It's a hybrid French-Indian bakery! Get excited, people! Hot Breads makes delicious croissants, buns and danish and offers ample choices of traditional finishing touches, like chocolate ganache and almond filling, or brilliantly creative surprises, like chicken tikka and veggie samosa filling in your croissants! All of the Indian fillings range from no spice to a little tingle, but the folks who make these treats know that you're there for a mild and filling pastry, so they don't season it like a savory dinner. The best thing in the store is the paneer-filled croissant. Paneer is homemade indian cheese and has a flavor and texture a little like firm tofu. It is a marvelous, delectable stuffing for croissants and buns and you're never going to see paneer croissants on any other restaurant menu in the area. Be glad Hot Breads is right here in Kentlands! When I bring these to parties they're the talk of the appetizer table! read more

Indian folks bake cakes? I cant comment on any of the sweets, as I have not tried them, though they do look good (but pricey). The Indian food is excellent, fresh and flavorful. You cant go to any Indian restaurant and get butter chicken/rice/naan/salad for 6 bucks. They have a lot of vegetarian (not bland). I really enjoy the place, its a place to get Indian street food at reasonable prices. read more

WHOA! When I finished getting my nails done next door at Red Door Spa, I smelled something at Hot Breads. I was walking to the car but the smells sucked me in. Trapped. I thought it was a bakery! Hot Breads?... As soon as the door swung open, butter chicken slapped me in the face. They are cooking their butts off in here! "This is Indian Food!"I said to myself as the warm feeling of contentment settled in. My guard was down and I was ready to indulge. I ordered the butter chicken and tikka masala! Blew me away with the quality and flavors! It was the perfect trifecta of good! Rice, sauce and naan were perfect! Score! I've been here five times since discovering this hidden gem. They do have baked goods but there are tables all around for dine in! read more

I feel cheated whenever I look at the lego cake they made for my son's birthday. They charged me $150.00, which is no problem, if only it didn't look like a 4 year old decorated it. I picked this place because of the yelp reviews. The pictures added by Manan T. are very misleading. read more

Hot Breads and Cakes - Cost: $150.00 - Bakeries Near Me - Gaithersburg, Maryland

If you are looking for a good taali place then this is the place to go!! I've had the lunch taali twice so far and it was amazing!! The only thing that I wasn't a fond of was the sweets that come with the taali... other than that totally worth $13 read more

Best dosa in DC area. Lots of vegan and vegetarian options. Make sure you ask for no butter. Vada pav is also delicious. All food is served on styrofoam plates and all cutlery is plastic (boo!). The macaroons are also delicious, highly recommended. I wish they had paper plates like another reviewer said. If they had paper plates I'd give them 5/5. read more

This is our favorite Indian restaurant: great food, great price, non pretentious and friendly staff. Hard to recommend one item, but I cannot go many weeks without the batata puri. My kids love the masala dosa they make here. read more

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What an interesting place. We stopped in for dessert yesterday, but I can't wait to go back and try the savory pastries, and some of the other dishes as well. They have a huge list of choices of Indian sandwiches, appetizers rolls, paninis, wraps, pastries, entrees.... And then there's the cakes. When you walk in you are greeted with a huge pastry case full of slices of all sorts of cake. I had the tiramisu, which was great. My brother ordered the "chocolate bomb" which was... a big thing of chocolate. :) A little bit dry I think, or just missing something, so I would probably order the chocolate truffle cake next time instead, which looked amazing. Each piece was about $3 which didn't seem too bad. The "real food" seems reasonably priced, from $4-7, tho I don't know how big the portions are. read more

If you're in the area, and you're in the mood for pasties, then this place has it. They go wild with the phyllo dough -- phyllo dough pies stuffed with chicken curry, lamb, ground beef, etc. Good for a snack, but not cheap (medium-priced at $2.50 per stuffed pie.) You can also buy cake slices. read more

