B Sweet Catering

If you are looking for catering, I suggest you look elsewhere.
I order from different bakeries every month for my company and I have never come across a bakery as unprofessional as B Sweet.
They are unresponsive and the order arrived more than an hour late. Additionally, ¾ of our order was not baked fresh.
ORDERING
I had to email multiple times before they confirmed that they could take the order.
It took too much time for a simple order to be placed.
After multiple emails and calls, I paid in full a day in advance and we agreed to a set delivery time.
DELIVERY
The set delivery time came and the order hadn’t arrived. I emailed and called multiple times. They did not pick up the phone. I thought they had taken the money and would not deliver. 40 minutes after the agreed upon delivery time, they called to say they would be more than an hour late.
TASTE
When the order finally arrived, 3 of the 4 flavors were obviously at least a few days old. The chocolate, red velvet & vanilla cupcakes were hard and dry and unpalatable. They were not baked fresh. The carrot cupcakes were baked fresh and you could taste the difference. But ¾ of our order was rock hard and almost inedible. I have a video where we are cutting through a rock hard vanilla cupcake.
They should have been honest if they were too busy and could not take the order. It’s better to decline than to deliver poorly and late.
Instead our entire company is displeased and we would like to prevent other people from going through the same unpleasant experience.
Save yourself the stress. Order from somewhere else. Bsweet catering is unprofessional, has poor communication, and do not bake some of their goods fresh.

This review has nothing to do with the quality of their product. I contacted B Sweet Catering for more information regarding having them cater a dessert bar at my upcoming wedding. I received an immediate response saying that they have a $ 1,000 minimum and to let them know if this was within my budget. I responded that it was within my budget and asked them to contact me to discuss, as I was looking to retain a vendor ASAP. This was almost two weeks ago. Nobody ever followed up with me, even though I subsequently followed up with them again. If they don’t want my business, I can easily take it elsewhere.

If you have a sweet tooth, then you definitely need to try this place. I work right down the street and keep forgetting that they are around — but definitely worth the try! They specialize in bread pudding and rotate their flavors on a daily/​weekly basis… I’ve tried the glazed donut and the salty caramel… the glazed donut is a bit sweet for me but the salty caramel is ahhhhhmazing :) I’ve also tried the sluttiest brownie… lots of things going on in that brownie but definitely worth the experience.
B sweet bread puddings come in two sizes — $ 4 for the smaller size (the «be good» size), but it’s definitely enough to satisfy any sweet craving you have… I recommend sharing… it’s definitely rich. Pair it with a coffee and it’ll be quite the experience.
Staff is always friendly and sweet and service is quick…
They are only open Thursday-Sunday…so don’t make the mistake of trying them out on a day they are closed.

So many tasty desserts, I wanted one of each stat!
I went with the glazed donut bread pudding and it was amazing!
Hot, soft, gooey, cinnamoney, full of frosting and sugary goodness, loved it!
Service is great, fast and friendly, they really know and love their stuff!
They rotate the flavors of the bread pudding, can’t wait to see what they have next time!
Busy area, but we did find parking right away on the next street.
Tons of gift ideas and cute stuff, I will be back!

Barb is amazing. Come here and eat all the things. Churro, Ube, Peanut Butter Cup are my favorites. You really can’t go wrong with any of their bread puddings.

I ordered bread pudding since thats what they’re known for. Salted caramel was amazing but I have a feeling the scoop of vanilla ice cream added to the sugary goodness. Cute little shop but they must add a few small tables inside. Having a heavy dessert is often a social thing so I’d love to have somewhere to sit when I go with a girlfriend. We enjoyed our dessert on the bench outside since no one was using it. We got lucky with that and enjoyed every single bite while chatting in the shade.
I recommend getting ice cream on your bread pudding. when it starts to melt and soak in the bread it’s heaven

Hey so I forgot to leave my review! Had some amazing bread pudding back at the Unilocal party. Hopefully my work gets B Sweet to cater someday, or order from them at least.
I miss their salted caramel bread budding, donut bread pudding, and what was it, red velvet? I forgot, ooo Banana Chocolate? I’m going crazy. Need!
The owner was really nice when we met her so thanks!

