Rao's Bakery Coffee cafe

Nice, quite habitat to relax, work —meetings— or to be in groups, just spending some great time.

After doing a 5 hour drive to return to my Hurricane Laura hit town. My mother had dessert waiting us!!!!!! Very delicious!!!!!!

Went there yesterday with my daughter and family after a soccer game. 4 employees and not busy at all. Had to wait for someone to acknowledge we were there. When we were noticed, my daughter ordered a hot coffee drink and I ordered some peach gelato. Told person waiting on us to see what my son in law and grandson needed. She rang up my ticket without asking them what they wanted. Instead she just charged me for 3 small ice cream cups. My daughter got her coffee and it came out as a frozen coffee drink...need better service.

This place is going downhill. Fast. Maybe it wouldn't go downhill so fast if they treated their employees better. They pay them just enough to get by and expect them to go above and beyond for the company. Yeah right. Nobody is going to work that hard for such little benefit.

Heads up, Starbucks pays way more and offers much better benefits, better breaks and it doesn't take FOREVER to close the store.

We were there today for coffee and the wonderful owner found out that today was our 51th anniversary and he gave us a little cake 🎂that was so very good. Also found out that he knew my husband's brother and his wife. His sons were in brother's classes. THANK YOU for your kindness🤩 GOD Bless you🙏❤

I love this establishment!!
As soon as u step foot in the door the employees welcome u!
They’re so patient,even when there’s a rush!!
Everything is always so fresh and so good .
My sister come from lake Charles just to go to Raos!!!

5 stars for the atmosphere, I love to bring a book and order a latte and snack.
4 stars for the latte, if I remove the foam, I have 3/4 cup of latte and it's not hot enough.
4 stars for the breakfast wrap I had, it was not at all tasty.
I will keep returning, I like it better than Starbucks.
Dec of 2021 update: I ordered a German chocolate cake for a cousin's birthday! It was so good, he had to cut himself an additional piece for later because it was disappearing in minutes....and there were other cakes at his party. Rao's German chocolate cake is so rich and moist! I highly recommend it!

Every single time I go in this place I’m met with attitude. Almost the entire staff is rude. It’s no wonder they can’t hold down any employees. Because if what I’ve seen is how the people in charge treat their customers, I can only imagine they’re even worse to the employees. Aside from the absolutely terrible customer service, the food hasn’t been good in months. I work near them and end up going there often because of convenience and every time I have to deal with my food being prepared wrong or being flat out not cooked. There was a day I had to go back and speak to them FOUR different times and they still couldn’t handle making a ham, egg, and cheese croissant. it’s three main ingredients, given to me with raw egg, icey ham, and no cheese. After returning so many times and them literally just rolling their eyes at me and being of no help whatsoever, i gave up. My next step is calling whoever’s in charge of the people running this place, because what they have here is a joke.

The cake is dry and tastes pre-frozen. The cookies were dry and stale. It took over 20 minutes to get a hot tea, just hot water and a tea bag in a to go cup.
The workers look miserable and exhausted. Don't waste your money here.

Made my diabetes act up walking through the door.
The pastries are great. Also has the chicken salad sandwich, really good.
I have been here twice, definitely will be back.