Alwatan Bakery

Loved the experience! Great fresh bakery items at a very affordable price. Parking available and very helpful staff. I would highly recommend this establishment. Appreciate the hospitality.

Good over priced bread. I go there to get savory pastries and bread. Really good, no additives added so everything is baked fresh and should be consumed right away or within two days, it is very over priced though. I still like it. No seating available. It is an old style bakery. You buy your bread and leave.

Is by far the best I’ve ever been to. It is amazing. Delicious. Perfect place to get a cake designed or beautiful little cookies. It’s a little bit pricey but well worth it.

Alwatan Bakery is a true gem! Their manakeesh is out of this world — perfectly baked, soft yet crispy edges, and topped with the most flavorful za’atar, cheese, or lahm b’ajin 😩❤️ Every bite takes me straight back to the homeland. You can taste the authenticity, the tradition, and the love in every piece. The dough is always fresh, the ingredients are high quality, and the smell alone will make you fall in love! 😍🥖🌿 The bakery is always warm and welcoming, just like the people who work there. Alwatan Bakery doesn’t just serve food — they serve memories and comfort. Thank you for keeping our culture alive through your amazing manakeesh — wallah you’re the best! 🇵🇸🙏💕

10/10 bakery. Meat pies are halal. Pita is fresh everyday. Always have a line out the door but they move fast.

The service is the worst part of this place. Every time I’ve been they are extremely rude & short with me. The guy working yesterday around 12pm refused to answer my questions about the cookies & didn’t want to sell me any. We got the meat manaeesh & it tasted like taco meat definitely not seasoned in a traditional way. Will not be coming back.

The place is not the best looking but the breads are very tasty and fresh. Service is fast depending on the time of day you go you just pick what breads you want and they package it.

We have been shopping at this bakery for years. The exact authentic delicious flavor every time. One of my favorite mediterranean bakeries in the Midwest. We love the: cheese pie, zataar pie, spicy spinach pie, sfiha, and spicy chicken pie. Very tasty and fresh traditional pita bread. Definitely worth the drive from Des Moines, IA. We can’t wait to stop by again.

One of the best middle eastern bakeries around. If you are in the area, go ahead and grab a meat pie or spinach pie! They bake everything fresh and use great ingredients. Thank you Alwatan for your great food and service!

Freshest bread around! This place reminds me of one of the bakeries in the Middle East. I drive two hours twice a month to visit this place and it's worth it!

Very fresh, still warm, delicious pita. Meat pies were very tasty. Cheese pies were also good. Fig cookies were delicious. I wouldn't hesitate to stop if anywhere near. Best pita I've had in years.

Great fresh bread, be prepared for it to be super packed. It's a grab and go kinda thing

Great bread, always fresh great verity of baked goods the flavor and freshness never fails. I love the big pita bread always fluffy and consistent in the taste.

Yum, hot soft & fluffy pita. Delicious Zaater Maneish. Worth driving from Bourbonnais.

My Reviews/Ratings are fair and non-bias. STAFF- Fair & Friendly, they take care of the regulars. I don't live around this area, but I make a great along with my family for these pies. PRICES- Compared to all the bakery's around this community, they seem to have fair prices, for it's quantity & quality. This bakery has been around for a while, they built a great relationship with their community & the prices haven't scared anyone away. This is a successful establishment. FOOD- Because of the long distant commute I make, I always get 4-5 pies of each; meat, cheese, spinach, chicken, zatar, etc... You have to get there early to catch the fresh batch! Overall, they do not disappoint and continue to maintain their quality in baking these delicious pies.

Amazing!!! Always fresh bread,top service.! The staff is extremely respectful,helpful.. I would definitely recommend must try the cookies,fresh bread,they have delicious spinach, pies!!! superb!!!

Great selection of Middle Eastern baked goods and everything thing was delicious. I wished they had the names of the breads in Arabic and English as well to not confuse costumers. But everything was delicious.

My favorite pita bread in America . Always fresh, perfectly chewy and can be frozen without degradation.

The. Best. Pita. Ever. Delicious, warm, fluffy and just awesome. I buy and freeze them and they heat up so well! The falafel is fresh and delicious as well Honestly everything is so good.

If you need any bread or bakery items, this is the place. They have all the meat, spinach, cheese, and other pies you can think of.

