Defilippis G & C Bakery

As a customer and former employee, this place is not worth any time or effort. Every time i have gone there, the pastries were very dry and flavorless. Both in Monticello and in Middletown. I also worked in the Monticello site a while back. I lasted only one day. I was hired unter the notion that I would take orders and work the cash register. When I started, not only was I working the register, Carmela had me fax paperwork in her office, try to memorize all items in the bakery as well as the café, memorize the menu of the day as well as the day before because she forgot to take it down, clean the tables and chairs and floor, bus tables and wash dishes. She then had the nerve to take a personal phone call and say how «its so difficult finding good help» right in front of me. After the rush hour was finished, she got in my face and explained how she can be «a very nice and easy going boss”-it all depends on the employee. I will never go back there

The food is good here, the problem is staff. I regularly get ignored here at lunchtime while others appear to get preferential treatment. I’m guessing they are «regulars». This includes from the owner… who should know better. There can be long lines at prime lunch period. That’s fine, I can take my money elsewhere.

Yo forget about it, this place rocks … Real deal Italian bakery in the Catskills … Put it on you list of places to stop in Monticello .
Actually it may be the only place on your list…

Just stopped by here today and it was great! It’s truly hard to find a good place to eat for lunch in Sullivan County but I’m glad we found this gem. The place is clean, the staff was friendly and the food was great!
One suggestion: would be great if there were signs on the sweets letting you know how much or what it is.

This place rocks!!! Great food, Great service, Beautiful women and Great music from the locals!!! Come experience one of the fine places in sullivan county!

My first visit to DeFilippis Bakery was today. I enjoyed a delicious turkey, avocado sandwich on whole grain bread. It was very good. Generous portions of turkey and the bread was hearty. Could only eat half. I also had a salad of greens, pear slices, nuts, goat cheese and bacon that was delicious. My sweet tooth approved a sampling of brownie with frosting and raspberry crumble right out of the oven. They were both moist and sweet enough to satisfy without giving me a toothache. I will definitely go back. I liked the atmosphere. Café/​bakery set up. Carmella has an amazing soul and you can feel it in this space. Great spot.

4 of my friends and I came in for lunch today and we absolutely loved it! Our waitress was very sweet and the food was delicious, good quality, and inexpensive ! The portions are a perfect size.
I ordered the Butternut squash soup (which I learned is their homemade recipe) and it was THE best Butternut squash soup I’ve ever had. It came with a pre-​buttered piece of Italian bread, which complemented it perfectly.
Next I ordered a build-​your-​own egg sandwich which was equally as delicious, although I did need some ketchup with it. The ingredients were so fresh, I could definitely taste it. I tasted my friend’s pesto panini, and the pesto was also SO good. I’ll ask for a side of pesto next time I go!
And finally, the bakery items are awesome. I was looking forward to getting some from the moment we walked in because the sweet scent pervaded the entire place! I got some classic cannolis which I love, and a new treat I don’t even know the name of but was fantastic as well.
We will definitely be coming here a lot!

Would give 2 ½ stars.
The food here is great… The staff and service, not so much. Went in at lunchtime and was quite busy which was fine… Our waitress was less than enthused to be there. She came to our table to take our order and said «yeah» — not a what can I get you, not even a hello, just yeah. Then she never came back with our drinks. Over a half hour went by and no food; we saw others that placed orders before us got their food so I went up and asked if our food was coming soon… she replied, with an attitude, it’ll be out in a minute — almost 20 minutes later we asked again, and again with an attitude, it’ll be out in a minute. Finally almost an hour after placing our order our food came and said nothing and just gave us our food and left. Never came back to ask if we needed anything the rest of our time there. After our meals, another waitress noticed our empty plates and asked if we needed anything and if she could take our plates.
I’ve eaten there before and the service has always been on the slow side but the waitstaff was usually a little more attentive unlike this time.
If you are on a lunch break and only have a certain time I wouldn’t recommend eating in. And if you place an order it’s usually not ready in the time they say it’ll be.

I have been coming here for breads and pastries for years and they have always been excellent. The last few months I have been coming here for breakfast. You can’t get a great bagel in Sullivan County until now! If you were born in Brooklyn, lived in Queens and then Long Island you know what a great water bagel is. I am addicted to their bagels. I dream of coming here for my egg sandwich on a sesame bagel. They also serve lunch and I hear their sandwiches are great. I will report back when I try lunch.

The best breakfast in the area. Somehow all the eggs are double-​yolks, the bagels are supreme, and the wait staff attentive. Can’t beat it.

If your looking for great place for breakfast or lunch look no further! I recently went to a baby shower that had one of their cakes at it. After trying it I knew I wanted to try the café. This little gem is well worth the drive. From the best soups (Italian wedding is my favorite) to salads, wraps, burgers to most delicious desserts. The service is great and they do catering as well.

Oh man, this place rocks!!! If you get a chance stop in!!! Breakfast, lunch, breads, cakes pies pastrues!!! Everything fresh and made on premise!!! Great atmosphere and superb service!!! Trust me, you won’t regret it!!!

Never been disappointed here. Never. Plenty of old school baked goodness. Now they have a café and sandwich counter. Bagels. Soda Bread. French, Italian, Jewish pastries and cakes. Yes yes yes.

