Buzz Bakeshop — Restaurant in Alexandria

Buzz did a great job with the desserts for our wedding! We ordered a rehearsal dinner cake, a wedding cake, and mini cupcakes through them. We already knew we loved their desserts after they were used for our friends’ wedding a few months before ours. We worked with Katherine and Allie to coordinate a time to come into their Alexandria location to have a tasting before deciding on anything. We were blown away with the experience – partly because it was done at no cost to us.. and when you don’t even have a formal order or agreement in place, that’s very nice of them – but mostly because the amount of options we were given were so vast and everything was so delicious! For the rehearsal dinner cake, I wanted to do something custom that my husband would love. His favorite cake is banana cake with chocolate frosting. Buzz doesn’t normally have this cake flavor, so we were excited to hear they’d do a custom flavor for us! The Buzz team made a special sample for us to try and my husband loved it! I also worked with Allie to come up with a fun custom design for the outside of the cake that was specific to my husband’s interests. The cake was a fun surprise for him the night before the wedding. Everyone loved the cake and mini cupcakes at the wedding – including us! We opted for a small wedding cake for the wedding itself in lieu of saving a tier for the future. We look forward to ordering a vanilla cake with cookies and cream filling with vanilla frosting on our one year anniversary from Buzz and probably for...

Fun bright atmosphere. Easy parking. Excellent chai. Very tasty breakfast sandwiches. Cupcakes and cakes look fantastic but I've not yet tried. Nice staff. Fast service.

Update: As of summer 2016 it seems almost everyone seated inside is "working" remotely. They order very little yet stay for-ev-errrr. This leaves very little seating available to patrons who're actually spending money and require a table for a regular period of time (20-30 minutes). In my humble opinion this is ridiculous.

Dear Remote Workers, You don't look hip when you takeover cafe tables and seating hours upon hours for just $12. On the contrary you look pretentious and rude using a for profit cafe/restaurant like it's your home office. Which reminds me, please go home.

Outside tables are nice when weather is agreeable and now even when it's not-so-much because of the mob of spooky silent tabletroids having taken over the cafe.

New interior layout which may have been intended to discourage patrons staying too long is unwelcoming due to both design and the glaring fact that the remote workers have refused to go.

They look like cult members facing the door (heads down of course) peering into their sacred phones and hallowed tablets. It's seriously...

Our niece had a birthday today and we decided to get bunch of cupcakes because I heard so much about "BUZZ". It was around 5:20pm and they close at 11 pm on a Saturday. There were many customers in the shop eating cupcakes, so it was a good sign. We were deciding whether to get a cake or cupcakes. I was leaning towards a cake and the sales person explained that the cake would have to sit for approximately 3-4 hours at room temperature before serving. Since that was not going to work we move towards the cupcakes, I was selecting which flavors when I notice 2-3 fruit flies in their glass display case. I pointed it out to the clerk helping us and another responded someone forgot to turn the fan on. They proceeded to open the case and when they moved the pan, a colony of fruit flies swarmed in the case & they were all over the cupcakes. It was such a turn off, I could not purchase any, not to mention the cupcake price. I was disappointed. Not sure if I will return. Maybe it was an off day. I felt bad being loud about the flies while they had customers just eating theirs. I told our niece about the incident and she made light of why the shops name was BUZZ. Hope this fruit fly problem gets...