Upper Crust Bakery

Called in an order and the bread (challah) that I ordered was amazing! Great prices and really good customer service. Thank UCB!

So my first time at this bakery this morning! (In my quest to try every bakery places in Austin before school ends)
Had the ham&cheese croissant, sausage puff, apricot croissant and strawberry danish. I have not tried the sweet ones yet, so this is based entirely on the H&C croissant.
The croissant tasted quite good. I like how it was bit pieces of ham! However, I thought the croissant itself was too soggy/​doughty in the middle, and the outside lacked the flakiness owned to croissant!
The puff was alright, not extremely fond of it…

Italian cream cake! We bought this cake a couple of days in advance for a birthday dinner and let me tell you even for being a few days old. this cake was sooo moist, and perfectly sweet, I think I had three pieces. This cake will not disappoint. I cant wait to try there other pastries the next time im in town.

I am yet to try their actual food; every time I go in I am drawn to the deserts. The cinnamon rolls are THE BEST I’ve ever had. The Italian Cream Cake is great too. It can get pretty busy in the afternoon, it is much more pleasant to go in the morning.

Suffice to say, I’ve been back three times in my short stay in Austin. The creampuffs are the best I’ve ever had. They have so much vanilla Bean pastry cream inside of them that it oozes out with the first bite. I want my last meal to include this delicious cream puff, it might just revive me. It’s that good!
5 Stars– Location
5 Stars — Variety
5 Stars — Prices
5 Stars — Portion
5 Stars — Décor
Would I go again? Yes, I can imagine myself stopping by every day before work just to get a creampuff and a latte.
What would I have again? That creampuff, I could eat that over and over! My husband’s only complaint was that his raspberry cream cheese filled puff was significantly lacking in filling. delicious, but without enough of the filling, he would’ve only given it three stars. But that is all personal preference.
The pros:
1) Easy to find, big sign on the corner.
2) Plenty of indoor seating.
3) Outdoor seating for warmer weather months.
4) Excellent customer service
5) Large variety of options, from savory too sweet.
6) They cater
7) The open early enough to get your breakfast fix before work.
The cons:
Nope! Can’t come up with the darn thing. Think that says it all.

I am a huge fan of this place. I used to work nearby, so I’d surprise colleagues in the morning with their cinnamon buns. Yum! We also routinely enjoyed their mocha almond cakes for birthdays. Even though I now work near Zilker, I’ll stop by for a tasty treat for my colleagues.

I ordered my graduation cake from here when I was a young coed at UT Austin! I’m a lifelong doodie I see. It’s just as good now as it was 10ish years ago. The cake — Gâteau de Marisa is a perfect spring/​summer cake with fresh strawberries but with thick rich cream cheese icing and not the whipped cream icing I generally detest.
5 stars to this bakery for having a great selection so close to closing time, unlike most bakeries that run out of everything. And also for having food, such as cheese soup which was creamy cheesy goodness in a bowl. Go now!

Love their Morning Bunesque cinnamon rolls, but I can pass on their savory foods. Their chicken tortilla soup was very light on the chicken, and the soup was so chunky that I couldn’t eat it with my sore throat. I guess I expect most soups to be just the cure for a sore throat. My husband reported that his chicken salad sandwich tasted «sweet,» and not in a good way. But their pastries are en pointe, and until Tartine opens some kind of Austin outlet, I’ll get my faux morning buns here.

Peaceful place to come for a coffee and a pastry, or lunch. I enjoy their avocado veggie sandwich and lentil soup, and the eye candy of the pastries counter alone is worth a visit. However, it is pricey, and the lighting is quite ‘industrial’ and just doesn’t have the soft atmosphere that I would like. Usually pretty noisy inside and busy too, so expect a wait.

One of my favorite bakeries in town, with the most outstanding cinnamon rolls on the planet, hands down. I used to stop by here about every other weekend when I lived in the neighborhood, just to get a cinnamon roll. This is by far the best menu item and goes pretty quickly, so you need to get here before noon to stand a chance of getting one. If I had it on my mind on a Saturday morning, I’d use it as my motivational tool to push my lazy butt out of bed and start the day. This roll is delightful: It’s made the old-​fashioned way, so it doesn’t have all that disgusting cream cheese icing slathered on, the way so many other bakeries seem to think a real cinnamon roll should be done. Rather, it’s simple but perfect: Just the dough wrapped around nice and tightly, with a copious dousing of cinnamon on the inside and plenty of sugar poured on the outside, with a little butter in the dough for flavor. It is so sweet and sooo good. And it is HUGE. As big as a grapefruit, it’s a pastry I can spend half an hour savoring and still have a bite or two left. I have never not finished it in one sitting (see that? It’s even worthy of using a double negative).
I’m sure the rest of their pastries and baked goods are delicious too, but I’ve never seen reason to order anything else. I have had a couple sandwiches, like the tuna salad, which are small but hit the spot. As expected from a high-​caliber bakery, the bread is fantastic and super fresh.
After writing this, I need to get back up there ASAP.

