Food and Wine magazine has called this the best Japanese bakery in the United States. I would call it simply the best bakery I know of in Ohio for cream puffs (sorry Schmidt's,) fruit tarts, strawberry cake, and Japanese style bread. Those are the items I have personally tried. They are flawlessly executed.

Their cream puff is consistently the best cream puff I have ever eaten. Their puff pastry is tender, so perfectly flaky, and so evenly distributed. Its flavor and texture are the perfect vehicle for the rich but magically fluffy egg custard vanilla cream filling, which fills every space within the pastry to 1/4" of its side. You could measure it with a micrometer. Nothing in this work of perfection is artificial. This is the textbook cream puff, elevated in its perfection by texture and flavor, a harmonious, delightfully balanced pastry.

Their strawberry cake is a confectionery dream, a symphony of cream and sponge, ripe fresh berries, sugar, and vanilla, cut to surgical precision and lovingly presented as art in their display cases.

Their fruit tarts are as beautiful as gems, with a rainbow of perfect fruit on top of a layer of vanilla cream, ensconced in an almond crust, and covered with a glistening apricot gel.

I can only assume the tiramisu, the panna cotta, the baked cheesecake, the mango mousse, the matcha cream puff, and anything I may have omitted are just as amazing.

I'd add that everything I have tried has the right balance of sweetness. Nothing is too sweet. That's important in a proper dessert because sugar itself can overpower other flavors. The wizards at Belle Breads know how to balance sweetness in a dessert to accentuate the flavors of the other components of the dessert. I don't feel like I need to rinse my mouth out after I eat one of their amazing treats.

I am so happy Belle's Breads is within driving distance of me. Oh, individual servings are also amazingly affordable, ranging from $2.95 for flán, to $5.95 for their most expensive single servings. If you're anywhere near Kenny Center in Columbus and you love perfectly executed sweet treats, you really need to stop here. 🙂❤️