.
Hot Breads serves a number of items, include made-​to-​order sandwiches, but they specialize in two things — desserts and puffs. I’m not much of a dessert person, but the display case is always full of intricate and tasty looking items. I go there for the puffs.
So what is a puff, you may be wondering. Simple. Take your favorite Indian food. Insert it in a french croissant or a flakey pastry puff. Heat in microwave for a minute. Now enjoy some amazing goodness.
Chicken Tikka Croissant is probably at the top of my list. Jalapeño Cheddar Puff may edge it out. Spinach Croissant also cannot be discounted as a contender for the throne.
Of course, the easiest thing to do is just order all three! With prices as low as this ($ 2 or so for the average puff/​croissant item), it’s easy to order far more than you can eat in a single sitting, then take some home for breakfast the next day. Just pop one in the microwave for 30 seconds and you are good to go. These are also great to pick up in the evening and then bring in to share at the office the next day. I’d guess that they usually have about 30 – 35 different puffs, croissants, and plaits to choose from. Oh, did I mention Jalapeño & Cheddar Plait? Just what I look forward to after a nice long ride on the motorcycle. Mmm tasty!
There aren’t a lot of tables — I’d say they have seating for about 25 people. That’s fine, because they seem to do a lot of takeaway business. Parking is fine — they are in a strip mall, but it’s not a large one, and I’ve never had a problem getting a space.
Oh, one last thing — get a lassi when you go. They have a few different flavors, including the old standby, mango. The lassis there are already made and kept in a refrigerator, so there is no waiting. Even better, the portion size is enormous. Think of the normal sized lassi you get at a regular Indian restaurant. Now remove the ice, and more than triple the quantity, while keeping the price the same. How lucky!