I've only been here once but it's very easy to get to convenient parking they have an outdoor little eating area I ordered some cheese apricot kolaches and for the kids some Italian cookies including lemon drop turtles and stars the kids ate all the cookies in one day so they must be good the kolaches were ok but not spectacular as Jewel sells something similar. I would say they need more butter a little more moisture and a little better cheese. Unfortunately there's no bakery that I found that equals the old Fingerhut bakery or even some thing your aunt might make. read more

So excited to see this place open in Elmhurst! So many goodies to be found here. Instead of the same 'ole frozen yogurt, we've got Italian ice in not just 2 flavors, but 8 different kinds and loaded with flavor. Same with the Gelato. So smooth, so loaded with personality. Do NOT forget to take some Spumoni home. Candied fruit and whip cream center with 4 layers of ice cream (chocolate, rum, pistachio, and strawberry). We grabbed some cookies but I forgot the names of them all so couldn't tell you which we liked best but they were all very good. Guess we'll have to go back :). read more

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So glad that they came to our neighborhood. The service is always friendly and helpful. Most importantly, the product is outstanding. Great place for bakery, cannoli, and gelato. They are fantastic with the kids too. read more

Not worth the price we paid. I honestly left there feeling ripped off, we probably won't make the trip back. Paying over $3 for the world smallest scoop wasn't cool. Service was ok. read more

Lezza Spumoni & Desserts - Bakeries Near Me - Elmhurst, Illinois

I ordered a red velvet cake for my daughter's 16th birthday and requested that it look like a Tiffany gift box. Because of GM Stacey Sullivan's kindness and attention to customer service, the cake was absolutely beautiful to look at and delicious to eat! The top of the cake came off and I was able to place her gift in a special space they had created on the top of the cake. She loved it and our guests raved. Thank you for making her birthday cake so special! read more

Lezza Spumoni & Desserts - Brittney's Tiffany cake! Thank you, Stacey Sullivan! - Bakeries Near Me - Elmhurst, Illinois

Went in with my cousin a little before 4:30 and the place closes at 5. I order a Mocha and the girl taking my order gives me a look that makes it really obvious to me that I just ruined her night by ordering my drink. She gives this little annoyed sigh and goes back to get the stuff. After I get my drink my cousin speaks up, he had wanted to order something as well but neither girl paid him any attention. He orders a coffee and the girl tells him they just shut down the coffee machine and they won't make his drink because they would have to clean the machine again. Terrible customer service, will not be going there again. read more

This is my favorite bakery! The desserts are delicious and the cakes are creative and also spectacular. I don't know why anyone would order any where else. Oh, you must try the lemon cookies! read more

Looked like a nice place, although the service is lacking, young lady took the person's order that I came in with, and gave her attitude about ordering a coffee. Then after they made her coffee she told me I couldn't order coffee and hit chocolate because they already cleaned the machine. And it is a lavazza machine that uses cartridges, it takes 5 minutes to clean, they were open for another 30 minutes. Just want the management to know the money they are missing out on. Boo! read more

I paid $6 for two scoops of mediocre gelato with a debit card and when I got home, my email was hacked by a San Francisco-based company Lezza hired called Square, Inc. Square sent me a receipt from Lezzo, though I NEVER gave my private email address. When I called Lezzo and spoke with Peter, there was zero accountability. The links to opt out of Square did not work. Scary. read more

I was so disappointed in the cookies I tasted from this bakery both times I have had them. They look so pretty and have no taste. Friends brought some to a dinner a couple of weeks ago. They have said they will never shop there again. Lezza has a good reputation. We were shocked. The 2nd time I tasted them was at the St. Joseph's table at Immaculate Conception church on Sunday. They still were very pretty and had no taste. People were saying they were not good. They were taking a bite or two and throwing them out. Sadly I think the cookie receipe needs to be reworked. It is a shame to loose customers over the taste of your cookies. read more

Great bakery and gelato place! Love the cannoli cake the most! Can't find better in the city. read more

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5 days ago I had a wedding mid September and Lezza was the bakery our venue goes through for the wedding cake. The tasting went great and we had picked out a purple ombre cake, which was pictured in the book we had looked through at the tasting. The woman even said it would be very easy because they can use the same design from the book. Come our wedding day, and we were told that Lezza had FORGOTTEN to make our WEDDING CAKE! We received no apology or explanation from Lezza. We had to have our venue reach out to them to ask if they would make a cake because of their mistake. They said they were going to use our original document to decorate our cake.... We came to pick up our cake and it was the WRONG COLOR! We told the girl serving us it was the wrong color, and all she did was look at us and hand us the cake. We still have received no apology from anyone in management for them not making our wedding cake. I would NEVER recommend using this bakery for any occasion. They truly do not care about their customers. read more