This is an update to my previous review. Defilippis has now expanded and offering much more. The place looks fantastic and I’m VERY happy to see some of the village eateries expanding!
They now offer soups, seasoned oils, sandwiches and created a café! The soups here are AMAZING! 5 stars to: Louisiana corn chowder (with or without chorizo!), beef barley and potato leek! Simply incredible! Cream of mushroom tastes great but the mushrooms could be cut smaller and a little over «cornstarched» for my taste. The lentil is good.
My only pet peeve here now is that lately, the soups have no lables. There’s no sign near them that even advertises that they sell soup or how much it is. They’re in plastice containers in various textures/​colors and the staff has to take the soup to another person in the café to ask what kind of soup is in the container… that just makes no sense. Someone apparently has put a lot of time and love into those soups, so those containers shouldn’t even leave the kitchen until they’ve been LABELED & PRICED. Just got home with two that I was told by the cashier were beef barley… one was, the other was lentil! I went in two day before that and had to ask again. The young man was very nice, but says, «I think they’re cream of mushroom. So I asked what the others were and he guessed again. I said, „Nothing is labeled…“ So he repeats w/​a smile, yeah, I think the ones you have are cream of mushroom, but… they’re all good anyway.» He was nice but that is NOT a proper response.
Please label your soups and put prices on them. that is such an easy fix. They used to, but this last week nobody seems to care. they’re in the refrigerated section next to the canoli cream. Still, 4 stars. Youre soups rock and the staff is nice!
PLEASE LABEL YOUR PRODUCTS… so every single customer doesn’t have to keep asking, «what is this?» and «what’s in that?» Attractive lables can be made on a computer w/​simple, free-​standing displays. It would complete the professional look and the staff wouldn’t have to continually answer the same questions over and over again.

This was my first time here, and I will be back. My grandparents asked me to pick up an angel food cake, but I was not going to head to Walmart or Shoprite in the middle of the day-​I also want to give my business to local shops. The owner, Carmella, really helped me out! No angel food, but she had fresh yogurt cakes that would coming out of the oven momentarily. I opted for the lemon yogurt (she told me they sometimes have lemon/​blueberry, chocolate (or was it chocolate chip?), and raspberry almond) without the glaze because my grandfather is diabetic. Only $ 8, and it was perfect. Nice and hot, it was hard to stop eating. They are in love! Thank you again… I didn’t get a pic of the cake, but I also bought this dessert that seemed like a cone shaped croissant filled with cream and dipped in chocolate and nuts… incredible!!!

I could not get enough of their rugelach — moist, creamy, crunchy, tasty morsels in all of the three flavors. The cookies left a little to be desired, but we will be back on our next visit through Monticello! Why didn’t I buy more rugelach to take back to CA with me?!

We picked up a cake for a friend’s parents’ anniversary party from here. The cake itself didn’t look too good, and we could only partially attribute that to the aesthetic taste of the people who ordered it. It tasted okay, but the shop itself was dark (in the middle of a bright summer day) and not very clean in appearance. If it hadn’t been for the fact that I was desperately craving sweets that day, I probably wouldn’t have risked eating the cake at all considering the appearance of the place it was made. Definitely recommend Floyd and Bobo’s in Liberty instead. Check out my review of the cake they made my family for Christmas.

I purchased Italian cookies and ricotta cheese cake.
The cookies were too sweet and with little to no taste.
The cheese cake was dry and tasteless;
I realized right away that no place is going to come close to the italian bakery I went to in Philadelphia when I lived there. Termini Brothers is just the BEST. But this bakery was a complete waste of my money. It was garbage. Very disappointed.Will be needing a cake for my mom’s 85^th next month. I will be driving to Artuso’s.I want something memorable. This was, but not in a good way. :(Will not be going back.

Wasn’t in business when I was a child and going to St. Joseph’s Mountain School in Forestburg, NY — but if it was… I know I would have spent all my allowance/​earnings there. Came back for a visit with my husband and when we walked in… we were hooked! This is Italian PLUS — and I lived many years in Italy! The cookies, the cakes, everything was soooooo good. We tried so many different cookies and pastries that we were at a loss for what was our favorite — delicious! WARNING! Do not go there if you don’t want to be completely satisfied and completely addicted!!!
Absolutely THE BEST!!! Bar none!

Dear New Owners of DeF: BAGELS ARE NOT HARDROLLS WITH A HOLE IN THE CENTER.
I’m not old. Don’t call me old or think I have gray hair in places I shouldn’t mention. But I remember a time when I was a kid whe DeFlilippis was THE place to go for our weeks’ bagels, hard rolls, italian bread, rye bread, and everything else. Birthday cakes? Let’s go down to DeFillippis and get one. Rainbow cookies? Send the kid with a ten to get a pound and a half.
I remember after Sunday School, with a crisp dollar bill for the pair of us, my brother and I would go to the bakery and buy two donuts for the walk home. Memories, that’s what we had, great ones. I’m 26, so don’t call me old or anything — that’s just the way it was.
Somewhere along the lines, someone must’ve bought the bakery or it changed hands or something, because suddenly the food was no longer as great as it had been. There’s a special way you make bagels, and now primarily the reason that I ask my sweet mother, when I visit her, to go to the Bagel Doctor across from St Peter’s Catholic Church instead of DeF.
«But you love Def!» she says.
«Yeah, but their bagels are crap.» I respond. I live in Boston, where good bagels don’t exist. I come home, I want a nice fist of cabs with schmear.
«Okay,» and off she goes.
The sit down café/​bakery addition is interesting. I can’t fathom why anyone would want to sit in the bakery and watch the destitute shamble by. It’s a lovely view, overlooking the broken parking lot across the street and the glass window installation place.