Papillon International Bakery

The people who work here seem so stuck up and rude. I came here because all the hype and we’ll the ponchiks were ok. I bought some for my family and they weren’t like wow. they rather have regular donuts and so do i. Guess it’s not for everyone.
They personally tasted like fried bread.

First time here! My sister and I were recording a YouTube video on this place. We had heard great things about this place so we decided to check it out. The owner was fantastic! We asked if it’d be ok to record and he was so supportive of my sisters YouTube channel! Also, hearing that it was out first time trying ponchicks, EVER, he treated us to almost like 7 different flavored! You can tell his generosity is why he has become so successful! I am very grateful for his wonderful gesture! His staff was amazing! I highly recommend this place! Friendly staff, free parking (and conveniently located in the back too), great Armenian desserts, and indoor and outdoor seating, why not?!
I hope the owner reads this review! Thank you so much for a wonderful experience many blessings to you and may you always be prosperous for being so generous.
Ps: everything is fresh! It tasted so good!

One of my favourite bakery’s. They have such good middle eastern deserts and I love their Peraskis especially the beef, my mom has a liking for the cheese. We always get a ponchik (Armenian doughnut). I alternate between Oreo ponchik and the Nutella. I really love the freshness of their foods and the quality of them! You can tell they use fresh oil when making the ponchiks unlike other places! I continue to drop in when I’m in Hollywood because of the flavours.

Who doesn’t like a Nutella filled, freshly made for you ponchik. If you aren’t familiar… It is dough filled with a Nutella custard. They can also make it filled with a ton of other sweet treats. I personally go here for the potato pirozhki… Again fried dough filled with mashed potatoes. Not the healthiest of food choices, but so worth it as a treat!!!

Too much fat, disgusting, nasty food, Taco bells chori sauce better! No customer service, and those 5 star revews are all their friends.

Ponchicks! $ 1.50. Hot crispy thin donut like dessert super heavily filled. Yum Armenian Russian mixed dessert. They have dairy-​free options!
We came so late at night, I think everything was almost sold out. The super filled dessert was interesting. Definitely recommend others to try it at least once. Staff were super friendly and helped us understand the menu.
Free parking in their own parking lot.

They make a fresh, chewy donut while you wait. They fill it with a choice of fillings including Nutella (I had vanilla custard which was great) and then dust it with powdered sugar. Perfection.
The building is pretty rough, not much to look at. You won’t want to stay to enjoy the food.

Their pastries are top 10 best in Los Angeles. Everything comes out hot and perfectly fried. You cannot taste the oil and everything is fresh.
Their empanadas are ridiculously good, the beef is seasoned perfectly.

I fall in love!!! Perashkis and Ponchiks it’s amazing! Always fresh and tasty! Employees very friendly! girl from Hollywood location spoke with us in Russian. it’s very cuteI’m from Russia and missed traditional Russian and Armenian bakes! After I found Papillon bakery I’m happy again. Thank you so much!!! I will be coming back again and again!

BEWARE!!! You will get addicted! I love their Ponchiks but their Cheese Pirashki is amazing! Staff is so friendly and welcoming! They take their time in explaining their menu.
Give them a try, you won’t be disappointed

I recently went here during a weekday morning. The reason they are getting 4 stars instead of five is because the second I went in there I had to wait about 5 – 8 minutes before anybody stepped out from the back to help me. I went in ordering about 2 dozen ponchiks. I was promised a time it would be ready by and they stuck to it! The price of each ponchik is kind of expensive when you are buying in bulk, but it was worth it. Everyone absolutely loved them!

Wow what an awesome international bakery! I had a wonderful experience there!
Treat yourself to living like a king for a day and enjoy their pastry.

Wanna impress your guests? Get nutella-​filled Ponchik. I had eight friends over for a dinner party and for dessert, I served these nutella-​filled balls of awesomeness. One friend’s head exploded on the spot. The other passed out from a nutella induced coma. Seriously, it was so good they still talk about. All this being said, my husband and I are seriously considering order ponchik for my son’s birthday instead of a traditional cake.
Although I’ve tried the crème filled, and fruit-​filled ponchik, they’re not as mind blowing as the nutella filled. But thats just me. To top it all off, the ladies who work there are very friendly. I don’t know their names but they were nice and pleasant.

Whether it’s called a donut, malasada, bombolini, beignets, berliner, paczki, churros, or bunuelos many nations around the world has it’s form of donut in different shapes. The Armenian version is called a Ponchik. Ponchik is fried dough shaped round served plain or with a fillings inside.
Papillion is a small Armenian bakery located in East Hollywood that makes ponchiks as well as cakes and cookies, The ponchiks here are made with with nutella, custard, strawberries, apricot, dulce de leche, pumpkin, Snickers, Mars, Oreo, Reeces. The plain ones are $ 1 with filled ones $ 1.50 each. Definitely a bargain.
My favorite ones are the nutella and Snickers. I also tried the banana nutella empanada which is pretty good too. Ponchiks are made to order and really only good to eat while still warm. They’re dusted with powdered sugar and so it does get messy. Thanks to Carolyn C. for introducing us to ponchiks!

This is my favorite location to visit as the staff who work here are really sweet and are so welcoming.
FOOD: My review is solely on the ponchik. These fluffy donuts with nutella filling are the best. They do offer other fillings such as Oreo, Reese’s peanut butter cup, Snickers, Mars, etc. If you can think of it, its probably inside the donut. Do keep in mind it takes about 5 – 10 minutes for them to prepare your ponchik as they make they them fresh and made to order. Don’t worry it’s worth the wait.
PARKING: They have a small parking lot, but I don’t think finding parking will be a problem. The times I have been visited there were only a handful of cars. If there are no spaces, there is also street parking available.
I recently picked up a dozen Nutella ponchik for a potluck party and they were a huge success. Everyone was raving about how delicious these were.
I have yet to try their other delicious pastries, but the ponchik always lures me in. I think I got my friends addicted to them as well.