Being the fourth generation, you expect everything to be fantastic, but it lacks in many ways. Right when I walked in, my baby decided to make it known that she desperately needed a diaper change. The bathroom was in use, so I poked my head into the kitchen and a woman told me there was another bathroom around the corner. Fantastic! No changing table though. Yea, for having the change the baby on the floor. I'm used to it though so had a changing mat. But still. Come on people. Install changing tables. Then we go to order. There are three people behind the counter. We get ignored for a while. Someone finally comes asks what we want but then walks away. Another guy comes and asks if we want help but it turns out the first woman had actually started taking our small order of a cupcake and one cannoli. The decor is meh. Nothing special. The food was good but overpriced in my opinion for what you got. read more

I am solely reviewing the cafe americano. It is the best I've had when compared with other local Elmhurst coffee shops and Starbucks. No bitterness, no aftertaste....just really great espresso. I'm a regular here. (I only wish they were open a little before 7 am because I work early and can't get there during the week for it.) read more

In all of my days as a culinary professional, I have never had a better canolli than the ones I've had from Lezza. Also, their cakes are perfect, with the ingredients being fresh and the butter cream with just the right consistency and flavor. If there were a competition among sweet bakers here in Chicagoland, Lezza would take the cake! read more

Love that cannoli cake! The best! Everything from coffee cakes to donuts were very good!

We had Lezza Desserts bake our 4 tier wedding cake. The taste was fantastic. We selected the cannoli filling. It was a great choice because it was not too sweet and was different. However, I give Lezza Desserts only a 3 star because the size of the pieces cut at wedding were only 1/4" thick. I mean it was so thin people were asking for seconds. Now I know this could have been an issue with the staff at the wedding venue. but when I followed up with the staff they explained that Lezza gets a headcount and makes the cake size based on guest count. I was told the thin slice was the typical serving size from Lezza. I was bummed and wished I would have asked earlier on how big the cake serving size is. read more

Honestly the best cannoli I've ever had! I ordered from Lezza today for the first time ever and was shocked at how good everything was. I'm very fussy and truly every single pastry and coffee cake I received, was absolutely delicious. Fresh, tasty and authentic... I can't wait to visit in person. read more

I'm done going to this place. I live within walking distance and so I tried really hard to like it. But the service has consistently been disappointing. The first time I went in, someone shouted "Hi how are you?" I didn't know where the voice came from at first, and I said "I'm fine how are you?" and then the lady behind the counter appeared and said "I wasn't talking to you" in a snooty tone. I get it, but why not just laugh it off instead of being a jerk about it? I turned around and walked out, appalled at how rude the employee had been. I tried my luck again a few months later, hoping that not all the employees were that rude. I had a young man check me out who was kind but didn't seem to know what he was doing. Then, again this week, I went in. One couple was in line in front of me, and I waited patiently behind them. There were 2 employees working, both female. Then a man walked in the door. Then two older women. When it was my turn to step up to the register, the cashier employee turned and helped the man who had walked in. Then the other employee approached the two older women who were next to me looking in the cases. I hadn't even placed my order yet. Both got rang up as I was blatantly ignored. I bit my tongue and waited my turn. I ordered an iced coffee, which was 90% ice, and then a 4 oz. gelato, which was just two small scoops. Most places you go fill it to the top. That's the point of it being by weight, right? I asked about this and the employee said it is by scoops. Then why price it by ounce?? I'm done going here. I get the hunch that I just don't fit their "desired clientele". read more

Leeza Spumoni & Desserts, Inc. is relatively new, with bright displays, scrumptious appearing delectable sweets and eager staff who "love everything" they sell. Went there wanting to bring a few desserts home for family & friends to try. Everything looked perfect. The staff is sweet, just not helpful when I want to buy a small box of treats, but certainly not everything they're hawking. I was still on my own when I asked what their specialties were, as both the lady and young gentleman said "everything is fantastic." Okay... Once again, I'm not here to buy out the shop or enough treats to feed the City of Chicago. So, I randomly picked some items that the guy behind the counter said were great. Here we go again, but I guess when you're exuberant about your workplace, everything seems wonderful. Something to note, their shopping bags are really quite nice. In an age where you're lucky to get a bag at all, it's nice to see this place put some artistic energy into their bags. If anything, it's good advertisement as these bags are made well and appear to be usable several times over. Keep in mind, Leeza is a chain and they're all over the USA. Perhaps this is why I love the look more than the taste of the product. Here's an opinion of what we tried: Cannoli - probably the best dessert of what we tried. The shell was perfectly crunchy, slightly sweet and complimented the filling perfectly. While I've had better, these are worth returning for. Flourless chocolate cake - eh. We've had better. Moist, relatively decadent but definitely not the rich dark chocolate flavorful as it looks. Pumpkin cheesecake - good, but not great. The pumpkin flavor was slightly weak and the cheesecake wasn't the New York style I anticipated. It was tasty, just not memorable enough. Turtle cheesecake - good, not great. I think it's because the cheesecake itself is slightly blah, perhaps missing the density and strong tastes of New York style cheesecake, which this just isn't. The walnuts, chocolate and caramel are a nice accompaniment, but would be better with a more dense and more flavorful cheesecake. Butter cookies are fine, but nothing spectacular. Grocery store cookies are just as good. The Italian Ice looked good, as did the gelato, but neither had the flavors nor the appearance to grab my attention. A decent place for desserts, but not something that can rival Chicago's best. read more

