I’ve seen “Mexican” bakeries all over Chicagoland and decided to try one.

Tried a cheesecake, triangle shaped pastry w/vanilla filling, a thing that looked like a heart and was similar to the elephant ears pastry, a biscuit, and a flan.

The flan was outstanding, not too sweet, good caramel flavor, almost granular custard, not silky smooth like ultra processed flans.

Everything else was terrible, just awful. Cheesecake was dry as a bone and had no real cheesy flavor. Biscuit I could have used for a hockey puck and had the taste of one (being an ex-hockey player I know what they taste like ). The heart shaped thing was ok, but a crisp elephant ear is more what I prefer.

I was hoping someone could explain the “thrust” of Mexican Baking as I did not see it, nor taste it. Are there certain items I should have tried?

Bravo Bakery has two locations:

Palwaukee plaza in Prospect Heights
And
1758 W. Algonquin Rd in Mt. Prospect.