Julia’s Homestyle Bakery

Stopped by this morning to pick up a pie that was featured on some TV show that my Dad was recently watching. The service was terrible, the girl that initially greeted me kept her back to me the whole time and as I waited, being the only customer there, the other worker sat and surfed the web looking at car seats on
. I wouldn’t have bought the pie with that kind of service had it not been a special request of my father who is currently in hospice. Two stars because they had the pie that he requested.
Sucky service should never be rewarded.

Julia’s is a cute, little bakery located across from Maggiano’s. The treats are always good and available. My favorite is the small, square wedding cake (white cake/​white icing). The cake is moist enough, and icing sweet. They have lots of cakes, cupcakes, cookies and more.
We ordered a cake for a coworker with a Clash of Clans theme. I was not pleased with the very visible seam/​gap down the middle of the picture. Another coworker ordered cupcakes for my relocation celebration. Those were good. They were plain cupcakes and icing, and she made the decorations herself.
Service has ranged from mediocre to good. Several times the girls working there don’t seem too thrilled to have to wait on customers.
Overall, it’s a decent bakery, try them out if you’re in the area and craving a sweet treat.

Well, don’t post on their Facebook, because my post got deleted.
Julia’s, your bakery is good. However, your customer service isn’t THAT good. I am so disappointed. A smile goes a long way. And so does time when you’re making a cake for a custom order.
Entered Julia’s a week before my event date to place a custom cake order. Unfortunately, the cake didn’t look like what I had ordered. They were minor details that could have been what I wanted, had they paid attention or took the time.
My «3» for the cake looked like a cutout that got painted and added glitter onto. At this point, I was very irritated at how it turned out. I had requested a «3» as pictured, which was 3 dimensional and made of icing/​fondant. What I received, again, looked like a cutout and was also 2 dimensional. I told the rep that it didn’t look like what I had ordered and they tried to repair it by adding stars. No. It was so thin and fragile that it broke when I took it out of the box. It wasn’t even placed on the cake.
I don’t have high expectations but I did want the cake that I had specifically requested. Also, a partial refund was very nice of them, but I would have rather taken a 3 that was made correctly. Attached are photos of what I wanted vs what I received.

I’m from San Francisco and my favorite bakery there is Just Desserts. Feeling a little homesick, I went looking for something that might approximate their fabulous chocolate cake. I pretty much knew that Kroger wouldn’t be on par, and I noticed Julie’s a few days ago. The reviews seemed encouraging, so I bought a simple chocolate cake with chocolate icing, something Julie’s calls their «Groom’s Cake.» I also wanted to try their carrot cake and bought a single piece, something they don’t usually sell by the slice, but happened to have.
I truly wanted to love this bakery. But I was ultimately disappointed. The cakes themselves were superlative. Both were dense, fine-​grained, moist and not too sweet. The chocolate cake tasted like chocolate and the carrot cake had a very satisfying amount of walnuts and raisins, as any good carrot cake should. Unfortunately, the icing on both cakes left a lot to be desired.
I foolishly expected the carrot cake icing to be a traditional cream cheese icing. It certainly looked like it, and had a great bunch of walnuts decorating the side of the cake. Alas, there was nothing cream cheese about it. It wasn’t even made of a simple buttercream. Instead, the icing was nothing but pure shortening and sugar, not even a pinch of salt to cut the sweet. It was both unpleasant and inedible.
The icing on the chocolate cake looked good, too. It even had a dark ribbon of ganache on the upper side of the cake. Unfortunately, it didn’t taste as good as it looked. The ganache was good, both in texture and taste, but there was so little of it that it hardly made a difference. The rest of the icing looked like it should be a milk chocolate, but I wouldn’t have been able to tell what the flavor was in a blind taste test. It does have A flavor, just not really a CHOCOLATE flavor. Again, what should have been at least a buttercream frosting was just shortening and sugar, with a little cocoa mixed in for color. Also wholely disappointing.
It seems completely unfair to the excellent cakes to saddle them with such dreadful icing. I understand there might be advantages to using shortening in icing, especially for highly decorated cakes. Shortening keeps its shape much better and longer than butter at room temperature. It does well for things like wedding cakes, which often have to sit and look pretty for as much as a day before they’re eaten, and no one expects them to be particularly good. They’re for spectacle, after all. Shortening is also considerably cheaper, but it certainly does NOT serve either the cakes or the bakery well to cut this particular corner. I was just after something I’d enjoy eating. If I have to pay more for butter, fine. If it’s not going to still look perfect tomorrow, fine. Even a mixture of shortening and butter, even a pinch of salt to cut the unrelenting sweet would have been preferable to nothing but shortening and sugar.
Sadly, while I liked the cakes themselves, it’s just too jarring, wasteful and sad to see them ruined by inedible icing that I have to scrape off and throw away before I can enjoy the cakes. I won’t be back. Kroger would have been better; at least I would have known what to expect.

Ok so I tried Julia’s a couple of weeks ago for the first time. I read all the amazing reviews and just knew this place would be awesomesauce. I walked in and was immediately mesmerized by the house selection. I immediately knew I wanted to try a chess square and their chocolate chip cookie, because both looked amazing. I had a difficult time ordering a cupcake because there was such a huge selection. I got the grooms cupcake and some strawberry flavored cupcake. I got home and 1^st ate a bite of the chess square. It was so disgusting. It tasted like pure eggs. I’ve had way better before from other places, and aware of the egg taste but this thing, just wasn’t right. The chocolate chip cookie tasted like it was bought out of the bakery area at Kroger.
Then I proceeded to eat the grooms cupcake. The first thing that I notice was how dry and thick it was. The icing was just to much and too rich. The I tried the other cupcake. The icing appeared to be a smooth chocolate roundness on top of the cake (think Gigi, s cupcake icing, just not a tall), which I was exited about. I bit into it and immediately spit it out. I was fooled. It was a chocolate layer icing over a strawberry filled icing that tasted like medicine. The cake was worse than the grooms cake, it was just nasty. And to top everything off, I had know idea everything would be served cold.
I would have given this place one star, but I gave it two because the staff was extremely nice, patient, and helpful. I just don’t understand the hype. I’ll just stick to Nashville Sweets off of Woodland.