This is my favorite place to have a breakfast pastry and a coffee in Austin. Emphasis on the breakfast pastry more than the coffee. The Upper Crust cinnamon roll is the standard by which I judge all other cinnamon rolls. I dream about these cinnamon rolls. And on days when I’m not feeling like something sweet, the jalapeño ham quiche is un-​freaking-​believable. I hope to one day be one of the people who eat here every day in retirement. I wouldn’t change a thing about this place. Not one thing.

I’ve been wanting to try this place for a long time and glad I finally did.
There are many great restaurants on the North side. But not many are good sandwich shops. I’ve never been a huge fan of Thundercloud and you’ll never see me eating at Subway. Upper Crust fills that void!
What’s great about this place is they offer many great options for your sandwich. But they still keep it simple enough to where the most indecisive person like myself can make a quick choice. You’re getting a fresh sandwich customized to your liking, not premade.
My sandwich came with quite a bit of lettuce and another green item I can’t recall. I really enjoyed that and made the meal feel like a healthier option.
Another plus is that they offer to make your sandwich using croissant bread for an additional $ 1.50 charge. I usually have to go to Jason’s Deli for a sandwich like that. However, I did opt for sourdough, which was excellent.
My only regret was not trying the cookies and other pastries. They also have some nice-​looking cakes that they appear to take many orders for. If you’re looking for an extra-​special birthday cake or even wedding, give this place a shot.
The parking isn’t bad and they have a fair amount of seating, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they exceed full capacity during peak hours. Nonetheless, I can’t wait to return and try their other items.

Upper Crust (UC) is located on a sunny corner in the wonderful city of Austin. The bakery is filled with happy families eating delicious bread for breakfast with big smiles. UC isn’t fancy. The décor is very homey and the bread humbly displayed in cases with no extra adornment.
Between Ray M. and I, we got the cream puff, an apple turnover, and a blueberry danish. My favorite among the three was the apple turnover. Absolutely flakey dough with tangy, sweet apple filling. Every bite was refreshing and heavenly! An excellent compliment to a cup of coffee and a sunny morning.
The cream puff was one a kind. I’ve never had a cream puff that I liked because the cream was always tasteless and the puff was always cold and stale. The cream puff at UC is AMAZING. Although the puff is cold, the crust remains chewy and fresh. The cream itself actually has viscosity and explodes from the puff in lushes waves. There were specks of vanilla bean all throughout the cream which emphasized the quality of the puff. If you’ve never had a good cream puff, I highly recommend UC’s.
Although the blueberry danish was my least favorite; it wasn’t terrible. Personally, I prefer my bread to be on the chewier side. The danish wasn’t as chewy as I had hoped. It didn’t amaze me but I wasn’t too bothered by this.
If you’re coming on a Sunday morning, I recommend coming early. I got to UC at 10 and a great majority of the breads (mostly croissants) were already gone. Definitely give UC a try!

So I’ve only ordered caked from here! Bonilla butter cream, Italian butter cream (coconut chocolate and nuts) and carrot cake. All for birthdays. 30 $ and they feed at least 12 so yummy!!!
They do however have a full menu of lunch foods and small baked goods I am dying to go back to try!!!
The décor is so cute and they have in door and outdoor seating however the working out front is minimal.

Oh, Upper Crust, how do I count the ways?
This bakery is an Austin institution. This may sound completely counterproductive, but kids from the neighborhood I grew up in and their parents would ride our bicycles here on Saturday mornings! Just for the amazing blueberry muffins (how do they fit so many blueberries in there?!), danishes, cinnamon rolls, and Boysenberry spritzers!!!
They have a bike rack located in the back, and wonderful outdoor seating.
The same precious man (with a very distinct voice) has worked there for 26 years! He is the best.
I recommend this restaurant to anyone! the first smell when you open the front door is amazing, I wish I could bottle that smell!
Just a tip… If going for breakfast fare, get there early in the day as they do sell out :-)

In 2012, I bought a cinnamon roll from a café in RLM building, which is the engineering building in UT campus. The first bite was so tasty, I instantly hooked on to this cinnamon roll. That semester, I had at least three cinnamon rolls per week as the classes were on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. And finally, the last day of that class, I was so sad because I knew I will not go to the engineering building anymore, which means no cinnamon roll. Luckily, I learned from the guy at the café that the cinnamon roll was from the upper crust bakery. Since that day, my love toward this café never died. This place is rank #1 bakery in Austin. Besides cinnamon roll, my 2^nd favorite pastry is «elephant ears». I heard the sandwiches are also great. But I couldn’t cheat on the tasty pastries.

