Pitango Bakery + Cafe — Restaurant in Baltimore

If this were a year ago, I would have given 5 stars easily. I honestly love this places food. The ingredients are always reliably fresh and delicious. I respect the fact that this place makes all their own bread and pastries on site… and you can taste it! The coffee and espresso is definitely not the best. Starbucks is better, and that says a lot because I don’t think Starbucks has anywhere close to the best coffee. Also, with the rise of diabetes, this place needs to have sugar-free syrups. Y’all should also consider having more protein options i.e. tofu for vegans.

I gave 3 stars because the prices have gone up, and the portions have gone noticeably down. This is a café, and I loved supporting a smaller business with fresh ingredients, especially because their meals would actually fill me. NOW it’s basically embarrassing. How small the portions have gotten. I usually order the beet salad all the time. It’s my favorite! What used to be a salad overflowing with beets and fresh tomatoes now has almost no beets, less than a whole Roma tomato. The people behind the counter used to throw in handfuls of beets and sooo many delicious tomato slices but now they used a tiny pre-portioned scoop and the salad bowl is mostly filled with fluffed up lettuce-the amount of lettuce they put in the bowl has even significantly decreased. I heard it’s the managers that have made this portion change. It’s criminal to charge over $16 for a salad with absolutely no protein at a cafe, then call it a beet salad but have almost no beets lol. This place has lost my business. This week, I have started making my own beet...

Nothing spectacular. Over priced food and VERY BOUGIE. The sandwich we ordered was bland and mostly bread and the mint lemonade drink I ordered, while tasty was overshadowed by the way they portion their drinks. [Let me explain] They actually portion out their drinks they don't do it by glass size. The lady gave me a tall glass of lemonade with ice filled to the brim and when I asked for light ice she looked at me as if I was crazy she then takes my drink and gives me a smaller glass with light ice. When I noticed she gave me a smaller glass I mentioned it and she and the gentleman behind the counter proceeded to tell me that they portion it out. [So essentially I was paying for a few ounces of lemonade with mostly ice.] They changed it for me but I felt as if I was pulling teeth to get what I wanted and felt I deserved. Who wants to pay for ice? I just was not impressed at all with their selection of pastries either. It was however, a beautiful building, the ambiance was nice with it being near the water. If you dont mind over paying for bland food, getting rushed to put your order in and a small selection of pastries, then by all means go ahead this is the place for you. Other than the ambiance I feel it was nothing special at all. If you want to have a good experience and a European feel to it, great food, a nice atmosphere and at a price that will keep you coming back then go to "The Daily Grind coffe shop" just a block or so away from them. Experience was so...

Fantastic place in so many ways 10/10, the best almond/raspberry/blueberry fruit tart you'll ever have 22.5/10. The only reason I'm typing this review is to personally complain about my experience today (hopefully a manager sees this review). The experience I'm referring to is of eating the newest menu item, the fig tart. What MONSTER thought the fig tart was a good idea to sell (especially for 5 dollars)! For me to eat one ever again, you'd have to fly Joe Rogan out to Baltimore and set up a "fear factor style" challenge where, if I manage to somehow eat one of the fig tarts without instantaneously vomiting, I get paid the 5 dollars. It's that level of OFFENSIVELY bad. Don't get me wrong though, the tart was delicious once I violently and aggressively ripped those figs off, but the figs just weren't meant for the tart. The weird thing is, I like figs.... but not on those tarts. The fruits that go on pitango tarts can't be chewy with the texture of a pepperoni. They have to be soft and give-way, like a ripe banana or slices of a cooked apple. For the love of god (or science, whichever you choose), remove the abominable fig tart from the menu and try something else (i.e bananas, apples, blue berries, coconut, sandpaper, bolts and screws, tire rubber; literally anything else) .......... or........... keep doing what's been working with the almond, blueberry, and raspberry tarts AND DON'T FIX IT, IF IT...