Palace Bakery

By far the best pastries I’ve ever had. They make a lot of their baked goods using caramel and they are all delicious. Try their caramel and pear cake. Yummmm!!!

Raspberry short bread is ok, tastes pretty standard
Tuiele cookie? Is kinda hard, would pass on that
Some cookie sandwich with caramel and almond isn’t bad. Chewy from the caramel with a buttery endnote.
Long baklava is a tad sweet. Tastes sort of like ginger.

Worth the buck, friendly owners (mom and pop store). Absolutely better than the majority of places I tried in Irvine.
Give it a try

Great selection and friendly service, I reviewed Unilocal before going and expected unfriendly service but on the contrary found the service very friendly!

Loved the cookies! We tried an assortment of cookies and there were so good. I liked that many of the ones we chose were not too sweet. Too bad it’s so far from home. Looking forward to trying more of their desserts on our next visit to O.C.
My daughter brought 2 dozen cookies over when she visited us 2 weeks ago. Yummy!

The lady working the counter is so unbelievably rude I couldn’t believe it. Never again will I step foot in this place.

This place is right off the 405 behind Wendy’s and is one of the best bakeries around. We tried a random sample of cookies that sounded and/​or looked good and were not disappointed by any of them. Most of the cookies are not very sweet which allows the flavors such as walnut to really shine through. The simple raisin cookies were one of the best with just the right amount of chewiness. We also tried a fruit tart that was very good with a butter cookies style crust. Service was good as well.

Great Pastries really good tasting cream puffs but a little pricy and needs to improve customer service.
They have great products and they are close to the freeway if they improve their services and provide some discounts and coupons, I’m sure they will be much better and be busier.
Will I go there again? Ofcourse

Customer service is non existent in this bakery!!!
Very arrogant and rude
as much as I like their pastries, every time
I go in, I get disappointed by their attitude

I was at my friend’s birthday party today and his cake was from place bakery and it was very delicious and light, I do recommend their cake to every one

My favorite place to go to for their tiramisu cake ! I do wish their fruit toppings stay in place better because they keep rolling around in the box during the commute smearing the coco powder all over the place.

So I have been using Unilocal for years, and it is very rare that I write a review. Palace bakery is so good that I felt I need to post something.
To begin, the service and people who work here are first class and make it a joy to come into the store. I would probably come back just for them, but their baked goods are to die for!
I could write an opus on their baked goods, but today I’ll focus on the cookies. I love sweets, but my family, and father specifically, are not fans of sweetened desserts. The cookies from Palace Bakery are perfect for him in that they are sweet, but incredibly well balanced. I wish I could get the recipe, but I will settle for coming back as often as possible.
I could not recommend Palace Bakery more!

mmmmmmm! i am addicted to the delicious cookies from Palace Bakery… i usually buy a dozen or two. My favorites are the coffee cookies, kinda like two butter cookies sandwiched with coffee cream in the middle, they have a hazelnut kind too! SO GOOD!!! the others ones i LOVE are the pistachio and cranberry cookies… loaded with fruit and nuts, SO RICH and delicious and the hazelnut caramel cookies are to die for, can never have just one or two or three: P this place defs doesn’t skimp on their quality of ingredients (like some of those cheap grocery store bought cookies, YUCK!)
the display has so many choices, i can’t wait to come back and try the fruit tartes and pastries! :) and lastly, this is a super cute family owned business with friendly customer service!

I have Celiac’s disease and can never enjoy anything yummy since I can’t have gluten! But my friends mom brought over some walnut macarons from Palace Bakery and she said they were Gluten Free. I devoured all the cookies and came in to check out the bakery today. Love the Walnut macarons. Soft, chewy, nutty, and best of all gluten free (for me: p)!
Update– had the cookies this morning two days after I bought em and they’re even softer and better!

Great pastries. This is a persian pastry shop. Make sure to try the cream puffs and the zolobia bameah. I go here often. Specially when I am going to someone’s house and I am supposed to take over something sweet.

