Daube’s Bakery

One of the best bakery I have ever been to. The sweets are awesome. The donuts, polish pastries, and carrot cake! But the lunch and brunch items are also outstanding. If you go on Fridays, they often make perogies for lunch. I highly recommend.

Love Daube’s!
They have one of the best carrot cakes I’ve ever had!
Their cakes are always fresh and the frosting is not overly sweet.
I love going to Daube’s for breakfast on weekends. They have great fresh coffee, and they have sweet and savory food options. The croissant is delicious and so are the long johns.
Staff is super friendly!

Tonight I ate the BEST genuine French mocha butter cream cake I have had since the 1970’s in New York City (Bonte Patisserie on 3^rd Ave in the 70’s). I am in TOTAL shock. Congratulations NEW owners of Daube’s !!!
Moist delicate perfect flavoring. Made finally of 100% butter — ESP the extremely difficult-​to-​make French icing. Just the right amount of sugar — not too sweet. The BEST I have been able to find East Coast. West Coast. I am so so SHOCKED. And thrilled
My number one passion is heavenly exquisite pastry. I inherited this love from my master baker mom. Heaven is a perfect cup of coffee in a lovely cup on a quiet sun filled porch with an exquisite all butter delicate piece of pastry
New Owners of Daube’s congratulations and THANK you for having the courage to bake again with butter.

I’ve been going to Daube’s Bakery since I was a kid. It opened the year before I was born, and has been a part of my family’s history since. We’ve had several cakes, orders of cookies, and special occasions complimented by their baked goods. The previous owner, Cynthia, sold the business last year — which might be where some of the more recent complaints are coming from on service and quality. Prices have increased every so slightly since the switch, but coming from living in a larger city, they are still oh so reasonable in my mind.
I went again recently on Black Friday while out shopping with my mom. I had an apple cake donut and a cream cheese/​raspberry pastry — both delicious, although if I had to choose one, the donut was better (moist + flavorful). As a kid, I loved the cinnamon twists and they’ve continued to be a stellar choice. The staff was friendly enough for what I’m sure was a busy day in the shop. Coffee was good and refills are on the house. I’ll continue to go back to Daube’s time and time again until I notice a major change in quality or service. For now, it continues to be a Rochester staple.

Daubes is pretty quaint. Nice spot for coffee and a morning pastry. I don’t think they’re out of the world but I don’t mind popping by for a croissant time to time.

I mean this was just phenomenal. I had the Swiss and Sausage keish, ham sandwich, fruit, coffee, and seeded wheat bread. It’s hard to put into words how ridiculously good this all was. If you don’t want to take this review seriously and not try Daubes, then I fear you have no soul.
Been back here 3 times now.

We ordered our wedding cupcakes and cake here. We were pleased with how beautiful and delicious everything turned out. Would’ve received a higher rating, but the couple times I came in to make a payment or finalize things, they could never find my information. They were pretty unorganized. Also, when my friends came to pick up our order for us on on wedding day, the employees thought we still owed a balance and almost couldn’t figure it out.

I have to commend Daube’s on their cake decorating skills — we wanted a unique birthday cake for our friend and they were so friendly and accommodating, really taking the time to listen to what we wanted and making sure the design was just perfect. Needless to say, we loved loved loved the final result and she was just blown away by the cake when she saw it at her birthday party! Wonderful service and staff.

Every year the only reason I look forward to my birthday and the birthdays of my family is because I know it will include the sundae cake from daubes. Chocolate ganache and cream cheese frosting can’t be wrong!

Disappointing. We have used this bakery for our twins birthday party two years in a row. Last year the order was incorrect. It was like pulling teeth for them to admit that the order was wrong and to get them to do something for us. They gave us frozen cupcakes that were the correct version and a percentage off our price.
This year they were wrong again! When I tried to call them no one answered. When there was an option to leave a voice mail I selected that and it rang indefinitely.
If this were a target or a HyVee bakery I would be a little more forgiving. But when you are paying nearly 3 dollars per cupcake and it’s not correct that kinda bugs you. The cupcakes themselves are very high quality but the service is inexcusable. They don’t listen when you call (if they answer the phone at all) and then they sorta treat you like they think it’s your fault the order is wrong.

We just bought a chocolate birthday cake last week from Daubes and it was dry, did not have a good chocolate taste and was $ 37. Won’t do that again. Now the carrot cake is very good!

Best Chicken Pot Pie I’ve ever Eaten!
So I was having a relatively crummy day, but that all changed when I tasted the take and bake pot pie from Daube’s Bakery. It was buttery, flaky and delicious! The peas and carrots were fresh and not mushy! Not too much onion. Chicken chunks were nice sized and yummy. I am serious when I say it was the best, and it elevated my mood.
I will confess it looked big and I thought I couldn’t eat the entire thing, but darned if I could stop!
If you stop on a Saturday I think they will cook it there for you… But if your in the neighborhood of Highway 52 in Rochester and you like pot pies, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t stop in and ask if you can get one to go!!!
Since I live in Rochester… I may be in serious trouble… I do not think this was low-​cal!!! (But definitely on my it’s worth the calories list!)!
Yummy-​licious!!!

We have eaten here twice.
Both times the food was excellent.
The best French bread we have had since we were in Paris.
French bread and good butter makes a great meal.

