Cake Walk Bakery

Excellent dosa’s and chaats. Just note that these are spicy and very authentic hyderabadi. I love it for its authentic taste however I found one family complaining on spice levels. I would suggest that incase u need it mild please ask them upfront.

Excellent South Indian food! Nothing beats home cooked idlis and dosas but this place comes pretty close out of the many South Indian restaurants I’ve tried. Service is fast and the place is neat. There’s indoor seating but can get pretty crowded on the weekends leaving no place to sit.
The bakery part. Delicious, fluffy, eggless cakes! The choco flex, butterscotch, and Black Forest cakes are a must try. Chicken curry puffs are also delicious.

After doing some grocery shopping at the asian market, feeling hungry and curious decided to check out this place.
Walking in the smells (if you enjoy middle eastern cuisine) were so inviting. After reviewing the menu and coming across somethung I recognized I ordered the falafel wrap.
As I waited, I questioned the guy behind the counter on some of the items people were ordering so I know what to order next tine. He was very friendly and open to describing what they were.
My falafel wasn’t what I’m used to. Typically falafel are round shape in a Naan wrap but this was more of a spread in a panini which was great and the flavors were really good and the price was a nice bonus.
Looking forward to bring the family and ordering a dosa which looked really good!!!

Excellent for a cheap and tasty lunch. I’m not of Indian background, so am still a little confused about a lot of the menu choices, but I’ve really enjoyed the dosas (like a thin crêpe filled with potato curry), and the curry puffs are outstanding. It’s very cheap, and the staff are always friendly. Be sure to save room for a cookie or cake for dessert.
Makes a refreshing change from the other local Indian restaurants, which are good, but serve the same style of curries you can find anywhere.

The food is good but the service is lacking. A major problem is the way they handle to-​go orders placed by phone. When you place a to-​go order by phone, it’s because you don’t want to waste time waiting for your food. When you go in and let them know you placed a to-​go order, they will ring you up. The food may or may not be ready, but if it’s not ready and you wait for it, and THEY WON’T TELL YOU WHEN IT’S READY. After waiting 15 – 30 minutes longer than I needed to because I didn’t know my food was ready, I was told that they don’t call out orders that have been placed by phone when they’re ready. I have been getting food from here for years and this is a recent problem. I have brought it up with them numerous times and the best they can do to improve this terribly illogical system is to offer a meaningless apology and repeat their ridiculous policy back to me. I’m supposed to check constantly check with them when waiting for my food. I don’t have to do that if I placed the to-​go order in the store, so why should I have to do that if I placed it by phone? Because i’m trying to save time i’m expected to check in with them to see if my food is ready after i’ve already checked in and paid. Makes no sense and pisses me off. The only thing I can think of to improve this situation is wait to pay until my food is ready. That way they have an incentive to get my food to me.

I don’t believe this place has such low ratings. More Unilocalers should try this place. Amazing dosas and vadas. Curry puffs and pastries are great. I get all my Indian friends who visit me to try this place out. The name is deceiving but the food is absolutely Indian including the masala chai. Quite close to the Indian grocery store.

This place sucks big time as far as service is concerned. The cashier guy was not able to take the order as provided and missed one of the items, he was merrily hooked on to this ear phone listening to some music and could not communicate effectively. The food was not great either, the grilled cheese sandwich had no taste, I could taste a cheese only and felt like a mouse fending on cheese!

3.5 stars because you cannot get tea or coffee without sugar.
Their batata vada is outstanding.
Masala dosa is fine too but the sambar and chutney has room to improve in taste.

The worst customer service ive ever seen. These ppl belive in humiliating their customers. This place should be awarded for their lack in customer service and disrespectful behavior. Their chats are awful because of the masala and the chutney they use. If your going to visit anyway, do yourself a favor and stick to either pastries, puffs, pav bread or dosas.

I mainly go to this place for their chaat and dosas. Quick and no hassle service. I’ve been going here for 3 years and always has a good experience. It’s always crowded but there is plenty of space so never had to wait.

