Haydel's Bakery Review

Amazing service, and outstanding pastries!!! If you've never had the Kajun Kringle ... Do yourself a favor and go get one now.

Great bakery that has a wide selection from King Cakes, chocolate covered strawberries, Petit fours to Doberge cakes. Every thing is fresh and tasty.
Every Christmas we would order our Cajun Kringle They also throw in one pack of French Market Coffee and Chicory. You can't go wrong either way.

Haydel's Bakery is by far the best bakery in New Orleans!

This bakery is where you go treat yourself to the best baked deserts. I was a little disappointed at the Kringle size. Seems they chose to make them smaller than years past.

Paid for overnight delivery and did not get delivered for 4 days later! So do not trust them.

This place was terrible we order a king cake for This Saturday and they scheduled it for 2 months later then the lady is like umm no you said A Saturday 2 months from now like I don't know what I just said. DONT COME HERE

Has the absolute best sweets in New Orleans or should I say Louisiana

How do they expect costumers to be able to get in touch with them if they don't answer the phone or have voicemail when you call them? Anyone else have this issue? If they have a phone number than they should answer the phone not just leave their store hours!!!!

Lived in NOLA, so experienced Haydel's Bakery for 28 years. Had Haydel's doberge cakes for four birthdays each year for past 10 years. Then we move to Boston, so we ordered a doberge cake from Haydel's Bakery. It arrived next day delivery. Nicely packaged and well frozen. Delicious

Nice place. Great pastries and King cakes that don't cost an arm and a leg. The one thing that kinda threw me off was the amount of "don't do (X)" rules posted around the place. "Don't do (y) at the counter". "Don't sit here".

I know it's their house, their rules, but it just felt kinda strange seeing all those notices. It must happen very often to the point where the owners decided to post those notices up like that.

Still! A great place nonetheless. Friendly staff and all.

I ve heard a lot about Haydel s so decided to try a Cream Cheese King Cake. I can say that they produce a solid product. However, it wasn t quite to my taste/preference. For example, they place a small strip of cream cheese on top of the cake. It would have been nice if there was more cream cheese on the cake as a whole. The sugar on the top was way too much in my opinion. I feel that it could have been scaled back some and still be a good product. All of that to say, this is not my first choice but I d definitely buy again if it was a matter of convenience.

The smell of the place was amazing. The cleanliness was impeccable. The service was outstanding and the selection was to the point where I was glad I brought my truck!

Good place to visit, this review is specifically about their Hand Pies, Though not the old New Orleans favorite Hubig's, these hand pies are a great second. many people went in with the expectation that Haydel's were going to copy Hubig's pies, instead they came out with something just as good, may be Better.. Now before you start throwing rotten tomatoes at me. think about it, Hubig's is most likely not coming back anytime soon.

A very nice local bakery with a variety ranging from cookies to wedding cakes. The cookies I tried tastes delicious. I recommend it.

Best Bakery in town. Their doberge bites, Russian Cakes, Eclair, Shoe Soles, King Cakes, Petit fors, are so good!

Ordered a shower cake. The design on the cake was exactly what I asked for. Lost power and still got me my cake. Always ready as promised.

A smorgasbord of classic and creatve culinary treasures!!!

Classic old-school bakery. Awesome Louisiana tradition. Family- owned. Friendly.

I truly enjoyed my visit there, the people was very helpful and the food, rather the cakes very good.

We had a wedding cake tasting appointment with Ashley and she was very helpful and very professional, explaining everything in details.

Their baked goods may be wonderful but their website SUCKS!!!!
It is impossible to send king cakes or any other item via their website. It is totally not user-friendly. They make it impossible to change your billing information/address and have a really stupid circuitous way to input the address you want to send things to. Took me WAY too long to do the transaction and I had to call them three times and wait on hold to make sure the order was correct. The whole point of being able to order online is to AVOID having to call and wait on hold. So unless you like wasting your time I suggest you order your king cakes from another place, as I ended up doing after being thoroughly aggravated.

The best King Cake you can get. Period. We ve been ordering them from North Carolina for many years. Makes the holiday special.

The best Bakery in New Orleans to buy King cakes the best in town

Love this place! Best King Cakes in town also great pastries and custom cakes. Haydel's has been New Orleans tradition for over half a century. Try the chocolate turtles: they are addictive. Cookies are fresh and chewy not dried out and crumbly.

They always have my order ready, unlike other bakeries that cant seem to get it right! Never disappointed!

Great place for your wedding cake, groom cakes,birthday, and king cake

I know they are busy, but they rush you in like cattle. Slow down!!

On King's Day of 2018, I bought two king cakes. There was a long line but it moved fast. Well done Haydel's!

Just got my Vday King Cake, quick shipping, so yummy thank you! I cut into the baby first slice!