The B Sweet Dessert Truck was booked for private events during my stay in LA much to my dismay… BUT Barb came to my rescue! I told her I just had to try her infamous Red Velvet Bread Pudding before I fly back home to Seattle and she did not hesitate to invite me to stop by The B Sweet Kitchen. I just gave her a days notice and upon my arrival she had everything packaged and ready to go. Barb is just as sweet at the treats she bakes and I will definitely visit again next time I’m in town. Thank you so much Barb!

OH MY SWEET LORD.
I had the pleasure of trying a few of the bread puddings from B Sweet and must say, I was ALL ABOUT IT. So so so good. I tried the glazed donut, salted caramel, and red velvet and was sat-​is-​fied. I could eat heaps and heaps of this stuff if I wouldn’t blow up like shamu.
What’s more? You can order bread pudding from their website, to be picked up OR delivered HOT. You can also ship frozen… Hellooooo. A full pan is $ 110…so that would be the downside, but you can get 2 16oz packs for $ 12, which would be all you really need for night with your boo. For larger crowds, you have other sizing options though (not just full pan).
Will definitely need to swing around to try other items they have.

I have been a fan of B Sweet’s «sweet» and «savory» treats for a long time, and I love everything they make! I finally tried their bread pudding, and it is AMAZING! I am trying to work my way through their flavors, but it’s hard for me to resist the red velvet!
You can freeze them, and they heat up beautifully in the microwave! This will definitely help get me through the winter :)

Just tried Chef Barbs Red Velvet Pudding, what a mistake it was !!! horrible it looks like red puke and tastes like box mix ! save your money !

I have to first and foremost say that Barb is the sweetest woman on the face of this earth. My fiancé and I had the privilege of tasting some of her delicious treats. We first tried out the bread pudding at an Eat | See | Hear event in Pasadena and have been HUGE fans ever since.
From her bread puddings to salted caramel cookies and cupcakes, they are all so amazing with a good balance of sweetness made using quality ingredients. I will continue to place orders for bread puddings in the future.
My personal favorites:
–chocolate chip banana bread pudding
–strawberry waffle bread pudding
–Red Velvet bread pudding
Fiancé’s favorites:
–Salted caramel bars
–Red Velvet truffle? (To me it was more like a bon bon)
–most of the bread puddings except the donut (too sweet)
I only have one suggestion: due to her giving nature, it clearly shows that she bends over backwards to do a lot of the things herself and takes on too many projects. Her menu alone is waaaay too overwhelming which I can see how other areas like time sensitive occasions may not always be met. Hopefully, she gets additional help.

What a shame! I placed an order online, paid and never received the bread pudding. I called 2 weeks later and had a lovely conversation with the owner who apologized profusely and offered to have it dropped off that day or the following, even adding an additional one for free. I’d definitely get a call as to when it was coming…
Another week later I was resigned. I’m not angry about it, it’s just so disappointing to see a new company, that clearly has a great product, be too far ahead of themselves. You can’t have good intentions and no follow through in a new business. It would be different if a lower level employee made a promise to fix a mistake but it was the owner.
I left a message asking for my money to be returned simply on principle (I’m not worried about $ 12). I know I won’t hear back or get the refund and certainly no delivery. What a shame — I would have considered them for a cart at a party but would never book them now knowing the risk of them not showing up — pretty close to a sure bet they wouldn’t make it.