Great little bakery. Their cakes are great. We especially like the cannoli cake. and the carrot cake. The lemon cookies are delicious!!! The cannolis and napoleon's out of this world. So glad they're in Elmhurst!! The staff is friendly and helpful as well! read more

Fantastic service and even better pistachio gelato. We also sampled several pastries and spumoni...must say, well worth the stop in South Elmhurst. read more

It was just ok. Italian ice was good. The Tiramisu was made 3/4 of cream, you couldn't taste the coffee or ladyfingers. Cannoli was good, it's a little overpriced for the size of the desserts. read more

Spectacularly sweet! Authentic Italian pastries that never disappoint and hand crafted spumoni, Italian ice, delicious cakes, to name a few.

This is my favorite place to get cakes for any event! The staff is always friendly and the desserts are always delicious. I have been using this bakery for years and not once have I had an issue with my service. I absolutely love their Italian ice!!! read more

Great new bakery in Elmhurst. Much needed for this side of town. We love to walk there for a gelato or Italian ice with the kids. Love the Italian cookies and their cannolis. Reminds me of my childhood. Coffee isn't the best but that's not what I go for. read more

I ordered cupcakes for my party last week. I sent them a photo of the very detailed decoration that I wanted. They did a great job - they looked EXACTLY like the photo that I showed them. Couldn't be happier! And they tasted fabulous! Thanks so much! read more

A great bakery and serving awesome coffee on a beaten off path in Elmhurst. this is a cool overall place although the deserts are pretty expensive but the [ace has a cute overall look. the staff was friendly and explained the different items they had for sale in a timely and proper manner. read more

Delicious pastries, beautiful custom cakes, and great customer service. I special ordered a "gender reveal" cake for a family party and it turned out great. It was beautifully decorated and tasted delicious...everyone was asking where it was from. The ordering process was so easy and efficient, and our cake was ready on time for our event. I will definitely order from Lezza again in the future. read more

Lezza Spumoni & Desserts - Gender reveal cake. Yellow cake with pink whipped cream/fresh strawberry filling. Delicious! - Bakeries Near Me - Elmhurst, Illinois

They are hired by Brookfield Zoo to do the cake so we didn't have a choice but I am not complaining. They did an amazing job. It looked exactly like we talked about. And it tasted amazing. The tasting was very well done and a lot of fun. Of course I didn't get to have any of my cake the day of the wedding but I had some the next day and it was still so good. read more

We got our wedding cake from Lezza's. It was absolutely delicious! Many guests commented on how good the cake was. My husband, who isn't a sweets person, even liked the cake. We would highly recommend them!!! read more

The cannoli cake we ordered for my son's birthday was absolutely perfect. It was delicious and the decoration was just like the photo I had given them. I would highly recommend them for cakes for any occasion! read more

Outstanding! This is the real deal. Family owned~this bakery has authentic Italian delights that remind me of my childhood. I'm so glad to have somewhere to just walk down and grab a cone with my daughter or even stop in for treats to bring to work. The cakes and pastries look beautiful--so much better than grocery store bought. I'm willing to pay for QUALITY desserts. Love that they also do cakes for birthdays and cupcakes for events--this will be our new go to place. We are so excited to see this side of town blossom...I told the owner I feel the value of my house just went up b/c of them! read more

Great cakes, cannoli, and gelato, among other things. Super-nice, friendly, helpful staff. Can't say enough about them!

Met a friend for coffee and something sweet. The coffee had absolutely no taste. How hard is it to make coffee? I had a spumoni biscotti which was tasteless and my friend had a crepe, which was ok.. I'll probably give it one more try based on other's reviews but not in a hurry. Nice inside and outside seating. read more

This place is very cute and spacious, but the pastries aren't the tastiest. I've tried the tiramisu and the bread pudding, both are terribly dry. It was fairly priced though so I don't feel ripped off, but somewhat lackluster in quality read more

This place is fantastic. Everything I've tried so far (which is a lot, I keep finding reasons to stop in!) has been very high quality. I ordered a cannoli cake for my daughter's baptism this past weekend, along with some cookies and pastries, and everyone commented on how delicious it was. They were so easy to work with and custom decorated my cake and made it look beautiful. Lezza will be my go-to bakery from now on, and I'm so happy they moved so close to me! read more

We ordered a tray of cannolis for a wedding sweet table and they made them when I came in to assure they were at their freshest. And we ordered an adorable 6 inch cake for photos. The bride kept it for them to take home - it was so yummy. read more

I worked with Lezza Spumoni and Desserts for my wedding cake-- very attentive staff and the cake turned out great! There are plenty of flavor combinations to choose from and they can easily customize the cake based on your requests. read more

Good bakery and gelato and decent coffee. Just wish they had savory items so we could enjoy a meal.