I came in to inquiry about wedding cake options. While they didn't offer what I was looking for, the ladies were very apologetic and friendly. They even tried to think of places that would have what I was looking for. Everything looked so delicious. I asked if they ever made zucchini bread because my family loves that this time of year. They had just made some and offered me a sample. It was so delicious! I ended up coming back after shipping out a package. It was a nice quiet bakery with a lovely homey feel. You can tell they're popular and sell out quickly but they're not a big high end bakery. Definitely a must try. read more

Love these pastries! Almost went after breakfast this morning just for a donut! Love the staff, super sweet, love the ambiance it's so home-y, go and check it out for sure! read more

The pastry we got was delicious. Sort of expensive but that is cost of ingredients nowadays. Pastry was large. Next time we will share one. We ate in our car. It is a bakery. So ambiance is not something you would look for. Service was quick and pleasant. Place was clean. read more

A small family-owned bakery offering pastries, cakes, pies, cookies, and donuts (and more!) since 1911. The food is fresh, warm, flaky, and perfectly sweet. I especially love the strawberry cake donut, but the chocolate eclairs are irresistible as well. read more

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Hidden gem of Mechanicsville. Donuts, cakes, etc. If you are around the area you need to check them out. Maybe get a Texas Eclair (Warning it's big lol). Truly an old mom and pop bakery with super sweet workers. It's a small place with so much history (Over a century) and just a little town feel. A lot changes in Mechanicsville. This place does not and that's why it's special. read more

Oh my gosh, what amazingly delicious donuts! When I walked into the bakery, the smell was intoxicating. It reminded me of a bakery from childhood visits to Utica, New York to Bazan's Bakery. Service is genuinely friendly as were the fellow customers in line with me. Prices are reasonable and all donuts are carefully boxed. In addition to donuts, there is a wide selection of scrumptious pies. Custom cakes are also available. I will definitely be a customer for life at this awesome bakery! read more

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Where to start with this place! Best ever donuts and pastries, EVER! I absolutely love all of the goodies they make here, it has such a small town feel to the store too- which is a great touch. Everyone who works in here is super helpful and friendly, the prices are fair and I've never had a better pineapple danish anywhere else. read more

Williams Bakery made our daughter's wedding cake June 21, 2025! It was absolutely delicious and the cake was made to the exact design that our daughter wanted. The delivery to the venue was on time and communication throughout the process was wonderful! We enjoyed the cake tasting experience and Fran took charge of the whole project. Williams Bakery actually made our wedding cake 43 years ago and the quality is still the same - fresh, moist and great icing!! Thank you to the team at Williams Bakery for making a beautiful cake that we will always remember! read more

I been going here for years and for the prices gave the quality but now things has really gone up and the cakes are very stale to taste and dry and the Service at Mechanicsville store Is not.friendly anymore..Lady Fran comes off as if she don't want.your Service and always saying she been here 6 months this and that. Not welcoming at all like they use to be read more

Tried both the cookies and their donuts. The cookies were AMAZING. Delicious!!! The donuts were good. I recommend trying this bakery. Will definitely remind you of your grandma's Baku!! In a good way. read more

The star of this bakery is the spice bars. We've been getting them here for years and if you don't live near Mechanicsville, they are worth the drive. The other goodies are yummy too, breads, coffee cakes, donuts, pastries. The gingerbread cookies are delish. The also take special orders and do wedding cakes! The service is always kind and friendly. The prices are fair and the place is always spotless. Whenever I'm in the neighborhood, this is where I go to satisfy my sweet tooth! read more

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This bakery is a great little gem that everyone should stop by! They bake fresh, delicious treats. They have such a vast menu that it's hard not to find your favorite dessert. My favorite is their Dream Bar, a delicious nut-less brownie that I always buy several of every time I stop here. The staff are wonderful and gladly answer any questions I have about the baked goods and whenever I'm in the area, I look forward to stopping at this small bakery! read more

Great service, great donuts, and a little dated theme, 10/10 would recommend, my personal favorite would be the German chocolate bar

So mad. We ordered a white confetti cake for our daughters birthday and when we went to cut into it noticed something was wrong. The cake was a pound cake covered with cardboard and decorated, not at all what we ordered. read more

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Got my boyfriend a Black Forest cake for his birthday and it's not only beautiful but delicious! The cake was way cheaper than I expected and both he and I are very happy! read more

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Let' just say I wasn't impressed with my glazed donut or my cream cheese danish. Their donuts are yeast filled donuts which are typically my favorite if I'm craving sweet dishes. But I just really wasn't impressed with this bakery although I've heard good things in regards to this place. I wish the cream cheese danish had more cream cheese less bread, the donut had more glaze. But those are my preferences. I would most likely not revisit, because I don't think this is my style of bakery when it comes to donuts. read more

I ordered an honest cake with integrity from Williams Bakery and what I got from Kelley and Carver Williams was nothing but deception and lies. The filling was as nasty as all I ever had, and it was fat. read more

Very good I recommend this place if you are in the area and want some good pastries and cakes to go.

