Sunday Bakeshop - Oakland

Excellent bakery with delicious, beautifully produced pastries and cookies. Highly recommend the custard topped, strawberry jam filled pastry and the Ube croissant. The matcha cream filled pastry was a little overwhelmed by the sweetness and abundance of the topping, but if you have a sweet tooth like me, it's heaven. The flavor of the topping was still very good and it looked gorgeous! My husband was disappointed by the ham and cheese croissant and said he thought it could have used a little more filling.If you are familiar with Bake Sum on Lakeshore, you will know what to expect in terms of flavors, textures and types of pastries available.Parking can be tricky in this neighborhood but side streets are a good option.Parking: Use side streets

Unique pastries with an Asian twist. The atmosphere is aesthetic and clean. The place is geared towards younger crowd with their cute decor for social media postings. I felt a little rushed since their was a line behind me and I couldn't take a good look at the items available so I grabbed a few that caught my eye. Pastries are cute but I have had better pastries elsewhere.

Highly recommend the char siu danish. If you get it warmed up though just be careful it started to leak into the bag. Everything was so flakey and delicious.

Really great and unique pastries with Asian flavors. Ordering was easy and I liked that everything was displayed and labeled clearly to make ordering easier because you will be having choice paralysis.Croissants really good! They also sell baked goods from Neighbor Bakery, so 2 birds with one stone. Both the Ube and Pistachio twice baked croissants were excellent and had the nice almond topping that I love. The pastry was delicious, well laminated, and good quality better imo than the pastry from Neighbor Bakery which is also excellent.I loved the passion fruit madeline and finacier here. Both high quality and well flavored versions. My nitpicks I've tried a lot of pastries b/c we're so lucky in the Bay in the wealth of excellent options, so the opinions below are personal and subjective to my taste preferences! Better to try for yourself and decide : .The flavoring/filling could be slightly more generous in my opinion and wasn't strong enough flavored for my palette. The ube flavoring could also be stronger, though in general most of the Ube items in the Bay tastes watered down in the same way that matcha does, so I won't be ordering this one again. The pistachio had a nice layer of raspberry jam that complimented well with the pistachio, but again I wish there was a bit more filling to croissant ration, and that the pistchio cream tasted more strongly of pistachio.The mochi cakes were not my favorite renditions of mochi cakes because of their consistency, harder and less flavorful than Third Culture or CA Bakehouse. The thai tea flavor was too weak for my palette, in general I do wish the Asian flavor profiles were stronger.I also got a strawberry/matcha cube pastry from Neighbor Bakery. The strawberry and matcha cream was generous and well balanced. I loved the flavor of the strawberry cream, it tasted like real strawberries. The croissant itself was not as umami as Sunday Bakeshop though. Appreciated being able to do a taste test side by side.I want to caveat this review with the fact that Bay Area baking is really top notch, I was shocked to discover that in Europe and other places in the states pastries rarely stand up to even our middling offerings, so my nit pickyness is subjective to the high bar that the bakers have set in the area. Thank you for creating so many delightful things for us to try! I also got a loaf of their black sesame kimchi sourdough which was excellent. The kimchi gave the bread a savory umami flavor profile I really enjoyed, and the sesame seed crust was generous and paired well with the flavor of the bread!

I had so much fun here and ordered way too much because everything is just so unique and different! If you're looking for unique pastries with Asian flavors, you came to the right place! Char siu croissant: 4/5 good flavor, never thought to combine char siu with flaky pastry yet here we are! It's a good fusion and unique pastry Mushroom tart: 5/5 surprise favorite, I loved the mushroom and cheese, great pastry! Strawberry bun: 4/5 tasted like strawberry pocky cream but I like that haha but it's a bit difficult to eat! Passionfruit guava bun: 5/5 also hard to eat but excellent curd, great flavor, star of the show for me! Oolong chocolate cake: subtle oolong flavor but a delicious small cake that was a great dessert at the end of the day! Chocolate Hazelnut Twice-Baked Croissant: 3/5 great flavor but actually a little almost dry? Maybe twice baked was too much for this one. Milk tea blondie was only okay. 2/5 More of a brown sugar caramel kind of taste rather than milk tea, so meh.