I like their cookies and cakes. their cakes are tasty… their dosas are pretty good… their puffs and other snack items are pretty decent… price is reasonable…

Im gonna give this place a five star because it seems to be underrated by other Unilocalers. I would have never thought that this place has banging dosas from their name «cake walk» lol but they do!
I love any dish with potato and dosa has lots of potato filling so I really enjoy it. The only down side is the fact that I am not familiar with all the foreign names on the menu. it would be helpful to have an explanation of what the food actually is under the foreign name. Overall this is a good place to stop by for some cheap food. Their cakes look appetizing too and it’s only $ 2 for a slice!

Great food, small unpretentious café/​bakery.
Visiting from Chicago for a few weeks and love the food! It was also reasonably healthy/​not greasy!

Food is okay but service is really bad. After waiting 30 mins during lunch time and still no food, got money back and had a nice slice of pizza next door.
Will not be going back. Food is not worth the wait.
BTW, doesn’t seem like baking cake is their primary business.

Haven’t tried much except the dosas, the chaats, and various bakery items, puffs and such. The puffs were good. The dosas always came out limp and the chutney not that great. But I think they’ve been getting better recently. The chaats are all pretty bad. I don’t know how you mess up bhel puri but theirs is all mushy and bland.
I wish this place was better, because they are not another Princeton Indian restaurant plus buffet combo. It’s actually got some real stuff. But they don’t execute it well enough, sadly.

Best things on the menu are Pastries, Samosa, Peserattu, all south Indian preparations are average and Sambhar is not too authentic. Stay away from Chaats, specially dahi puri.
Owner and servers are very unfriendly, there’s no concept of customer service. The worst thing is that they charge for extra sambhar. Hygiene is at most questionable.

This is our ‘canteen’ close to work where we get reasonable chaat, good dosas, great vada/​pongal/​vangibath! Their pastries are awesome too!
Basically, it’s a good fast food place with high quality/​price ratio.

This is the best place to grab some snacks and pastries cooked/​baked Indian style. My favorites are the egg puffs. Puffs are stuffed crossaints, these guys have fabulous veggie curry, egg, paneer n chicken options. Their assortment of dosas and vada sambhar is fresh n flavorful. The indian style masala sandwiches/​paninis are good too. All these go best with masala tea or Thumbs Up !
The south Indian items r much better and the reason for 4-​star are the not so greatly executed chat items and sandwiches

I had the chicken tandoori roll. The chicken was tasty, but the roll was kinda gushy. I would still like to try their falafel, some of the mumbai dishes, and dosa.
The ambiance of the place needs serious work. There’s random paintings that clearly have nothing to do with the type of baked goods or food they are serving.
The roll reminded me quite a bit of Kati Roll, especially because it was nice and overpriced the way most Kati Roll places are. $ 6.25 plus tax for
one Chicken Roll is really over priced.
Overall I felt like this place was trying to sell and do one too many things at just one location. Regardless its going to do well thanks to mass amounts of Indians in the area. There is nothing special, or signature about this place.

There seems to be a fair variety of bakeries in downtown Princeton, but there’s something that makes this one different.
No, besides being in the middle of a bedroom community.
It has the mainstays to be sure: tiramisu, crème brûlée, etc. They’re all individual size and look tasty. Given the name, it’s no surprise they also have full size decorated sheet cakes and the like.
Personally, I only have a mild sweet-​tooth, so I actually headed to the shelves on the right as you enter the door. The fact that this is actually an Indian bakery then becomes apparent, with Mava (Khoya) bread, and the rather large but otherwise generic looking dinner rolls labeled as Pav bread.
I have yet to try the Mava, but the Pav is actually really well done — moist, soft, and a hint of actual flavor and character to it. A completely different level from what you’d find in any supermarket bakery section.
That’s right, I’m writing this review based on «plain» bread rolls. I believe the care taken on the simple things shows a lot about a business. Is the bread before an Italian meal worth eating? Is the rice in sushi or in a donburi a good variety, or does it need to be covered in sauce?
I will definitely be back to try the fancy bits another time when my sweet-​tooth comes out to play.