Bittersweet Pastry Shop & Cafe Reviews
Submitted by Mark Escorpizo on 08/17/2022
Mark Escorpizo 5 stars rating.
Picked up a birthday cake today in which I mistakenly ordered for pick up the following day. They were so accommodating, professional, and nice for getting me a cake a day early. I cannot speak more highly of the team that runs the shop! The coffee was also amazing!
Molly Norenberg 5 stars rating.
It is a year after our wedding and people are still talking about how delicious our wedding cake was from Bittersweet! Today we picked up our 1 year anniversary cake and we can’t wait. Bittersweet is such a wonderful and caring bakery with delicious cake. They even have a cake tasting box so you can try them all before you decide. A great place wedding cakes or just goodies in general!
Submitted by Molly Norenberg on 09/04/2022
ari s 5 stars rating.
Let me preface by saying I DID NOT ORDER THE CAKE OR DEAL WITH THE BAKERY AT ALL. However, my mom was told by another bakery that they wouldn’t be able to accommodate my cake for my birthday anymore this year due to being busy. My mom scrambled around panicked calling bakery after bakery until she stumbled across this gem of a shop. They let her order with less than a week of my party and the pricing was not so astronomical like the others. While this is all great I haven’t even told you about this AMAZING CAKE!!!! Yes it’s beautiful (we see the picture come on now)! BUT every person at my party said this was the best cake they have ever had. We usually end up throwing cake away that’s extra from parties….but this time we finished the entire cake! I mean I just found myself scraping my Tupperware to get the last bits of that delicious one-of-a-kind cake! I had originally requested white chocolate raspberry but my mom somehow ended up oedering a raspberry lemonade cake…I’ll admit at first I was like ughhh but wow this hands down is my favorite of all time and I will NEVER go back to the old bakery! I’m also a puzzle fanatic and my sister bought me an awesome puzzle right from the bakery! Come on we are 3/3 now….!!! I will say the one thing that wasn’t my favorite were the macarons but it may have been that they were a separate charge but I’m telling you people the buttercream is so silky soft and luxurious I thought it was whipped cream! Idk how they do it but my entire family was so impressed they all want that cake flavor now. This is our new bakery spot for that delicious cake! Call them and order the raspberry lemon cake - I didn’t even know that I liked that combo but it’s compelled me to spend at least 10 minutes writing this review. *wishing I had more of that cake and sad it’s gone* thank you bittersweet for making my birthday the best! Keep that pastry chef if you know what’s good for tou!????
Submitted by Ari S on 05/24/2022
mar fasihi 5 stars rating.
Delicious menu and drinks! They were out of some stuff when I went and there are only a few tables, which means a while for waiting if you want to dine in (which I would recommend, it is a beautiful set up). I got a mini fruit topped cheesecake and love that they offer tinier options for 1-2 people instead of huge cakes only. The strawberry matcha is more matcha than anything, but still great. The pastries are neverending and it's hard to know what to choose! Great experience, friendly workers as well.
Submitted by Mar Fasihi on 04/30/2022
mary fogarty 5 stars rating.
I live in Pa and could be with my son and his wife for the occasion. I ordered German Chocolate Cake (my son's favorite). It was decorated beautifully and my son and his wife said it was absolutely delicious!! Customer was great and ordering online was super easy!! Big thanks to Bitter Sweet for helping me make my son's birthday extra special!!
Submitted by Mary Fogarty on 04/23/2022
Monica Feldman 5 stars rating.
As for many years, Bittersweet continues to offer delicious pastries ????. It seems that they reduced their options, but still tasty and high quality.
Submitted by Monica Feldman on 03/18/2022
Maria Sandoval 5 stars rating.
A friend of mine recommend this shop to me and I was so happy I went. Everyone was so friendly and helpful. My pastry was delicious and the strawberries were so fresh. Definitely can't wait to come back.
Submitted by Maria Sandoval on 03/06/2022
Madeleine Toups Tranchina 5 stars rating.
We have all been to weddings with dry cakes - this is not one of them! Bittersweet Weddings made an absolutely delicious wedding cake for us (three tiers with chocolate mousse and white cake with ivy piping). Truly, very tasty. So much so that my husband and I got forks and dug into the cake after cutting it - it was THAT good. Cannot recommend them enough for your Chicago wedding!
Submitted by Madeleine Toups Tranchina on 11/04/2021
Eugenio Padilla (cheap2fine) 5 stars rating.
My wife and I researched what were the best bakeries in Chicago when looking for someone to bake our wedding cake, and Bittersweet consistently showed up on multiple lists and websites, thus, we added them to our list for cake tastings. We did the tastings at a few different bakeries, but Bittersweet topped them all. All the different cakes and fillings we tried tasted amazing! The cakes were fluffy and full-flavored, and the fillings and icings tasted fresh and homemade as opposed to synthetic and mass-produced. Along with this, we were also able to provide an example of the design that we wanted around the cake and asked to be decorated with natural flowers, both requests which they knocked out of the park! I absolutely recommend Bittersweet, as not only did my wife and I love the cake but so did our guests!
Submitted by Eugenio Padilla (cheap2fine) on 10/21/2021
Angelina Bates 5 stars rating.
Working with Bittersweet Pastry was an absolute dream! My now husband and I loved that we still got to have a cake tasting for our -last minute- Chicago wedding, and could not have been happier with our choice of the banana nut with buttercream! The entire team was professional, organized, and really made this process and decision easy. Highly recommend!
Submitted by Angelina Bates on 08/18/2021
