Van Bakery

I wanted to thank Hasmik for my wedding cake she did a great job and it tasted amazing! Thank you again for my wedding cake.

Yes, food here tastes good! However, I am giving it 2 stars because: a) the staff does not know how to talk to customers. B) I purchased 4 small platters. I ordered a sandwich platter, salmon platter, xachapouri platter, greek salad platter. All were «quoted» to be $ 30 except the salmon platter. that was more expensive. For the salad I asked for Greek. With my understanding the Greek salad is not only lettuce and peppers. How does the salad cost the same as the sandwich platter? Will not order platters from here again.

Best bakery in the LA area!!!
Love the honey and birdmilk cakes. Great designs and art on everything
Don’t miss out, will satisfy all your sugary needs

Van Bakery has amazing pastries and their food catering is very delicious and convenient for events! Definitely recommended to all! My favorite is the Armenian Ghoorabiah cookies, a must try for sure.

Van Bakery did the catering and most importantly a cake for my 21^st birthday! The food was beyond delicious and the came was better than it looked! Amazing! Definitely giving them a call again for future events!

I can’t say I’ve tried many things here, but I can’t say enough about how AMAZING the «Mother-​In-​Law» cake tastes («Zokanch» in Armenian). It’s moist, has a 4 – 5 different layers with poppy seeds in one, walnuts in another and has delicious cream in between the layers. You will not be disappointed with this «sheet» cake.
They also have a pretty extensive catering menu that I haven’t tried.
Looking forward to trying their «Honey Cake» next time.

Beware: all boxes of Easter Choraks are $ 15 some are lighter than others. No weighing system here!
When asked the lady at checkout said «we just box them be appreciative we have them… «What? I am paying for it it’s not free! And I might add they are not that tasty just okay!

I love the cake they have I think it’s called Raphaelo with coconut shreads on top it is soooooooooo good so fresh, you can’t stop eating, so far that is the only pastry I tried from Van bakery, looking forward trying other pastries :)

Ordered a cake from them, came home cut it found hair in it. We took it back the lady without apologizing or anything takes the cake in the back (i took the cake with the hair in it) and says oh we just figured it was not hair it was a piece of thread. I am like where is the hair why did you take it in the back and remove it? she says oh it was not hair it was a thread. Can you believe this? I cant!!! Horrible, horrible service!!!

Pastries, lunch, champagne this place has it all. I went in on a random day the owner was super nice! I got cupcakes and lunch items. She even gave me champagne!
Went because of the great reviews! Wasn’t disappointed.

Great sweet cheese pastry! OMG it was delicious. Stumbled in here when killing time in Glendale today and looking for coffee and was pleasantly surprised. I believe it’s Armenian owned and thus Armenian style pastries which I’m unfamiliar with and everything looked delicious. The shop smelled of pastries freshly baking which was just lovely and the service was so kind and friendly. Would definitely come back when I’m in the neighborhood.

I love your cakes. I love sweets. Just a little reminder add more cream to the cakes. I love cream :)

Great artistic cakes and pastries! Also has regular good you can eat for lunch or dinner along with the sweets!

It is unfortunate to read any negative comments about this place, almost sounds they had some personal issues to resolve… it is one of my absolute favorite bakeries in the Glendale, that was called number one place in the USA for number of bakeries ! More than 50 of them in the small town of Glendale!
Every bakery in town is known for their own best pastry and owners take pride in what they do and make sure they do it well since they face tremendous amount of competition. Van bakeries specialty is their «ghourabia» cookies, that are great with coffee or tea. They make the very best ones in town! And those are a must try!
But my new favorite is Hasmiks (the owners) new invention –which she calls non-​fryed «ponchik» (Armenian donuts) and those are to dye for! She baked them instead of frying and they are filled with custard or Nutella and are Unbelivable!
I love them as a breakfast pasty, since they are so good to eat them warm, and needless to mention that are more figure friendly than the fried ones!
For my cousins wedding they have ordered catering for brides home (before the wedding ceremony) from Van bakery and to they were all very delicious and made and played with outmost care. Great selection of finger foods, light appetizers, dips, salads, mini Armenian pizzas… and don’t want to forget about their tasty cupcakes! …Van is great, and you just need to try to find it out for yourself !

Wonderful pastries, service and place! Everything is so delicious, fresh and amazing. Anything bad said about this place has to be false.
It is a wonderful bakery that has been around for awhile and they know exactly what they are doing. They sure know to bake scrumptious pastries that melt in your mouth!
The armenian sugar cookies, jourabiah, are my favorite thing to get there!!!
Absolutely amazing!

I stumbled upon this cute place in Glendale when I had some time to kill last week. I was pleasantly surprised! So many unique and delicious pastries. I had the butter/​sugar cookies and they were amazing!
Then yesterday I returned and grabbed a bunch of things for the office – mini pizzas, a couple wraps and some french macaroons! Everyone was so impressed with the food! I’m so glad I found this yummy and convenient place. So great!