If your in the Richmond area and have not tried Williams Bakery boy are you missing a treat! This a family run business has been serving fresh baked goods since 1911! Everything is fresh and taste amazing. They have a wide variety of donuts, pastries, pies, cakes and sweet treats. My personal favorite is the Lemon Chess pie. Do yourself a favor and try them out. read more

Don't sleep on Williams Bakery. It is unassuming. It is old school. It's even a little bit country. But it's good. So good, in fact, that I chose them to make my wedding cake. The jury's still out on that (wedding is in 5 weeks), but I'll be sure to update my review afterward and let you know how my cake turned out. Besides the wedding cake, I have bought plenty other things from here, so that's what this review is about. My favorite things from Williams Bakery? Coconut cream pie and the cakes! My dad grew up in Mechanicsville so he introduced our family to this bakery a while ago. I usually hate coconut flavored things, but I have always loved this pie. There's something special about it that I just can't get enough of. It's so good that that's all we'd ever gotten from there... until recently. My mom and I went to a wedding expo shortly after I got engaged and tasted the cake samples at the Williams Bakery table. It was a transformational experience. I consider myself a cake connoisseur and it was some of the best cake that I'd ever had. I entered their contest that day to get $50 off of a wedding cake and lo and behold, I won! From then until now, I have bought their individual cake slices and they are just as delicious as the cakes that I had at the expo. I love the almond and lemon pound cake flavors! The flavors in their cakes are so pronounced and the icing is perfect. I can't even explain it but they definitely add something to their buttercream that must be a secret ingredient. I will always be a loyal customer to Williams Bakery and can't wait to see my wedding cake in a couple weeks! read more

Carrot cake....perfect. Maple Pecan glazed donut....perfect. Cinnamon Surprise roll.....perfect. Donut Holes....perfect. Fast, friendly service. Williams Bakery is the best thing Mechanicsville has to offer. read more

This was actually my second visit. My first visit was about 2 weeks ago. I live about 60 miles away but was in the area for a doctors appointment. I stopped and picked up a cheese Danish (which was good but nothing remarkable) and a cherry turnover. I was staring at the menu to see that they had my favorite dessert, an individual sized pineapple upside down cake. I was told that they didn't have any made but if I called ahead next time they would make sure they had them. Well today was the next day. I called the day before to make sure I would be able to get the cake. I told the employee that I would be there sometime after 9. I was told no problem they would have them. Well I showed up today and no pineapple upside down cake. I was so disappointed. The cashier told me that try would be ready sometime in the afternoon. However I wasn't going to be staying in the area for several hours just to wait for it. For today's visit I settled on a cheese Danish again and a cream horn for the boyfriend. The cheese Danish was good but like I said nothing remarkable. I don't care for cream horns so I didn't try it. However, my boyfriend said the shell was really good but he didn't care for the filling. read more

My first time here. I've been wanting to try this place for a while. Weird shaped donuts. not actually round or circular. Picked up some tarts and an assortment of cookies. read more

Excellent sticky buns (get the ring!) and super nice people in this bakery. I was very impressed by their selection, especially after visiting a couple of newer, fancier bakeries in the area. They also had several different pies that looked amazing. I would drive a little further to go here instead, especially since my grandmother Loved the sticky buns (she said they were yeasty, a trait that she looks for). The only thing I wished they had was some gluten free options (or even just one would be nice). GF Chocolate chip cookies? If you need a suggestion ;) read more

We try to frequent local businesses and we have stopped in before to get a cookie for our son in our walks downtown. The staff seemed a little rude and the place a little dated, but we tried to think of it as "charming" and "local flavor". However, I vowed never to return when we called them last fall for a NATIONAL charity event, to donate a fresh or even DAY OLD baked good for a cakewalk or for treats for children attending the event. We called over 100 businesses in Mechanicsville, large (Kroger/Food Lion) to small and all said YES to donate either food, gift cards, items for our fundraiser, services. All except Williams Bakery. They said NO. I got the run around, then had to make a formal request, fax in a letter from the national sponsor. But, despite it being weeks in advance, they told me they limit what they donate and since I hadn't asked far enough in advance, they had nothing for me. This was not only a local business, owned locally, which should have LIMITED BUREAUCRACY, but a actual neighbor within SIGHT distance to the location hosting the charity event. They couldn't make an exception to their own rules? I am not going to be loyal or even give one cent of business to a SMALL, LOCAL company who doesn't act like a small, local company to its community. They couldn't even spare a cake or pie that didn't sell, some older cookies? I don't care if they make the best food in the world. I make a point now of telling all my friends, coworkers and other parents not to get your birthday or special occasion cakes or items from William's Bakery. This is a vote with my conscience and wallet, not my palate. If there were a rating of ZERO stars, I would give this to William's Bakery, for thumbing up their nose at their own neighbors and community. read more

