Yas Bakery

Wow! What a variety of sweets! The lady owner was the sweetest and even gave us some treats when we were leaving. Amazing options of Iranian and Turkish goods which you don’t find often. From fresh produce to jarred, canned. Beautiful tea sets and even a butcher with the cuts of meat you cannot find in a store! It might not be the biggest store but it definitely has some of everything along with hospitable service! I will most definitely be back.

Dropping by Al Nakheel Market yesterday discovering it is permanently closed and having a great deal of spare time I decided to make the rounds about Vienna going to Wooden Bakery, Yas Bakery and Assal Market. I have relied on Al Nakheel Market and Assal Market for Middle Eastern/Mediterranean food, ingredients and spices for many years. Though I have known about Wooden Bakery and Yas Bakery yesterday was my first visit to them. Yas appeared to my eye to be about the same square footage as Al Nakheel was and each of them about half the size of Wooden and Assal. I thought Yas was well organized, well lit, clean and easy to shop. Yas has a wide variety of baked goods and pastries that is impressive. Yas variety and volume of baked goods and pastries is much, much greater than Wooden and Assal, and Al Nakheel when it was in business. I only bought pita bread and a slice of pistachio baklava at Yas because I went to Wooden first buying most of what I needed. The baklava was pretty good. It was moist and sweet, close to being cloying. Though moist the top layers of filo sheets were on the burnt side. My taste benchmark for quality baklava has been skewed by Fairfax Bakery which is an American and Mediterranean café and bakery. There is not a grocery or market component to it. The owners/bakers are Turkish and the aroma, flavor and texture of their baklava is off the hook. While Yas baklava is, in my opinion and taste experience good, Fairfax Bakery’s is elevated to superstar status for me.