While their baked goods looked incredibly delicious, their customer service needs improvement. Waited in the bakery section for about ten minutes for service and no one came to the front. I walked to the back, on the Dosa & Chaat side, to find an employee and inquired if someone was servicing the bakery side and the employee just mumbled, "yes." Waited again, no staff came, so I left. Also want to note the restaurant was mainly empty. read more

Gone down in taste. Used to come here for every occasion. My birthday, anniversary, moms birthday, A on an exam...not anymore. Their samosa chaat, pain puri, pav baji, just isn't the same anymore. Not to be mean, but it's because the cook is gone. The cook, born and bred in Gujarat, knew how to make everything. The new cook is Hispanic, and just doesn't have th magic in her hands anymore. read more

This is a nice Indian place for grabbing small bites. I even catered from them for a party and their veg biryani was amazing. Not so much about their pav bhaji or Samosas. They are famous for eggless desserts among my vegan Indian friends. They were quite professional in delivering the catering too. read more

I love this place! I always come here for the palak chaat and their delicious mango mouse cake. The palak chaat is the best I've had in the area and the price is reasonable. The mango mouse cake is amazing-it doesn't even taste like mango, it just tastes like a really good vanilla cake. read more

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I go nuts for this place! The food is tasty and fast, plus the prices are absurdly reasonable for the DC area. You can get a whole thali for $7.50!!! The owner is a mench - hires kids with special needs who are sweet and adorable. I sometimes drive up from DC to come here. Love it! read more

This is a nice casual indian restaurant that serves baked goods as well as some indian food that other restaurants don't serve. I really liked the sev puri and samosa chaat. The masala dosa was pretty good as well. The butter chicken and tikka masala was just ok though and some of the pastries were just ok. I'm not sure if they make it fresh every day. I would come back to try some of the other stuff on the menu. They also have alot of seating and it's a good place to grab a quick bite. read more

Found this place on a whim as we were standing outside the strip of restaurants it is near and decided to go to Hot Breads.... and I am glad we did! You order the food from the counter and when it is ready, they simply call your number. They have a regular style menu but also a menu of pictures on the wall of each dish. As I am not familiar with the many types of Indian dishes this helped tremendously and aided me in be able to try a new dish. All the food we ordered was delicious and flavorful. The meat came out juicy and tender and the spicy-ness level on all the dishes was just right. I would highly recommend Hot Breads for Indian cuisine! And to make it feel more authentic, they had Cricket on TV! read more

We are pani puri, kathi roll, chicken manchurian, vada Pav. The service was meh. The food is in paper plates. Pet peeve. Will come back only for vada pav read more

I AM VEGAN. The first time I ordered to go and the lady who answered was very helpful. Told her of my dietary restrictions and she made some recommendations. I am not familiar with Indian cuisine so I do not know what I ordered but it was delicious none the less. Second Visit. Came in on a Monday around 11:30 am and I was the only one there. I asked the gentleman at the register (ended up being the owner) what I could eat. There was a buffet available for UNDER $10. Everything was so good. I highly recommend this place. With vegan options in this area being pretty limited, it was nice running into this establishment and finding out that their menu was pretty extensive. Definitely check them out! read more

I stumbled upon this small bakery/cafe tonight and decided to stop in to see what they had to offer. I was delighted to see the many vegetarian and vegan options! The young guy at the cashier was very friendly, helpful, courteous and professional. My review is in large part because of his excellent and exceptional customer service!! (The cupcakes were just ok, truthfully..anyway.) There was a $10 minimum for credit/debit card use that I only noticed after I made my purchase. My bill was roughly $8. He didn't say anything. He also offered me a chutney to go along with the veggie curry puff that I ordered. Nice gesture! I can appreciate restaurants that do not take customers for grants - new or returning ones. I can tell they care about each persons experience and want them to return. I will return to try to buffet very soon! read more

