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Palermo's Cafe & Bakery

3.7 (235 reviews)
Open 8:00 am - 8:00 pm

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Moderate noise
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Good for groups

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Cannoli cake

One of the best cannoli cakes I've had! The cookies were delicious! Didn't get a pic of them but the texture, the jelly in the middle had the perfect amount of "chew" to it. Will def be back!

Cee E.

Palermo is one of two bakeries my wedding venue works with to provide catered wedding cakes. When we reached out to Palermo's by email about our tasting, they advised us that we did not need an appointment and that they have cake tasting boxes ready for pick up at each of their locations. I visited the Little Ferry location since that was the closest store to me. The store smells like freshly baked cake and is delightful from the moment you walk in. When I arrived, I was immediately greeted by one of the store employees. I explained that I was there for a tasting box and showed him the email as confirmation. He handed me a box, which had sixteen cake samples, including basic and premium flavors, a pamphlet with descriptions of the flavors and a sheet with instructions for how to place an order. The whole visit took under 5 minutes and was very efficient. The cakes need to be refrigerated so I was nervous about them melting on my drive home, but they held up. I haven't gotten through all flavors yet but so far, some of the standouts are dulce de leche and the carrot cake. I'm looking forward to getting through the rest. Sixteen flavors is a generous sample box and representative of their complete offerings. I think the customer service by email has been helpful so far too.

Menu May 2023
Gigi A.

Great experience with eat in or dine alfresco tables! Service was lovely and they have a restroom. Coffee, tea, cappuccino, espresso. Highly recommend the rum cannoli baba and doughnut - wow. Also! Great hours!!!! Some place to get a cup of coffee at 8pm like please we all don't go to bed at 5:45. Love love love!!!!

Cross section of a "sfogliatella"
Mel T.

I know about Palermo's because when I was doing research on NJ wedding venues, pretty much all of them were working with Palermo's for the wedding cake. Fast forward about 3.5 years. I really wanted to get some sfogliatella for my sis + fam, who were visiting from Hawaii and there is another bakery that makes the best ones ever. Unfortunately, that bakery was closed on my sister's last day in town, so l figured we'd check out Palermo's, since they also wanted to bring some Italian cookies back home. The cookie selection seems okay, EXCEPT they don't even have rainbow cookies! I did see that they had the sfogliatella, so we decided to give those a try. But it was a mistake. These looked (and tasted) undercooked. It didn't have the nice golden brown color. No powdered sugar. No cream filling (even though when I asked the employee if it had any, she assured me that it did). Overall, it tasted old so I'm wondering when it was even baked. It was very dense, almost like a scone, and it definitely should not be like that. Don't think I'll be making a return visit anytime soon.

Olga was a big help when I was ordering a special cake for my husband's 50th birthday. Her prompt responses and ideas helped me tremendously. The cake not only looked great but it tasted so good. Everyone loved their chocolate chip cannoli filling. I would definitely recommend this bakery if you need a special occasion cake.

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Eloy Y.

While St. Patrick's Day, with its soda bread, green beer and corned beef and cabbage, seems to bring much of the attention in mid-March, another saint has a feast day with its own food traditions. It's that time of year again, when patrons head to their favorite Italian bakery in droves to pick up some zeppole and sfingi today on St. Joseph's Day which is also Father's Day in Italy. Luckily this establishment located on Liberty Street in Little Ferry was open. The shape of the cream-filled pastry is symbolic resembles a carpentry plane, which Saint Joseph was known to use regularly. One is filled with vanilla custard, the other with cannoli cream. The one with cannoli cream is sfingi. The one with custard cream is zeppole. Buona Festa!

DISGUSTING!!!! I took a bite in the lobster tail and saw MOLD on it!!!! We went in towards closing time and their bakery was FULLL of pastries. That should've been a red flag cause they probably keep their pastries there for at least a week since no one's buying them. Cakes were all crazy sweet and tasted like cheap artificial ingredients. Idk how they're still in business.

Mushroom Pizza
Mary K.

We ordered pizza for pickup on Saturday night while hanging out down the road at Brix City Brewing, and they were able to have our order ready in 20 minutes! For 4 adults and 2 kids, we got three 12-inch pizzas: Pepe (cherry tomatoes with buffalo mozzarella and fresh basil), Mushroom (Alfredo sauce, roasted garlic, sautéed onions, and spinach), and an olive pizza (kid-friendly!). The crust was crisped to perfection and all of the ingredients were incredibly fresh. Highly recommend this spot if you're in the area!

a wedding cake with red and white roses
Anglin T.

My husband and I used Palermo's bakery for our wedding cake this year. In short - they are wonderful!! We got a typical cake tasting box and tried out all the flavors. We decided with half lemon and half dulce de leche. Both flavors ended up to be stunning in the final product! Our guests really enjoyed it as well! The process to designing the cake was quite seamless. They used some faux flowers for our design, because they do not do fresh flower inserts. One thing is that they are a bit pricey. And they weren't really willing to give us a discount if we chose to get a plain cake and add flowers ourselves. We ended up paying a little extra to get faux flowers. Overall, yummy cake, responsive customer service!

Cannoli Cake Whipped Cream Cannoli (serves 7)
Salma M.

Recently ordered a cake for my sister's birthday through door dash. The online ordering process and selection was great, I am based in NC so I rely on other reviews and pictures that have been posted. The cake was perfect and my sister and brother-in-law really enjoyed it! They asked me for the name and address so they could make a visit themselves! I will be coming to visit and try them out again!

Stefan H.

Time to update my review! Was thinking about moving it up to 4 stars, but the meatball Parm sandwich I got fell pretty short, so I'm sticking with 3 stars! Ordered a stromboli again, which was black on the bottom but still good, and not as good as last time, an Italian pork sandwich, which was okay, but I'll order their Il Cubano next time, and the meatball Parm sandwich with no cheese and hard and dry meatballs! Service was pleasant but slow, as they forgot to make my stromboli even though I was the only customer at the time! Still enjoy their food and I'll stop by again!

Michael M.

Great bakery in Little Ferry. Not only bakery but cafe and food. Good parking and convenient off Route 46. Bought cakes and pastry and stayed for breakfast. Good egg sandwiches!

Tommy H.

This was our first time at this location. Our wedding cake was made at the other location a few years ago, which was delicious and gorgeous. The bakery is very nice and spacious with plenty of parking. We wanted to try their pizzas but was there a bit too early so it was not available. We decided to get an assortment of pastries since they all looked so good. The staff was very patient with us as we were asking a bunch of questions and picking one at a time. The pastries were delicious, moist and not overly sweet. We will definitely be returning to get some more and also to try their hot food.

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