Hopkins Street Bakery

1584 Hopkins St, Berkeley - 94707
100 reviews
Dessert
(510) 526-8188

Hands down the best cake I have ever tasted.

The Best Bake shop in Albany. Fresh, service & the owners, really nice people that cares for their clients.

Best eclairs and cream puffs in the Bay area!!! And cookies, breads, muffins… everything incredibly delicious. But really, if you like eclairs, you haven’t even had one till you had theirs.

Delicious gluten free cakes, also delicious cream puff/eclair thingie.

For us, the most reliable cake and pastry shop in Berkeley.

The raspberry filled doughnuts are amazing- but expensive (more than 4x what I've ever paid for a doughnut before). No indoor seating. In a nice walking area with street parking.

When the wife asks you to bring a cupcake home, you find the closest cupcake. I Google searched and found this place. It's a quaint little bakery that reminds you of the old mom and pop bake shops. But that's about where the nicety ends for me. When I walked in I asked what he had for cupcakes. He says we have chocolate, that's all we ever have. Now I'm no genius but when you have baked goods for sale you really want to talk them up so your customers would really want to buy them from you. This guy seem like he was bothered that I was there to buy his stuff. I saw a lemon tart, I love lemon tarts. I said is that lemon? He says yes. That's it nothing else, doesn't talk up his baked goods or anything. In fact the guy was so unfriendly that I had an inkling to leave while he was boxing up my cupcakes. Now while I'm paying for this stuff, he doesn't even say thank you for the purchase! I don't normally make negative reviews based on customer service alone, I have two boxes of baked goods sitting next to me that I haven't even tasted yet. But I'll be honest, I was tempted to turn around and throw the two boxes at the guy as I left the place.All I know is these pastries have better be f****** phenomenal because I will never ever step foot in that place again based upon that poor excuse for customer service. If the pastries are bad this two-star review is going to be knocked down to a one-star review.

I'm somewhat biased because it's my own local bakery, but this place is great. Friendly staff, great pastries, not too expensive, always fresh.

Eclair was meh. You can tell it’s not fresh. Their empanada is not even kept warm, served cold and dull.

What a delicious cake! The chocolate mousse cake with hazelnut is really insanely good, and flourless! Wow!