Farrara Italian Bakery & Deli Vero Beach FL Farrara's Bakery and Pastry Shop They took me for over $100 bucks! Phoney Italian Pastry shop in Vero Beach. Only good for those who never had Italian pastries. Vero Beach, Florida

Well ,  I am a true blooded italian. And I must say it's not Farrara's in NYC , but their pastries and cakes are with out a doubt very good.I 've be going there since its been open. The owner Freddie and his wife put out a very "italian" assortment of breads and pastries, and all are delicious. Because you recieved a 1/2 lb. of Bologne that was bad, you are really out of line to say that THE BAKERY is so bad ,that ALL is BAD, and that REAL Italians should stay far away from it. Remember it's a bakery! They may have taken on a small line of cold cuts to accommadate their customers. By the way Jack , it seems as though you can't even SPELL Italian,or BOLOGNE correct,much less know about their entire business, certainly not enough to condem the whole place!Farrara, probably added bologne to the cold cut list as a courtesy .I believe Italian Cold Cuts was their aim . Hard to get Mortadella, Prosciutto, Hard Salami etc, not the Publix americanized brands.The REAL STUFF ! With that in mind, I would venture to say that Bologna wasn't a fast mover.I do however agree, there is NO excuse for anyone to sell anything bad or tainted, but mistakes do happen.By the way, I see that you added to this complaint  $ 94.00 in pastries and cake . In your City-Data  complaint You never mentioned, how your wife tried to return ,or recieve some type of reimbursement. That would make the whole difference to me! Not the BOLOGNE your trying to feed everyone!!!

First of all, they are from Boston, MA not Brooklyn, NY.  Being from LI as well and having the best of the best all my life Ferrara's certainly measures up for here.  You seem like the type of person that complains no matter what.  Nobody does Italian like New York, not even Chicago.  And yet plenty of NY'ers go there and are satisfied. 

Myself and my wife of 40 years just filed a report against these guys and it has to do with the sanitary conditions they couldn't care any less about. Please refer to our report just filed. We really have spent way too much time on this. Say what you want, these guys gotta go. God bless, the Capeci's.

Thanks for the update. Are you the lucky customer? I haven't a clue. Thank God it worked out for you. I am not here to malign the credibility of anyone, just relate my own personal experience which was exactly as what was stated. I am not a tough customer nor hard to please. This is just what happened. Since then I know at least half a dozen friends who went there, most from Long Island, who will never be stepping foot in there ever again. What could I say. This is my situation. Thanks fo your reply.

I think if I was going to spend that much money at any bakery I'd never been to before, I'd try a couple first.

Also you know as well as I do that there is variation among the bakeries in Chicago too. They are different in many ways, and should be.

I'm not sure I buy this report.

I find this report very hard to believe.I am Italianfrom L.I.N.Y. and I moved to Cocoa Beach in 1975. I used the bakery to create my wedding cake, which had a scumptious cannoli cream filling. The 30lbs. of assorted Italian cookies were wonderful. I refuse to believe that I was the lucky customer. I would have to guess that you are customer that is usually hard to please and a complainer.By the way this is how you spell bologna. You state that you have been coming down for years. It took you how long to find this great Bakery?Thank you....Thank you very much. Keep up the good work Farraras!

Farrara Italian Bakery in Vero Beach took us forMUCH more than $100 including all of the original pastries and cold cuts we purchased that were allthrown out. It's a shame that they chose a popular name for their establishment just to try and ride the success of those who made that name so famous. I guess they knew they were well below standard and couldn't make it using their own name so they tried to capitalize off of others success.