Gourmet Grind

Beautiful and delicious custom cakes. We ordered a custom cake from Gourmet Grind and brought it with us to Napa Bistro upstairs to celebrate a friend's birthday.

The order process went well- it can be a challenge to place a cake order here since the coffee bar can get pretty busy. I looked on google to see what hours are the least busy and called during a slow time. There's a photo of a cake order form that someone posted in the yelp photos too, which was helpful.

We ordered an 8" Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting. I didn't specify any designs or colors but we received a beautifully decorated cake and it was quite large with 3 cake layers. The cake and frosting were delicious, decadent but not overly sweet. The strawberry champagne cake is a winner too. We love the Atlantis bakery.

Stopped by this place while I was visiting the Atlantis Hotel & Casino during a Lake Tahoe trip. Group wanted to gamble, so gamble we did.

I was actually super surprised they had so many food options inside of the hotel. My group had originally wanted to eat at the buffet inside, but the wait time looked to be around 2-3 hours, so we decided to eat elsewhere.

Couldn't help but eye the tasty looking desserts this place had on display in particular.

The presentation of the desserts is pretty pleasing! However, I thought they tasted just ok... Which is what I'd expect of a bakery inside of a casino. I got a chocolate peanut butter cake slice and cream puff with strawberry slices. The cake was fine. Kind of underwhelming on both the chocolate and peanut butter front. Texture was fine, and it was moist. The cream puff surprised me as it had custard on the inside. I had expected it to just be whipped cream, but even with the custard it was also just ok. The custard didn't really stand out in any way. It wasn't an overly sweet cream puff, which I'll give it a thumbs up for.

Wouldn't really go out of my way to try this place, but if I was at Atlantis again and I felt something sweet, I'd try another item on display.

Kayline and her entire team continue to impress. Please read the entire first review about this being a hidden gem in Reno.
5/5: the look/concept of the cake and execution
5/5: flavor
5/5: friendliness of all the staff - shout out to Dani also at the front for being so nice during pick up!
Need I say more? You need to get a custom cake here.

Having had that excellent experience with my sister's birthday cake, I decided to contact Kayline again for my mom's birthday cake. I'm so happy we did because we all enjoyed the cake.

I reached out to Kayline asking her for an elegant cake. Our family is not a big fan of fondant. We think it looks great but the taste is not what we prefer. We enjoy whipped cream cakes. I gave her colors and told her elegant flowers but not something so overwhelming was the idea I had in mind. Boy did the team deliver!

Look: 5/5 The cake itself was elegant. The flowers were well placed and the colors came out perfect. The accent pieces really brought a little something to the cake and the font was well written and sophisticated.

Taste: 5/5 We got a white cake with some fresh strawberry filling. The cake was so moist and melted in your mouth. Even though the cake had to travel ~150 miles and it was enjoyed 2 days after the pick up and it was still absolute divine and tasted fresh. The whipped cream was the perfect sweetness and didn't overpower.

Value: You're not going to find a place to get a better valued custom cake.

I'm now literally looking for some reason to get a cake for next month from this incredible team... maybe Halloween? Thank you Kayline and everyone at the Gourmet Grind for your exceptional work and service. You're literally shining stars in the Reno community!

Right place at the right time when it came to looking for something sweet after lunch. We've walked by earlier but it wasn't a second thought. But after lunch, sweets was clearly on everyone's mind.

The selections of baked goods and pastries was amazing. Also the selections of gelato took the winning spot. The different flavors were all so mouthwatering. As well as the dessert. They also serve Starbucks coffee which was nice. Between the gelato and dessert we ordered, gelato hands down wins. Dessert was good but the gelato boost flavors that outdid the sweets.

Let me start by saying that the pastries here are delicious, and they make beautiful and delicious cakes too. The problem is that they are so disorganized that you run the risk of your cake getting lost or disappearing completely If you o. I have ordered two cakes this month for birthday parties. The first cake could not be found and it took over 1/2 an hour to be located. The second cake was completely lost and a whole new cake had to be made "on the spot" which meant we needed to wait around for over an hour and were late to said birthday party.

Good place to get coffee and pastries in the morning while staying at or visiting the Atlantis casino. They can get pretty busy but the employees are pretty efficient. They brew Starbucks coffee ($3-4) and their pastries ($3-5) are huge and pretty tasty. Didn't try any of their other breakfast or lunch items but they also sell quiches, sandwiches, parfaits, and gelato. I would probably come back for breakfast if staying here again in the future.

The casino coffee / snack spot in the Atlantis is next door to the Manhattan Deli.

It's my stop for gelato for years now. Ever since the Yelp whiskey class and Christian, the property sommelier, showed me I could get a scoop of vanilla gelato here and walk a few feet to the sports bar and drop the gelato in a shot of Jeremiah Weed - that's one adult root beer float that can kick your butt later. Mmmm

This small coffee area offers limited coffee specialty items, lots of sweet bakery treats and a dozen flavors of house made gelato. There's just three tables and a small counter to stand at. Most items here are meant to be to go items.

The girl Sunny who works at gourmet grind is not friendly everyone I go get croissants I have to remind her to warm it up and she isn't friendly or smiles she doesn't even say what cami get you started or what would you like she needs to be more friendly and smile more she looks like a grumpy person grouchy very grouchy person like I'm getting in line to disturb her

Two tries here this week, two bad experiences.

First was grabbing a yogurt drink with breakfast, having the employee notice it had expired 7 days previous.

Glad he pointed it out, but his response to me was unbelievable... "You know, you really should check things like this before buying them."

No, you should not have items for sale that expired 7 days ago.

Tried again tonight, ordering a dessert from the sole employee behind the counter. After I ordered, the phone rang and she proceeded to get in to a lengthy conversation with the caller rather than complete my order ... so after 3 minutes of the call I left.

Customer Service training appears to be lacking for this location. Unfortunately the poor quality of the coffee servers at the other coffee bar inside the Atlantis had me give up on them ... so I drove away to get my coffee elsewhere ...

I attended a conference this weekend at the Atlantis. I know I could have made coffee at home, but I didn't. The Gourmet Grind serves Starbucks coffee, but is not a Starbucks. They also serve delicious pastries, bagels, cakes, oatmeal, and other items I probably missed.
Although not a Starbucks, they offered many of the same drinks, and I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy a Grande soy vanilla latte from them 3 days in a row. The service was always kind, and the drinks were really good! It felt a bit pricey, 2 drinks and a pastry with a tip cost me about $20. Sunday morning I had quite a wait as they only had 1 lady behind the counter and she was working as fast as she could. I expected my coffee to suffer due to this, but the 3rd day tasted just as good as the 1st. I'm on this new diet, so I didn't indulge in the pastries, but they look delicious. My bagel (I left my healthy breakfast in the freezer one day) was toasted nicely. They only had cream cheese and butter (I would have loved avocado, peanut butter, or hummus instead) but those are the typical offerings.
All in all, if I need coffee in the Atlantis I would definitely go back. Service was good, drinks were good, and it was a good selection with a few seats to sit and talk.