Coco cream pie was good, but when I asked if the iced coffee was cold brewed the guy said uh, what? I said, is the iced coffee cold brewed? «Uh, yeah.» I’ll have iced coffee with my pie.
I was filling my coffee when I asked another employee. This person stated the iced coffee was not cold brewed. I was immediately enraged.
Needless to say, the bitterness of my prison coffee ruined what would have been an excellent dessert.
Educate your employees and get your crap together.

Sometimes, all I want is a simple but tasty soup and sandwich. That is exactly what I had at Upper Crust Bakery! I ordered their delicious (not too mayo’e) tuna sandwich and their Gazpacho. The sandwich was pretty stuffed and to it I added onion, bacon, and tomato. You get to choose from a variety of tasty bread. Today, I was encouraged to try the Honfleur which is somewhat like sourdough (my favorite). The highlight of this meal was the Gazbacho! Man, just thinking about it makes me want to go back for more. It is a cold vegetable soup that has a little basil and some avocado. It is so tasty and refreshing. Very light and savory! Mmm. The staff was great, the cakes and pastries all looked delicious. This place is really affordable. I will most certainly come back soon!

The chicken salad sandwich on croissant… omg…the delicate flavors of the sandwich combined with the buttery deliciousness of that croissant… heaven…i’m in heaven… la la la…
bought a couple of marble cupcakes [devils food w/​a cream cheese middle]
coma.
but a good one, will most definately be back

If I were reviewing this place on food alone, it would get five stars, without question! The cinnamon rolls are amazing and lie somewhere between a croissant and a cinnamon roll. Who needs icing when you have a buttery, sugared treat like that! The brioche bread is soft and buttery and perfect and filled with delicious add-​one if you so desire. The quiche! Oh, now that is one of my favorites! Seriously, I have never had a bad meal or dessert here.
My only complaint is the counter help. I’ve been here countless times and maybe twice, the counter person has smiled and made me feel welcome. Usually, you are greeted with a bland «May I help you.» Sometimes, you might be just stared at until you say something. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. You are representing a business, your employer, who PAYS you to smile and genuinely act like you are grateful for your customers. It really isn’t a lot to ask and if the working conditions are such that you feel uninspired or disgruntled about having to go to work, then please do yourself a favor and put in your notice and find something to do that brings you joy. Life is too short to be miserable. There have been a few times that the counter person was chipper and talkative, but it’s rare.

Casual weekend brunch.
Testament to the good food?
Items run out fast.

I am amazed by the selection here. It ranges from pies to cakes to cookies to other cultural pastries and lunch. Upper crust is by far #2 on the best apple pie I’ve had. (Don’t worry about #1 cause it’s real southern Apple pie from another small town). Upper Crust completely stuffs it’s pie with Apple. Each Apple inside the slice was lightly coated with pie filling, which made the pie feel more wholesome and a fulfilling desert. You can tell there was a lot of work and consideration that went into the apple pie.
I also had the gingerbread cookie. It was hard and not as chewy as I would like it to be. Maybe I should try another cookie. But for now, I can’t comment on the cookies.

Damn fine cinnamon rolls, and great big tasty quiches, too – and I didn’t get hassled when I ordered mine!
Upper Crust Bakery, located on a convenient corner in Austin’s friendly Rosedale neighborhood, seems like a great local hang. It has huge Texas-​sized portions at reasonable prices, the occasional aging cowboy, and Lululemon clad moms, too. Nice local vibe and mix, and more authentic than Whole Foods. Great spot for a quick breakfast. Try the cinnamon rolls – one of the best.

I had such high hopes for Upper Crust. I asked my friends for a dessert place, and this one couldn’t be recommended enough. In the end, though, I was kind of disappointed by my experience here.
I swung by here with friends in the afternoon (~3:30pm), and a lot of their baked goods were sold out — bummer. I ordered an Italian cream cupcake, and it was probably more akin to an Italian cream muffin.
The cake was so, SO dense, and the frosting felt and tasted like… fat. I imagine that if the cupcake had come to room temperature, it would have been a lot better, but Upper Crust keeps everything on shelves that are, if I’m not mistaken, refrigerated. I was bound to lose, unfortunately.
I’ve heard great things about their brunch here, so I might wind up coming back to check that out. Until then, though, my experience here was less than satisfying.