Best pastry there is the Praline Kris Kringle . Is shaped like a king cake. But the pastry is much lighter, almost like a croissant. Instead of having purple green and gold icing this has praline icing. I love the turtles also.

My favorite bakery. Just try to go in there and not buy anything! Everything looks and smells so good. Their cakes are my favorite.

We got a King Cake from here that was a hit with the family.

Looked so wonderful and staff was very friendly. Cupcakes and chocolate muffin was great.

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I love Haydel's Bakery! Everything is always so fresh and the staff is very friendly.

Staff was super friendly even though they were super busy, it was just a couple days before Mardi Gras. I bought a King Cake, king cake fudge and some chocolate covered pretzel rods. Everything was delicious! I wanted to go back before I left town but they had closed for holiday! I will definitely be back on my next visit!

Great service. Well organized. Best King Cake in Jefferson Parish

I'm not sure about this place. I think Dorignacs has better Russian Cake. The people seem nice enough.

Smells so fresh. Sweet so very good friendly people working

Great selection of desserts. Bought a king cake for my husband. It was wonderful!

Everyone has their favorite bakery in the New Orleans area, and there are heated debates about whose is best. However, for me, the hands-down winner, especially for birthday cakes, is Haydel's.

We've been getting a large, custom designed cake for my son's birthday party for the last 5 years. Every time, it turned out perfectly. We would call in advance and describe the theme and what we were looking for. They would take notes and give input and each time they nailed it. This year, we called to place our order and were rudely told that they don't do custom designs anymore. We could send pictures of a cake another baker designed and they would copy it, but because of past customers that were unhappy, the owners decided to no longer do custom designs. While it felt a bit sleazy stealing from other bakeries, we put together some pictures of what we had in mind and emailed it over. A different person called back and was much more pleasant. They went over what they were planning for the cake with a lot of great ideas that would have been perfect.
One of the pictures we had sent was a picture of the cake they did for us last year where we pointed out something that they did that we liked. Well when we picked up this year's cake, they had copied last year's entire cake exactly. Nothing to do with this year's theme. None of the details that they had told us they were planning. We picked the cake up the morning of the party, so no real options. We put our own topper on it, but we still had multiple people notice that it was the same cake from last year.
After this experience, we'll probably be going elsewhere going forward. It's a shame because this was our favorite bakery to visit when we're in town. When the topic came up at the party, there were multiple people who said they stopped going in the last year or two because quality has been dropping with the focus on expanding and marketing. It seems like they're more focused on the hand pie business now while their core product lineup is suffering. I'll be crossing my fingers that Hubig's opens back up so that Haydels can get back to business!

After being highly recommended chose this bakery and ordered king cakes well in advance with expedited shipping. King cakes never moved past "awaiting fulfillment" yet my credit card was immediately charged over $300 for 4 cakes and shipping. Tried to email, call and go through web site for contacting company and could not speak to anyone. Will not order from here again. If I could give "0" stars I would. Consider this one a 1/2 star review. Very disappointed in a company that has been in business several generations. Thankfully we were able to locate king cakes locally.

This is my favorite bakery!!! Everything is always fresh. The staff is very helpful and nice.

Staff and customers were very friendly and talkative like older times. Smell was very good taste good too..

What has happened to the almond croissants! I have been coming here for 32 years for Turtles and these croissants. They used to be big, puffy and overfilled with almond pastry cream. Today they were small, dark and had a very thin layer of pastry cream. Why does everyone have to sacrifice quality to make a little more money? From the volume I see going in and out of the bakery it doesn't appear you are hurting for business, so why diminish your reputation by downgrading an item you have been making for years? Sad.

Delicious and always reliable! I have never been disappointed when ordering from here! It's my mom's favorite birthday and king cake and we frequent here way too often!

The bakery smelt of heaven if you are into baked goods. The environment was clean and the cashiers are organized, helpful and professional. I am definitely going back there!

Large eclair, gross, not soft, filled with chocolate pudding, covered in chocolate with chocolate filling was too much

I love this place really good people and the sweetness of the true Louisiana taste

Yummy Cajun Kringle and eclairs. Would definitely go back to try other things.

Emily was nice and professional. She is very knowledgeable on the Wedding Cakes.

Haydel's cakes and pastries are the best in town. I wish I could box up the smell from inside the bakery and bring it home.

Great service fresh delicious pastries,and cakes something for everyone sweet tooth

I have been disappointed my last two visits with cakes and petite fours being dry. This was my favorite bakery. I'm not sure what's going on with them. Service is always prompt and friendly, but the product is not up to their old standard.

The best period. Cakes, desserts, a gem of a bakery. A new orleans original

Ahhhh the smell.... mmmmmm this place is really good! The cakes and other pastries are great! My absolute favorite king cake but the lines can get long during that time of year.

It's okay . I just don't think their stuff is as special as people say.