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    Raquel's Pastry

    4.5 (13 reviews)
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    Open 10:00 am - 7:00 pm

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    Tacos Asada and a pepper full of crazy
    Daniel P.

    dropped MLB at DSM going to CLT and needed a bite for the drive... was totally hoping for donuts or kolaches or polvorones mexicanos and such but got tacos instead... really hard to complain about such a turn of fortunes so I won't. Raquel's is a little snack shack sharing a building with a photo shop. they's got a couple of normal tables and high tops inside and all the whole world outside if you want to sit. ordered at the counter and a pair of tacos asada arrived shortly all hot and freshly made and delicious along with a pepper chock full of crazy hot something that looks like caramel but is most assuredly not :-) coffee is hot and fresh and flavory with just enough room on top for my upper lip. Perfect!! If you're near here be here ...and get a cupcake while you're in.

    Vanilla flan cake
    Alanron9 ..

    Not only do the cakes look great, they taste phenomenal. I could finish this whole cake myself. It's rich but light at the same time and not too sweet. We got a vanilla flan cake in the picture. Great service. This cake took less than a day to be ready.

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    Fox E.

    Trying to find good desserts is HELL Most are too sweet and caloric as WELL But I found the best, and I'll kiss and TELL Go and get a pastry from RAQUEL Better than Bruce Lee and Jackie CHAN Better than your weekend Spa PLAN Better than your secret lover MAN Come to Raquel, and try her FLAN! What to get: Flan, Tres Leches Cake, everything. What not to get: The Flan in the face, the flan in the face, the flan in the face. Owned by Raquel Welch, rather than Racquel Darrian (I know her from the old days), this is an absolutely delightful Mexican Bakery in the little Latin neighbourhood to the west of the Capitol in Des Moines, IA. Situated in a part of town with some really awesome Latin food, this is probably my favourite little spot in the area. It's named after - and run by - a wonderful woman making homemade cakes and Mexican desserts and doing them really really well. Especially the Flan, which she told me she is famous for - and oh my goodness it was amazing. They also have a wonderful tres leches cake, and everything in the place is basically delicious - especially if you already like Mexican desserts, because this place does them very very well. Des Moines has some real food gems and some nice surprises, and this little area - and in particular this little family-owned Homestyle Mexican bakery - is the absolute epitome of how underrated and great and diverse the Des Moines food scene can be if you know where to look. Speaking of knowing where to look, I'll PM you my number.

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    The cookies tasted good but be prepared to pay $5/cookie. We also got some icecream and it was…read moregood. The scoops were tiny so three scoops might be equivalent to a big scoop at most places. Service was not the best. No greeting when we walked in and our order was wrong. Didn't notice it right away and when we did we asked if we could get the correct brownie she seemed annoyed. Luckily I had the receipt since I felt she was doubting me. She had to call the manager and the manager approved it. I tried making a loyalty account but there was an error message. The cashier didn't know how to help so maybe try creating an account online. Ambiance is okay. It's tiny and there's no room to eat there.

    This was an extremely odd experience, the service was absolutely horrid. Both employees working…read morewere completely mute and looked at us like we were crazy when we asked a question about if a cookie was in stock still, with no response like we were invisible. it was almost like they were on drugs it was extremely bizarre. They just stared at us blankly, and to top it all off the girl working the register and serving us sneezed on her sleeve then proceeded to wipe it with her hands and say "ew" and then went right back to working and touching things and food with the snot she just wiped on her shirt sleeve and hands. Extremely weird experience and honestly disturbing to think about what happens to other customers food being handled there as well. I have been to this location plenty of times and this has never happened so it was kind of a shock.

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