Lux Bakery & Cafe

A great selection of ready to eat treats.
I tried the Baklava, Nanaimo cups, and bubble tea and all were delicious.
Service was fast and friendly.
I’ll be back!

The tofu sandwich seems like ham but is tofu! Inconceivable! The sammich comes stuffed with carrots, jalapenos, cilantro, and this odd, delicious hamfu, on a crunchy-​crust white bread. On the one occasion I ordered something besides hamfu crack, their falafel was less moist than I like it, but tasted fine.
Also, they have great bubble tea (mix the flavors! mix the flavors!) and can tell you which flavors have/​do not have diary. Plus, organic coffee! The service has always been friendly, and there is a stack of The Onion to read while I nibble.
Now I am craving hamfu! Oh! the treacherous perils of late-​night review-​writing.

There is no cream cheese in their cream cheese frosting.* This place is sub par and so very underwhelming. Definitely NOT lux.
* You must ask for cream cheese frosting, so don’t assume it’s on there. The owners, via Unilocal,have reached out – kudos to them – and said they would work on making their display case signage clearer.

Anne is the sweetest. She did my wedding cake back in November and seeing a picture of it up on the wall at Lux this afternoon when I stopped by for lunch and a sweet treat after running 5 miles on the greenbelt was cool. My wife and I both had falafel wraps, bubble drinks, and we split a chocolate cupcake with strawberry icing. Everything was great as usual.
Pricing is very reasonable, especially if you keep up with the specials and coupons and whatnot like my wife.
If you’re looking for a place for a wedding cake, go see Anne and you won’t regret it. Our cake was amazing. We could really tell Anne put lots of love into it.

Lux is overall a great place to grab a bite. The food menu is really good and the drink options are practically endless.
Then there is the bakery case…
The cupcakes are good they come in two sizes, regular and mini.
The mini is the perfect bite sized guilt-​free way to get your cupcake on, and it’s only 85 cents. Can’t go wrong!
The best flavors are Chocolicious, Mint Chocolate, and the Fruity flavors. I love the Key Lime… if you love lime, then you will love this cupcake!
There are other amazing goodies like lemon bars and cookies.
It will take quite a few trips to try everything, but I’m willing to accept that challenge.

Had the Chicken Gyro –Marinated white meat chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and yogurt sauce wrapped in pita
My daughter had the grilled cheese and she said it was the best she ever had.
For dessert (you can’t come to a bakery without getting something sweet) we had these mini little treasures of bliss. The mint cake ball was fantastic. My girl had a little mini cupcake and it was hit.
We left happy and satisfied.
Thinking I might go back and get some of those little balls for Valentines day for the rest of the family. Especially since they have multiple flavors… yummy!

I went here last Sunday during happy hour (around 2-​ish which was a surprise to me) and we got a bubble tea and a mocha drink that were excellent.
I even got a mini lime cupcake. It was fantastic.
They had wonderful sweet treats. They even had Peanut Mutter dog treats that the kiddos really liked.
A customer in there made it a point to tell me how spectacular their carrot cake was. She had ordered them twice for 2 separate occasions.
The staff was outstanding. The store had a pleasant energy, the cake book with pictures was fun to look at and this was a definite 5 star experience. We look forward to returning, and so should you.

Once again, I disagree with the majority of Unilocalers. I’m sorry, but I just didn’t think this place alone was worth the long drive.
I was intending to eat lunch at Café Racer, and then head to Lux for dessert. Had I been able to locate Café Racer, and only eaten dessert at Lux, Lux would be getting 4 stars from me, easily.
I got a grilled chicken sammich and iced tea. The sammich was not at all what I expected. Shredded carrots, cucumbers, some other green veggie I couldn’t identify, and a buttload of cilantro (ACK!), along with grilled chicken pellets bathed in what I think was teriyaki sauce. What was I expecting? I was expecting grilled chicken with mayo or Ranch dressing, with lettuce, cheese, and maybe some tomatoes or bacon, or something. Big disappointment. This is like asking for a state-​of-​the-​art HD LCD TV for Christmas and instead getting a 1975 CRT TV with broken rabbit ears. A whole day, and several hand-​washings later, my fingers still smell like teriyaki sauce.
I’d also like to point out that the overhead menu said nothing about what was on this sammich, nor did the paper menus. The paper menus only speak of pastries. It would not be unusual to expect lettuce, cheese, and tomatoes on a grilled chicken sammich. It WOULD be unusual to expect carrots, cilantro, and teriyaki sauce on a grilled chicken sammich; therefore, I felt no reason to ask the counter person what came on the sammich. My advice to Ann Lux would be to post the ingredients on the overhead menu.
HOWEVER, on the way out I purchased a mint chocolate chip cupcake and some fudge (four pieces in a pack). I decided Susi R’s boyfriend makes much better fudge, quite frankly, but I was extremely impressed with the cupcake. It was as moist as all get out, and the mint icing with chocolate chips in it was fantastic. I’m not usually an icing fan because most of it either tastes too fake or too rich, but Lux’s icing was light, extremely flavorful, and creamy. I also wanted to try an Orange Dreamsicle cupcake, but they only had mini ones when I was there.
I recommend to you, my friends, to eat lunch elsewhere and only look to Lux to provide you with cupcakes, for that is where they excel. If I’m ever in this area again, I’ll go back for seconds, but I won’t make a special trip to go to Lux alone. Gotta say, though, their cupcakes beat the batter outta the cupcakes at Cupprimo, which is within walking distance of my house.
I feel like summarizing in verse…
The pastries they bake,
And the sammiches they make
Are completely different animals.
The grilled chicken disaster –
Which required oil of castor –
Made me wish it were flammable.
On their cakes of cup
I would so willingly sup.
Those things are real damn tasty.
That being true,
If I again happen through,
I will eat the cupcakes quite hasty.

