Varallo Brothers Bakery — Restaurant in Philadelphia

My Mother is 76 years old and home bound, she would send a cab driver who does errands for her to go to this place for pastries at least 4 or more times a month, she lives at least 35 minutes away and pays her driver 40.00 every time he pick ups and takes her pastries over to her house. She spent allot of money in this bakery. So my mom ordered a Italian cream cake this Christmas Eve and she and some of her guest cannot eat peanuts so she special ordered the cake for Christmas Day, My Mom open the cake and ready to serve the cake for dessert and totally with peanuts, No one could eat the cake at all. So she had this cake since Christmas Eve in her refrigerator, My Mom calls the store today and tells them the situation. Mind you now my mom spent $40.00for the cake $40.00 for the cab driver, So so far $80.00 for this cake. The lady said just come in and pick up the cake today after Christmas, Now the cab driver gets there and would not give him the cake with out the other one!!! And they admitted they gave him the wrong cake. HORRIBLE, They wanted the other cake to resell after it sat in my mothers refrigerator. Any one could of touched it sneezed on it or god for bid spitted on it. But she said I am not giving you her cake until you go all the way to her house to pick up the other one. WHAT A DISGRACE!!! MY MOM IS A STEADY CUSTOMER FOR YEARS AND SPENT ALLOT OF MONEY IN THIS PLACE!!! THEY SHOULD BE ASHAME OF THEMSELVES AND THE POOR CAB DRIVER HAD TO GO ALL THE WAY TO HER HOUSE AND GO BACK TO THE BAKERY WITH THIS WRONG STALE CAKE THAT THEY WILL RESELL EITHER AS A WHOLE CAKE OR SLICES THAT OTHER PEOPLE HANDLED AND BREATHED ON IT, BEWARE OF THIS PLACE VERY RUDE AND ADMITTED IT WAS THERE MISTAKE, THIS IS HOW THEY TREAT THERE LOYAL CUSTOMERS. The most part is going to sell this cake to someone else after being in someones house. This place is not a nice place...

This review is for the cannoli only! They have a nice variety of cannoli with choices being ricotta, ricotta and whipped cream, chocolate ricotta, pistachio cream, Italian cream and chocolate Italian cream. The staff are friendly and helpful and the place looks like a really nice Italian bakery. We got three cannoli, the ricotta, chocolate ricotta and ricotta with whipped cream/chocolate dipped shell. To my disappointment, all cannoli were pre-made/filled and in the glass display cases. That’s a big no no because the cream will make the shell soggy. So first the shell, it was soggy and stale, when I cut it in half it cut like a stale roll. Next is the cream, which on all three varieties was too sweet for me. I realize some people prefer a sweeter cream versus a balance between ricotta and sweetness. If you like your cream on the sweet side you will probably like this. Whether you prefer their style of cream or not, I couldn’t get past the stale soggy shell. The cannoli looked beautiful (see pix) but unfortunately they don’t come close to the gold standard of 1) termini’s...

Italian bakery with delicious cakes, cookies, pastries, gelato and coffee. Without a doubt, some of my favorite desserts can be found at Varallo's bakery. Their ricotta cannolis, their apple fritters, their cheesecake, their sfogliatella, and their chocolate ring cake are all so very good. That was just a short list of my favorites. There are so many more desserts to choose from. They also have pizza and the best croissants. Rosa and family are the nicest, warmest people. This is definitely a bakery you will want to visit. I had to add this. Today, I had the best zeppole. It's like a giant cream puff and it is filled with ricotta cheese filling or custard. Of course, I chose the ricotta cheese filled because that's my favorite. I would highly recommend either one because it is seasonal and so very good. 6/8...picked up a chocolate fudge cake for my brother's birthday...rich,...