Sweet Life Pastry
“If you want to patronize a high-quality, family-owned business, this is the one in Washington Heights.”
“I'm a particularly huge fan of the huevos rancheros and the veggie burrito!”
“They are a family-owned business, and everyone who works there is super friendly and sweet.”
Sweet Life Pastry
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
5 reviews
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This cute litte spot offers fresh pastries and Mexican food. The inside was small, with a few table seating. They had some baked goods to the left, such as sweet bread, pound cake, and cookies. On the right, below the counter was the refrigerated window showcase with cakes, other desserts, and drinks.
We ended up getting Concha, Oreo Cheesecake, and Choco Velvet Flan. The cheesecake was really dense, a bit too dense for me, but still tasted good. The Choco Velvet Flan was very interesting and tasty as well.
Another great thing was that with Yelp check-in (first time only), you get free small coffee! So we definitely took advantage of that. And it was good, solid, smooth coffee.
The female staff was nice, not too friendly but she was nice enough to give both my husband and I free coffee (we both checked in separately on our phones), since we were buying more than 1 item. It was such a cute spot, and they offer so much more than just pastries and bread, I would like to go back for their Mexican dishes, I hear huevos rancheros are pretty great here. Read my full review of this restaurant and food on my food blog, foodlovergirl.
This restaurant is slowly climbing it's way up my favorites list! It's my third time coming here and their food is always solid. This time I got their Chicken Nachos. They took about 15 minutes to make the order fresh. The tortilla chips they use are freshly fries and so crunchy. They added ample veggies from jalepeños, pickled, diced radishes and crumbled cheese. The chicken was nicely season and grilled. You have an option of green or red sauce; I enjoy my best so I went with the red sauce and was not disappointed. It brought the heat.
Flan * I had asked about the desserts they had in their display and the waitress said her favorite was the flan so I tried it out. I had expected more flavor because the flan was made in-house however it was pretty bland. Won't try it again but perhaps their key lime pie next time!
Sweet Life Pastry is my new go-to for good Mexican pan dulce and cake in while by Columbia. The staff is always so pleasant and the offerings are always fresh.
There is a variable menu of special products as well as some great stable core items. The dulce de leche and tiramisu are great but what I really come here for is the pan dulce (in the cabinet left of the counter). It definitely is the best in the area and comparable to those found in Corona, Queens.
What an adorable little spot! I could barely pull my eyes away from the case of delectable cakes to look at the chalkboard which has all the basic Mexican savories you could want PLUS breakfasty items like all sorts of french toast, pancakes and huevos rancheros.
Our ravenous selves ordered just too much: a steak quesadilla, a steak torta, the red velvet/flan/chocolate cake slice (all that in one! yes, it can be done! – this is my homage to dr. seuss), and the tres leches strawberries slice. The food, made fresh, takes a bit of time, but it is hot and tasty when it finally arrives.
The steak is more of a braised flank steak here, a bit stringy, but flavorful. The version that comes in the quesadilla, which is likely the same as the taco, is better than the torta, where the steak is battered and fried. The torta comes topped with just a tomato, some stringy Mexican cheese and sliced avocado, and coulda used more freshness from lettuce. We would probably skip this next time. However, the quesadilla is a fun mess to eat, a crisp tortilla moon filled with steak, topped with shredded lettuce, avocado slices, chopped tomato and crema. I doused each bite with the yummy tomatilla sauce for a burst of freshness and a hint of spice.
The cakes are really great. The three flavored cake is well done and balanced in flavor – if you want to go wild, there's a four flavor cake which has a layer of the tres leches which I highly recommend. The strawberries tres leches is a dessert of my dreams, like if a strawberry shortcake had babies with tres leches, this would be it, and I would inhale that baby with a few swift bites. So moist, with the right amount of sweetness coming from the chunks of fresh, strawberries and whipped cream. Instantly enamored, I ordered a cupcake (which isn't iced here, so I technically call it a muffin which I saved for breakfast), and an Oreo cheesecake. I cannot wait to devour that in the name of research later today.
When you come I ask for a paper menu, it is FAR more comprehensive than the chalk boards.
1. Iced coffee- tasty, normal iced coffee. They have Splenda and equal as artificial sweeteners. Only two bucks for a good size though, which was nice.
2. Pancakes- they serve breakfast all day. These pancakes were oddly tart and not sweet. I honestly wouldn't do them again.
3. Cook time- takes a while to be honest, but the people who work there are nice.