Simurgh Bakery

Purchased Medovik and rice pudding at Oakland Farmers 1/31/21. The honey cake was wonderful but the rice pudding with the browned top was not to my liking.

Bakery very responsive to my post which I greatly appreciated.

I ordered a tray of baklava for pickup and it was still warm when I got there. They also sell in local farmers markets and groceries. Very tasty.

I happened upon this vendor at Oakland's Lakeshore Saturday Farmer's Market. I am half Turkish and have to have a baklava if I see one. I have been searching for the best one in California.
The choices of baklava was the regular layered type with pistachio or the rolled type with pistachio. They also have a chocolate phyllo dough! So a "chocolate baklava" with pistachios. I chose the rolled plain baklava.
I could not resist not opening the package before I got home!I large 12 piece. I remember chatting with the friendly women working there about being Turkish..but they did tell me the phyllo dough I believe was freshly made I think at their bakery and the baklava's are soooo fresh and crunchy maybe because of fresh dough!. That sold me. Many baklava's I have had from store bought to restaurant do not taste fresh once they have to be sitting on a shelf for days or in a restaurant. The sugar syrup either makes the dough soggy or they just have a " stale" taste. Baklava is not a good shelf sitter! But this baklava...I want more of. This is THE BEST baklava I have bought in the Bay Area, and I have tried many...oh my goodness...no problem giving a"5.0" I loved " the
crunchiness, the freshness, the light sweetness....the size of it." It was not so sweet you could not handle all that sugar syrup....this was the most perfect baklava I have had in a long time. I am in Baklava heaven!!!!Thank you Simurgh Bakery!!!!!

It was delicious, especially ones with pistachios and chocolate.