Pão Gostoso Bakery — Restaurant in Orlando

Have you noticed Brazil on the Rise in Orlando? A few years ago there weren’t many, if at all any, Brazilian Restaurants much less a Brazilian Bakery. Now there are more Brazilian Steakhouses than you can throw a Brazilian Supermodel at. I am sure you have heard of the mammoth meat feeding at places like Texas de Brazil, Nelore, and Fogo de Chao. But have you ventured to the Brazilian Plaza on International Dr. and walked into Pao Gostoso Bakery?

This semi circular plaza has a one way entrance and exit. It houses a huge Brazilian Grocery store, restaurant, shops, and Pao Gostoso Bakery. There are recent additions of outdoor patio style and sidewalk seating. The interior is airy and voluminous, with brightly painted ceiling air vents. Interior seating caters to sweet indulgences, while take out is an option. The menu features sandwiches, burgers, and Brazilian steak specialties. But the Supermodel here is Brazilian Pastries. These sumptuous goddesses are sweet and salted, baked to a perfect Brazilian tan.

Puff pastry with red dot is filled with Guava and cream cheese, other puffed pastry is filled with dulce de leche, two egg custard tarts and a pumpkin milk cake. Amazing flakiness and textures here, not too over sweet.

Cornmeal and milk cake – good balance of sweetness, amazing corn texture and flavor.

Dulce de leche cake with nuts – creamy and sweet dulce de leche, crumbly cake. Sinful!

Flan – sweet, silky, smooth, velvet sins.

Cashew Fruit Drink – is sold under the Brazilian Gourmet Brand, which carries various other native Brazilian fruit drinks such as Guava, Mango, and Passion. Dubbed as the “most liberal fruit” for its exposed nut (look carefully in the picture), this fruit drink actually taste like a fresh cashew fruit. I am amazed that this drink manages to neutralize the sour taste of cashew fruit and not overpower with sweetness. Yes, I have eaten a fresh cashew fruit.

There are so many different pastries in this bakery that I just can’t sample them all in one shot. With Brazil set to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and 2014 FIFA World Cup Soccer we should all eat more Brazilian cuisine and pastry....

Nothing less than 5 stars every time I come here, which is every time I come to Orlando. I’m from Pompano where there are many wonderful Brazilian bakeries - but this a a favorite of all my family and friends. Selection is huge, everything is fresh.

My soapbox opinion : Might you order something you aren’t a fan of as some of the comments imply? Likely - but that’s just part of going to any bakery with this many options. There is something for everyone which is another way of saying … Not everything is going to be delicious to everybody which is exactly why we come here especially with big groups. They have all kinds of things I’ve never seen that the grandmas in the group will order and love, and the grandkids say heck no.

And somethings are made a little different - Brazilian carrot cake is NOT American carrot cake…same with chocolate cake. I read a comment that said .. I could not feel the cheese in the cheese bread 😂. Of course you didn’t dude - the whole point of pao de queijo is the chess is blended directly into the batter and melts when it’s baked lol. Another that said - my mortadella sandwich had one slice of mortadella.. probably because this isn’t a pub sub homie.

Clearly, I’m a loyal fan.

Lots of things not on the shown menu, so just ask. Somethings are a little expensive in comparison to chains with half the quality ($10 for 2 coffees… maybe they were lattes?) but it’s a local business that does a great job and employs a lot of people. I don’t find it expensive, and if it was I would probably pay it anyways this place is that consistent. It’s truly a gem we are lucky to have stateside and I’ll continue to...

Let's start, today we just left the restaurant and we have a few things to talk about... The restaurant doesn't match its Instagram page The restaurant is extremely dirty The tables are greasy and dirty (this is because it was still 10 in the morning) The tables in the outside area have ants The outside area smells like sewage We ordered one thing and they gave us another, and we had already finished our snack. The waitress went and gave the same snack to another customer. Who can guarantee that our other orders weren't already from someone else? The service wasn't the best either. We ordered a coxinha with catupiry cheese, and the coxinha came with cheese. The catupiry cheese was never there. If I'm paying to have a coxinha with catupiry cheese, I'm going to expect a coxinha with catupiry cheese, not with prato cheese. I ordered a double coffee, and it came with two fingers of coffee and we also thought it was a bit strange to have tables literally next to the bathroom, we thought it was kind of unhygienic. I ordered a bread with curd cheese and it came with a grilled cheese sandwich and I was charged for something I didn't even order. And that's when the attendant passed the sandwich to another customer. And she even asked why we didn't want the ham in the sandwich and was kind of rude to us. Having said that, we didn't even finish eating, we left everything and left. They should have given me...