The service was great, they're Very friendly, generous. Their bakery is freshly made, taste from home.

Probably one of the best in the area. We traveled about an hour twice to get some of their creations. Bread, mana2ish (cheese is the best) and many others... It is very traditional so get ready to eat without looking :) if you cannot eat food that was done with bare hands, this place is not for you.

Horrible customer service, they sold me burt coconut cake and tried covering it up with katar. It's during the Holy month of Ramadan and their cheating their customers. I called to complain and the man on the phone pretty much said its my fault for not inspecting the sweets prior to me buying it. Why would I think my Muslim brother is going to cheat me?

Our favorite middle eastern bakery! My in-laws who live in Iowa stockpile their giant pita pockets each time they're in town because it's pretty much the only bread my FIL will eat! I'm not exaggerating when I say that they will buy 15-20 packets of the bread each time they come for a visit once a month. Alwatan has plenty of sweet and savory snacks as well. From falafel to meat and veggie friendly sandwiches, cookies and more. The one thing you must remember is that the bakery is wildly popular and in order to maintain freshness and the best quality to their customers, the bakery only makes what they will sell each day. That means that many things sell out, so procrastination doesn't work in your favor here. It's best to go early to make sure you get everything you want. Also, there's nothing quite like munching on freshly baked bread!

Went shopping and got a little hungry so went with friends recommendation and grabbed some snacks from here. If you want low carb this is not the place to go but if you want great taste, stop in here. We have the spice meat pies, chicken pies, and spinach pies. Also had a few other baked items. By far the best item was the spinach pie. I didn't have any of the desserts but they did had a good variety of baked cookies.

One of the best bakers of middle eastern goods in greater Chicagoland area. I enjoy eating all their items, specifically love the Zatar bread, date filled sesame sticks called Sananmaria and of course their spinach and meat pies are just as good. Definitely take home some of their bread and freeze at home, warm it up in the oven and it's just as good!

I've been coming to this bakery for years. Their bread and baked goods are outstanding. The two stars here represents my disappointment with the bakery in not enforcing Covid related guidelines for mask wearing by employees at the counter. When counter staff are serving customers from open trays without a mask in the middle of pandemic, it makes you really wonder about the bakery's general health policies in general.

One of my favorite middle eastern spots, it's a bakery. They always have the best wheat pita bread, and date cookies. Prices are not bad, they give you good amounts too. Try the pies! Spinach, chicken roll, and spicy beef are some of the best ones in my opinion. With all the bakeries around, they out do the rest. You can't go wrong buying here!! Staff is really nice too!

This place makes the best khobiz ishrak the state! I live in Ramallah and had a hard time finding Ishrak bread that is thin and stretchy the way it is made overseas. I will never purchase this type of bread from any other bakery excpet for this one again. I was so excited when I ate from it today. It was perfect! I can't wait to try out everything else they bake.

Had lunch across the street and saw this and the Nut House had great reviews. This place was great and I would definitely make it a point to come here. Everything from fresh pitas, awesome assortment of cookies with sesame seeds which I love, dates, and jams. My favorite was the flat sesame cookies. Also got some zaatar bread, spicy meat, & spinach pies. Biggest surprise, the spicy meat pie, was made spicy with giardiniera! Although I wasn't familiar with most of the selection, it was fun to get 1 or 2 of everything and the staff was super nice!

We purchased some of their pita bread from Al Bawadi grill across the street from the bakery because we had it with our appetizers and loved it, then came to realize that the bread came from this bakery, according to the bag. It was hands down the BEST pita bread we've ever tasted...perfect fluffiness, yet not too "chewy". Highly recommend this bakery's bread to others. We plan on going back to buy more bread from here as well as sample other treats!

One of the best bakeries. It's always busy, so you know the turn over is fresh. Great spinach pies. Get some ma'amoul while you're there.

Wow amazing place. Fresh pitas , the jalapeño topping pita bread is delicious. Friendly staff. Will def go there again

The best in Chicago! Great service! Workers are gentlemen! And they always give my kids something for free! I never buy from anyone else! They have the freshest bread! If you pick out an old bag, they will tell you they have a fresh batch coming out! They are the most honest and hardworking bakery I've been to! Will never stop buying from them. I really cannot say anything bad about them.