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Sorry to write this but Please do not trust them with signature cakes for your precious occasions. THEY COMPLETELY RUINED MY BABY SHOWER CAKE!!!!!!!!!! I trusted them with my order and they were careless and unprofessional enough to ruin the cake. I mean it was a completely messy job. How can you charge people so high and then not take care of the cake decoration. Luckily, for us the cake tasted good but still we paid in full and deserved an overall excellent work as you see in pictures. We got the one with Baby Blocks and Puppets. Surprisingly, there had put baseball pics on a Girls Cake....How stupid.....Even the display pic does not show that. I will NEVER recommend anyone for CAKES to say the least. read more

The owner here is super friendly and the food is amazing, whether enjoying from the mostly vegetarian buffet or ordering individual items. I've had a lot of sugarcane juice in my life, but the sugarcane juice here was the best I've ever had. And the lassis are wonderful. They also offer bakery items, but it's the solid Indian fair that blows me away and gets my taste buds craving more read more

First off, I've only been here a couple of times in the evenings, and just to get some snacks as take away. They've been empty both times. The Sev Puri was ok-ish and the quantity was pretty paltry for the cost. The Aloo tikki was pretty good though (the reason I gave them 2 stars). When I had ordered the Samosa chaat, I told them to make it spicy. Little did I know they would put in huge amount of ONLY spicy chutney and hardly any cholle with a samosa. That was a huge disappointment. I've read some great reviews about this place, but frankly, it's not for me. Shall not be visiting this place again. Also, I was charged for a take away bag(my bad, as I should have seen in the bill and mentioned while in the restaurant) even though I said I would not want one. read more

We have been here many times, just went again yesterday and the food was great. The employees are very polite and the food was good as usual, it's reasonably priced as well which is nice. The veggie thali was amazing, spring Dosa is good too. Recommended to anyone who like Indian cafe style food! read more

Great little Indian bakery. Didn't realize they were serving food also, certainly worth read more

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I live in the neighborhood and drop by Hot breads when the cravings for Indian Fast Food hit me - the Chana batura is my go to, and my husband and son like the butter chicken. Today we tried the puri appetizer at the recommendation of the professional young man at the register. Solid food for reasonable prices. read more

This place is great if you want a taste of Indian food. But when it comes to ordering a cake, they're the most rude and horrible staff to talk to. All of their staff will tell you different things and prices. And when you ask them to explain it to you, they will in turn yell at you for not understanding their terms and policies. I will never even attempt to order a cake from this place ever again! One basic thing in service industry is to be hospitable to your customers and they failed at that! read more

The next time I came in, not only was I treated superbly, I was given a free pastry because they "messed up" on the first. It looked fine to me. I didn't need that much sugar, but I ate them anyway. The thali is awesome and really filling for the price. read more

In food I only like dosa and chole batura... Don't even try their panini it's terrible.. Their bakery section is also good. They close their kitchen at 9 pm but on the door its 9 :30 pm...they don't even give carry outs after 9 pm read more

I just went here for the Chicken Tikka roll- it sounded so good I had to try one! Unfortunately, after ordering from the kid behind the counter (who was rude and dismissive), I had to wait 25 minutes even though the place was almost empty. Not only that, but the price was wrong- it was much more than what the menu says online. I'm still not sure what I received but it was not a Chicken Tikka roll. Disappointing over all. I'm not sure I'll be returning. read more

Went there for lunch on a whim after my friend told me about it and I have to say I'm very pleased I stopped by. The butter chicken was delicious, super flavorful and the staff was ver friendly. Highly recommend to anyone looking to try Indian food for the first time. read more

I took my Indian gusts almost 12 people to Hot Breads. The chef did not make any good food due to large order (19 items). I never recommend to go hot breads with large family. Devang read more