The best French bakery around. Waiting in line I ran into people who drove from San Diego to come here! Everything is delicious. They don’t do bread, but their French pastries are light and airy and their cookies are one if a kind. My favorite is the chewy walnut cookie. It is kind of like a macaroon, but they say it is gluten free and cholesterol free. All I know is, it tastes great. Compared to those lard filled cakes and cookies you can get in grocery stores, this place is a bargain. You can’t go wrong and you won’t be disappointed.

We LOVE Assal Bakery in Irvine and Palace Bakery here in LH is similar to Assal with their offerings, including zoolbia, roll cakes, assorted cookies and pastries such as napoleon and cream puffs. That said, oz for oz, PB charges more than Assal, especially if you are buying in smaller quantities. Here, if you are purchasing less than 4 pieces of the larger pastries, they charge you individually which can add up quickly. I purchased one napoleon, one crème brûlée and one zoolbia and this is probably less than $ 5 – 6 at Assal and here, it added up to $ 9. I’m not opposed to paying more if the quality was also significantly better, but it fell short — really short.
The zoolbia is mind-​numbingly sweet. Granted, zoolbia is meant to be sugary sweet and sticky and the perfect accompaniment to a strong cup of black tea. However, even paired with tea, this is just too sweet. The texture was nice though and was still crispy despite the heavy serving of syrup.
The napoleon fared better in terms of flavor but doesn’t compare to Assal at all. Assal’s napoleon are so fresh that the puff pastry sheets are still flaky and crisp. Palace’s napoleon is closer to the grocery store variety and probably sat in the case just as long. The puff pastry sheets lack any bit of crispiness.
The crème part of the crème brûlée was okay. It wasn’t the best ever but not the worst either. However, it lacked the ubiquitous crunchy crust (hence «brulee»). Instead, it was like liquid brown sugar on top.
Service-​wise, it wasn’t very good. While they greeted me when I first walked in, they failed to notice that I was waiting at the counter and had finished perusing the case. One lady continued to wrap up her cookies and set up a display whereas the other one was scribbling down notes. Finally, after I had walked pretty much the entire store and up to both women in a polite attempt to indicate that I was ready, the note scribbler finally offered to help me.
Overall, since it’s the only one of its kind in South OC, I guess it’s passable. However, I certainly wouldn’t go out of my way to purchase pastries here.

I’m not sure why a bakery would shoot itself in the foot and ruin their reputation over a few dollars, but that’s how idiotic they are.
Pastry and freshness should go hand in hand, but on my last two visits I was very very disappointed.
The pastries were sale and old both last month and again today. The edges of the cake were dry and tasted like refrigerator odor, while the middle of the cake had a bit of freshness an softness left.
I ended up apologizing to my guests for the old pastries, but apparently I wasn’t the only one with bad experience. All 12 of my guests complained of the freshness and the old age of the pastures.
What a shame! When a bakery keeps the fresh stuff for «others» and go out of their way to pass off their old stuff to the non regulars.
Never again!

I have been coming here for years and there is always something good here. Considering that they sell one-​of-​a-​kind French and Persian pastries that you can’t find anywhere else in this area it is always a treat. The pricing is reasonable, but considering they sell the cookies and pastries by the pound, it is a real deal to walk away with over 1 – 2 dozen cookies for under $ 10 where most places sell you a cookie by the piece, you can’t beat it.
If you have ever ordered a cake from a bakery or the bakery department in some grocery store you will end up paying over $ 30 for something that is basically lard with frosting and can sit out on a shelf until the end of time and then compare it the cakes here you wont ever look at those grocery store cakes again. Their cakes are freshly made, one-​of-​a-​kind, taste light and airy and they use mousses and chocolates and they do not use frosting — what a concept!

A bit disappointed because I had high hopes. I got a pecan tart, an apple tart, a plum tart and a napoleon, all for a bit over $ 9. That’s quite high in price so it should have been delicious, but it was only okay to good. The phyllo dough didn’t taste fresh, was not crisp at all, bordering on tasteless. How is that possible?
The name of the place, Kakh and Palace Bakery only says Palace Bakery on outside, so if you are looking for the «Kakh» you will not find it and drive right past.
The bakery was clean, the staff helpful, and they had quite a wide array of treats: the tarts, european cookies, mediterranean style desserts, including baklava, eclairs and so on.
Sadly for the price and taste I will not be back.