Bella Dolce

The best scones ever!
They have many other amazingly delicious baked goods but the apricot-​ginger scones are a phonemenon. they only bake a trayfull a day. So if you want to experience the semi-​sweet-​crumble-​in-​your-​mouth-​I-​want-​more scones, try to be there before 10−11am or so.
I have been their customer for over 4 years now and the quality has never dropped. I think everything is also priced fairly. In fact cheaper than some of the other highend bakeries around the town.
super friendly staff and owner. This is a small hidden gem in Seattle.

I was jonesing for something sweet and dropped by on a whim around lunch time. They offer a well-​balanced lunch. Today’s soup was split pea with fresh ham! Their service is friendly and the bakers offered us a sample of their bread pudding. They make the bread pudding with leftovers from cakes, breads, and scones, and it’s delicious. i got myself a red velvet cupcake topped with the perfect amount of a subtle cream cheese frosting with sprinkles for $ 3.30 (including tax). I am usually underwhelmed by most red velvet cupcakes, but this one was deliciously moist and had great texture. I also tried the chocolate brownie, which was classic cake-​like with a hint of espresso flavor (although i can’t confirm this).
Next time, I’ve got my eye on lemon bars!

Best. Red. Velvet. EVER. Seriously, I’m from the south and have been eating red velvet cake all of my life. This is the best. Not just in Seattle, but the best I’ve ever had.

Although pricey, you really get your money’s worth… at least when it comes to Bella Dolce’s cupcakes. I’m not kidding when I say their cupcakes are the best I’ve ever had… anywhere. Ever. Especially the red velvet cupcakes; my favorite! $ 3.00 each, but slightly bigger than your average size cupcake. If you need a pick-​me-​up or need to satisfy your sweet tooth, this is the place. They also have chocolate and coconut cupcakes.
This is a tiny French café/​bakery, so they are quite limited with sandwich and lunch options (ie, not very veggie friendly)…but as far as desserts, Bella Dolce ‘takes the cake’ in my book!

Prices are high for what you get. The sandwiches, salads and baked goods are delicious. The soups are okay, but nothing special. Two women run the place. One is a sweetheart and the other is extremely unpleasant and pushy. I always cross my fingers that I get the nice one. If I see the nasty one there, I’ll keep walking.

My craving for danish and fattening sugary snacks drove me to Bella Dolce. I was not a happy camper when I saw how small the place was and it didn’t have danish or the selections of a typical bakery in West Seattle. They do have frosted cakes, their famous red velvets, cupcakes, cookies, sammies and also coffee/​tea. Since I drove all the way there, might as well grab a coconut cupcake ($ 3!). Frosting on the cake wasn’t too sweet and the cake portion was somewhat dry. Small place with limited selection and didn’t really do the trick for me.

Friendly service, good coffee, and awesome baked goods. What more could a girl with a gigantic sweet tooth ask for? I’ve only tried their lemon bars, which was sweet and tart all at the same time without being too much.
I guess I have to try their red velvet now. Bella Dolce, here I come!

I recently picked up 2 – 3 of their baked goods to treat my team at work & was pleasantly surprised with how yummy & top quality everything was. its a cute little place & everything is made by them. really loved the apple spice cake & the linzer torte! will have to be back for more, especially to try their lunch menu

I’m a big fan of red velvet cake. I ate the cake from Bella Dolce three days in a row! Not kidding…
WHY GO THERE? Little shop that bakes wonders. If it’s red velvet cake you want, go nowhere else.
WHATCHA GOT? I must confess, I haven’t tried anything else other than their cake and cupcake (both red velvet). But I was a man with a mission. My focus is on red velvet and this bakery makes moist, decadent with a hint of cocoa, cream-​cheese topped cake.
YOU GOT SERVED. The lady behind the counter is very friendly. I assume she’s the owner. This bakery gets a good word-​of-​mouth marketing. I found out of Bella Dolce from my partner’s sister (who lives in Arizona), then I mentioned it to a neighbor-​friend who bought two cakes.
SUGGESTIONS: If you like red velvet cake, pace yourself. Don’t eat it three days in a row like I did. But man, it’s a piece of red heaven on a plate.

Excellent bakery goods and very good, really interesting simple luncheon and take-​out food. The shining star, however, is the VERY BEST SCONE in Seattle and beyond. It is a ginger-​apricot scone — a true scone — good size, light, airy, a bit crumbly. this is how a scone is supposed to be — not a too big, bready, cakey thing. I am also a red velvet cake connoisseur, and these cupcakes make the grade (especially when fresh) I would like a different frosting, like a butter cream, but cake is moist, not too sweet, with that particular true red velvet flavor– YES!

