Maikel's Bakery - Tampa

My wife and I decided to support a business in our community. we went to the bakery, which looked absolutely fabulous. the eating looked delicious and we were thrilled to taste the Cuban sand that was that. we approached all 3 counters, and even though we were the only customers in the load, the employees never welcomed us, never recognized us and never made eye contact. I went to a counter where a young lady worked. she started approaching me and I finally thought, but instead of engaging me, she stood right over the counter of me, moved a few of the escapes and went away without saying a word. Finally, my wife approached another counter and asked if we could order. the young man shook his head, but never said a word. my wife, who is Cuban, smiled and spoke to him in Spanish. he made our sandwich, took our money and never said a word. not hello, thank you. now I understand why despite the delicious looking eating the place was empty. with so many options to choose for eating, why would they choose a place that they obviously do not appreciate business. of course we will not be back.

It's my second time and the service not good. The 1 time I went for breakfast. The hot latte coffee was cold and the Cuban sandwich was cold inside! I went today for lunch the Rice Frite with a few shrimp was cold too and expensive. The piece cake it wasn't fresh it was old....What a disappointment because everything looks very nice and there are many good places around to choose

I haven’t been here but home girl Ms. Smith down there need to relax maybe, you can learn some Spanish! Or is telling people what language to speak to racist? Wait maybe I should travel to Germany and complain cause there isn’t someone who speaks English or Spanish… I have an awesome idea, you know this program called google? Yeah, the one your on now… it has a really cool feature too it’s called translate it’s pretty powerful tool when your Intelligent enough to use it hope that help with feature Latino endeavors.

OMG what a bakery. We have not seen food this great and fresh since South America. So much to choose from. I don't understand why everyone is saying it's pricey. $1.50 for a great hand made empanada. It so reminders us of South America. So many caked and donuts. All fresh made there. There is a line for lunch or dinner. No wonder there is a crowd here at lunchtime. So glad to have you in the neighborhood. The staff is very friendly. This will be our go to stop.

Excellent staff. Huge variety of dessert. A little pricey.