Konditorei

Location

2710 5th Street (Near the Davis Police Department)

Hours

Open for breakfast & lunch, closed Mondays

Tuesday — Fridays: 6am - 6pm

Saturdays: 7am - 3pm

Sundays: 7am - 1pm

Phone

(530)758-1331

Website

http://www.konditoreidavis.com

Proprietors

Albert & Gloria Kutternig

Established

1990

Konditorei is an Austrian Pastry Cafe. They bake and sell pastries and danishes (including tasty filled croissants), traditional Austrian desserts, coffee cake, sweet Austrian breads, and cookies. For breakfast they have breakfast pizza, spinach quiche, and a croissant breakfast sandwich. For lunch they serve quiche, calzones, pizza, and soup. Konditorei is one of the only places in Davis (aside from Zia's Delicatessen, Bistro 33 and Icekrimski Cafe) to find Gelato — a delicious ice-cream-like dessert. If you have ever been to Italy and tried Gelato there, it is even better quality here. This place is popular with affluent 30-something age women (think "tea society") during lunch time, and elderly folk at breakfast time. Priced for the upper-middle class—expect to pay about $3 for a pastry item, and $4.50 for a slice of cake.

They also have free WiFi, just ask for the WEP code from the employees.

Konditorei is German for "pastry shop". A "Bäckerei" is a bakery where one would find standard breads and rolls.

Cafe area Outside patio

Read a food review and a feature on the owners of Konditorei written in Davis Life Magazine.

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2006-08-28 12:58:42   Their pastries are to die for, make sure you come in early, a lot of their good stuff (although all their stuff is good stuff) is gone by the afternoon. Some of the best crispy, flakey, pefectly sweet pastries I've ever had, even compared to other nice pastry shops found in larger cities. —TheodoreSuryapurnama

2007-05-05 17:49:42   Their pastries compare very well to those found in Austria (which makes sense, considering the origin and training of the owner!)

I would recommend to anyone with a craving for an authentic and absolutely delicious treat. —KevinGong

2007-06-24 19:02:55   my family of five once spent $50 here just on desserts. pricey, but sometimes you want a posher alternative to safeway junk. —CandiceWang

2007-07-28 20:32:38   Great pastries!! I love their filled croissants, sweet breads, and fruit pastries. Their baked goods are the best in Davis but I have to say that Ciocolat has much, much better truffles. We ordered truffles here for our wedding and most of the guests could not stomach them. In the end we actually threw away 20-30 truffles because no one wanted them. Needless to say, stick with what is always fabulous here: the baked goods! —GradStudent06

2007-07-29 12:43:31   Konditorei is among the places you can go to see townies in their natural environment. As with many townie hang-outs, you can live in Davis for several years without even knowing about Konditorei. Frankly, that's part of its' charm. I especially recommend their patio for old-fashioned coffee talk with friends. Cool even on the hottest days. —JoRo

2007-08-26 15:41:33   <smacks lips> Their Gelato is like heaven. The only thing I don't like about this place? I have to walk or ride by it on my way to and from the gym. SO HARD TO RESIST!!! —ElisaWeller

2007-08-27 11:55:32   How does this compare to Ciocolat? —SandyRose

2007-09-25 20:56:20   I liked this place over Ciocolat. Ciocolat desserts are all mouses and chocolate. I'm much more about cakes and ice cream. In fact, having been all over Europe, my favorite cafes (and best cakes I've ever had) were in Vienna. Although Konditorei's cakes are a bit on the heavy sugar side, I can honestly say, they have the best cakes in Davis (so far). —atwong

2007-11-06 14:29:55   Evidently, the kitchen likes to close early. My husband and I were in at 12:30 on Sunday, but we could not order any food as the kitchen was closed. We left, and so did another couple. —Shelly

2007-11-11 20:25:15   The place does close at 1PM on Sundays and some of the workers like to clean up a little early, especially when the place is quiet. I'm sure if you ask the person in the front if they still made pizzas, Gloria (she works in the back) will make them, especially if she knows there is more than one of you who wants it. —Mae

2007-11-11 20:30:30   They serve the best gelato by far. A great amount for what you pay, unlike most of the places downtown. Served in a nice large, decorative glass. If only it wasn't way down 5th. —EdWins

2007-12-02 20:11:52   I absolutely love zusy! She's very nice. I went there this Saturday and have some wonderful pastries! I especially like the chocolate croissant! Though it may be a little pricy, I think a little slice of heaven is good now and then. —CalvinCheng

2007-12-18 23:52:37   What a lovely place to have a genteel breakfast or lunch (especially on the nice covered patio outside), or skip the meal and go straight to the dessert. It's what they do best in any case, though I do like the quiche — skip the turkey sandwich. For those of you who have only had the Americanized version of a croissant or a danish, you simply have to find out a proper flaky pastry tastes like. It's a whole 'nother creature. But be warned that walking into this café is to be bombarded with one delicacy after another; how to choose when one thing looks better than the next? Take heart, though, one can always return, or splurge on a cake for a special event. Too bad their hours are so few and their location only really convenient for East Davisites. —CovertProfessor

