Crispian Bakery

Bakery with both sweet and savory baked pastries as well as various breads. The team here is great and always patient as we figure out what we want. Ordering is through a window on the sidewalk and is all take away. Get coffee at the Beanery next door and get your baked goods here. Seating in the back parking lot.

Love the croissant - delectable with rich ingredients. Update on shopping experience, 2018-6-2: Finally met a girl who’s enthusiastic and courteous (without an attitude) when asking questions and ordering croissants 🥐 and rustic baguette 🥖🤗 (after coming here 4 Saturdays in a row)

Crispian Bakery is a great place to get pastries or coffee. The staff is sweet and super helpful. I went twice while on a four day trip. Both times the food was amazing and my lattes were delicious. My daughter can be a little shy to try new food and drinks. The staff there made her feel encouraged to try something out of her comfort zone and even said if she didn't like it they'd give her something else for free. I will be going again next time I'm in Alameda!

Cool place, however missing the dining experience. You can make your order by looking at the pictures posted outside in the window. Don’t forget to ask to warm up your order.

Beyond yummy grab-and-go baked goods, Crispian has made us two delicious custom birthday cakes for our kids with great decoration! Unlike many bakeries, they can take custom cake orders the week before, which saved me on one occasion. The baker/owner is very open to working with you on what you want. Our first cake had one layer of vanilla cake and one layer of chocolate cake with our choice of frostings inside and out. More recently (inspiring this review!), we had them substitute lemon curd instead of passion fruit in their chantilly cake and it was lovely -- our whole family raved about how light, moist, and flavorful it was, without being too sweet. Outside of special occasions, we love grabbing Crispian's sesame loaf when we're making soup for dinner.

today I saw Meaghan demonstrate an unbelievable about of patient with a customer that did not know the similarities of the product serve here. she explain and ensure that the customer understood the differences even thought that customer was super rude to her. I hope I see her again when I come in for my morning coffee and croissant. (highly recommend the Ham and cheese croissant, although a version without all the seeds would be nice to have available as well).

I loved going in there, the vibe is awesome, but more so was the very Helpful Meaghan. She was doing some stuff and dropped it all to make sure I wasn’t waiting in line for long. Thank you!

specialty croissant (almond, chocolate, strawberry) is nice! strawberry jam part is a bit too sweet for me, will get the almond one next time