I don't get into Richmond very often, but I always make it a point to stop here for cookies, cakes, and donuts. Everything looks great and it's a tough choice what to get. My faves are the yo-yo's - like an upside down cupcake. Their chocolate frosting here is the best! read more

Ordered cupcakes and cake for my sons birthday . They got the order time wrong which was ok because they rectified the situation but then literally no one was impressed . The cakes were dry , the icing left a very weird after taste . Overall disappointing read more

We were really excited to get a variety of pastries to take home and try including a whole strawberry layer cake that the woman behind the counter said was fresh and wonderful. We expected to dive into a moist and delicious strawberry cake with maybe even some strawberry in it perhaps? Very, very disappointed. It was so dried out or overcooked it just crumbled when you put a fork to it. No strawberrys, no flavor, just bland. I expected so much more from a bakery. Also bought a breakfast roll which was tasty, a gingerbread man my 4 year old liked, and a cupcake my 7 year old liked. Overall though, left a bad taste in my mouth, enough to make me not want to return. read more

Finally a small town bakery that reminds me of home. Step inside & take a deep breathe . Mmmmmm I love everything from this traditional bakery. read more

I've been craving some baked goods big time and came across the reviews for this place so figured I'd try it out. The atmosphere is homey and small town feeling. The smells when you walk in - YUM! We got a 1/2 dozen glazed doughnuts and some juice. Both were great. Will be back for some of their other items. read more

I get a pastry from Williams Bakery a few times a week. Everyone there is really friendly- a family atmosphere. Their donuts are super tasty and large. The meringue pies are also delicious. Very affordable prices for the quality! read more

Williams Bakery was more than accommodating when I completely forgot to order a custom cake for a company event. Prior to even thinking about Williams Bakery I went to (and pleaded with) all the big box chains and no one would help me. They all required at least a week's notice. On my way home to break the bad news to my husband I passed Williams Bakery and figured what did I have to loose. I was greeted promptly and after telling them my story I was informed that I was in luck as the baker was there and could have the custom cake ready by 2pm that afternoon. (This was at 11am.) The icing on the cake (no pun intended) was that the cost was half of what I would have paid at other bakeries. Thanks Williams Bakery for saving the day! read more

COCONUT MERINGUE PIE IS ABSOLUTE HEAVEN-my absolute favorite dessert!!! Everything is so fresh & homemade. Exceptional customer service & a great value-Convenient locations to choose from!!! read more

Best bakery in the RVA! They make great pies, donuts and also made my wedding cake. Absolutely delicious!

We received delicious and festive cupcakes! Great customer service! They were ready and waiting for me when I got there to pick them up.

Went there at 5:01pm on Saturday, the front door was open and there was a customer and two clerks working. One clerk turned angrily to the other and said loudly "I though you locked the door!" She then turned to us and said they were closed. We were one minute late! And why would you turn away a customer at that point? Especially when you sell wares that are perishable! Needless to say you lost what could have been a regular customer as I have to drive every week to Whole Foods for a loaf of bread and a half dozen cookies. Too bad for you. read more

Will no longer be patronuzing this business. Cakes taste like the boxes they put them in, most are always dry and crumbly... may be because they are old. Customer service is abhorrent to say the least, possibly due to being severely under paid and under appreciated, because they all look like they couldn't stand to be there another minute and act gun shy like they are being spied on, whatever is going on in there certainly appears to be creating an unhealthy and uncomfortable work environment. Almost feel sorry for those working at the counter. Also not much flavor to anything they sell truthfully, just drab all the way around as far quality, service, cleanliness and appearance of the products and bakery itself. Not impressed :( read more

Authentic country bakery with a good variety of traditional pastry and some interesting and unique specialties. Choose the specialties (radar bars, etc) over the standard fair (donuts, sweet rolls and the like), which are just ok. They are what makes Williams a fun a tasty spot to stop. read more

Love, love, love Williams Bakery (Mechanicsville). I live about an hour away, and make it a point to get by there as often as possible. My grandparents lived a couple of blocks away, so I grew up with their long johns and cream filled donuts (my personal favorites). Their pastry cream and chocolate frosting is wonderful. read more

I LOVE LOVE LOVE their buttercream icing! It's like NO OTHER! I've been getting their birthday cakes every year for 25+ years. The recipe has never changed and it hits the spot every time. read more