Cuba Bakery & Cafe

The tastiest Cuban pastries and potato balls! We had their cheese danish, guava and cheese danish and their beef potato balls. All were fresh, and tasty! But try to get there early because a line starts to form and they begin to sell out of food. The owner is extremely sweet and helpful.

We got the potato balls and Cuban sandwich which is basic as it comes pork, ham, mayo, mustard, cheese, pickles can't go wrong with that didn't have a price on it. I don't member how much it cost they didn't have prices on anything. We also got the potato balls soon as you bite into the potato it tasted watery like it was frozen and it retained water, if I had to come back, I'll get the Cuban sandwich again.Update: sorry potato ball I was calling them Papa rellena..stuffed potato. Potato was watery when you bite into them it killed the favor of the beef..maybe not enough water was drained out of them after the boil?!

My home away from home! Authentic Cuban food. IMO the best Cuban in all of the Austin area. I keep going back!

This is a cute little place with really great sweet and savory options. Really enjoy the Cuban sandwich, guava pastry, and cheese rolls. Reminds me of the ones I used to get back in LA. I've been back multiple times and enjoy trying different rolls and empanadas.

As a disclaimer, I have high standards for Cuban food being part Cuban and from Miami. That said, Cuba Bakery was a great fix for pastellitos and a sandwich being that there aren't many places like this here in Texas and I would give the store 3.5 stars if I could.We were lucky enough to arrive on Saturday around 11 am with no one in the store, which was what I was worried about reading some other reviews especially since we wanted to try a couple different things. Service was friendly and easy to order despite there seeming to be only two employees. About four other parties came in after us though and they had a wait to order, but it wasn't anything exceptionally long and everyone seemed okay.My party ordered cafe con leche, cortadito, tostada, ropa vieja sandwich (I wanted pan con bistec but they weren't serving that), a chicken empanada and guava pastries. The flavor of the coffee was not what I'm used to (like a trusty Cafe Bustelo) nor was the Cuban bread (a little heavier than the typical thin crunchy outside and soft inside). The ropa vieja was still delicious as were the pastellitos and food was fairly priced.The restaurant felt like a hole in the wall - bright orange, Cuban themed decor, typical bakery displays - so definitely don't take your date here, it's just a place to quickly pick up or grub on a couple sandwiches at lunch. I would actually say the ambiance is what felt most like smaller Miami Cuban restaurants! Was also lovely to take my full order in Spanish. It felt like home :)So overall, if you're looking for your fix of Cuban food and want to support a business like this, you should try this place if you're already in the area. Traveling from miles away to try this place with expectations just as high as mine, however, you might be better off learning how to make these foods at home. I will personally be returning though to try a couple of other things as I'm just 10 mins away and see if I just happened to come on a good day service-wise, and will update!

Cute little mom pop shop Only have had the empanadas n potato ball Location: simple to find Hours: make sure u call due to COVID hours are different then what's posted Prices : I only paid 10.10 for 5 empanadas Meat pie n potato ball

Love this place. My Abuela has been getting food here for years for get togethers and to give as gifts. I recently went myself for the first time and it was great!

To start, the staff is not friendly at all. The owner isn't even nice when responding to reviews. The place has been around for a while, so I thought it would be a good Cuban food option. Parking is okay, no veggie options, which is fine. They didn't have much to offer- maybe I got there too late? I visited again, same deal. I read the many positive reviews, but I don't get it. I suspect they are written by friends. In any event, I stand by my experience. Unfriendly staff. Poor service. Unless you are a "regular" you can forget about fresh, hot, tasty food.

The employee taking the order was nice enough but from there it was disappointing. My daughter and I ordered 5 pastelitos. They were cold and stale. When asked to warm a few of them, the employee took them and brought them back soggy and they had been warmed in a microwave. Don't ever warm pastelitos in a microwave!My daughter wanted to leave them on the table and I am sorry I convinced her to take them out with us as they were truly inedible.We had lived in Miami for many years and have had many delicious Cuban pastelitos, so we were very disappointed in this place.Hope they can improve and impress the next customers with warm, fresh pastries or keep them under a warming element to keep them warm and crisp.

This is the worst Cuban food I've ever had. The cafecito (Cuban-style coffee) was so bad I threw it away, for the first time I have ever done that in my life. I left feeling insulted... by the food. (Cafecito is precious, you're never supposed to waste a drop!)Pastries were stale and did not taste good.