Sweet Art Bakery

Nice café on Lower Londsdale. Coffe was okay, pastry selection was okay but nothing to really write home about.

I really like the ambiance of this place. Feels like a bit of Paris in North Van. The coffee is solid and I like the baking. Great little coffee date place. People are nice. Good changeup from the sbux.

The pastries aren’t bad, however the staff is extremely rude, they don’t speak a word of English and assume no one else does either. Average pastries+ rude staff = 1 star

I like it! the mozart cake and lasagna were very good. Why are European pastries so good? :D It’s so delicate and light! It really tempts me to get another pastries but will save it for next time :)

Oh Sweetart, I broke up with you long ago… Why do you keep trying to get back in my life? Stop trying to get my friends to like you and bring me your goodies. We are as done as yesterday.
Sure, you were really cute and looked genuine and unique, unlike all the hipsters these days who trend the un-​trends, and you could be really friendly too… but who isn’t in Vancouver, where people even say «I’m sorry» to inanimate objects they bump into?
The truth is, while your offerings looked appetizing and pretty, I realized quickly that you obviously couldn’t cook… and your coffee was always burnt and sludgy… and baby, that’s a deal breaker. I’m never sitting down for tea with you and tasting your old fridge tasting sweets. I wasn’t smiling, I was just so sugar high, I felt the diabeetus coming on.
Take care hon. Maybe you’ll find someone who can change you for the better.

* Questions *
— Looking for an espresso from a machine running way too hot so that it produces a terribly bitter and burned? This may be your place — the hottest espresso I have ever experienced and also one of the most bitter and burned tasting. Photo:
— Looking for an apricot sable sans apricot that is shaped like a hamantaschen? This was all triangular cookie and a slight hint in one small bite of a remnant of a scrap of apricot preserve. Photo:
— Four star average on Unilocal?Really?
Bah.

One of the best French bakeries in Vancouver.

A lovely place to sit and chat over a cup of tea or coffee. Lots of seating an staff that doesn’t seem to mind customers lingering.
The pastries can be hit or miss, but the one thing that never fails is their take-​and-​bake croissants. Leave frozen croissants out overnight to defrost and rise and then pop them into a hot oven in the morning… a fancy breakfast treat that makes the kitchen smell incredible!

i once had a cake in a graduation party and it was THE MOST AMAZING chocolate mocha cake i ve ever had that i forced to ask the host where they got it from. the answer; Sweet Art on Lonsdale. anyways, the «Art» was SO tasty that i made my boyfriend to make a trip there and get something else from there (all the way from Coquitlam!). This place has never disappointed me!
Another time we were with a friend looking for a place to sit and chat, and we didnt want to go to Blenz or SB; we were driving down Lonsdale. I then suggested this place and boyyy… we had such an amazing french coffee with sweet treats… the place is so cozy for a gatherings of 2 to 4 ppl (2 to 3 actually, not more). since we were three, we took the couch and enjoyed the amazing aromatic coffee with pastries. Its bathroom was very clean and nicely decorated too!

There are two really good little bakeries with a block of each other on Lower Lonsdale — but Sweet Art is my favourite. I love how when I try to walk past it, the smell of fresh pastry follows me, like the smoky fingers in an old cartoon, crooking themselves into my nostrils and turning me around.
Inside, the display cases are filled with pastries: tartlets, cookies, eclairs… The staff is French, the coffee is strong and organic, and they have a cozy little patio facing the street where I can enjoy my treats, watch the world go by and listen to the wind in the trees. I spoil myself here!

This bakery is amazing. They are so versatile. I like to go there for coffee and real french pastries — they are the only place this side of the Atlantic ocean where I’ve found chocolate croissants that measure up to the pain au chocolat I sampled in France. But Sweet Art is good for much more than that. They also make the most delectable and beautiful cakes to order. I order their white chocolate and raspberry mousse cake every year for my birthday cake, and I will order my wedding cake from them when I get married as well.