Veronica’s Bakery & Cafe

We came for breakfast with a party of 14. We were easily accomodated, and we sat in a play room so that our kids could play. There was basketball, a play set, tv’s, and air hockey. The kids loved it! Plus, the food was AMAZING! We all had different items (pastries and savories). The servings were huge, authentic, and tasty.

It’s called bakery but there were only 2 sliced cake options… One was like square cream cake and the other one was croissant cone filled with creams and rainbow sprinkles.
It was Mehhh… Tasteless and not presentable. Will never come back to purchase «bakery» from there.

disgusting. the desserts I had were hard and flavorless. waste of time and money. I wish I had gone elsewhere. also, you have to spend a $ 5 minimum to use a credit card

Good food. Very authentic feel but bring a friend that is fluent in Spanish.

Hmm, I don’t really want to give this place two stars, but three seems a tad too nice. I’ve been here more than once, and my visits were inconsistent on the good things, and consistent on the bad things. It really is too bad.
You can definitely tell that this place is not your typical westernized restaurant; the wait is quite long to get your food, even if there is no line. While that is not a plus in my book, it makes me think that some items may be made fresh. But it could also mean that the cooks are just plain slow and have no concept of waiting customers. There is also a definite preference for those who may be regulars or who can speak Spanish fluently. It’s not like non-​Spanish speakers are treated badly, but they aren’t treated with the same level of friendliness that others are.
It’s also hard to judge when some food items are ready for your taking. For example, one time I went for a takeout order, and I wasn’t notified that my food had been sitting on the counter for 10 minutes. Communication and the process need to improve. Secondly, you could order tamales which are on the counter next to the register, but you won’t be handed them unless you remind the girl that you actually ordered them. By the way, these chicken tamales, while they have a good flavor, are lukewarm. Pretty disappointing.
The pechuga (chicken) was decent — it was a huge portion of meat and rice, with corn tortillas, and a small portion each of beans, salad, and pickled onions. I typically don’t eat a lot, so this entrée was way too large for me (too much rice mainly).
Now on to the very popular tres leches cake — one time, it was pretty much the best I’ve ever had! Another time, it was dry and unsatisfying. Inconsistency = not desirable. On the other hand, ask for the horchata (rice drink) and the plantain empanada; they are delicious!
Random — the place is very large on the inside. Numerous tables with dark finishings make it modern and clean. Parking can be tight, but there are several spots in the lot. Lastly, lack of a clear menu in person and online is annoying, but prices are great.
Bottom line: if you have time to spend and are looking for a meat-​heavy dish (that isn’t Asian or Middle Eastern), Veronica’s may be able to help.

The baleadas with bistec and avocados were amazing!!! I have yet to try their other items on the menu. The tres leches is also very impressive!

When you come here you will have to wait awhile for your food after ordering but it is worth the wait as I’m 99% sure that it is made to order. The tortillas are homemade and the best I’ve had in a long while. Oh and I didn’t get to try any baked goods but they all looked amazing!

The food is delicious. !!! nice people and good prices I recommend this place if you wanna eat good Spanish food.

Called to order a cake and nobody spoke English! How do you run a business like that? Would not recommend this place at all!

Having always been curious about tres leches cake, I was excited to try it at Veronica’s after reading my fellow Unilocalers’ reviews about it. We decided to also grab some dinner while we were at it.
It’s a small place but we had no problems finding a seat after we placed our order. My grilled chicken plate (which comes with a little salad, beans, rice, and some picked veggies) was delicious. The chicken was nicely grilled (a touch tough though) and I even enjoyed the beans although they were slightly too salty as it cooled. The hubster ordered the mixed fajita plate, which came with a few fresh tortillas. The fajita mix was in a tomato-​y sauce, which was different than other places we’ve had fajitas, but they were also pretty good. The star of the dinner was the cake though — a light dusting of cinnamon on top, a small pool of the various milks as it sat out while I finished my dinner, and one happy lady. Will I be back for the food? Yes. Will I be back for the cake? Hell yes.

Great friends Tracey and Guille told us about how good this Salvadoran place is, and trusting Guille’s heritage and taste, my wife and I ventured to this local eatery to find out for ourselves. We stopped in recently to find that they have a nice selection of Salvadoran dulces (sweets) and baked goods as well as an elaborate selection of Salvadoran eats! With a clean and well kept store front, attentive staff and fairly prompt food prep time, we were considerably impressed with the offerings we tried. My wife had the Lomo Saltado, consisting of typically seasoned and marinated beef chunks with fries, and white rice, which was very, very tasty, fresh and well presented… and I had the Lomo a lo Pobre (poor man’s beef meal), which consisted of a very tender thinly sliced flame-​grilled flank steak, fries, white rice, chopped lettuce and 2 fried eggs, and flanked by two tender fried sweet plantains! Amazingly they offer pretty substantial portions on their dishes — making the their use of disposable dishes awkward and the plastic flatware flimsy while trying to cut into both pupusas and steak! That being the only major drawback we found, I guess this is one way they keep their prices low, both meals were under $ 10 each, Wow and Terrific! Although their pupusas are good, they’re not the best in the area, but after the meals we enjoyed, all said and done, it is well worth the visit. We’ll definitely be occasional patrons.

