Moises Bakery

Absolutely outstanding Venezuelan gem in Miami! Tastes like my country love the cachitos! The empanadas with the sweet touch in the dough, the tequeños, the café con leche is aMust!, milhojas, hallacas,… Customer service is top notch. The sweetest cuban gurls ever, i went on vacations to Miami for 5 days and went there for breakfast almost everyday. TRY the milhojas!

Was led to this bakery by a local Venezuelan friend of mine. The place is small, without any of the superficial frills and glitz and glamour of Miami Beach. No pretentiousness, just reasonable prices and awesome variety. They offered three different types of empanada — Venezuelan, Argentinian, and Colombian. And each type has different filling options: ham? meat? chicken? Take your pick. They had a bunch of other meat-​type pastries, but as a non-​Spanish speaker, please don’t ask me to remember them. One was filled with morsels of ham and means «little horn» in English (I’m told). That one was awesome. They ran about $ 3 – 4 bucks each. Also, find the magical green sauce sitting around on some of the tables — not sure what’s in it, some sort of crema, with cilantro or something. Tasty stuff. There are sweet things too, but we were going in for breakfast, so I didn’t get to venture into that area.
It was busy and fast-​paced, with lots of little separate lines and confusing conversation in unfamiliar dialects, but the staff were pretty efficient and helpful seeming. The only downside is that they names of all the pastries are listed on the board above, rather than having each pastry pan labeled, so you really have no idea what everything is unless you ask (or know from experience). Sort of intimidating, but I’d be willing to navigate it on my own — everything was super delicious.
I love finding little pockets of authenticity in a city like this. Go here.

A variety of choices of bakery items. My boyfriend and I stopped here almost every day for breakfast while on vacation in north beach. We had to keep going back for more cachitos! We also got a sort of shortbread sandwich with caramel sauce in the middle, a chocolate cake layered with whipped cream, and a ham and cheese empanada. All were delicious! And everything is very reasonably priced. It is very crowded, so when it’s your turn, make sure to speak up.

This is my joint in North Beach. We wandered through the neighborhood at an ungodly early hour one morning and moseyed into Moises. All you will hear is Spanish and Portuguese in these parts, and all you will get is excellent con leche, Venezuelan and other South American empanadas, pastries, cakes, and cookies. We absolutely loved it here. It is geared towards people who know what the hell they are ordering (no labels) and it was very busy so we had to just point at what looked good since we weren’t sure what was what. But I’ll tell you what, the beef empanadas and con leche were pretty much perfect for breakfast on a morning filled with wandering from beach to beach and eating amazing local food.

Empanadas and food are great. Very popular and always busy. The empanadas are to die for

Just bought a chocolate egg, a traditional treat for kids (and bigs kids) in Easter.
It’s normally wrapped in a big colorful and very noisy paper, with a long part of the paper tied on the top and closed with a ribbon. There is a surprise inside.
They are selling eggs tied with some kind of shoes lace, brown, which can still be fine. Ok.
The top… the expected nice colorful top, where kids put the finger inside as they see it… man…it was still like just popped out from the box. Nobody passed not even once the hand to make presentable those eggs. Many were totally broken, some are displayed on the cake fridge, just by the door and the sun… and when you ask them to choose the less worst they have the Brazilian guy treats you like garbage… you eat the chocolate, not the paper… I can’t iron it… my biggest question mark is: they sell cakes… decorated cakes. How can you run a business based on taste and visual luring when you only have to eat it and not to look at it? Does not sound smart and mentally coordinated… does not sound smart to me to go again in their hole/​shop.

Grabbed a Milanese Torta and a Guava Pastry for lunch. The Milanesa was pretty standard. Got it toasted, but nothing special.
Guava pastry was deliciously sweet and flakey. I wish there was more of the guava filling though!
Definitely want to come back and try their other pastries!

This past Tuesday my friend and I decided to go to the beach because the weather was beautiful outside. However, we did not want to go to the touristy part, so I drove us to North Beach.
After laying out in the sun with the windy breeze, we packed up and went to find something to eat nearby. I wasn’t a big fan of Manolo last time I went, so I said no. Kampei (sp?) was so empty we weren’t sure if it was open. I searched for more food places nearby on Unilocal and found Moises Bakery with pretty good reviews.
My friend ordered the Colombian chicken empanadas $ 3 each, a tamale $ 10, a coconut dessert thing, and Colombian soda $ 2?. The tamale took a while to heat up so we ate the empanadas first. They were delicious. My friend said it was the best empanadas he’s ever had so far.
Few minutes later, one of the staff gave us the tamale that we ordered. It was delicious as well. The tamales was big, had chunks of meat, raisins, and other ingredients. We finished every last bit. The coconut dessert was good too.
Overall, great experience and friendly staff. Will definitely go back again if we are in the area.

Right around the corner from my house. Always open early, I always stop in for a breakfast item

Moises Bakery is the place to go for the empanadas in Miami Beach. My fiancée and I try to visit the bakery every time we can for breakfast nevertheless on my last visit the girl who took care of me wasn’t friendly and when she charged me didn’t give me a receipt for my purchase. She is in the obligation to give me a receipt so I can know how much and what I am paying for. I had to ask one of her coworkers that was taking care of another person for my receipt. When they called her over she came with an unfriendly attitude to print my receipt.
This place has delicious treats but it needs work on customer service. I am a pastry cook at a hotel and when I walk into the bakery to have breakfast to start my day I expect a friendly employee.