We don’t usually hang out in Hollywood, but when we do… we end up buying some perashki or ponchik. So, I Unilocaled «Armenian Bakery»… and this was the 1^st on the list. Since I’ve already been to the Glendale location, I knew it’s a great choice.
I called to see if they had any perashki left. She said they don’t, that they only take orders. I was bummed, and asked her, «well how many days in advance do I need to place the order?». She said, «15 minutes»… no kidding! Now I’m excited. I figured, by the time we get there, park, it would be ready!
I was pleasantly surprised at their location. Their own separate parking on the side. They had a outdoor seating area, and a few tables in doors. The girls that served us were super nice, and really fast service.
Amazing, fresh and delicious perashki.

Excellent service. Fresh food. I drive in from 30 miles away to get food from here so I call when I am getting off the 101. Food is usually done (it is only 5 mins from the 101) and the staff pleasant. I met whom I believe to be the owner last time I was there (based on the Instagram posts lol) he said a nice hello and went into the back.
The girl also gave me a menu to take home so I could show my friends so they could pick what they want for the next time I make the track over here!
I recommend the meat or potato perashki (I tried the cheese but it was VERY rich and I had to share, and I don’t like sharing food lol) and pretty much every ponchik is delicious. I haven’t had them all yet, only 4 but you can’t go wrong!
SO GOOD!

Holy fudge cakes. I mean holy Nutella ponchiks. How is this not all the rage but cronuts, cruffins, cruffle, miffin, onuts, etc are? LOL. I mean those are of their own category but ponchiks are AH-​MAY-​ZING.
So what in the who ha is a ponchik? Wellllll… ya girl dont really know but its a Armenian donut I believe and it is hollow on the inside and stuffed with all the caloric sweet wonders of the world Aka Nutella and custard LOL.
These bad boys are made fresh to order so if you plan to order a big order call ahead! They have a variety of fillings so go crazy. They are dusted with powdered sugar and eat it while its piping hot! Its so amazing. The Nutella is stuffed silly they are not skimping ! At 1.50 each its a steal!
If you are a fellow vietnamese gal id say these resemble banh dieu pretty well or Chinese doughnut hehe. so next time yall have a party bring these to your party and itll be a hit!

The ponchiks are too sweet for me. It’s pretty overpoweringly sweet. A little disappointed at myself that I never tried it hot, therefore I thought they were mediocre at best. Also my ponchiks didn’t seem like they were a universal size. They came in various sizes and shape. It was just aesthetics.
So far the original one is the best.
I bought the lemon ponchik and didn’t like it as much. It had a lot of tang but the filling was similar to that of lemon meringue pie filling.
The Oreo ponchik was literally an Oreo deep fried in dough. Not really a big fan of that and I felt like that affected my blood sugar level.
I didn’t really like the pumpkin ponchik either. The filling of the pumpkin ponchik tasted like a rough filling from pumpkin pie. I believe it’s pumpkin spiced with cinnamon but the consistency is not thick like pumpkin pie.
The dulce de leche was the epitome of sweet. But this is to be expected of anything with dulce de leche on it.
I bought a strawberry but never had a chance to try it. I probably won’t get ponchiks unless they are the original ponchiks. Too much experimentation for me, and I don’t like overpowering sweet food.
However, I love their peroshkies!!! They were good! My favorite is the meat peroshkies. The potato were alright and a little bit bigger but the meat was savory and yummy. If you’re someone who shys away from most sweet food I recommend you to get the meat or potato peroshkies.
Also call in your before you visit them. They make their batches fresh, so you might have to wait if you don’t!

Just Amazing! I come usually to buy ponchikis. The ponchikis are always soft, the taste is awesome, I’ve been trying new flavors and I love all of them!

This place is pretty amazing!
As it turns out, Papillon is an Armenian bakery selling various Armenian and Russian pastries and cakes. I thought it might be French at first by the name. One of their specialities is something called a ponchik which is an Armenian donut. It comes in several flavors. A regular is filled with vanilla custard. They also have Oreo, Mars, Snickers, Reeses, Nutella, Banana/​Strawberry, pumpkin, lemon, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, and apricot. I’m going to have to come back and try each flavor because they all sound so good!
This time, I decided I’d go with the nutella since the friendly server Lilly said it was a popular choice. I also saw they had something called Chebureki which is a pastry with a filo shell and filled with chicken or beef. It’s seemed similar to an empanada so I ordered a large chicken as well. They also have a smaller version which is similar in size to a traditional empanada you find at different places.
The chebureki was freshly made for me as I waited a few minutes as they baked it. I took it both to go and when I finally had a chance to eat it, I was really pleased with the flavors of both.
The ponchik donut was great! It was dusted with powdered sugar and there was a really generous amount of nutella inside that it was actually oozing which each bite I took. Delicious! (⁵⁄₅). The chebureki was actually really good too. It was filled with a generous amount of seasoned ground chicken and made a great breakfast meal (⁵⁄₅). I appreciated the generosity of the meat portion because I’m bothered when empanadas around town only have like a spoonful or less of meat inside. This was really filling and I’m sure it would be great as a snack or would be satisfying as a lunch meal.
They had so many other cakes and treats that I can’t wait to come back to try some of the other things and most of all, some of the other ponchik flavors. So glad I decided to drop in this morning and will definitely stop in again if I’m in the area.