Why can't Yelp allow me to give them ZERO! They are not the only one around. At least for the cake, I know they make good Black Forest, but it is not the only thing that drives anyone there. Service matters. I ordered a speciality cake for my best friend's b'day. It was a Barbie doll shaped cake for which they charged me $88. I paid. I asked to keep it ready by 4:30. It was not ready, big turn off! If you don't value your time, at least value others. I had to wait for half an hour to get it ready. And when it comes out I see what? A really bad finishing on my cake. It was not at all near acceptable. They have made very nice piece to display, but they failed to deliver. The design on the cake was ugly! When I pointed that, the guy was rude "If you wait, I can make it like this". I agreed upon to wait, just to see another failure. I wish I could upload both the pictures. I will go with their simpler Black Forest, but never for their speciality cakes. I would say, only trust original baker for really good cakes. High chances that the retail chains will spoil your experience! read more

My favorite place! I eat there at least a few times a week. Great customer service, excellent food, fast, easy, good! The cakes are amazing! The food is authentic! read more

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Me and My husband tried their Indian Chinese food and it wasn't very good at all. Hakka Noodles didn't even look like Hakka noodles! We did see others getting dosas and it looked like that their south Indian food might be better! read more

So I ordered paneer panini and they basically toasted two bread and stuffed paneer in between. Not even remotely close to a panini. read more

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My wife and I love Indian cuisine. We were regulars at Madras Palace until they closed. A friend of ours let us know about Hot Breads. WOW!!! Where have you been all my life? Delicious dosas, nice and spicy sides, and great service! I can't wait to come back! :) PS. Very vegan friendly. They can veganize some items if you ask. Everything is clearly marked on the menu. :) read more

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This restaurant shines at lunch. The mostly vegetarian buffet (great for vegans) holds a wide variety, and will leave you well sated. I enjoyed the wide variety of starches, including some that are not typical at Indian buffets. The rich, vibrant, and varied sauces of the various bean and vegetable dishes are rich and filling. There is usually an interesting salad (pickled red onions and spinach the last time i went) that is better than the usual desultory offering at similar places. The palak paneer, a constant here, is more than the usual liquified spinach and cheese cubes; it has an interesting seasoning profile and a thicker texture than the pablum elsewhere. Lastly, if you are fortunate enough to go on a day that they put out their curried cabbage, you are in for a treat. I have eaten cabbage in all its forms, from kimchee to sweet southern coleslaw, and this is the finest preparation. It is, at once, crispy, lightly toasted, and with a pleasant tangy seasoning. Go for lunch, and enjoy, along with a cup of fresh squeezed orange juice. read more

I would have given it nothing for service before we could try anything the lady on the counter was so rude to us. she literally told us that there are lot of bakeries you can go there. I am never going to this place again horrible service i am glad i didn't try their cakes. read more

Have been ordering eggless cakes for many years, and it has always been very good. However, recently ordered a cake over the Christmas holidays and was disappointed on two counts. 1) Ordered a mango cake. We couldn't taste the Mango and the cake was extremely dry. 2) Requested Christmas themed decor on cake. All they could offer was green and red frosting. Is it really that hard to draw a Christmas tree or a couple of Christmas bells/ balls on a cake? read more

I love this place! I never knew it was right next to my home till I moved half hour away. Then Hot Breads & Cakes started donating to our charity, Nourish Now. At first I thought gourmet cakes and indian food was a weird combination, but they make both so well, that you stop questioning soon enough. The authentic dishes on the menu are the closest to what I had during my trip to Tamil Nadu, India last year, especially the Tali meals. I brought my family, and they all agreed: it's our favorite Indian food in Gaithersburg. I've since come to know the owner very well. He is a generous man who donates regularly to Nourish Now (as well as to his regular clientele). In fact, I was picking up a donation this week, and was looking for something inexpensive on the menu. I saw the Veggie Burger, and thought I'd give it a try. I insisted several times to pay for this meal, as I'd planned, but he would not let me. I still have yet to tell him- BEST VEGGIE BURGER EVER. And from a vegetarian, that's saying something. Fresh vegetables and spices, such a unique take on the veggie burger. The cakes are delicious, the staff is the friendliest, and they support the community! Thanks for everything you do, Hot Breads & Cakes!! - Nick Ring Nourish Now read more