Although the prices are very reasonable, they fall in line with typical Vietnamese sandwich commodity prices. This place is catered towards Americans, and does not have an authenticate taste. The pastries and bakery portion of the café should be rated highly, but the café ranking brings it down due to the hours of operations.
I was hoping for some savory baked goods but was let down on that front as well. Worth visiting at least once, but it will be hard for me to come back unless I want baked goods specially catered.

I am always next door at phở thai son and after getting a coupon for a buy one get from free, decided to drop in.
The place is small but sweet with lots of pictures of some of the cake designs that Ann can produce. We were the only ones in there and I ordered a chinese pork banh mi (sandwich) with no cucumbers and the asian chicken salad after the reviews on here raved about it.
The sandwich was close to $ 6 which is very expensive compared to the banh mi stores in austin which range around $ 3 – 4 a sandwich. It was good though with a very crisp and fresh taste. They forgot to leave out the cucumbers but oh well.
The salad though was disappointing. The chicken portion was pretty small but flavorful and the peanut sauce was super oily.
I also ordered the saigon coffee which was good and a mini cupcake for my daughter… the cupcake wasnt all that great and tasted like something I could bake.
I was very impressed with the displays on the wall of some of the cake work. some looked amateurish while others were AMAZING such as the graduation cap cake.
Will I come here again? Maybe… if I had another coupon.

Yum! I ventured way out of my hood to check out lux bakery down south thanks to errol’s review! and by association, thanks to jacquelyn n.‘s review! i love word of mouth at its finest :)
i ordered the tofu gyro and almond bubble tea. the tea had a hint of salty flavor and was amazingly refreshing, milky but not that powdery taste you get at some bubble tea places. the tof was actually pretty flavorful. i almost thought it was some type of viet sausage and had to check. i do wish there was more tofu in the wrap b/​c it’s a pretty thin slice but the pita was very soft with lots of lettuce, tomato and white sauce.
for dessert, i got the mocha and strawberry mini cupcakes and the chocolate chip and ginger snap cookies to go. i tore in to the ginger snap right away, and it was super soft, thin and had the perfect amount of spice. i sampled the chocolate chip next and was happy to find that it was buttery, moist, and delectably chocolatey… just like it should be! i took the cupcakes home and sampled them the next day. great icing, not too sweet but good texture (not too dry either). i really like the strawberry, it’s light and fluffy. they could be more moist but probably hard to judge from a day old mini cupcake. i just like that there are mini options so i can try more! going back next time to try the whoopie, and i hope they have lemon on my next visit.
nice, friendly staff, clean and cute place. i love how they have packaged sweets to take home and dog biscuits too! i really like this place!

