Pastisseria Monpla — Restaurant in Valencia

I have to say this place beats that popular tourist place in Russafa if you know which one I’m talking about. First of all, the store is clean fresh and service excellent. Staff is friendly and quick to your aid. Now for the cakes and pastries. Delicious! The pumpkin cake and chicken pastry was fabulous. This is my new go to place because the coffee is the best I have had! This place reminds me of going to a Neiman Marcus or the NK Stockholm Department Store coffee shop. Not to be missed when...

Amazing bread, good hot chocolate (compared to the general quality level in Valencia), and most of all - amazing croisants with chocolate. I love the generous open hours, too. Most of the staff is nice, lovely and helpful with a few exceptions. I had higher expections of the coffee, but still the other things I tried were quite good. I'll be back regularly for the bread, croissants and maybe the hot chocolate (better than the coffee). And I'll take my son for the freshly squeezed...

The staff were very friendly and welcoming. The pastries were very low priced too. We had 3 pastries and a coffee and it was only €7,50. I'm only giving 3 stars as I had the tuna empanada and honestly it was one of the worst things I've had at a bakery, SO DRY with super thick and rock hard pastry. The apple pastry pictured was nice but the pastry was kind of stodgy and underwhelming overall. I can't believe this was elected as one of best bakeries in Spain, the cakes are on par...