Lilit Bakery & Cafe — Restaurant in Los Angeles

This place opened up not long ago so I tried it out, but only to be annoyed that it is the same as every other Armenian bakery cheap low cost bread type pastries to save money. At first glance everything looks appealing but the majority of it is the same thing, bread, bread and more dry bread. I tried the eclair and it's just thick dry bread, I tried the chocolate croissant but it isn't really a croissant it's just bread with chocolate in it and lacks taste. The majority of what they have is sponge cakes held together with inexpensive whipped cream, they are all the same just different colors and fruits so they will look appealing and different but are not. They are cheap low cost desserts and to make everything seem worth your money but aren't. If you take a look at what they have you will notice it's the same ingredients over and over but just with different colors of cake or a different topping and they add the illusion of having a great product with their idea of good decor. In all seriousness this place doesn't even hold a candle light to Porto's, the low prices at Porto's, quality and ACTUAL SELECTION of DIFFERENT pastries not only the illusion of a large selection like this place, everything at Porto's is actually different and stands on its own not like this place where everything is the same just dry bread and different colors. There is a reason why the line at Porto's is out the door every single day and the other reviews about bad rude service is true, for my visit I had a nice lady helping me but I witnessed the attitude of the other young girl working there the (your wasting my time because you walked in the door) attitude, well those are customers that support you place of work. So try this place if you want to, but please do yourself a favor and try Porto's as well and compare, you won't be...

I wanted to love this place so much... they have some good coffee and some nice desserts, but some are also borderline too sweet.

The people are nice enough but somewhat clueless and incompetent. I thought that it might have been due to some sort of communication or language barrier at first but I'm now fairly convinced that the employees lack professionalism or intelligence -- or the worst combination of both. It's JUST good enough that I may give it ONE last shot (mostly because it's local and convenient), but it's looking a little grim.

If you're willing and curious, it's worth ONE visit to sample the goods but I recommend making sure that you're in a very patient mood when you do. I've had my orders mixed up with someone else's... they tried to charge me twice during one of my visits. During another visit, a friend of mine had to ask for her change, more than once -- and it was kind of embarrassing because I raving on and on about how excited I was for her to try the place.

I watched one of the employees take 10 minutes to plate my dessert order -- she was mostly walking back and forth looking confused. The last straw was when I tried to preorder a cake for a holiday weekend. I inquired with a girl behind the counter who paused, called another girl over, and then THAT girl just said, "we're TOO BUSY" and literally walked away immediately after that. She didn't bother to find out how difficult or simple my order would be; didn't offer any alternatives or professional responses.

I was this close to being a regular who was willing to overlook some quirks, but bad customer service is a solid deal...

Decided to check this place out on Father’s Day and have their specialty: Ajarski. Ajarski is an Armenian pizza like dish, as I know it. It looks like a little dough boat, loaded with lots of Cheese and they crack eggs in there sunny side up and hey let it melt and do it’s thing in an oven. We got there around 11:30am and quickly placed our order for Ajarski since we were told it takes about 30 minutes to prepare it. In the meantime we ordered some coffees, teas and their Nutella & Cream Croissant, which were delicious!!! We mingled a bit and before we knew it the Ajarskies were ready. OH MY GOD! The melting ooozzzing cheese, the crispy yet soft dough and the sunny side up egg on top could not have been more executed perfectly! We literally could not have enough of them. The cheese was sos stretchy, it was mozzarella and Armenian feta cheese mixed together that gave it that stretchy and amazing taste. It was fantastic! We are hooked! TIP: the only downside to this cafe is the fact that there are different lines for everything. For example, the Ajarski was ordered by the oven, the pastry was ordered the opposite side and the drinks were ordered by the pastry. I think if they make that more organized they will even benefit from it, and the customers too. Other than that we walked out very satisfied and so...