Colarusso’s Bakery

Love it, love it, love it — particularly for cookies and cannoli.
Good prices, nice staff, and fresh /​delicious baked goods. Easy in — easy out as well.
We typically pick up a mixed assortment to bring to parties and always receive high compliments and smiles.
Check it out!

Great Italian bakery. Cannoli’s are freshly prepared, decent selection of Italian cookies and relatively friendly staff. I go there too often.

I was excited to go get a nice dessert for someone’s birthday. Once I got there the woman helping me did not seem like she wanted to help me at all. She was almost rude and very unhelpful. Usually when people go to bakery’s it’s to get something for a celebration so you would think the people working there would be in better spirits. Anyways, although the food looks good, I was unimpressed by my experience there and would not go back.

Ordered a birthday cake here for the first time. It was a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. The lightest cake I’ve ever tasted! Could tell it was freshly made. Everyone loved it. A great place for cakes.

Went on a Sunday afternoon to order a birthday cake for my son, able to order a cake and email an image for the cake. The cake looked great & tasted amazing. Picked up a few cookies, a slice of carrot cake & a cannoli, all very good!

Colarusso’s has changed hands and so has the quality of the food. just came back from a disappointing experience. tried the pastries and they are so bland it’s sad. the bakery pizza looks like they freeze it then put it out the next day… to top it it off the older lady that served me sucks at customer service, while i was placing an order she answered the phone and just walked away from me… i should have done the same. plus she gave me the wrong pastry in the bag i didn’t notice till i got home…

This small but well stocked Italian bakery is located just a moment off RT. 128. Inside it is not large or by any means fancy but the pastry all looks appealing and priced quite reasonable compared to other bakeries in the area. The staff was friendly, helpful and not pushy.
Worth checking out for a tasty treat or special occasion.

This place might be a great bakery, but I wouldn’t know! They have a big sign on the building advertising bagels, so when I first moved to the area, I was psyched to try it out. I would rather go local then get bagels from a chain like Dunkin’s. Well, apparently they do not sell bagels. This would be fine, I certainly love pastries, and could try something else, but the emplotees were so rude to us when we went in and asked about the bagels that we were stunned and left. They seemed downright shocked that we had the nerve to think they served bagels there. When my husband mentioned the sign, the woman said something like, «well, we haven’t had bagels in years» with a bit of an attitude. So, we haven’t been back, but we do joke about it every time we drive by.

I’ve been using this bakery for years and years. I needed round twelve 10″ seeded breads to make muffalettas for a Mardi Party. I called three places including Market Basket. No one was willing to do it. When I called Colarusso’s, they said we’ll try. TRY? They made the absolute perfect loaf of bread for a muffaletta. Unbelieveable! I have never been disappointed with this bakery and their sweets are out-​of-​this-​world.
BEST BAKERY FOR MILES AROUND!

I know God is a comedian. There are signs of it everywhere. Have you ever see a platypus? If you have any doubt think about this.
The most delicious foods on earth when eaten in excess will make you ugly.
Why is that? That is a joke. We all could have been made to withstand anything put into our bodies. Why should cakes, candy, pies and bacon make us unhealthy?
I HAVE to go by this place all the time. I have a warehouse right next door. Every time I get out of my car the smell knocks me on my ass. Pecan Pies, Cannoli’s, Lobster Claws, Tiramisu… I HAVE to go in. The Almond Biscotti are the best I’ve ever had.
I wish I could stash pies all over my house and nibble on them whenever I happen to be in a certain room. Boston Cream would be the den. Pecan could be the computer room. a big bowl of italian cookies in the bathroom.
But if I did this I would be fat as a platypus and people would laugh at me.
Maybe it’s worth it. Maybe as long as I keep my heart and mind healthy I could get by with a big fat ass… Maybe not.
But it’s worth considering. That’s how good this Italian bakery is.
God, I see the joke here. But it ain’t funny.
(on holidays the line is out the door)
Go NOW.

I was in stoneham today — and decided to check out some bakeries; but, I only made it to Colarusso’s. I really didn’t need anything, but I had to stop. They are right on main street and not too far from 128, and there is a big parking lot. As I entered, you can tell this place is old school Italian. There are a lot of the traditional cookies along a back wall, there are cupcakes, decorated cookies, whole cakes and many more pastries to choose from — and yes they make bread, too (rolls, loaves, etc…). The retail space is big enough and there is an opening to the kitchen — it looks massive. I figured I would try the cupcakes — I am not a fan of plain white bread or traditional butter cookies — and the other pastries were not familiar. I purchased an all vanilla and an all chocolate — there were different ones and the ones I chose were on the bottom and had the least amount of frosting. When I got home and took them out of the bag I also saw that on top of each cupcake was a tiny butterfly ring, too bad no kids to enjoy that added bonus.
I dove into the all chocolate and the cake is SO LIGHT! It is one of the most delicate cakes I have tasted — kudos to the bakery! The frosting was good, not too sweet and was creamy, and pretty rich. I prefer a lighter frosting, and in this case it would have made this cupcake a 10! Later I tried the all vanilla, and the frosting had a hard shell on the outside, not sure what it is made out of, but since it is pure white I assume not butter. The cake was good, but the tight crumb and texture reminded more of a box mix, and not in a good way.
I would recommend the chocolate cake with or without frosting. I hope that this cake is made from scratch, otherwise I would feel foolish. My star rating is simply based on one chocolate cupcake that was very tasty and if the vanilla was equally as good I would have given this place 5 stars… Finally, I was shocked to find out that these two cupcakes only cost $ 1.70!!! Most places you are lucky to find one cupcake for less than $ 3.

St. Joseph’s Day was this past Sunday. I went into Colarusso’s hoping to find Zeppoles. Wouldn’t you know it. There they were in the display case looking as if they were just taken from out back. I purchased two and they were fantastic. They brought me back to my youth when all zeppoles came from Modern in the North End.
Bravo Colarusso’s for yet another reason to continue purchasing my IPs here and nowhere else in the area.

Colarusso’s is my go-​to bakery if I need to bring some pastries or a cake to a dinner party or home for the holidays. They have a very wide selection of italian pastries, cookies, cakes, pies, bread and even pizza.
Their rum cakes are to die for. They have giant whoopie pies, amazing fudge brownies and delectable chocolate chip & macadamia nut cookies.
Their prices are very reasonable and everyone always loves the desserts.

Finally, I don’t have to go to North End to buy my Italian desserts! Their prices are extremely reasonable. So far I have only tried their cookies. I bought an assortment of them so I am slowly eating my way through all their different flavors. They taste so fresh and so good! They aren’t very sweet, which means I can eat a lot at one sitting without upsetting my stomach. I will definitely be coming back and trying their other desserts.
It’s a little hard to find on Main Street, but it’s right across from Walgreen’s next to the H&R Block.