Zadies Kosher Bake Shop
“I am a little bit of a challah critic, and this place for my taste has the best challah I have ever had including the West Coast.”
“My family is obsessed with the chocolate kokash and the meltaway.”
“But I swear I just went to a kosher, nut-free bakery that was inexpensive AND had yummy treats AND had good service with nice people.”
Zadies Kosher Bake Shop
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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I must be high. I haven't ingested anything, or breathed in anything that would cause that effect. Odd. But I swear I just went to a kosher, nut-free bakery that was inexpensive AND had yummy treats AND had good service with nice people. Wow. Impressive.
Place is nut free now, doesn't have as many dairy things.
Best thing still are the chocolate pastries, though more specifically the chocolate melt away and kokosh. The fruit pies are alright and the fruit strudel is excellent. Pretty good chocolate cheese danish/chocolate danish as well.
In short, stick with the well more traditional treats, not cupcakes or the similar.
The lace cookies are amazing also. Hamantashen are good as well when they are in season.
Huge fan of the sweet onion pockets for sandwiches as well as the pull apart challah.
Best bread in town. "Kosher bread"
We have been buying Zadies bread from the supermarket for a while until we stopped into the Zadies bakery in Fair Lawn. The pastries are some of the best in NJ. Egg challah is amazing.
Make sure you go early if you plan to buy anything on the holidays. The lines are long. But worth it
I've only tried old-school baked good here–mandelbradt, rugelach, challah, and challah rolls both plain and onion.
Mandelbradt is a kind of twice-baked sweet loaf, cut into pieces similar in size and appearance to biscotti, but less hard, more cakey. Zadie's offers a traditional version, and one chocolate coated. The traditional is so good you don't need to coating. Slices of mandelbradt are great as cookies, as accompaniments to tea/coffee, etc. They're never too dry, nicely balancing biscotti's crunch and cake's… cakeness.
The challah is challah (so: awesome) but they do make a whole wheat variety that's decently tasty and fluffy. The rugelach are delicious.
I've not tried regular American baked good here–cookies, cupcakes, the like. They might be great but I'd almost always opt for a slice or six of mandelbradt over a cupcake.
The shop itself is a small plain bakery, a place to come in, pick up, and go. Long glass counter, big shelves behind the counter, etc. The owner himself is pretty interesting–he apparently speaks many languages, is a refugee several times over, and at some point in between wars and continents learned how to bake.