I just had my baby shower catered by Bsweet and let me just say it was a huge success. My 40 plus guests could not stop talking about how amazing the food was. At 32 weeks pregnant I was definitely specific about the menu and carefully planned each course with Barb herself who had helped me come up with some of the most delicious items. She even suggested the name of Jenn’s cravings which I thought was so fitting for the occasion! My guests loved the idea as well.
We started off with my favorite grilled cheese sandwiches cut up into mini sandwiches with a side of BBQ sauce and pickles for all the pregger mommies which was accompanied by BBQ pulled pork sliders, and garden burger sliders which was also a hit because my guests ranged from meat lovers to vegetarian/​vegan.
We served mini tomatoe soups as a side which was great because it was very cold and rainy so comfort food was just what people were interested in.
The main course included my two favorites; lobster mac and cheese and angel hair pasta with abriatta sauce. Both were fantastic leaving my guests to fill up there plates multiple times. The italian salad was just what we had discussed and a perfect side for the two pasta entrees.
There was so much food provided, we had plenty of leftovers for guests to take home as the night was ending. Even the next day my husband and I were praised with how amazing the food was and if we needed any help getting the rest off our hands;) We must have fed around 50 plus people over the weekend and felt good doing it as our friends and family left with smiles on their faces.
We decided to serve mini chocolate, vanilla and vegan carrot cupcakes for dessert, all of which would have been gone right away if I didn’t quickly hide a couple for later. Our guests snatched those right up and continued to come back for more as the night progressed.
I have worked with Barb and Bsweet over the years for my birthday parties,
my wedding reception and now baby shower. The food and desserts are out of this world and I never have to worry about ordering extra because they always provide me with more than enough food make sure I’m left with some delicious treats for later. I highly reccomend using Bsweet for any occasion as they are extremely reliable and provide exquisite service.

***Catering Review***
I really, really wanted to love B Sweet and it pains me to write this review because I’ve had the opportunity to meet Barb in the flesh and take a tour of her company’s kitchen. I’ll admit, I let my guard down on protocol that my company normally wouldn’t let slide, truly my bad.
Here’s the 411… There were SEVERAL indicators that should have been red flags for what was to come ahead.
SHORT VERSION
1) No pricing for our order before/​after our catering order was complete
2) $ 20 delivery charge & 20% service charge (this one was waived)
3) Not being reachable day of/​interfered with on time delivery
4) Food not having ALL of the listed ingredients (plain pasta salad vs. Italian pasta salad)
5) «Full» pan of salad was actually ¹⁄₃ pan full
6) Quality of bread sucked (pieces of bread chucked off as people were eating sandwiches)
7) Average price per sandwich was $ 9
8) Unsatisfactory customer service & unresolved problem with our receipt
LONG VERSION
1) Not getting pricing per tray/​individual sandwich before confirming our catering order. The order was taken verbally with a promise of details by email. Owner said these were sent, but never responded with the invoice until after payment was taken by credit card. Cost break down had the following: flat charge for food, comp for service charge, deduction for problem item, and charge for delivery –no indication of how much each tray or individual item costs.
2) 20% service charge (waived for our first time order) and $ 20 delivery charge. Most places that we order over $ 600 with don’t charge us these fees. Not a huge red flag, but something to be aware of if you regularly order catering.
3) Delivery was running late and they called us, no problem! But what wasn’t acceptable was when we went to meet the delivery person, didn’t have a phone number and couldn’t find them in the agreed upon location. My group of 4 walked up and down the valet area while calling the only number we knew (B Sweet’s business number aka Barb’s cell phone) for a good 30 minutes before the delivery person realized that she should get out of the car to look for us. To top off the nonsense, she was dressed inappropriately for deliveries (given it was Halloween, but she was in a revealing cop dress).
4) The Italian pasta salad not having ALL of its ingredients inside is a huge problem. Without the red/​yellow/​green bell peppers, red onions and black olives, our pasta salad was NAKED. The upsetting part was that Barb said she personally made the pasta salad herself and that ALL of the ingredients were in there. Unfortunately I have 70 people who ate that pasta salad who can attest that there were no such delish sounding veggies in said Italian pasta salad. A $ 30 deduction was taken off our bill to cover the Italian pasta salad –in all of my previous catering orders with other companies; I have never had a pasta salad that was less than $ 70.
5) A full pan of organic mixed greens should fill a full pan, not a third of a pan at best. Compared to the pan of pasta salad, there was only ¹⁄₃ pan of salad. Oh and the cucumbers and tomatoes were sparse as well.
6) Quality of the bread was subpar. Since our food was handed to us 45 minutes late, delivery of the food was late to our meeting. As the meeting is going on, imagine 70 people eating their sandwiches and suddenly chunks of bread break off and fall to the floor (no joke). Now that’s embarrassing!
7) Cost of salad and 65 sandwiches being $ 620. We ordered 3 types of sandwiches (Bird Bird/​turkey, Chicken Pesto and Athena/​veggie). After deducting the $ 30 for the pasta salad, let’s assume that the full pan of salad costs $ 30; if I’ve done my math correctly; it leaves $ 590 for 65 sandwiches or roughly $ 9/​sandwich. Note: number of sandwiches didn’t match the receipt. There were far less of the expensive sandwiches (chicken pesto and Big Bird/​turkey) than Athena/​vegetarian.
8) Unsatisfactory customer service. After our event, Barb was not reachable by phone; she only reached out to us for payment when the credit card number she wrote down wasn’t correct. Not only did she get rude with me and others at my work, she never apologized for the missing ingredients in the pasta salad or for her delivery person not making an effort to find us when we couldn’t reach her. When the head of the department requested the itemized receipt, Barb got defensive and still has not provided it a week after our lunch. She is also keeps playing the blame game, blaming the customer in a he said/​she said way (not very professional).
I hope this review helps anyone who plans to place a future order with any company to be cautious of what is acceptable and professional.