I don’t get this place. I was excited to try it after reading all the great reviews. Came in with my family.
First, no one greeted us when we came in. Not a deal breaker or anything but it would be nice, especially since (in my new to the Midwest view) everyone has been so nice and helpful around here.
Second, everything was expensive! Pretty much everything was $ 2 minimum. Even donuts were $ 2 something each. We got a few different things: apple kolach, raspberry cheese kolach, packzi (Polish donut), long john, apple fritter, and a salted chocolate caramel cupcake. That came to about $ 18 so I’m thinking it was going to be some awesome pastry.
Well the cupcake was good although I think it had too much icing. I love icing so if I think there’s too much there has to be a whole lot! The cake was almost unnaturally moist and had a decent chocolate flavor.
Everything else…
The kolach were soso. The pastry was ok, not flaky goodness, just generic pastry. It was passable. The apple filling tasted odd; I think it was previously frozen. The raspberry cheese, unremarkable except that it wasn’t very cheesy.
The packzi was topped with white icing and sprinkles and, to my surprise, was filled with some type of red jelly. Except it wasn’t filled, it was like a small pocket and it was maybe strawberry flavored? I didn’t like it at all and apparently no one else did since it took the three of us at least 12 hours to eat.
The longjohn was not filled. It’s my understanding and experience that they are filled with custard or at least cream icing. This was dry. It was frosted with a thick layer of tasteless nasty white stuff. Like buttercream made with plain white Crisco. Ick. I scraped it off, unwilling to eat it or let my kid eat it. Ugh.
Finally the apple fritter. At least it looked good. Glazed with sickeningly sweet sugar coating. No apple mixed throughout. Instead filled in a small area with more nasty fake/​frozen apple filling.
Needless to say I’m not pleased and would not eat at Daube Bakery again if the pastries were a quarter or even free. Not worth the effort to chew.

Pretty good deserts. And a nice quiet atmosphere. I like going here a lot.

I am slightly disappointed with the chocolate carrot cake that I special ordered from Daube’s. Daube’s can make some beautiful cakes… I’ve seen many of them. This was NOT one of their beautiful cakes. Maybe it’s my fault and I should have explained that I wanted color on my cake when I ordered it but I figured that they were the experts they know how to decorate a cake, right?
So you can imagine my surprise when I opened the box to find a brown on brown on brown cake. They told me they would put some carrots on it. I thought «super» then people will know it’s carrot cake. Well, they kinda just look like turds if I’m being 100% honest. Maybe it would have been better if they were orange… but again, I’m not the cake decorating artist. I’m sure it’s going to taste wonderful… but wow, I just paid $ 40 for an ugly cake!

Amazing bakery! Try have a few gluten free treats including cupcakes and cookies. Very nice people. Huge selection of donuts.

A really nice, old school feeling bakery in Rochester, including a signature «toasted buttercream» frosting that I’m STILL having happy thoughts about 24 hours after tasting it. Donuts, kolache, and other breakfast pastries average $ 1 – 2 each, and cakes range from $ 6 for «mini» offerings to full force wedding cakes at appropriate prices.
Worth a stop if you’re in town to visit and would like something tasty in the morning.

Daube’s is a bakery but I enjoy them more for their lunch-​time food… don’t get me wrong I really do enjoy the cakes, donuts, long-​johns, and other various delights but lunch is why I keep going back. well perhaps I have a thing for the world-​famous carrot cake also… it is the best I have ever had… but back to the lunch. Everyday you have to get there early because they have some type of little special hot sandwich and they sell out it has been ruebens, cubans, pizza, other things… but there is always some good soups with bread, oh yeah the bread is awesome too… and they have cheap prewrapped po-​boys if you need to grab and go — -they have ample seating to just hang and enjoy yourself with a friend also… The cakes they decorate are gorgeous… they are a winner in my book…

So i’m visiting my friend L in Rochester from CA… and I’m from the Bay Area where they have some great bakeries…
But we were excited to try this place out.
The outside is cute/​quaint and when we went inside the baked goods looked so cute!
I took a picture of the outside and so when we went inside, I snapped a picture too. Then I put my camera away to scan the menu.
The man there though was kind of unnecessarily rude though. As we were waiting to order he said, «You shouldn’t take pictures without asking the manager.» I was a little taken aback, so I apologized and offered to delete it. Without acknowledging the apology he said, «You shouldn’t take those pictures.»
It was ONE, little man, ONE! How do you gain publicity/​popularity by being such a harrumphy little grumpus.
Thankfully, the lady was pretty nice. We ordered the chicken noodle soup, french bread, and vienna bread. and then three donuts: apple fritter, raspberry patzky (?), and a white long john.
the soup tasted like it was made from buillion cubes (chicken flavored ramen anyone?), and the noodles were really limp.
The french bread was crusty, and the vienna bread was. soft. but there was nothing amazing about them flavorwise. just something to accompany the soup.
My apple fritter was okay. some parts had a bitter-​ish aftertaste (i think it was a little overfried on the tips). apple fritters are my favorite, so it’s hard for me to dislike this.
the jelly patzky? putsky? was like a normal jelly donut.
and the long john’s frosting was overpowering and the donut itself was okay.
Basically, a lot of hype over nothing too special. I mean congratulations on its anniversaries and all, but if you have mediocre to good tasting pastries you shouldn’t be so mean.
I have to say though, the cakes were decorated well, and it was all very quaint.
I prefer Acme Bread and Crixa Cakes in the Bay Area.