A few months back I moved to the hinterlands of far south Austin, and was happy to discover the Man Pasand Indian grocery store in the same strip mall as Lux Bakery. Every time I needed some Indian groceries, I glanced at the front door of Lux, saw the bubble tea advertised, and moved on. Not because I dislike bubble tea, but because I have never liked Chinese baked goods.
Lucky for me, I read rave reviews of Lux on Unilocal,and realized that Lux is most likely not Chinese run, but probably Vietnamese (and their baked goods have the French influence, which is much more up my alley). Whatever background the baker has, Lux 100% DELICIOUS and is now going to be my #1 stop for cupcakes.
I got one chocolate cupcake with mocha frosting, one chocolate cupcake with mint frosting, one red velvet cupcake, and one flourless chocolate torte. Let’s start with the prices: $ 2.00 a piece for the cupcakes, and $ 4 for the generous ‘personal’ torte. Now, my favorite cupcake baker of all-​time is Sugar Mamas, so that is what I compare all other cupcakes to. I was SO happy when I ate my first bite of the chocolate mocha. The cake is equal to that of Sugar Mama’s. Moist and dark chocolate, with a dense crumb. The frosting was very flavorful, and was just the right amount, but it was a little too frothy for my own taste. Don’t get me wrong, it is still excellent frosting, but it is just not as dense as my ultimate frosting.
The chocolate torte is among the best I have ever had. Thick, moist, and dense, with bittersweet chocolate that is not too sweet. The thin glaze on top makes it perfection. If Lifetime Fitness didn’t cost so much, I’d eat one of these jammies every day.
I’m thinking I may have to do a blind taste test with a Lux cupcake and Sugar Mama’s cupcake, and report back. P. S. Check out my photos.

This is the perfect place for lunch on those unbearably hot Austin summer days. I’ve been coming to this place since it was still called «Chooby Doo,» and from what I’ve heard the owners of Chooby Doo sold their recipes to the owners of Lux. My usual is the chicken gyro and a coconut bubble drink.
I didn’t know what a gyro was before coming to this place, but let me tell you what – I’m a believer. The chicken’s seasoned well, it’s topped with fresh lettuce and tomatoes and then this SUPER refreshing sauce stuff (sorry for the non-​technical term, I have no idea what it is… it’s something like yogurt) with cool crisp cucumbers in it. De-​LISH. And they’re nice enough to put the sauce on the side for you when you order to-​go so that it doesn’t make the bread soggy before you get home.
Then, this delicious gem of a sandwich is paired with a delicious frozen bubble drink. I usually get coconut but sometimes if I’m feeling crazy I get something fruity like mango. My favorite part about their bubble drinks is that they aren’t overly sweet. The taste very very natural as opposed to ‘artificial’ like say Slurpees or Snow Cones. Watermelon actually tastes like you’re biting into a watermelon instead of eating watermelon-​flavored candy. This makes them feel more like a great refreshing beverage rather than a dessert.
It took me a while to get used to the pearls but they really grew on me and now I order with extra. :) They might seem weird and scary, but give them a try!
And to top it all of, the ladies that run this place are just so delightful and always give service with a smile!

The four stars are for the pumpkin whoopie pie. Oh my pumpkin cream cheese heaven!
The chicken gyro left something to be desired. Kind of gnarly chunks of chicken if you ask me… but really should my expectations for popular Greek street food really be placed on Lux? I can’t expect a fiery spit in the back roasting chicken all day in conjunction with a kitchen housed to baked delicious and bountiful pumpkin whoopies.
Taro Boba tea, could have been more Taro-​ey, but the boba was the nice. chewy, slightly sweet kind.
I think next time I’ll stick with the baked goods and maybe try a Banh Mi (aka pork sandwich) or their spring rolls. Jaquelyn N.‘s enthusiasm for this place gives me no choice, but to keep on trying things out. Oh and being on the way home from work doesn’t hurt either!

My favorite thing about Unilocal is trying some place because of a great review, and then finding out the review was exactly right. That’s pretty much how I wound up at Lux Bakery and Café.
I never heard of this place until I read Jacquelyn N.‘s review, but now I can tell you two more things: If it’s your first time going there, don’t blink or you might miss it, and if Lux had cheeks, you’d want to pinch them, because this place is so darn cute.
When I got there they were bringing out a Chicago-​style dog which looked intriguing, but I opted for the Asian Chicken Salad with peanut dressing and a chocolate chip cookie, since Jacquelyn rated that specific combination at ten billion five stars. And all things considered, her numbers are correct. Lux serves some interesting and excellent food here, although I’m not quite sure exactly where they’re making it – is there a kitchen behind the counter?
I’ll give their red velvet cupcake 3.5 stars – great flavor, unique fluffy frosting, but just slightly on the subjective dry side for me. But the lemon cupcake here is a straight 1100 stars, because it’s flat-​out fantastic. Incidentally, I didn’t eat all this stuff in one sitting.
I think that brings my running-​man total to 10,000,001,108.5, which I’ll just round-​up to five-​stars for brevity. Oh, lighten up already – who you gonna call? Unilocalbusters? I think the real reason Lux is great is because it pretty much represents everything I believe in: Doing something, doing it well, and having good things happen because of it. Consider giving this place a try, you just might be pleased as well.

