85C Bakery Cafe - San Leandro - San Leandro, California

K L.

Found this nice place while visiting relatives which we frequently visited.
It’s an Asian bakery chain from Taiwan (so I’m told). There were a variety of interesting pastries. My favourite were these mini milk cubes which were absolutely deliciously creamy especially with some lovely hot tea. I didn’t like the milk Oolong tea. The milk was too creamy for this type of tea and overpowered the taste. We also tried the matcha, custard and milk pastry, they were mediocre apart from the milk pastry which we also liked. Pastries are very soft, light and fluffy, makes you want to gobble up more!
Seating area is spacious, there’s about 4 tables so makes it easy to manoeuvre strollers and wheelchairs. Only downside is, there are no customer washrooms. Not ideal especially if customers dine in.

Max K.

It's Asian themed bakery with variety of Asian fusion pastries. Variety of smoothies and shakes. Some decent indoor seating.
Accessible with wide path inside.
Great place to meetup, groups, kids and even couples or first date.

Vitya

As a weekly goer, it is with a heavy heart that I must say this place is going from bad to worse. For months the menu screens don't work, they close off their bathroom, move hand sanitizer behind the counter, remove straws and cutleries from the self serve station. Only napkins left.

T K.

Not at all tasty… the red velvet cake was super dry and flavorless! Very cute boxing but terrible baked goods no flavor. Very pretty but that’s it…

Joshua M.

I like 85C, and the coffee and pasties at this location are great. But the bathroom clearly designed for patrons had a "employees only" sign slapped on it, leaving no bathroom for customers. It's difficult to have coffee, eat pasties (many of which have a powdered decorative covering) and relax without being able to use a bathroom. Customers seem to be expected to go somewhere else to relive themselves following purchase and consumption of a diuretic and messy snack. Had I seen I couldn't use the bathroom before I ordered, I would have left.

Angelina N.

The store was clean and the staff was very friendly and helpful. This store seems a bit smaller than other 85C shops and seems to have a smaller cake selection. I wanted to get a mango creme brule cake, but they were out. The staff went to the back to see if they had more. They said that they could decorate it for me now, but the cake was frozen, and I wouldn't have been able to eat it for 2 hours so that it could thaw. Ordered a red velvet instead. The cake was very dense and dry. It was hard to cut because it was so dense. The cake would crumble and fall apart a bit when you are trying to pick it up with the fork. Even the creme was dry and crumbly. Probably because they are frozen cakes. It was also lacking in flavor. There was barely any cream cheese flavor in the frosting. I do not recommend cakes from here.

I love their mochi egg tarts. Sweet custardy chewy filling with a flaky crust. What is there to no love?

Berrytale is a blueberry cream cheese filled bun with a crispy sweet crust. Pop it in the toaster for a few minutes to make it crispy. Flavor wise, it is pretty good, but I usually get it at a different bakery, and they have a lot of filling. 85C has very little filling in it, so I was a bit disappointed. It still tastes good, though.

Con: Cakes are frozen and not fresh made. Dry and unpalatable

Pros: Very friendly staff. Good buns.

Brian W.

Super disappointed! Order a birthday cake, when pick up they told me that they are out off Happy birthday sign and Candle. I was like what? A bakery store can out off Candle? And the cashier said that they had it before and now is out! And there is nothing that he can do. I mean it is your responsibility to keep the candle and birthday sign ready when customers had already scheduled a pick up… I would never ever order a cake again from this store at San Leandro

Kelly L. F. R.

I am not sure why this bakery is so popular. I haven't had anything that was memorable or worth recommending. Personally, As Kneaded Bakery is far superior ( the staff isn't friendly or helpful, but their baked goods are AMAZING!)