Delight Pastry in Old Town Pasadena is a cozy, family-run bakery offering exquisite, handcrafted pastries and vibrant flavors, inviting you to indulge over a cup of coffee in a charming setting.
"Pastry chef and co-owner Lily Azar produces some of SoCal’s most popular baked goods, but people regularly line up for her intricate spiral croissants. The trailblazing baker produces a trendy circular variety with fillings like raspberry, ube-coconut, passionfruit, and matcha pistachio. While the spiral varieties tend to soak up the spotlight, be sure to order a plain butter croissant or Azar’s caramelized kouign amann." - Rebecca Roland
"Pasadena’s Delight Pastry is releasing a new summer treat: spiral croissant ice cream sandwiches with rotating flavors like vanilla, cookies with caramel, and pistachio." - Mona Holmes
"Delight Pastry baker and co-owner Lily Azar prepares baked goods for Nowruz every year including Persian rice flour cookies (berenji), chickpea cookies (nokhodchi), and Persian shortbread cookies made with cardamom, rose water, and pistachios. The sweets shop will also serve pistachio baklava, gluten-free almond cookies with rose water, and raspberry coconut macarons throughout the Persian New Year." - Mona Holmes
"As someone who isn’t keen on dessert, I was stunned after tasting the spiral croissants at Delight Pastry. Mother-daughter team Sarah Hashemi and Lily Azar operate this Pasadena bakery offering more than the trendy spiral croissants. The display case is lined with cakes, macarons, and croissants, and the product of Hashemi’s 20 years of experience baking in Iran and Europe. Her specialties are vast, but the blueberry spiral croissant is sweet joy. The pastry is slightly flattened, beautifully crispy, and dipped in a blueberry glaze. Eating the blueberry spiral or the delightful rose water croissant is only half of the experience. The rose-colored shop makes outstanding teas and coffee in a relaxing rose-colored room. —Mona Holmes, reporter" - Eater Staff
"Delight Pastry’s owner and pastry chef Lily Azar and her daughter and co-owner Sarah Hashemi noticed something in late 2022. Customers kept asking about spiral croissants, the circular dipped pastry sensation that set Instagram and TikTok ablaze in 2022. One to pay attention to trends, Hashemi urged her mother to put her own spin on Lafayette’s “suprême” croissant, and Azar accepted the challenge. Azar added pistachio and rosewater spiral croissants to the display case; as an Iranian-born baker with strong roots in Tehran, she wanted to use flavors that are prominent in Persian cuisine. But Azar didn’t stop there, and added creamy fillings like raspberry, ube-coconut, passionfruit, and matcha pistachio to the three-year-old bakery’s sought-after spirals. The calculation proved to be a solid move, as the Delight Pastry display case is consistently sparse at the end of the day." - Mona Holmes