Hmmm, I am little surprised at the reviews here based on my experience today.
The bakery is small, and super cute. Everything in the case looked very good and they do have some unique options for sweet and savory.
I paid $ 1.25 for a cookie, and $ 3.00 for a cupcake. I personally think these prices are a little steep and would expect the product to be very good based on the price.
I have to say, the cookie was hard & crumbly, and lacking in flavor. The cupcake was dry & boring, with a strange taste to the icing. I actually threw them both away after a couple of bites.
The service was fine. We had to wait a little while, since the single person at the counter was helping an earlier customer, but that would not be a bother unless you are in a real hurry.
I will make it a point to visit again, to see if it was just an off day for baked goods. Hmmmm…

I finally managed to make my way to visit this bakery before it closed for the day. As others have mentioned, the prices are a little bit less expensive than at the Essential Baking Company. I recall spending about $ 2.65 for a scone at Essential a couple of months ago and I bought some scones at Bella Dolce for $ 2.15. Both places had excellent scones that were nice and moist. There was more variety at Essential, but Bella Dolce had a pretty unique flavor offering (apricot ginger with something else… sorry memory lapse). I think the scone from Essential was also slightly bigger.
One thing I had at Bella Dolce that I didn’t have at Essential was the bread pudding. I’m not sure what’s in it, but the one at Bella Dolce (compared to ones I’ve eaten at restaurants) tasted like a mix of cake/​muffin doughs. It was good and it was pretty inexpensive. Yes, I’ve been back since and ordered it again.
Would I go back? Yes. I would even try to wake up earlier to stop in on my way to work. Or, probably more likely, show up late, but show up with some delish baked goods.

Perfect coffee, small but delicious array of desserts, tempting lunches, friendly. If only they were open Sundays and/​or Mondays! Other than that, I can’t ask for more in my local. I believe the prices beat Essential as well as the atmosphere.

Adorible little shop in a pretty bland strip along Madison. Their pastries I hear are very good though I have only had one and it has me coming back for more. Red Velvet Cake. Those are the only three words you need to know. Upon sinking your teeth into this moist, decadent cake (either in cake form or cupcake form) you will rethink your ideas on heaven. This cake was recently spoken about in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine and with good reason. By far the best red velvet cake in the seattle, maybe even the best cake period.
The women who work there are also out of this world nice.

Like others here I happened on to Bella Dolce through purchases at Metropolitan Market. The Old Fashioned chocolate cake is the best! It’s a very moist, very dark chocolate cake with a white coconut flavored frosting. Mmm, mmm.

I’ve only been here once, but they had great coffee and a scrumptious frittata. I’ll definitely be going back, and trying their red velvet cupcakes.

I discovered that the delicious red velvet cake that El Diablo Coffee Co. sells is from Bella Dolce. I’ve never been to the actual bakery but this red velvet cake is moist, rich, and chocolaty with a nice dense crumb. They use a lot of their yummy cream cheese frosting in between layers of cake, and the frosting is tangy and sweet and thick.

I’ve been getting the red velvet cupcakes from Metropolitan Market for a while now, only I didn’t know who made them. MM recently switched to Cupcake Royale and I had to find out who made the most amazing cupcakes that I’d been having all this time. Well, you guessed it — Bella Dolce. I mentioned this (babbled on) to my friends about this one day and when my birthday came around, they brought me a box of Bella Dolce’s red velvet cupcakes instead of a cake! One of my friends used to be a pastry chef and she usually makes works of art for my birthday. She knew how much I loved these cupcakes and thought it would be easier for her this way and she knew I’d be happy.
We each pigged-​out on two of them and some left over to take home. I ate the rest of mine the next day. I received an email from her a few days later and she said that she can’t get those cupcakes out of her head. Now that’s a great cupcake!

The food here is quite simply fantastic.
Bella Dolce Bakery reminds me of little lunch cafes in Italy. It is a charming café that can become quite crowded at lunchtime. But often I’m surprised they aren’t more packed. The food is far better than any other local lunch eateries.
They are mostly known for their baked goods… the apricot ginger scone is great, but I LOVE their lunch options. While most bakeries load up their lunch menus with bread, bread and more bread, Bella Dolce has an amazing selection of non-​bakery-​like options. Some of my favorites are the Salmon Cakes, Marinated Broccoli Salad or the Mixed Greens Salad with Flank Steak.
Definitely my favorite Madison (Park or Valley) Café and well worth a visit.

We made a trip to Bella Dolce after reading the top reviews. I was looking forward to taste the coconut cake, unfortunately, they do not sell it by the slice. I would say a limited choice of the desserts… we ended up choosing the bread pudding and the nectarine pecan loaf. I would say 3 out of 5 for the desserts, there wasn’t a «wow» factor for us. We might have a better luck with the cupcakes but after we saw some flies flying around it, we changed our mind. Maybe they can store it in a closed space. Otherwise, a very homey and personal atmosphere… and they should sell the cake by slice, they were really tempting!