Royal Pastry Shop

This is a great hidden gem with locations in both Cambridge and Lexington. The cakes and pastries are delectable and are just as good as places like Mike's Pastry or Modern pastry in the North End if not better! Pricewise this place is pretty inflation-proof too. My now husband and I picked up a cake and pastries for our at-home reception after our wedding and all of our friends and family raved about how good dessert was. Furthermore service was good and the workers were super friendly and helpful. All in all, if your looking for North End quality pastry or even pizza and other goodies without the craziness I highly recommend this place. You won't be disappointed! 🙂

Much cheaper than other popular pastry shops. Variety of cannolis is limited to 4 choices (original, yellow, chocolate, or mousse) but I like how they fill the shells during order. I enjoyed the flavor and lack of overpowering sweetness. Would go back to try other pastries.

Got a rum cake for mother's day and it was the best one we've ever had! Delicious vanilla and chocolate custard, fresh strawberries, and the cake was soaked in lots of rum. 10/10 🌟

The cakes a pastries in this place are gorgeous! They also have classics like hermits, eclares, rainbow cookies and cream puffs. Everything I've tried was great.

price 5/5 service 5/5 food 4/5 (depends on what you get) I past by this place randomly and decided to give it a try. I was curious about how italian pastries taste like outside of North End. Cookies: Much cheaper than Mikes, Modern, or Bova pastry shops in North End. The cookies are $10/lb. They have a variety of cookies to choose from (shape and color wise). I will give the cookies a 3/5 tastewise. They are kinda hard and not as buttery as the ones you get from North End. And I'm a little bit disappointed that they don't have pistachio or almond cookies. Rum cake: 4/5. Taste very good and you can tell the cakes are SOAKED in rum! Lobster tail: This is more like an americanized sfogliatelle. Unlike the ones in North End which are filled with ricotta cheese cream, the lobster tails here are filled with custard. Pizza: tasted amazing! they are square cut sicilian style pizza super fluffy dough and plenty of topping! key lime pie: 5/5. I loved the not too sweet whipped cream on the top! Def balanced out the lime filling inside! I liked it a lot. The prepacked Hermits bread is amazing!! Very strong molasses/ginger/cinnamon taste! Reminds me of christmas.

A wonderful old school Italian bakery in Cambridge! I got the cannoli cake for my boyfriend's birthday and he loved it. Great prices and service too!

Quaint local Italian pastry shop with decent pastries at unbelievable price point. I was tired of traveling to North End or Harvard Square to get good Italian pastries and this place came under my radar. Got the lobster tail, two chocolate eclairs($2 each), and a whoopie pie, and I especially enjoyed their eclair. They were slightly smaller than Mike's but definitely on par in terms of quality. Lobster tail and the whoopee pie were disappointing, but for the price, they were alright.

This is a place I've been going to for over 50 years. Great pastries, cakes, and don't forget the pizza. A cherished memory from my childhood that never disappoints.