2008-02-13 15:04:19   Their pastries and food are excellent, and if you're planning a wedding, the owner does amazing work with Marzipan and sugar-glass. My wife and I still have the sugar-glass dragon he sculpted for the top of our wedding cake from nearly two years ago - we got a display case for it because we like it so much. —BrianWilliams

2008-02-20 18:49:54   I like this place for many things. However, I made the mistake of ordering a Verdi Pizza. Do NOT go there for the pizza!! (duh) It came out looking like a tiny microwave pizza (thick nondescript cheese and crust) and ALL the vegetables were CANNED. Disgusting. The asparagus, the olives, the jalapeno, the artichokes (marinated - maybe they were from a JAR, I don't know). It was salty as hell and just plain insulting. I was very upset because I stupidly spent $8 on this thing. I'm sorry, but if you are going to charge $8 for a tiny pizza, the least you can do is put some effort into it! What a complete waste of $8. (If you want cheaper and high quality pizza, Village Bakery has the best in Davis). I also once had a soup there that had the texture of and tasted like Lipton soup powder mix. Supposedly it was a "cream of asparagus" soup. Anyway, getting a pizza full of canned vegetables really pissed me off for some reason. My advice: just stick with the pastries and gelato! —Lucille

2008-05-13 16:56:07   everyone should try their fabulous mocha smoothies. :-) —PilarFloyd

2008-05-14 18:52:04   Pastries are great, the chocolate croissant is a must try (if you get there early enough). Their cakes have a lot of mousse compared to the actual cake, but always moist and just sweet enough, compared to Ciocolat, where their cake can be quite dry (especially if you go at the end of the day). —youkai

2008-08-10 22:11:05   i love this place! the kuttiger family is very hospitable! good food and good hospitality —davisrox

2008-09-26 09:26:58   Absolutely delicious - I went to undergraduate school in Davis in 2000 to 2004, and never even knew Konditorei existed! I recently came back to Davis to go to graduate school and I happened to move into Greystone Apts, almost right across the street from Konditorei. I wanted coffee one morning and was running late on my way to work, so I stopped in and picked up a Cafee' Au Lait, and was so impressed, I went back after work to sample some of their pastries. To die for, in a cliche phrase. Like other users though, I do recommend staying away from the pizzas if you've never had a EUROPEAN pizza before, because like the pastries themselves, they are NOT Americanized, and therefore taste differently (Ever had REAL Chinese food, i.e, from Beijing?) from what you're used to. —Aggieanthony

2008-11-05 21:08:30   "Priced for the upper-middle class—expect to pay about $3 for a pastry item, and $4.50 for a slice of cake."

HAHAHAHAHA, obviously whoever wrote this never bought a quality slice of cake before. I pay 620 yen ($6.20) for a slice of chestnut cake at my local cake shop here in Kyoto, and that's pretty cheap. And that's not a "omg Japan is expensive" thing either. —KellyCorcoran

2008-11-07 22:58:42   Great food and atmosphere - feels very much like Europe. Would recommend any day for a moderate breakfast or afternoon snack and tea. —Xenophon

2008-11-10 23:00:41   I was thoroughly unimpressed with Konditorei. I have eaten lunch there a number of times and I find it highly over-priced, considering the portion sizes and the quality of food. Their tortes are rather uninteresting, I would rather go to Ciocolat for a slice. Their cookies are slightly better (I particularly like the Linzer...I believe that is what it is called...), sometimes I go to get a cookie sampler for my co-workers or myself...but the prices are hard to swallow. Overall, I probably won't be dining in at Konditorei since my friend (a die-hard Kondotorei-nian) graduated. Aree rating: 6/10 (I would give it a 5 if not for the cookies). —ArianeMetz

2008-12-24 09:52:55   One of the best places in town to just sit, eat and enjoy your partners company. The staff is friendly. The food is great, especially for the price. My wife and I can get filled up for about $20 (2 pastries, breakfast pizza, soup of the day, green tea), not to bad for quality food. I have yet to try a danish/pastry I didn't like there, (but my favorite is the quark cheese strudle or rice strudle w/ vanilla cream sauce), so I'd recommend just about everything. The soup of the days are always good. —Aaron.Curtin

2009-04-08 17:44:31   Konditorei's desserts are the BEST in Davis. They are delicious!!!!! The cafe is clean and quite. I like to go there for breakfast on my days off. If you are deciding where to buy birthday cakes,I highly recommend you to go there.
Believe me, their cakes are PRETTY and delicious!! —kikokiko

2009-04-27 21:23:22   SO EXCITED TO FIND ALMOND CRIOSSANTS IN DAVIS! They are sooooo yummy here, too. I actually liked it better than La Bou's. It's also fun just to look around at their beautiful cakes and pies. They are so fresh and bright! —BrookeB

2009-06-21 02:38:26   This is a gem in Davis! Love the crepe with the berries and gelato. Try this-a scoop of hazelnut gelato inside a stronger coffee like columbian-*sluping the gelato* yum!! Better than any frappochino or what not you'll ever have. —val

2009-08-17 13:48:48   Very delicious deserts. Gloria always hooks me up with some free pastries. Highly recommended. —BenLee