A Sweet Side

I like to support local business owners and «A Sweet Side» owner (Karl) makes great cakes and other sweets for your liking.
I recently ordered a birthday cake for my dad on March 18, 2016. It was one that I haven’t tried. Something w/​strawberries and pistachio. Needless to say, that cake was delicious. Dad loved the cake and the family. I believe that cake was a quarter sheet for $ 50.00.
Definitely ordering again from him.
Good Luck and Enjoy.

I super duper like all the pastry that i ordered to him the cake, macarons, cake pops, cupcakes and cookies. The flavors is all good and the looks he really can make everything that you want for ur pastry. So i highly recommend him. 2 thumbs up!

Love Karl’s cakes! He does such an awesome job. Ordered our wedding cake and my daughters 1^st birthday cake for him.

not only delicious, but visually stunning!
our son was thrilled with his red velvet hungry caterpillar creation!

Eh… 2.5 stars my friends.
«You get what you pay for,» that’s what I always remind myself. I needed a new place where I can buy individual macarons on the run. Today, I happened to stumble upon A Sweet House Café.
Located on the shadier more ratchet side Vallejo, I find myself buying macarons at A Sweet House Café for $ 1.29. That’s actually pretty cheap per macaron. The bakery display looked lifeless. Not a lot of sweets on display if you ask me… I could not tell which flavor was which because there weren’t labels to distinguish the flavors. There was only a mini-​chalkboard showing what flavors they offered. When I asked a few questions about their product, the customer service I got from the staff was cold as ice. It seemed like they wanted to get rid of me.
I ordered four pistachio macarons to-​go and when I took a bite out of it, it had this overly sweet refrigerator aftertaste. I didn’t like it. It tasted pretty old since it’s been sitting in the back for awhile. Will I be back to try some more? Probably not.

I wanted a very special, beautiful cake for my sister’s birthday. I did a lot of research and I saw the pics on here and the good reviews… so, gave it a try. I am so glad I did! Carl is awesome and he made such a beautiful, delicious birthday cake! The top was decorated with beautifully displayed fresh fruit and boy the frosting and filling… sooooo good! And the Red Velvet cake was the best I have ever eaten! We will be buying all of our special cakes here! Thanks for helping me to make my sister’s birthday so special.

I’m a happy returning customer of «A Sweet Side.» The latest cake Karl made for me was an «Aloha» themed, vanilla bean with chunks of mango, birthday cake for my daughter’s 1^st birthday. Everyone loved it! His attention to detail was excellent, down to the hula girl cake topper with pearl earrings, grass skirt and individual fingers. It’s pretty amazing how Karl can make my idea of the cake better than I ever imagined.

A Sweet side is a bakery within a restaurant, «the original Red Onion». It was like a sauna when we walked into this place. No jokes! No A/​C– just fans that blew the hot air around :/​no bueno, yo.
Anywhoozies, the little bakery stand was off to the left. They had little cakes and pastries displayed in one case and the macarons, in another. My friends and I came for the macarons. They had quite a few flavors– but the person behind the counter didn’t know which was which & there was no sign indicating each one individually, however, there was a sign on the side with a list of flavors they had. I chose the ones that looked the prettiest, paid, then left.
When I bit into them, the texture and taste seemed okay, but then my friend pointed out that there was a «fridge» taste. I’m not quite sure how long the macarons have been sitting there but they did not taste fresh. For $ 1.25, I thought they were okay. but that fridge taste tho. couldn’t get over that. I finished them all tho. ;)
Would I come back? Ehh. sure, if I’m nearby… in the fall or winter time o_​_​_​O

Karl is the go-​to Cake Boss extraordinaire ! He has been doing cakes and desserts for all of my parties (we have 5 kids) for the last 3 years. Each cake is a piece of art! He is a genuinely nice person to work with and I have never had any negative feedback from any of the cakes I’ve ordered and served. All of his deliciously beautiful sweets are competitively priced. His red velvet and cream cheese is to die for… And his tiramisu is heavenly… He will continue to have my business as long as he is in the area.

Karl Fong runs a sweet side out of the Original Red Onion. You can find him and delicious, oh so delicious, samples of his work at Red Onion in Vallejo, the Red Onion in Vallejo and Happy Sashimi in Pinole.
He made us a gorgeous three tiered wedding cake in our colors and added a half sheet of tiramisu for a wildly good price. He had wonderful flavors (with real, whole raspberries, coffee, kahlua and all sorts of goodness). All of this is really wonderful but let me tell you what blew me away:
Rather than interrupt any of us on the wedding day, when he dropped off our cake he simply left it, still owed over half of our payment! Now, I can’t promise that he would always do this or even recommend it, but I can ask the universe to return his wonderful kindness and consideration by proliferating his business and good karma so that he always receives more than ample payment. We’ll be dropping off our final check tomorrow after some good sleep tonight. THANK YOU KARL FONG!