{"id":1150,"date":"2011-09-17T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2012-01-04T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:26:12","slug":"swiss-delices-bakery-castro-valley-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2011\/09\/swiss-delices-bakery-castro-valley-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Delices bakery – Castro Valley – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I got a $20 voucher for $10 for Swiss Delices fine bakery & pastry<\/a> through GotDailyDeals.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I hadn’t tried the bakery before, but it got fairly good reviews<\/a> on Yelp.\u00a0 After having tried a couple of their offerings, my conclusion is that it is fairly good, but overpriced.<\/p>\n

Once I got to the bakery I realized that the voucher was only good for “morning pastries” (e.g. danishes and scones), bread and full cakes.\u00a0 Neither the beautiful looking individual dessert cakes (~$4) or the cookies (75-cents) were included.\u00a0 That was a pity because that’s what I was most interested in getting.\u00a0 We ended up getting a dozen cookies to take with us to an event, and a small chocolate mousse cake\u00a0to enjoy yourselves.\u00a0 Cakes start at $28, so even with a voucher you end up paying $18 + tax for what is a relatively small cake.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed both the cookies and the cake but I wasn’t awed by either.\u00a0 The cookies (peanut butter and chocolate chip) were a bit dry, though they had a good flavor.\u00a0 The same can be said about the cake, though the mousse did provide needed moisture.\u00a0 It was very chocolaty, my oldest daughter enjoyed it but my youngest didn’t like it.\u00a0 As good as it was, I much prefer the triple chocolate mousse cake from Safeway.<\/p>\n

Swiss Delices uses organic flours, real sugar and free range eggs, which of course ads to the cost.\u00a0 In all, I’ll go again because I have another voucher, and if I lived in Castro Valley I’d buy one of the individual desserts to try them out, but I wouldn’t otherwise go out of my way to get something there.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

I returned to Swiss Delices in December just before my voucher expired (though it turns out that vouchers don’t expire in California).\u00a0 I was planning to get a cake to serve with Christmas Eve dinner<\/a>, but the ones they had were all around $38 and I knew they wouldn’t be worth it.\u00a0 Instead, I got a bunch of morning pastries.\u00a0 My favorite were the cream cheese (or was it custard?) danishes, they were very flavorful.\u00a0 The cinnamon rolls were good, but a bit dry, while their bread pudding was too heavy for my taste.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in giving them a try, you can get a $10 voucher for $5 on Valpak<\/a>.\u00a0 This voucher seems to cover all types of pastries.<\/p>\n

Swiss Delices
\n20669 Santa Maria Ave.
\nCastro Valley, CA
\n510-881-8669<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.swissdelices.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Marga’s Restaurant Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I got a $20 voucher for $10 for Swiss Delices fine bakery & pastry through GotDailyDeals.com.\u00a0 I hadn’t tried the bakery before, but it got fairly good reviews on Yelp.\u00a0 After having tried a couple of their offerings, my conclusion is that it is fairly good, but overpriced. Once I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[164,134,178],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cafes-bakeries-ice-cream","tag-cakes","tag-castro-valley","tag-cookies","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}