Peter Sciortino’s Bakery

Closest bakery shop from me, love it! Lemon slice is fantastic, and cannoli is so good too! 6 muffin pack is only $ 4

Cookies, tarts, bread, gelato, sandwiches… so many options and I haven’t been disappointed yet!

Was in Milwaukee for a long weekend getaway. Pleasantly surprised to just stumble upon this fantastic bakery on my way back home. We ordered a selection of cookies, a package of pizza dough, and a coffee.
The cookies are absolutely outstanding, some of the best I’ve had from a local bakery in awhile. The pizza dough cooked well on the grill. The only downside was the coffee from the Keurig machine, but I understand that this isn’t their specialty.
Service was outstanding. I’m officially a fan. Wish they’d open up a branch in Chicago.

All around wonderful experience. Customer service was fantastic very helpful/​friendly. Everything we purchased was great! Not only will we be stopping before we leave for some more things. But we will be stopping in on our next trip to Milwaukee.

This is probably the nicest bakery I have been to in a while. Everyone was friendly, the prices were reasonable, and the desserts are amazing. I personally am crazy about their cannolis, but their Italian cookies are good too.

The cinnamon twist pastry was divine! Also tried the strawberry cheese pastry. Make sure to stop by for a treat!

I have their bread and cookies and found both to be excellent.

We have been getting Sciortinos rolls for years at our work gathering and no event is complete without them, however I really wanted to review «BAKED CUSTOM DESSERTS» which is the cake baker that works out of Sciortino’s. I was looking all over for a special cake that a co-​worker had gotten for her birthday but was coming up empty handed everywhere I called. I was looking for a chocolate tres leches cake and as all the reviews for a good tres leches cake came up with Sciortinos being the best maker I contacted «BAKED» to see if they could try and make me a chocolate one. The baker said, I don’t see why we couldn’t make one in chocolate, so I put in my order. Wow was I glad as it was by far the MOST AMAZING and SCRUMTIOUS cake I have ever tasted. The chocolate mouse filling and the super moist cake are just TO DIE FOR. I highly recommend BAKED for your next cake. The price was very reasonable and really no higher than any other cake order at a specialty bakery. Well worth the price and she only needed about 2 days notice.

The sweet smells of baked bread, cakes, and cookies linger in the air many nights when I’m walking home. Sadly though for whatever reason, by morning I often forget about Sciorintinos. Maybe it’s because I don’t usually drive down brady street in the early morning. Whatever the reason, I shouldn’t and neither should you because their baked goods are really, really good. It’s a long time Brady Street business that has never disappointed me.
Given that there’s always people coming and going (it’s never been empty when I’ve stopped in) you’d think there’d be a long wait. However, I’ve rarely waited and am usually helped within a minute or two of walking in.
I usually get a box of their Italian cookies. There’s literally maybe 40+ varieties and you can mix a box however you’d like (I feel terrible going «one of those, now two of those, wait-​no one of those, no no the other kind» when I stop in but they’re usually very patient.)
They also do pastries, bread and rolls that are big with the Sunday morning church crowd, I’m told fantastic cakes, and if I’m remembering correctly, they have gelato sometimes too? They also have homemade take and bake pizzas for $ 6 or 2/​$ 10 that I always want to try.
Check the hours-​some days they close by early afternoon, and stop in.

No holiday plans are complete without a trip to Peter Sciortino’s Bakery. I have firsthand knowledge of how much fun, not to mention delicious, this place is.
I ordered a birthday cake for my family’s celebration yesterday. Six of us — count em, six (!!!) celebrated birthdays in the first half of December. It’s kind of like Christmas Round 1. Whew! But, I digress.
So yesterday I went to pick up an 8 inch layer cake that served 10−14…banana cake with chocolate ganache and chocolate mousse filling, frosted with chocolate buttercream.
I got in the door to find what can only be described as a throng at the counter. Near the window was a sizeable avalanche of Priority Mail boxes that I imagine were loaded with festive holiday treats. A gentleman wearing an apron helped a customer load 12 of those babies into his car.
While it was crazy busy, no one particularly minded. We focused on the business at hand — getting our treats. I took a number and jumped up and down and screamed like I won the lottery when they called me. A beaming woman brought out my beautifully decorated cake and I was delighted.
Later that afternoon, my family oohed and aahed. We lit the candles and took a family photo. Then we dug in and ate cake in stunned silence because it was so good. The toddler’s eyes lit up with delight. Rich, heavy and dense.
I was named the bringer of cake for life!
Thank you Sciortino’s for making my family celebration so wonderful.
By the way, the chocolate cannolis they sell here are amazing too!

Fresh daily pastries and breads. The selection is not large, but what they have is outstanding! Love to combine my trip to Sciortino’s and Glorioso’s.

Excellent sandwiches, pastries and gelato and their prices can’t be beat. Service was friendly and efficient. The selection was overwhelming and everything looked so mouthwatering it was hard to decide, but we ended up with a deli sandwich, cream puff, brownie, and orange cream and coconut gelato. Everything was fresh and delicious. Next time we visit I want to try their cookies, the carrot cake, and more gelato flavors.

Cannoli’s? This is the place. Filled to order. I can’t go home if I am downtown and do not stop here for at least 2. Everything that I have tried over some 40+ years has been excellent. DO NOT MISS this establishment.

