Viktor Benes Continental Bakery

Loveeeeeee their baked goods here. My company always orders our cakes during birthdays and special holidays. I’ve pretty much tried all of their cakes and not one was disappointing. Their customer service may at times be a hit or miss but most of the time they take very good care of you.

I have shopped here for years, although tonight I experienced such RUDE BEHAVIOR by a woman named Bianca. I simple had asked for them to grind a bag of coffee that I had just purchased there in the supermarket the lady who I originally asked didn’t have a problem with doing that, but Bianca felt the need to insist that they could not do that for me. I told her I shopped in this supermarket for years n every week when I buy coffee no one here has ever had a problem with doing that. Alll the other lady’s have never had a problem. She continued to argue with me and gave me the bag of coffee back refusing to grind the coffee .as that was happening a gentleman from across saw what was happening and he came to me and said they are always so rude here. He said every time he came to get pastry’s that girl is always rude. This behavior was not necessary by
bad this is the kind of people they have working there. How hard would it have been to say sure we can grind the bag of coffee for you no problem. and we would have both had a pleasant evening.

Amazing cakes for reasonable prices!

I needed to get some biscuits & scones for a high tea party and was baffled where to get it on them on the whim 45 minutes before a tea party. From the suggestion of my co-​worker, I gave Gelson’s a call. Their bakery, Viktor Benes Continental Bakery, is located inside of Gelson’s in the Century City Mall!
When I found out they had scones, I made the trek to Gelson’s. I searched all of their displays and still couldn’t find a scone. It turns out their scones are circular shaped, sort of like a large biscuit! Some of my co-​workers raved about how delicious the scones were, but my flavor (blueberry) was just ok.
They had a large selection of small cookies for about $ 12.99/pound (sort of pricey but worth every bite!)
You get a ticket number to be helped and I did not wait long at all either!
Unilocal 100 Challenge 2013 — 5 of 100

This bakery is pretttttty… damn…delicious. It’s not like your run of the mill Ralph’s or Von’s bakery where everything is overly sweet or mildly stale. This place has amazing cookies, pastries, and best of all, CAKES. They’ll cost you quite a penny, but so worth it. It’s never too sweet, and tastes so delicate.
I love their cheesecake, berry tarts, oatmeal-​lace cookies, and eclairs. It’s pretty organized here, too: they make you take a number, so mean old snobby ladies can’t cut right in front of you.
I give it 4 stars because I still love Japanese cakes/​bakeries much more.