I have to say when I read the reviews it didn’t sound like this place can handle my wedding. But it worked out better than I expected. Thank you so much Jasmen for being such a wonderful designer and making my wedding day so special. They did catering for my house in the morning. It was beautiful, artful and tasted really good. They did my cupcakes for the wedding, such a creative design. Everyone was asking where did I get such an idea and who did it? Plus the cupcakes tasted so good! Thank you again!

I forgot the exact names of the pastries I purchased, but I’ll try my best to describe them.
First off, I was introduced to this place by my mother. She is beyond inlove with a cake called, the mother in law. Hehe cute name I thought. It consist of walnuts and poppy seeds. When momma told me about the ingredients and that it wasn’t sweet, I thought. Great it’s one of those healthy and bland desserts. When I tried it I was surprised at how moist, delicious and not overpowering it was. $ 20!!!
The individual pastries I purchased were about $ 1.50 ea.
A favorite of mine is the French Napoleon which consist of walnuts in custard within layers of phyllo dough.
The original Napoleon has powder sugar over the top with a little less custard and no walnuts. It was ok. A little on the dry side.
Caramel cake was very moist and not as sweet as I imagined it to be… Which was great!!! Broken pieces of phyllo dough on all sides with a Caramel design on top.
Umm there was one more that I really enjoyed. I can’t remember the name but it tasted and felt like a vanilla meringue. White pastry with a chocolate drizzle over the top. It was yummy! Planning on coming back real soon.

Oh, how I wish I’d checked Unilocal before stepping into this bakery.
My dad and I walked in and were completely ignored by the Nazi behind the counter. I wish I could say she was too busy to greet us but there was not a soul in the place. Having sampled 4 of their pastries, I now know why.
My father asked if she had any baklava. Her response was, «What???»
“Baklava, do you have any?” He got an ice cold, «No.»
Okay, whatever. Maybe she was having a bad day. I asked her what some of the pastried were in the case and she paused, gave me a hateful, annoyed look, and RELUCTANTLY answered. What? I am a fluent speaking Armenian and was not asking her about Armenian pastries. I was asking her what the unidentifiable little cakes were. So we can get that whole, «Dumb American who doesn’t know anything about our pastries» excuse out of the way. Not to say that would be acceptable, but if you live in LA, you get my drift. It’s the same eye rolling mentality in any ethnic neighborhood. No, no, no-​not the case here. She was just plain rude. Ugly, hateful, staring rude.
A customer who was also obviously a friend walked in to pick up a tray of pastries and in Armenian, the shopkeeper said to her VERY sarcastically, «This is going to take a while.»
Of course, that prompted me to start speaking Armenian to my Dad. This did not soften her up, or embarass her in the least bit.
Okay, service sucks, onto the cakes. Since the Armenian bakery did not have Armenian baked goods (except for cookies), we chose chocolate trufflle cake, hazlenut cake, napoleon, and eclairs.
If you closed your eyes, you would not taste the difference between the truffle and hazlenut cakes. Both had a mild, indistinguishable slightly sweet taste and completely tasteless cream. The napoleon was the worst I’ve ever had. Seriously. Supermarket pastries are much better than this. The best of the bunch was the éclair, but that’s not saying much. It’s what you could easily pick up at a donut shop.
I’m not giving the product a negative review based on the service. We had a pastry box filled with cake which we threw in the trash. It was not even good enough to give to the nice Armenian valet guys in my building. They would have wondered why I was mad at them. If that doesn’t convince you, My 7yr. old son who would lick sugar off the floor if I let him, turned up his nose.
The only good thing here was the price. Ten pastries for $ 15 plus tax. Also, there is 30 minute parking right in front of the bakery. There was adequate parking on a Friday afternoon, and I suspect there always is based on how bad the quality and service are here.
Don’t waste your time.
Step into ANY bakery in Glendale and it will be better than Van. I promise.

I am in love with their Gourabiah cookies. You ask what is that? Why it’s the half moon shaped butter plentiful cookies with snowed on powered sugar. TRUST me they are so good. Their panna cotta & a few other cream custard desserts are pretty good too. Cookies are sold by the LB here & their Armenian style appetizers/​salads
Their beet, sour cream, walnut salad is really good As well as the Salad Olivier& Eggplant Caviar (IKRA). No its not made with caviar & no fish eggs in it its just called that a mild roasted eggplant, multiple roasted peppers, tomato & onions dip or side.
They also have Porto’s cheese roll knock offs but they are sure good & you can really taste the cheese in them! Sometimes they have a savory basturma & cheese one yumm!
FYI– I’m always given a look when using my credit card here I know they prefer cash but take cards to