This place was alright. We only went there for a slice of cake since it was next to a restaurant we just ate at. The cake was pretty good.

Veronica’s is next to the backdoor of Hard Times Springfield. The café had large plate windows overlooking the parking lot and street. The crowd was mostly moderate and of Latin decent. The tables were clean and the service was quick. The food… was really fresh. I ordered the steak flantas platter, 3 pupusas beef, and one tres letcha. The flantas were perfect, the steak grilled to perfection. The accompanying salad was unbelievable with a creamy dressing. The red cabbage salad had a nice hint of spice. The quarter of avocado was perfectly matured and the rice and refried beans were moist and fresh.
Veronica’s tres leche cake was stellar and probably the selling point of this café.

I only got the tres leches, but it was super good! The people behind the counter were quite nice too.
So. get the tres leches!

Veronica’s is a hole-​in-​the wall bakery and café that I was lured to in search of tres leches that I didn’t have to make myself.
The tres leches was quite good. For $ 3 bucks, patrons get a generous square/​slice of cake (enough for two) topped with a maraschino cherry. This place is safe for me. When I make tres leches, I eat the whole cake. Coming to Veronica’s instead just lets me have one slice.

Attention: Hole-​In-​The-​Wall Lovers — — You want to be here.
Why? Because their Tres Leches is out of this freaking world. You don’t just tell yourself you’re only going to take a bite and save it for later. Oh, no. You will engulf that sweet square of milk soaked perfection right then and there. You will be licking the container and paper wrapper (hey, don’t judge! Everyone has a bit of fat kid in them!) It’s spongy, served cold, and topped with a perfect little maraschino cherry. Shall I go on? I think I will. It’s so good that, I, who avoids eating more than a bite of any type of sweet had to actually talk myself out of going there every time I would drive by.
Then, one day, I caved. I caved and justified the purchase of their cake by ordering their grilled chicken breast with a salad — which was pretty decent for the price.
So their tres leches is a must, but check out the many other cakes and sweet snacks they have to offer, too!
It’s a small place (but not cramped) in the back of Springfield Plaza. Decent prices and Latin American eats!

I went to my buddy’s house in Springfield and without looking on Unilocal,we went out searching for food. No, we didn’t get food at Veronica’s Bakery, but the horrible Flame Kabob place next door… yuck. More on that in another review.
Anyway, after eating some «Afghan food.» I quote that because it was very mediocre (straight-​from-​the-​can) Afghan food, we saw this little bakery next door. It was pretty much filled with only Hispanics… possibly Salvadoreans or Mexicans (that’s just a guess,” which was good because it’s a bakery with different types of Hispanic food.
Anyway, the lady behind the counter was super nice explaining what all the different desserts were since we weren’t familiar with them. In the end, we got this nice little three milk cake (I forget the Spanish words for it), but it was delicious and reasonably priced.
I look forward to coming here for more desserts when I’m in the area.

Excellent prices. Excellent variety of food. Must try the entire menu!

I first heard about this place on the latin radio station, they were doing their big Grand Opening promo on that day. Honestly, I pretty much ignored the place ever since even though I live close by and drive pass it all the time. I tend to shy away from some of the local Central American eateries only because their menus tend to be all about the same. This is unfortunate because I’ve traveled to Central America and the food there is delish!
I decided to go and check out the place and see what they had to offer. As soon as you walk in there’s a glass counter with all the pastries on one side and on the other side they had food warmer for hot food. I went in pretty late at night so they didn’t have anything in the warmers, which I thought was a good thing since you never know how long some of that food has been sitting there. I asked the young lady about the different types of bread pudding and she gave me a quick rundown of the list. The one that caught my interests was the «puddin de pan con bananas» (banana bread pudding) so I order a slice of that one to go. The slice was a huge and it tasted really good, I must admit I was impressed! Now, I just hope they don’t try to get a beer and wine license and pack the place with drunks, and «hooter» waitresses.

Where a regular person sees «Grand Opening» and thinks ‘hey, I should check that place out’, a Unilocaler sees that sign and thinks ‘FTR FTR OMG FTR!!!’.
And that is how I came to be lunching at Veronica’s today.
Located on the backside of Springfield Plaza (near the rear door to Hard Times), I would probably never have happened upon this place if I hadn’t been running an errand next door. My first blush having handed over $ 9.90 for the Flauta platter and a bottle of water was ‘Um a tad pricey’. (There isn’t a price to be seen anywhere in the place for anything so you’ll have to ask if you want to know any.)
But when my piled plate came and I began to tuck in, after one bite of chicken flauta it was ‘Holy cow! That’s tasty. Going to have to come here and try some other stuff.’ Not often one bite of food at a new place will do that to me. My platter consisted of 3 crispy chicken flautas, rice, a little refried beans, pico de gallo, and a salad.
After having to stare at the pastry case the entire time I ate, I couldn’t resist and went back up to the counter to get a deliciously flaky palmier to have on the way home. Oh so delectable — who cares if I got covered in puff pastry crumbs.
A very satisfying lunch.
And I will be back.