The triple chocolate cupcake was a mistake: glorified Hostess sans the white cream filling rather a overly sweet chocolate cream hidden under the thin chocolate frosting layer. The cupcake was not large, rather smaller than standard. It was disappointingly bland, dry and plainly cake-​like.
I was able to sample the vegan carrot cake, and I should’ve order that one instead!

this is a CORPORATE CATERING review.
our companies hires b sweet to do catering whenever we have a good reason to bring in sweets… ex: holiday party, carnival, halloween, etc. i think we might also get them to deliver bagels weekly (may or may not) and breakfast foods for our monthly meetings every now and then (pastries, etc).
i think it’s a solid 3-​stars. after perusing other reviews and the website, i’m sad that we haven’t been able to thoroughly try all that they have to offer (seems like a lot!) but of what we’ve tried, i think it’s just a-​okay. i can’t complain or comment on service and price (because i don’t deal with either), but the quality is okay. hopefully we’ll get opportunities to try more of their real food and i can update the review if necessary.

B Sweet has tacos that are themed towards different countries. I tried their tacos from a Taco event. I had the AMERICAN — which is shrimp and greens. It was alright. I love Shrimp but I wish they had more options there. They said they had Thai but not there. I’d love to have tried it. Maybe I will. They are worth giving it a shot since they had themed for each country.

Thank god for the Chuck Wagon, the «B Sweets powered» food truck. Went to a food truck round up in the mood for a Po Boy. But the truck that specializes in them was out, even though I explicitly asked them not to run out of them. Sometimes nobody listens.
Luckily, and unbeknownst to me, Chuck Wagon was there too, and lo, they were serving up Shrimp Po Boys. I dunno if they are better than the other place’s, but what they had was pretty good, and certainly better than none at all. It had a sizeable amount of goodies in it, came on a soft french roll, and a side of tasty fries. So thanks fo saving my Po Boy fix. I look forward to trying out some ribs and brisket next time.

Congrats on winning the cookie showdown competition at Artwalk!
As part of their sampling, i got to try their chocolate chip cookie with chocolate drizzle and a red velvet mini chocolate covered pie cookie thing. One of my faves, i really liked their RV treat.
I look forward to trying their cute cupcakes!