Boulangerie Bakery & Cafe — Restaurant in Lakewood

Boulangerie is a Franco-Korean bakery located in the Pal Do shopping complex, and one of the best bakeries in Tacoma.

If you need a cake for adults, their cakes topped with glazed fruits are one of the BEST options in the city. Flavors include strawberry, vanilla, mocha and green tea. Prices are excellent: small cakes that serve about 6-8 are just over $20, and they pack the cakes in beautiful, handled boxes with a plastic cake cutting knife. They'll ask if you need candles, and how many, and that is included in the price.

You will find traditional Franco-Asian prepared pastries here: macaroons, pastries filled with chestnut, bean paste or cream, sugar cookies. Example of sugar cookies here: pink shortbread with real cherry bits speckled throughout, a classic icebox-type chocolate & plain cookie in a square checkerboard design (great for a tea party), and palmiers.

I wish they offered things like apple filled croissant or even plain croissant - but ultimately I respect that Boulangerie stays true to the Asian aesthetic and the things you find in these types of bakeries in Korea, Japan or China. (This really points to the lack of a proper traditional French bakery in Tacoma)

In closing I must mention their sandwiches. They have the type of sandwiches one sees in a fusion bakery of this kind: egg salad, ham, sometimes tuna salad - heavy on the Kewpie-style mayo - on delicious egg bread. Again, very reasonable at about $5 or less for a whole sandwich. They're in a fridge by the register and...

Ordered a cake over the phone in advance. I got a 6 in cake, vanilla sponge with whipped cream and fruit on top. The cake was kind of dry but I could still eat it and the cream helped. Not too sweet which is great. The whipped cream is the same type that most of the Korean bakeries use— a plasticy faux whipped cream frosting . Not real dairy. But it’s not bad though. But not my favorite. Better than regular American grocery store cakes. There was barely any fruit inside the cake. Only a few strawberry pieces on the bottom layer.

The ladies were very nice though, the cake comes with candles and cake knife if you want. Happy birthday was written on a piece of acetate sheet in chocolate and put in front of the cake. The box it comes in was very nice.

I got a cream filled bread thing but it had only two tiny pieces of strawberry on the outside and the whipped cream was the faux plasticy cream again. Not terrible. Garlic stick taste good. The walnut tapioca bread was a bit dry. Still tasty. Cream cheese filled round bread was good.

3.5/5. Good service! Great looking cakes! Baked goods kind of dry unfortunately. I still ate everything though, not sure if I’d come back....

Great selection, affordable prices, and impeccably polite Korean staff! Will definitely come back to try more freshly baked goods.

Donut twists with cinnamon and sugar, buttery garlic sticks, tapioca bread with walnuts, hotdog with white bread and crumbs on top (my favorite), and a pastry with cream and peach filling.

They had a strawberry roll as well for like $8 but I'm not into pudding or whip cream and biting into that I personally disliked it but my mom thinks it's perfect.

I tried the macaroons for the first time ever but again not into creme filling so I disliked it but tasted fresh and feintly sweet.

What I will definitely come back for is the fresh baked bread rolls though, they were to die for! So that and hotdog in a bun are quite delicious in my opinion but everyone has different tastes.

I adore Japanese melon pan and tried their version; harder, sweeter, and a cream cheese filling that I'm not into but you might find you like it.

Still, I would definitely recommend; very clean and a nice fusion taste, something's bound to appeal...