Van Bakery

Made my daughters cake for her 4^th birthday. It was delicious and very cute. Love their pastries and the mother in law cake.

If you love pastries or any other sweets, this is where you should be headed! I don’t know where to start. I’ve probably tried most of their pastries and have no complaints! They’re all so delicious. Not to mention how clean this place is! Everyone here is so helpful and sweet. And the best part is, how inexpensive everything is! I also had them do my brothers engagement cake. Two words. Beautiful, delicious!

Very good Bakery. They all are all very delicious. Workers work very politely. I accept orders of any cake !

The BEST Baklava…
Rich & Moist with lots of pistachios.
The top was flaky with a drizzle of sweet syrup.
Sweet PERFECTION!!!

Everything is Surprisingly Delicious!

They are great! I get they’re Napoleon’s for work all the time and they are a hit. The place is always clean and full of pastries. They have beautiful custom cakes. Also, they have really nice customer service– always making sure you get exactly what you came for. Definitely check them out.

The pastries are amazing, I’ve been coming here since I was a little girl. I just moved back to LA and I did my first visit to van bakery. Walking in it smelled very good. Pastries are the second best I’ve ever had. But for some reason I was pulled back this time by the behavior of the cashier. As me ans my husband were looking. from pastry to pastry, looking for perashki, when we asked for it she coldly told us they didn’t sell it there, as we were ordering we felt uncontrollable and annoyed at her judging gaze. On the fact that I was married to a non-​Armenian. I would appreciate better customer service but the food is amazing.

Very clean, nice, the workers are very polite and greet you everytime you go. I have tried many places but no place can top this. Everything is freshly made, and most important tastes great!
Parking gets a little bit packed but overall you will find a place to park eventually :). I deffinantly recommend anyone that likes sweets atleast try this place out. Ive always been going here and will not go anywhere else.

I love love love the dented, classic teapot of sugar syrup that the woman pours over the tray of baklava once you order it. I only wish you could buy smaller orders than the tray.

I’m not much of an Armenian dessert lover but the family likes it. It is always fresh and it never disappoints. The service here is only great if you are good to them. I love that they don’t have fake bull crap smiles on their face. They are real. The «Zonkanch» though looks weird it actually tastes amazing according to my mom. The mini fruit tarts are actually really good if you catch them fresh, I caught them when they were fresh and yes I ate them and yes they were delicious.

I have been coming here for many years & there the best Armenian Bakery in Hollywood, great customer service good people & variety of choices, yum yum

I have gone to a couple gatherings/​parties where the hosts served these delicious rectangular shaped cakes that look like Tiramisu but was more like mocha flavored and another was more honey flavored. They keep it in their fridge with the other cakes. Too bad they don’t sell it in smaller portions. I went there to buy some pastries (1 large Baklava for only $ 1.50– but it was a bit too sweet and no pistachios, small walnut crème cookies– a bit dry). It would’ve been wise for me to ask them what was good. I will come back to get cake for parties in the future.

Horrible cakes! So dissappointing.

I used to love walking in here when I was younger to grab some Armenian sweets with my friend and his super Armenian grandparents. However, I visited recently, and it just didn’t feel the same. The warm, welcoming bakery I remember was instead cold and uncomfortable. The people behind the counter looked a little like they didn’t want me in there, and virtually tried to get me in and out. I bought one cheoreg and called it a day. I like browsing through bakery goods… the more I browse, the more I end up taking home… they could have made a killing, with my sweet tooth! But alas… it just wasn’t in the stars. Too bad. Their cheoregs are pretty good.

Best éclairs and napoleons anywhere. The nepoleons with walnuts are incredible.

Everything at Van Bakery is AMAZING! The cakes, pastries, cookies, baklava! I don’t live in WeHo anymore, so I don’t get to indulge as often as in the past, but it is always worth the side trip to Van (pronounced Vaun, not van).
The sugar/​butter cookies are heaven on earth! Light, fluffy morsels of sugary, light air. They melt in your mouth!
The owner and employees have always been extremely nice to me, maybe a little shy. I take it that they prefer to speak Armenian, which I don’t, so I keep it short and sweet, for some of my favorite sweets.
Folks, you’re not going to the spa or salon to be pampered for hours. You’re hopping into Van for great goodies. So smile, grab your favorite desserts (be sure to check out the stuff in the frige) and move on! You’ll be amazed at the goodness they are serving up at Van.

This is my go to place for fresh Armenian pastries whenever I’m in the area. In fact, many times I make a trip down to Hollywood just for their napoleons and eclairs. We’ve frequented many of the Van Bakeries in the area but this location is by far the best. Best service, best quality (always fresh), and biggest portions. My family has been coming here for well over 11 years and not once have we left dissatisfied with the service or their pastries.
Bravo Van Bakery!

I love their pastries, especially cheese rolls and mrjnabuyn!!! Soooo freakin good… the only think that would have made this place even better is the sense of urgency for their employees, they lag way too much, especially when there are 4 people in line!!!
I’m rating it for the food and not for the service!!!

The shop girl here is one of the scariest women I have ever met in my life, but goddamnit if they don’t make good sweet bread.
My boyfriend’s Armenian grandma sent us here once to pick up her weekly supply of cheoreg (the aforementioned sweet bread, to be said in an impeccable Armenian accent with an emphasis on the ‘che’ and the ‘reg’). We’d eaten cheoreg from Van Bakery many a time before, and agreed to get it because we knew that grandma would share with us and, hey, there’s few things better in life than free anything, but especially free sweet bread (and besides, she’d probably let him keep any change that was left over.)
When we got in, the shop girl ignored us. She served the next customer. She ignored us. She served the customer after that. She ignored us. Finally, she had to serve us.
What happened was the scariest customer service experience ever.
She didn’t say a word to us during the entire transaction. Instead, she stared.
It went kind of like this:
Alex: I’m here to pick up an order of cheoreg for the Aslanians.
[silence.]
Shopgirl: [stares.]
She stared at me, boring holes of hatred into the very core of my being. It was terrifying.
She didn’t tell us how much the box of cheoreg cost. No, my boyfriend just handed over the ten dollar bill his grandma had given him, and Shopgirl made perfect change for it, all while staring at me. She did not look down at the cash register once. It would have been kind of cool had I not been about to pee myself in fright.
I think I walked out backwards, just to make sure that she wouldn’t shoot me in the back.
Upon exiting, my boyfriend explained to me that some more traditional Armenians become offended when other Armenians date outside of the culture, but admitted that he had never seen anything quite like that before.
And, dude, he’s only half Armenian. I can only imagine what she would have done to my (very pale, Irish Danish) ass if he was full Armenian.
Actually, I don’t want to imagine it.
Still, even though I feared for my life by the end of the visit, everything worked out okay. But next time I’m waiting in the car.
Negative eighteen stars for the scary shop girl, positive twenty for the cheoreg, for a total of two stars.

This location is much much much better than the one in Glendale.
Highlights of the place:
1. Honey-​cake
2. Bird’s milk cake
3. Ghadeif (the angel hair with walnuts or milk-​cream with sugar syrup)
4. The syruped sour dough fried sweets
Speaking of experience for sure you’re going to love the first 3 at least.