Forty-​eight hours before Mother’s Day, and I found myself in a bind. Mother wanted nothing more than a gourmet cake for grandma and the family. Unfortunately, with every bakery needing a week’s notice, hope seemed to fade before my very eyes. It was then a celestial force brought me to the Peter Sciortino’s website and, in beautiful Trebuchet MS font, reads «Many of our cakes, pies, cookies, breads and other treats are available in our store each day.»
It was a risk but I was desperate. I went the following morning. As soon as I walked in, I was greeted by the smell of freshly baked goods. The store was small but homely. Unadorned but it only highlighted the case filled with beautifully decorated desserts. I was elated when I saw not one, but four cakes on display. There was Chocolate Truffle, Lemon Raspberry, Red Velvet, and some other variation of chocolate that I can’t remember. The fellow behind the counter was gallant and showed immense patience as I, for two straight minutes, went, «Uhhhhhh…»
I went with the Red Velvet.
I checked on the cake as soon as I got home, and that’s when I realized something: the cake had edible sparkles on them. Sparkles. On my cake. THERE WERE PRETTY SPARKLES ON MY CAKE. So not only did I feel like a fairy princess eating it, it was a success in my predominantly female household. The cake had a total of five layers: three of cake and two of frosting, so the ratio of both components was balanced and satisfying. The cake itself wasn’t too sweet. It was light but dense enough to steer away from the likeness of Angel Food Cake. The vanilla frosting had the exact consistency and density as a stick of butter but somehow managed to work. I really enjoyed my Red Velvet Cake, and my family did as well because it was gone in less than a week. My family’s even asking for another one for Father’s Day.
So thank you, Peter Sciortino for saving Mother’s Day. Your cake was delightful, and I, without a doubt, will be coming back for more.

Let me start by saying I’ve only had the donuts from here… so it’s not quite a full review yet. I plan on grabbing the ham and rolls some point in the near future, so I’m sure this will be updated at some point.
The donuts here are okay, nothing great. And if you don’t get there early, you’ll have a very limited selection to choose from. Prices are normal… so it gets an a-​ok rating from me… for now.

Descriptive phrase: sweet, homey Italian bakery.
I woke up one Saturday morning with a craving for a cinnamon roll. There’s a number of bakeries in the area, but we decided to try out Peter Sciortino’s on Brady. What a treat!
This little Italian shop bakes their goods fresh every morning. It’s housed on a corner spot on Brady, and only has a couple counters and one table. Even early Saturday morning there was a steady stream of customers coming in for some early gnosh.
Katie and I both loved our Cinnamon Twist and Chocolate Pastry ($ 1.85 each). Just enough sweetness to satisfy our craving but with plenty of flaky, buttery, bread-​y goodness to boot. You could tell it was fresh.
They also feature some other Italian standards: homemade gelato, homemade frozen pizzas, a few pastas and meats, and Italian cookies. We took a few different types of the cookies home, and each one was perfect (we’ve had our fair share at weddings in Milwaukee).
Peter Sciortino’s is another Brady St gem. Stop in and fill up on homemade Italian baked goods.

Easy to spot this place due to the cool mosaic of bread on the wall outside!
Also, you may well see a line of people piling up outside the door! We’d just gotten there and suddenly a crowd backed up behind us.
There were tons of tempting baked goods, including some HUGE cream puffs in flavors like dulce de leche and strawberry (I got the latter). My friend got an apple pie bar. Compared to Chicago, where I came from, things were downright cheap ($ 2 for the giant cream puff).
Dozens of types of bread were piled up in the back and those seemed to be what people were clamoring for more than anything. Someone else had come to pick up a tempting-​looking cake.
The only reason I am knocking down a star is because I had a sick stomach in the afternoon after eating my cream puff. I can’t guarantee it was to blame, and if I was in town I would be willing to try other (different) things from the bakery again. In any case, this place clearly has a history and many fans already to speak for it.

Oh Sciortinos… You are part of the reason I have a muffin top.
Breads, cookies, doughnuts, cakes — all so delicious. This is my typical stop every Christmas for my families’ ‘Happy Birthday Jesus’ cake.
I downgraded them from 5 stars because they changed my favorite pastry! I was terribly disappointed to find out this week that they changed the chocolate croissants.
While the chick behind the counter assured me it was as tasty as their previous croissant, I can assure you it’s not. Not bad mind you, but not as good.
So please Sciotinos bring back the old chocolate croissants!
(Also please note to use a credit card you must spend at least 5 dollars)

Was searching for some pastries this past wknd in the MKE, and this location came up as one of the closest to where I was. Now, don’t get me wrong — I AM an Italophile, but I was more craving French bakery items than Italian…
My sweet tooth only allowed me to get some cookies, an almond croissant and some coffee to go. BUT my oh my, the breads looked awesome! Actually that’s more what I would recommend this place for — — even though i didn’t even have any.
Service was exceptionally friendly.
Cookies — — wide variety of the small «weigh ‘em to see how much they cost» Italian kind. (Like amaretti… and limoncello flavored, heck they even had an irish cream flavor.) But the cookies were all small.
Croissants — they had some chocolate and almond. (Can’t remember if they had a plain butter.) But this Croissant aux amandes junky had to go with the almond. Meh! I have had better… but this is an italian bakery, not a french bakery.
Coffee — — was the kind that you get out of the individual capsules. So it was just fine for me.
One coffee, one almond croissant, and a bag of approx 10 little cookies set me back about $ 7.00. Not TOO bad… and the cookies traveled well back home on the flight.

Pristine Italian baking. Cookies, breads and the best cannoli that you’ll find in Milwaukee. This is a bakery that would be at home in the Brooklyn where I grew up, and they’ve been a taste of home that I’ve missed.
The service is as friendly as you’d expect from family ownership, and I’ve never had a bad experience here. I just wish they were open on Monday’s, too.