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The place is nice, the atmosphere is typical for Miami, which is to say a motley crowd, everyone into their own thing, brought together to enjoy some sweets, pastries or a hot Cuban coffee.
I haven't eaten anything more than croquettes and pastries but will tell you one thing I appreciate is that the pastries are always flaky and soft, even when they've been out for a while, or when they overnight in your kitchen. Other shops should take notice of this, especially when you bite into a pastel and the flakes go everywhere and it's so hard the plates of delicate bread hit together and slide around. It's like chewing through leather in other places but not at Pinecrest Bakery.
Anyway, the croquettes are ok, but they must be eaten while got it still warm. Cold ones don't chew well. They have two varieties, house and frozen. House are better in my opinion since they make them on premises.
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The coffee is good, and has never been bitter, at any time that I have been to this location. Most times it's perfectly done, so I don't have to add additional sugar.
The place has all these cakes and sweets, as a baker and cook by hobby, I find their designs interesting and well done, but I haven't ordered any. They have cakes, flan custard, little key lime pies, and other assorted items. Everything is clean and presented well.
They also have the typical chorizo pie, bocaditos (whipped ham and mayonnaise on a small potato bread), and those green and red cherry concoctions (confections) we all remember from the old days: cappuccinos and mini style brazo gitanos. They have Napoleons, senoritas and eclairs as well. Can't rate them but they look good. Peeping at me, imploringly for me to purchase them and spike my blood sugar over the stratosphere. Yeah, not anymore.
Plenty of parking, lots of police and if you run out of tables inside, or prefer to smoke, they have outside tables.
All in all a nice place, good food, coffee and service. Remember to tip the employees, even in this town I see people do not, and at the end of the day, the workers do so diligently and have always been pleasant.
Stop by, have an experience. It's worth repeating.