Paisano's Italian Bakery — Restaurant in Florida

Incredible on all fronts. The prepared foods are amazing and have my entire family obsessed. I keep turning more and more people onto this place. The pizza strips and calzones are out of this world. They’ve made it so I can’t enjoy eggplant anywhere else. In addition, the staff is very welcoming and friendly and super helpful when it comes to asking about ingredients and preparation methods. They will tell you anything you need to know if you just ask. Contrary to a reviewer who complained about the prices not being listed, they ARE — in a paper menu on the counter. This is not completely unheard of at smaller family run bakeries, so it’s not a fair critique if you’re expecting to walk in and see a big menu board as if they’re a fast food chain. Instant gratification is an expectations that comes with big box entitlement. Instead, enjoy the experience. Let your senses revel in all this place has to offer. Take a moment and breathe and explore and you’ll see that the information is there. And what’s not, you only need to strike up a conversation to ask about. Ask them when something was prepared and write the date on package for you. I have no doubt they would bend over backwards to help, because I’ve asked them questions about preparation methods and cross-contamination and they were happy to get all of the details for me. As someone originally from a city of ten million people, I can attest that pastry cases rarely have the prices displayed on items and you usually have to ask — even at upscale chocolatiers. In defense of the inconsistent prices, I can confirm that there was a new employee recently who charged me incorrectly, but the staff was apologetic and corrected the problem right away. It happens everywhere when someone is new. Even seasoned professionals make mistakes sometimes. So, judge this place on the quality of their products and their character, not on...

This bakery was odd to me. They had TONS of small Italian cookies just tray after tray and very dry biscotti, lots and lots of other pastries . They had regular cookies like chocolate chip but they were on the small side for 18.99. Per lb I asked the girl just to give me a ballpark idea of what 6 cookies usually ended up costing, didn’t have to be exact and she looked at me and just shrugged her shoulders and said “I don’t know” I said what about a dozen? Again with the shrug, I don’t know. I couldn’t imagine working in a bakery and selling an item this popular as chocolate chip cookie and not having an idea of about how much six cookies came to at $18 pound . Even the coy way she talked was strange. everything was really expensive. I decided on a slice of death by chocolate for $8.50 it was the driest most inedible, horrible piece of cake I’ve ever had and it got me thinking , most of what is in that bakery has to be days if not weeks old , how is it possible to have the sheer volume of cookies pastries and cakes that they have an hour from closing time and no customers in the store except me so there is no way that stuff is baked fresh every day or even every other day. It’s just not possible that they could turn over that much in product . I wouldn’t be curious to know how many days those bakery items sit there until they’re sold. The cake was easily five or six days old. I had to throw it away it actually could not be eaten. Normally a death by chocolate piece of cake is smothered in a dark ganache with all kinds of yummy things but this had a . strange buttercream icing that tasted like Walmart icing I cannot imagine how they stay open. The only thing I can think of is that they sell packaged Italian cookies to stores there’s...

So disappointed, especially after reading all of the glowing reviews I was hoping for delicious pastries. Tried five different items and all were very disappointing. Went on a Thursday afternoon around 4pm so maybe things have been sitting the display a little long. dumbbell - supposed to have a custard filling but you could not taste any egg at all. It just tasted like like sweet filling with cheap vanilla. You could not even say it was creamy. The pastry itself had a strange almost crunchiness to it. Like maybe it was stale. There was no chew to it at all cream puff - the filling tasted somewhat like whipped filling but tasted old. You know when something has been in the fridge for too long and it has a strange, stale taste? That’s what the cream tasted like sfogliatelle (large) - dry. Didn’t seem fresh. Crumbly texture with no chew. Filling tasted like it was made of cheap ingredients, like fake vanilla and sugar (probably same filling as the dumbbell) sprinkle cookie- overly sweet not worth whatever they’re charging. Tasted like a cheap cookie from a grocery store bakery cannoli with pistachio- no depth of flavor. Only tasted like sugar with...