ordering my birthday cake was easy and relatively painless. the only thing i didn’t love was having to give them a credit card number to place the order. i get the reason, but i just don’t like doing that for anything (ex. making/“holding” appointments).
my chocolate cake with cream cheese icing came out pretty good. the icing wasn’t overly cream cheese-​y but it was overly sweet. i have a pretty bad sweet tooth, but no need to punish it with instant cavity cream. the cake, though, was nice and moist! slight edge over HEB’s chocolate cake, which isn’t a bad thing– HEB’s chocolate cake is scrumptious (and cheaper)! the decorations on the cake was nice and simple, although i wanted to make a quick stop for sprinkles b/​c sometimes we could all use a little dash of confetti in our lives and on our cakes!
the orange creamsicle cupcake was just too sweet, we couldn’t eat it. i know i’m a little OCD about my teeth, but i felt like the icing seeped right thru the enamel… even so, who cares. happy birthday to me!

Today was one of my co-​workers’ birthdays, and we ordered a couple of cheesecakes from Lux to celebrate. Now, I’m not normally a fan of cheesecake; it’s just usually too heavy, and makes my stomach feel like a couple of bricks of cream cheese are languishing in there afterwards. Not sayin’ I don’t eat it, mind you; just sayin’ that it isn’t usually my favorite. So I didn’t protest when the birthday girl cut me a pretty slim slice of the blueberry cheesecake.
I joined everyone at the conference table with my slice… my fork moved to the cheesecake… speared a small bite… then went into slow-​mo mode as it made its way ever… so…deliberately into my mouth… slowing even further as it neared my tongue… and as it made contact,…
…the clouds parted, the heavens opened up, and angels began singing in a joyful chorus! Perfect texture — so light! So creamy! Perfect flavor — not too sweet, with a hint of luscious blueberry! And the proportion of crunchy graham crackery crust to fluffy blueberryish cheesy cloudness was just right. It was so amazing that it caused me to make tacky references to angels and grossly overuse exclamation points in the review I wrote about it later that day.
And now I read the reviews of this place and see that they have a banh mi-​like sandwich, and that they are right. by. my. office.
You have to dig a little more for the amazingly awesome eats in southwest Austin, but they’re there.
Lux, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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EDIT, 9÷11÷09:
So, my entire office was so enthusiastic about this place after That Cheesecake that we ordered lunch from here the very next day. Alas, my sandwich was not the mind-​altering experience that the cheesecake was. I got the Asian pork sandwich (duh), and while it was good, it just wasn’t as tasty as other banh mi I’ve had in the past; the sauce on the pork was much too sweet, and the sandwich seemed small considering the price ($ 7.99 for a banh mi/​bubble tea combo… not bad under normal circumstances, but I’m used to paying $ 3 for GIGANTIC, maximumly delicious banh mi at Thanh Nhi). The bubble tea also didn’t quite stack up to the bubble teas of Christmases past. I got a coconut milk bubble tea, and it was too icy, too frothy, and not coconutty enough.
I’m still absolutely delighted that this place is near my office, and am excited to try some of their other offerings (more cheesecake, plz), but I can’t quite bring myself to give it that fifth star.
P. S. 5% discount for paying with cash!

Free mini cupcake added a star for me. We had lunch here today. My daughter said it was the best grilled cheese sandwhich she’s ever had. I had an excellent chicken gyro, we shared chips and hummus and my other daughter munched on spring rolls. The kids love this place for their treats and bubble teas. Their cakes are delicious, and they have great prices. Try them for lunch and dessert!
Oh, and the staff is VERY kid friendly.. . But not in a weird quit smiling at my kid sort of way. A good way.

My wife, son and I went here for lunch on Saturday.
Wife and I got the asian pork sandwhich. Amazing. It’s not quite the same as a banh mi — but it’s extremely good. Kiddo got the hot dog ($ 2!)
Also — I got a side salad. Their house asian honey mustard is amazing — and unfortunately they make it themselves so I can’t go buy it! Boo!
Lastly — we tried a mini cupcake of every flavor. All very good — our favs were the fruit flavors (lime, orange, lemon).
We’ll be back very often.

I decided to recommend this place for lunch with my coworkers after reading the reviews on Unilocal and browsing their menu. The reviews don’t lie, this place is awesome!
I really couldn’t decide on what to initially get and settled for the Asian Chicken sandwich. The sauce was excellent and the chicken was moist and tender and very tasty. I also had a taro bubble tea that was pretty decent. My coworkers got the Cuban sandwich and said it was pretty good.
The staff was very friendly and dropped by to check if everything was good and to refill drinks. I really enjoy this kind of service and I can’t wait to go back for more!