Calima Bakery

Initially I was excited to find a Colombian bakery close to home … But Calima is Nothing to write home about. Very unimpressed with the taste of the empanadas and pandabono. The Colombian bakery’s in Plainfield and Elizabeth are much better honestly. Will not be returning

Best Columbian food in town and fresh original bakeries. Amazing authentic Columbian coffee too! Cozy deli with extremely friendly staff. Highly recommend for breakfast, lunch, or bakeries to go!

I stop in here at least once to twice a week to get cappuccino, always friendly and the food is good too! Def nice little spot!

The food is typical Colombian which is great and the environment is friendly. Recommended for anyone

My girlfriend is Colombian and suggested my husband and I try this place because it authentic and very good. We would primarily get Colombian good in Elizabeth but now I am so happy to find a place close to home. We both had the Calima breakfast, which is medium thin sliced marinated beef and corn pattie topped with grated cheese. It was delicious! Very juicy. I also had café con leche, which is common… a very smooth coffee with perfect proportion of cream and sugar. We took buñuelos and pan de bono. Pan de bono is actually the very item that bought us here, they are these amazing small bread rolls with cheese baked in the dough (apparently also can be called almojabana, j sounds like h). If you have never tried a Colombian bakery, it is a must! Baked goods are always fresh and flavors are amazing not just filled with sugar. I give this place five stars because the service was great especially for a non-​Spanish speaking customer, prices are great, and food is authentic and delish!

The bakery is good, I’m Colombian and I know Latin food, but definitely the lunches are horrible, they need to change the cook as soon as possible, The only thing I can recommend are the Empanadas, Bunuelos, Arepas and the pandeonos, they are good!
call first to ask if they have what you want, because they are always short of bakery. definitely not colombian food…

A co-​worker recommended Calimba for lunch so I took the chance and was pleasantly surprised. Keep and eye out because its hidden in the corner of a small shopping plaza so you can easily miss it while driving. I couldn’t believe how busy they were, I enjoyed the atmosphere it reminded me of my childhood in Central America. Had the empanadas, not to shabby and you cant beat the price ($ 1), the plantains were good and they make «mora en leche» yummy!!! You can pick up a lunch (carne, arroz y platanos) for $ 5.50 add a mora en leche and you have yourself a lunch for under $ 8.def now my favorite spot around work!

A nice little Latin American bakery where you can find bread, cookies and pastries. The bread is good and there are different varieties. Since it is small, there is only a tiny spot in the corner to sit and enjoy some coffee.
There is a $ 7 minimum if you are going to use a debit or credit card.
I would definitely go there again.

I go here every time i go home to East Brunswick, NJ. I always bring two containers of their little caramel sandwich cookies back to the city for my roommate and suitemate, and they are a good starting point if you’re unfamiliar with Colombian pastries. On my most recent visit, they had a new creation: a cake roulé with caramel filling. Hands down the best pastry i’ve had there. The slices look rough on the outside, but they must’ve just used a blunt knife, because the cake was actually incredibly moist. Basically a decadent but not heavy sponge cake. And the caramel filling is a slightly thinned down version of their thick, rich caramel, which is the best i’ve ever tasted. I don’t know how they do it. I’m not gonna bother listing other favorite pastries here, because they’re all good, or at least worth a try. Their three main fillings are caramel, vanilla custard, and guava jam, and they fill various kinds of pastries and cakes with them. Just one word of advice: try to finish the cookies within a few days and the cakes/​pastries within a few hours of purchase, because once they lose their freshness, the difference in taste is substantial. I think that cake roulé had come out of the oven within the hour – a few hours at most – and while it was amazing when i had it then and there, it tasted merely mediocre when i finished it that night. Try to go on a Sunday. That’s when they bake the most.
They also have savory snacks and dishes. They do their rice and beans right (although i wish they also had black beans), the huevos pericos is good, and i am hopelessly addicted to their salsa verde, which i drown everything in. Their carne is tough, overcooked, and salty, but it’s got a nice flavor, and the plantains were a bit too sweet and mushy for my liking. Don’t bother getting the arepas, although if one comes with the lunch special, you can transfer the queso (the cheese) to the beans and/​or eggs. :D Yummy.
The owners are the friendliest people ever, and it’s the kind of place where the customers (all Latin American*, except for me and my mom, haha) just go behind the counter, grab whatever they want, and pay later. I just love that.
There’s only a handful of places in Central Jersey that i’d proudly recommend to NYC folks. This is one of them.
*speaking Spanish makes things easier, but i don’t speak a word of it (although i think i’m learning a lot just by going here!) and it’s never been a problem for me. I trust that everything tastes good so i order things without asking what they are.