Thank you so much for my Husband’s awesome birthday cake! I gave you an idea and you made it reality! Words can’t express my gratitude! You guys rock!

So happy that we have Julia’s in the ‘Boro! Any time we have an occasion that calls for sweets, you can bet on us going there! We’ve bought items and shipped across the country as well as taken baked goods with us for holiday get togethers out of town. Everyone that we’ve shared with has always been blown away by the amazing cakes, pies, cupakes and other treats.
The staff is great and really go out of their way to make sure what you get is perfect.

My husband and I drive from Antioch to Julia’s for dessert sometimes and we typically enjoy everything we get. I would recommend the peanut butter pie.

All cakes and cupcakes in the cases are cold. I suggest letting your cupcake sit for a bit before eating it or your icing will be cold and harder than what you may want it to be. If you like super sweet frosting and lots of it then this is your place. The cake part of the cupcake was nothing you wouldn’t find publix. 3 bucks for a cupcake is a bit much. Staff was friendly. If you want to splurge on over priced cupcakes then this is your place. I didn’t try anything else they had to offer but it all looked amazing and their birthday cake displays were very nice.

They had such good bakery items when i was here on business! I was getting things for the first meal of the day! Very good! Kinda pricey but good!

My family and I are regulars at this place. DELICIOUS… some of our favorites include the pineapple upside down cake, double chocolate chip cookie sandwiches (extra buttercream icing, please – for the hubby), chess squares, chess pie, sticky buns, pumpkin praline… oh, I could go on and on!
They also do a great job on specialty cakes. Every time I have ordered one, I just describe what I am thinking on the phone and they never disappoint. My husband expects a Pittsburgh Steelers cake every year now!
Julia’s is AMAZING!

Amazing baked goods! I flew into Murfreesboro from out of town to meet friends for my baby shower and needed 1 dozen cupcakes for the next day. The baker worked with us and was able to make pink champagne cupcakes with no issues. The cupcakes were some of the BEST we have ever had! Frosting was perfect not too sweet, cake was moist, decorated perfectly for a little baby girl shower. We also ordered some cookies and cinnamon rolls from here. They were also absolutely to die for! Will definitely be coming back again next time I am in the area.

Julia’s has such Cute cakes! Order ahead for special ones, but u can still find cute ones when u just walk in. The desserts are so yummy, so hard to choose, hmm which one (s)!?

I really love Julia’s Bakery! I can only remember one time I got a cupcake there that wasn’t so good. We ordered a cake from there for Christmas Eve and it was incredible! The staff is very friendly and it looks really clean and nice inside. Been there quite a few times and have plans to return!

This is an awesome bakery! Prices are a tad high but their products are worth it. My daughter loves their thumbprint cookies. I think their chess bars are awesome. I wish they had more sugar-​free items. Overall though it is great. All their stuff looks and tastes delicious.

Everything we’ve had from Julia’s has been fantastic. We even ordered our Wedding Cake from them and what we received was EXCELLENT. They have many customization options available, and you will get a fantastic product. Their store-​front offerings are always fresh, well prepared, and superbly tasty.

I have ordered birthday cakes from here twice and have been disappointed both times. The cakes are WAY over priced, the chocolate cake is very dry and the white cake is just so so. I have had better cakes else where.
The cookies aren’t bad though and are great for picking up a bunch for school or work. The service has always been good though.

How can this place get anything other than five stars? I’ve always been given exceptional service and the baked goods are all so yummy and fresh. :)
They made a cake for us that helped us announce our pregnancy to our family members on Christmas 2012. I have posted this picture as well.

Honest baked goods, fast friendly service, great hours, not much else to say, except…
Julia’s is a great place to buy volume. I get 8 or 10 dozen boxes of cookies at a time to leave with business clients. I call 30 minutes ahead, they box them up ready to go when I arrive. And, at $ 4.95 a dozen they are a great value.
No gaudy frosting, no over the top flavors, just well prepared classic baked goods that have just as much bang for the buck as the trendy ridiculously priced cup cake places.
The place is also spotless and the staff knows their job and their product, glad to help as well. You will not be disappointed with Julia’s.

I went in here hoping that by some miracle they would have perhaps have a vegan offering or two. I knew the odds were against me, but I mean, Murfreesboro IS a college town. This usually makes a city a little more diverse and aware.
No dice. I stood at the counter for five minutes while the employees avoided my eye contact– like they knew i was going to ask a loaded question. When i finally got the chance, I asked the girl at the counter if she knew if they had anything vegan. She looked scared, and so I elaborated that I meant any items without dairy or eggs. She said maybe so, and consulted a woman behind the counter who made a face like she smelled something foul. The girl directed the woman to me and she simply said no, they didn’t have anything like that.
I’m giving this low review based not on the fact that they carry nothing vegan, but because I was regarded as if I made a ridiculous request. I know that businesses only cater to needs that there is a market for, and the way to establish a market for vegans is to let businesses know that we’re out here. Ready whenever you are, guys.