Scialo's Bakery of Riverside — Restaurant in East Providence

Update February 2023: What a successful transition with excellent Manager Christina and right by her side is Baker Emily. They’ve just created a brand new recipe for the cinnamon rolls. Freshly baked and bigger. Very glad to see the specialty Italian cookies so well made still. And the Scialo’s Italian bread is still the best in the United States. Update July 2021: Jen, the tremendous manager of the bakery is leaving after almost 31 amazing years with the two Scialo's bakery locations, Seekonk and Riverside (with 17 years in the Riverside location since its opening). The new manager, Christina, will be taking the helm with big shoes to fill. Looking forward to seeing the bakery maintain its current level of success. Great recent purchase for a morning breakfast meeting with the raisin bran muffins, coffeecake muffins, and jelly doughnuts. Overall, so lucky to shop in this bakery! Outstanding Italian bread and rolls! Good cake, cookies, and pizza strips. Jen the manager is a precious soul who strives every day to be genuine to her staff and customers. I recommend being intentional during ordering. For example, sometimes items are undercooked. Was there this week and cinnamon buns were absolutely perfect. But last week, found them to be undercooked with white-ish dough. Same can happen with the pizza strip dough, Eccles cakes or streusel phyllo dough along the bottom is not thoroughly cooked. I imagine there can be a rush in the early morning hours to get things out of the oven and into the cases. But why not spend a few more minutes to get the item baked right? Having said this, here is a photo from a really great day at this bakery—Items...

Really disappointed with the 3 pastries I bought today. Not one dessert tasted good.

Nothing was rich, buttery or sweet.

Their chocolate frosted donut was a decent size and only $2, but the frosting was crunchy and not smooth and the dough itself tasted old.

The cinnamon roll was pretty damn big but there’s a reason why it was only $2.59 when they’re normally $4+. It was just dry and needed more butter. They did put enough cinnamon though throughout the roll.

Their blueberry danish was also large and $2.59, but might’ve been the best out of the 3. The blueberry compote itself had a weird taste but the little icing on it balanced that out. The dough itself was flaky and not bad.

Everything came to only $7.70, but it was really worth about $4.

The only reason why I’m giving them 2 stars instead of 1 is because of the prices and the staff was really friendly.

Overall, the pastries fell flat and...

I like this bakery and go there often since I live close, however I don't believe all of their pastries are baked fresh daily. I say this because ive noticed the same pastries out for a few days (I know they're the same based on how many were left). Bought a slice of cheesecake the other day and it wasn't edible because it was old and not fresh. This upsets me dearly because the staff are amazing and so nice, and the calzones are good and brownies, but you can't serve week old pastries, they're not good and will cause you to lose business. Id advise just making what you can fresh. Don't over do it, or hire more help. It's obvious the baker takes pride in what they do and it shows. Just need more fresh...