Pao De Mel Bakery

The food over here is good of course nothing compared to the bakeries of Boston. The place was clean and the staff was friendly. I do wish they had a larger selection of pastries and breads but for being the only Brazilian bakery in the area it is what it is. I will definitely return after the holidays hopefully to find a larger selection.

Went to NY and decided to head up to NJ, stopped by this place to eat some Brazilian food/snacks, which I love, but was very disappointed. That’s not what Brazilian cuisine looks or tastes like. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m from Massachusetts and there’s a lot of Brazilian bakery/restaurants, so they tend to be really competitive, which makes the food taste much better… but this place? Such a disrespect to the Brazilian culinary, not only the dishes but also the snacks, were not fresh at all, tasted like something made 2 days before. And they also made fun of my friend who’s a vegetarian, she doesn’t eat anything with meat but can eat dairy, when she asked them about options without meat, the lady just laughed and said she was only able to eat salad. Which is stupid since we clearly said “no meat”, not “no cheese”. Me and my friend both speaks Portuguese and we are very used to Brazilian places, she knows that not everything has meat. Anyways, that lady had not manners, it was really disrespectful. Food was cheap, but still not worth the money, we were starving and we didn’t even finished our meal, because it was bad. Service was ok, until that lady opened her mouth to say that about my vegetarian friend. Overall just a bad experience. Before I went there, I read this review online about them, and it said “best Brazilian bakery in the area”, and now all I can think is “if they’re the best, I don’t ever wanna go see the other ones”. I guess they can fool people that doesn’t know how real Brazilian food tastes like.