I have been getting food from Moises for years. They’re Chilean beef empanada is the best with the raisins and olives. Their cachito is great, a must try for ham lovers. The only thing is its always packed with people and it’s hard to tell if you’re in line to order. Pay attention, because they use the «quien sigue» (who’s next?) method of getting in line. Other than that the food is awesome!

Authentic venezuelan bakery they sell venezuelan items to go like coffee and chocolate. Being venezuelan cacao winner of international recognition.
They have breakfast items like empanadas, cachitos de jamon and tequeños. Also sweet items and cakes and pies.

Endless yummy pastries, great service, freat coffee. Just what i need to start or end my day :)

This bakery is on my ‘must visit’ list when in Miami/​Miami Beach. My mom found this place a few years ago living on the beach and we have been hooked since (we’re Venezuelan). I didn’t give it 5 stars because I’ve encountered some unfriendly ladies working behind the counter, but definitely deserves 5 stars for the food.
My faves:
— cachitos: they’re perfect here
— tequeños: omg, we got some this past weekend (well, they were tequeñones, just the big version of the traditionally bite-​size tequeño) and holy goodness, they were soooo warm and gooey when we ate them. Simply perfection. We got all of our food to go as this place is teeny tiny and usually very crowded, so it’s hard to find a spot of eat there.
— empanadas: my fav is just cheese, so goooood
— cachapas: hubby loves these, I don’t as much as he, but they’re great. But cachapas in particular are best eaten right after they’re made, so not super great to go.
We also get the pan de jamon for Christmas every year, and it’s delicious! Basically, any food we’ve tried from Moises is perfectly authentic Venezuelan and wonderful. If the next time I go I get friendly service I’ll come back and give them the missing star!

I love love love this place. The pastries taste just like the pastries from our hometown (Venezuela). Service and prices are great and the place is very clean. I love it. I have another Bakery in Doral which their cachitos are great but Moises’ ones are also great and even cheaper. Try the cachito, empanadas (venezuelan) and the mil hojas for dessert. You are going to love it. Super cheap!

I got 2 baked empanadas here to take back to my hotel for a mid afternoon snack. I got a chicken and a beef one. The chicken one was my favorite — very nicely seasoned. The beef was a little too sweet for my taste. The dough was very good. These empanadas are only $ 3 and are ginormous. They are perfect with some café.
Service here isn’t great — people aren’t very friendly, but that’s fine — they are quick and to the point. You gotta be a little aggressive to order here since people will just tend to jump in front of you if you aren’t.

This has got to be the best quick serve Venezuelan bakery I’ve ever eaten at in the US. I had the chicken empanadas. Inside was chicken cumin and a few other flavors I don’t really know. That is a good thing not bad. Also had tequeño and cachito de hamon. The cachito was filled with ham and a slaty cheese they call Guayanés. I’ll tell you right now, you can stuff that cheese in just about anything and it will taste great.

I dropped by just before the bakery closed for the evening. So it’s hard for me to judge the quality because most of the savory treats were out of stock.
Bought one cookie and spinach empanada. Both had been sitting around too long. Cookie was ok, a bit dry. The empanada was greasy and soggy — but it had lots of real spinach inside.
But on the plus side, the staff was nice and there were regulars at the shop buying coffee etc.

I love this bakery. I have zero comprehension of what most of the menu items are (ignorant american epidemic) but all I can say is that everything I’ve had the few times I have been are delightful. The pastelitos… bang bang, so much goodness.
There are always older men sitting outside sharing stories as they slowly sip their colada, making it impossible to pass by.
Inside — friendly, happy people. Customers and employees alike, this bakery is just full of positive energy.

Items Selected:
Tres Leches Cake
Ham and Cheese Empanada
Almond and Dulce de Leche Alfajor
Egg Custard Danish
Dulce de Leche Croissant
Taking a short walk from the expansive space that houses Buenos Aires Bakery to the far more cozy confines of Moises Bakery it should probably come as no surprise that the later features a far more frenetic atmosphere than the first and although regulars completely packed the small dining area an English-​friendly staff still made me feel like a friend of the house, a request for recommendations met mostly with items I’d already targeted yielding a five-​part order from which only a slightly doughy croissant would prove less than exceedingly well made.
Assuredly a ‘locals only’ sort of spot, and a place where everyone seemed to know one another by name, it was mere moments after placing my $ 7.75 order that items were placed in plastic baskets and although seats were entirely full a standing-​room only table at the door was recently abandoned, the steaming hot empanada carefully cut with a fork and knife to liberate ham and Swiss from a crisp and thin pocket decidedly different from that at Buenos Aires and nearly twice the size but equally delicious and devoid of grease just the same.
Progressing from savory ham and cheese to creamy egg-​custard at the center of a flaky butter danish before moving to the sweeter parts of the quintet it was here that the uninspired croissant was sampled and returning the rest of it to the bag we were left with the two best items of the entire three-​stop morning, a powdered sugar coated Alfajor the definition of sweet decadence while a cup of Tres Leches upped the ante with a swirl of caramel — a ‘Quatro Leches,’ if you will and a reason in and of itself to make the trip from South Beach up north.