Chicago Sugar Daddy Patisserie

Great addition to the neighborhood! My friend ordered a birthday cake and had a wonderful experience, so I immediately made a note to pay a visit and am so glad I did!The shop is a quaint hole in the wall, and at 4pm on a Saturday the goods were almost all sold out - a great sign! The employees were super friendly and offered cake samples. I tried the ube cake with pandan frosting and WOW! Delicious, and not the easiest flavors to find in Chicago. Will be back for that alone. They also offer a slew of cookies, bars, scones and savory buns in both classic and adventurous flavors.This time, I opted for the vanilla cupcake with strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream. As a shortcake fan, it hit the spot and was light and not too sweet. I did wish the cupcake had more filling, and although it tasted fresh, it seemed just slightly over-baked. Maybe a fluke.Will definitely be back to try more of the great looking pastries, and definitely recommend making a stop if you're in the area!

Heard about this place after hearing Chef James competed on Food Network! They also incorporate filipino flavors into their pastries!This is a cute little pastry shop in Lakeview! The pandesal is a must! Pandesal is a filipino sweet bread usually eaten for breakfast with butter and/or cheese. I was hoping to try their sylvannas but they were not available when I went sadly. Id buy the Carmelita again because it was heavenly!

I was starving and just wanted something to snack on, so popped in and got a cupcake. The presentation looked delicious...however I couldn't even eat it. I had a knife and fork, and the cupcake and frosting was so dry it actually broke the plastic fork!! Honestly the worst cupcake I have ever had. It was a chocolate cupcake with blue frosting, with no flavor. Would never recommend this place.

I used to have chocolate chip cookies a lot more than I do now. But I remember a basic rule that the cookie itself should be flavorful apart from the chips.This is the case at Sugar Daddy. Excellent cookies. If they can knock a chocolate chip cookie out of the park, it's a good sign. Not the one-note sugar bomb I've come to expect from bakery cookies. We'll be back, I'm sure. Very friendly and chill on a Sunday afternoon. So small that it's almost anxiety-provoking. But fine for picking up a snack to walk around with on a nice day.

Chef James - you are absolutely amazing lol. I ordered a two-tiered custom cake for my boyfriend's birthday and we're still in awe looking at it hours later. If you need a custom cake that is creative, funny, and somehow beautiful at the same time, this is 100000% your place. Rayan helped coordinate my ideas into the best cake of all time. Omg, I cannot thank or recommend this place enough. THANK YOU Chef James, you are the artist of all artists!!!

I've ordered a cake for my birthday for the last 2 years here, and they have both been amazing! This years was for my 80s themed party and I absolutely loved it! The staff is always so friendly when placing the order and picking up the cake! I would recommend for everyone to get their cake from Chicago Sugar Daddy! Not only did the cake look amazing, but it was also so delicious! All of my guests loved it!

I've been craving cookies but making a batch would be far too many so whilst I was around the corner from Chicago Sugar Daddy it seemed kismet, that I should stop in to grab something. They had lots of yummy-looking goodies, so I ended up with several somethings. I picked up a Zesty Daddy cupcake, a pride cupcake (chocolate), and a couple snickerdoodles and triple chocolate chip cookies.Surprisingly, I liked the lemon cupcake better. It had some poppyseeds in but not so packed full of them that it was a bother (I am not a huge fan of poppyseed). It was fairly moist and had a bit of filling... maybe lemon curd? Unsure. On the other hand, the pride cupcake looked pretty but wasn't very tasty at all. It was much denser, drier. Surprisingly lacked flavor for a chocolate cupcake.The cookies were the best of the bunch. The triple chocolate (I think that is what it was) had white and milk chocolate chunks, but I may have the name wrong because I'm not sure what the third was. My favorite was the snickerdoodle even though they were both quite good. In general chocolate chip isn't my favorite of all cookies so I'm not surprised I liked the 'doodle better. I didn't eat them both the same day; I saved the snickerdoodle for the next day and it was still quite moist (I put it in a ziplock bag). I actually saved half of the snickerdoodle for tomorrow and am looking forward to enjoying it then!This area of Lake View is short on parking but you could try your hand at it. Service was good; it was the people in front of me with a decision-making disorder that were annoying. They have a few seats at a counter at the window, and a couple tables, but probably you should plan to take your food to go.

Best chocolate chip cookies I probably ever had. The service has always been great too. My only complaint is I wish they had more cupcake flavors. Besides that I will be back again.

There's something weird going on here. I mean i go to these fancy restaurants who say things like "here is our famous chocolate cake". And it's always fine. Meh. But always a bit of a let down. So I never get chocolate cake from anywhere. So you can maybe understand my surprise for my birthday when my wife gives me a slice of chocolate cake from Sugar Daddy. Ugh. Not this again. Wait. This isn't normal. This chocolate cake is maybe the greatest chocolate cake I've ever eaten. And the brownie she also brought home? Also not a huge fan of any store bought brownie. But HOLY HELL is this thing amazing. What on earth is happening at this place? How are you making this stuff so good!? I feel terrible too because I've completely neglected the joint until now. But thanks to these delicious incidents, I cant get enough. I can't wait to get my next fix of one of these treats. And now I'm ridiculously proud of James finish on the Halloween Baking Championship. He deserves it and so much more. Run to this place and don't let your preconceived ideas of dessert stop you from trying everything they're putting together.But damnit James, you're doing something wrong. I don't want to love cake this much. :)

I'm a home baker, and I pride myself on my cakes. In fact, when it comes to cakes, I'm a very hard grader. I have OPINIONS. I needed a special cake for a family event, and I didn't have time to make it myself. One of my friends (who knows how picky I am about cake) suggested Sugar Daddy, so I placed an order hoping we'd end up with an okay cake that could get the job done. When I went to pick up the cake and saw how beautiful it was, I thought, "If it tastes even half as good as it looks, we'll be fine." The baker was so kind - knowing that we had a nut allergy in the family, he went out of his way to reassure us about the care they had taken while making it.Later that night, we served the cake and ... it was perfect. Literally perfect. I was absolutely blown away. The crumb was moist and rich without being heavy, the frosting was delicious without being too sweet, and every bite tasted like the best thing I've ever eaten. That may sound like an exaggeration, but it's true - the cake was literally the best I've ever had. My entire family has not been able to stop talking about this cake. I have not been able to stop thinking about this cake! The cake is the Platonic ideal of cakes ... like, all other cakes are just shadows on the wall of the cave. The only problem with this cake is that it basically makes it impossible to eat any other cakes for the rest of my life. Thank you, Sugar Daddy, for making our family celebration so special. Your cakes are epic.