Yaya’s Bakery

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“Literally the best Baklava in the city, no excuse to miss this place if you are in Astoria

Also the bread is to die for.”

“Their whole wheat bread is my every-day bread at home, and I often get a piece of spinach pie when I need a quick lunch.”

“I will definitely keep trying all of Yaya's delicious greek specialties and breads!”

Yaya’s Bakery

Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes

Price range.

$ Price range Inexpensive

4 reviews

  1. I peaked in and was immediately impressed by all the yummy Greek pastry options. The decor and minimal seating are nothing to write home about, but there are tons of sweet and savory options. The person working there was on the phone when I was there, so it was easy not to feel compelled to buy a lot, but I appreciated the pre-packed cookies but also the one-by-one purchasing option. Freshness to the max.

  2. While wandering around Astoria, my girlfriend and I came upon Yaya's and something about it just drew me in.  I think it was partly due to its charming look.  It reminded me of small bakeries I grew up around in Brooklyn.

    The inside has a nice feel to it.  Clean but old school, with a pizza style oven in the back (to heat up certain baked goods for customers), a glass case with beautiful pastries, cookies and breads on the left and to the right racks of prepackaged baked goods ready to go.  I loved the charm of the place and the old man and woman who ran it.  

    Not wanting to completely decimate the eating plan I'm on, I picked up a small size Baklava and a cookie with a crushed nut center.  The cookie was a lot lighter and crumbly than I expected, which was nice as it helped enhance the nut flavor from the filling.  The Baklava was wonderfully tasty, though I will say that it could have been *slightly* more crispy, but that's really a mild complaint.  Overall it was the perfect mix of salty and sweet and chewy, which is what I really want in this confection.

    While I don't hang around here often, I'm all on board with checking out Yaya's again the next time I'm in the area.

  3. My SO and I were minding our business on a casual stroll from Astoria to LIC and were drawn in by the sweet aroma of fresh baked cookies. We inquired about the culprit of the olfactory ambush and the cashier pointed at the honey cookies on the shelf behind us.

    "Fresh!" she proudly proclaimed with a smile.

    Indeed.

    Those cookies went home with us.

  4. Location: If you take Q, N subway, get off at 30th Ave and one block away, you will see YAYA'S BAKERY. It does not stand out but when you get closer, you do find this place easily.
    The store is very cafeteria styled, meaning, the small space is stuffed with all the goodies – cookies, bakeries and some coffee.

    Food: Yaya;s bakery is not your traditional type of bakeries. It 's greek bakeries… I got a chance to try their donut sample, and some fried sweet stuff.. yeah, it's too sweet if you were eating the cold sweet thing. So i immediately looked for something else
    I felt like everything made of extreme sugary stuff so I ended up with spinach pie. It's very authentic, even though j have never been to Greece before. But the decent texture of spinach is captured well by their cheese and crispy shell

    Price: 4 dollar for a pie. Huge bargain!
    Service: they do have prewrapped cookie sets and other to-go stuff to choose. The lady was apparently preoccupied that she was not nice.. Kinda

    3.5
    A place worth to visit if you are at the neighborhood.

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