Palermo Pastry Shop
“Bar none, the best cookies you'll ever have (the rainbow cookies are the stuff of legend).”
“I still drive an hour just to get pastries from here on holidays.”
“The cookies are some of the best around – I'll drive 40 mins just to get a pound of mixed with pignoli.”
Palermo Pastry Shop
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range Moderate
6 reviews
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I have been coming to Palermo for many, many years. I think I began going here once I could walk and hold a $10 bill out to one of the nice ladies behind the counter.
This bakery is tiny but amazing. You can smell the freshly-baked goodness once you open the door. There are displays full of cookies, cakes, and any other dessert that your sweet tooth could desire. They also have fridges with the fresh fruit cakes (their strawberry cake is AMAZING) and milk. The prices can be a bit steep (10 bucks for a pound of assorted cookies) but it's worth the cost. They will even fill their cookies with chocolate, instead of jam, if you do so desire. And who doesn't love a bakery that still uses the old school string dispensers that hang from the ceiling? It's a classic touch.
Very, very tasty rainbow cookies.
Cannolis are pretty good. I love the filling. Creamy, delicious and completely fill the shell. But, the shells aren't crusty. At least the few times I've had their cannolis this has always been my complaint. I keep hoping it will get better.
I only had a pumpkin pie here on Thanksgiving, but it was pretty spectacular. My friends devoured the Italian cheesecake and said it was finger-licking good. They have a wide variety of pastries to choose from. I hope to be in the area again to try some more goodies.
I've been eating at Palermo's since I was little, visiting my grandparents in Old Mill Basin. Hands down, the best rainbow cookies in NY, great pignoli's, great canoli's, the best assorted cookies in NY, and my favorite that I've only found here: the cherry maccharoon (marachino cherry on top of pink pignoli cookie-like dough). The storefront isn't much to look at and God knows its way out of the way, but I HAVE to have stuff from there at least once every few months and for the holidays! You have to try it at least once!
Superb lobster tails and canolis. Been going here for 30+ years and never had any issues when it came to taste and quality. Everything always tastes fresh. I still drive an hour just to get pastries from here on holidays.
This is my favorite bakery in Brooklyn. A Brooklyn fixture since the 1960s. The business is family-owned and operated. They own the 2-story house that the bakery occupies which is why this bakery is able to keep their prices very low. Their cakes and cookies are amazing. They also make one of the best tasting vanilla & chocolate pudding birthday cakes ($14) I have ever tasted. If I lived near this place, I would be stopping by there every week.