CDMX Bakeries / 4 bakeries in Mexico City
Discover 4 fantastic bakeries in Mexico City! From grand establishments with a long history to charming artisanal spots focused on quality ingredients, there's something for everyone, no matter your taste or location.
By Alejandro Pohlenz
Bread is the best. There's nothing like a warm bolillo; the butter melting, sugar (or monk fruit) or the sweet bread so Mexican. The concha is the queen of all, I loved to take a concha with cajeta to school, which, sometimes, my little friends would steal from me. As part of this wonderful cast that appears in Mexican bakeries, I remember the campechana, the banderilla, the orejas, the mantecada, the polvorón, the chilindrina... uf, what a delight!... They say that homo sapiens-sapiens has been consuming bread for 14 thousand years, when they learned to cook cereals. Bread is the favorite food in the whole world: it feeds, nourishes, and also comforts.
Pastelería Ideal
It started as a small bread shop in 1927, in the middle of the Cristero War (1926-1929) and with the name Ideal Bakery. Pastelería Ideal will be 100 years old soon. It calls itself a "traditional bakery" and its offer is impressive: sweet bread, puff pastry bread, rustic bread, "window" pastries, mousses, gelatins, tarts, pies, cookies, and snacks. It has 5 branches: República de Uruguay (in the center), Aragón, Ciudad Azteca and Nezahualcóyotl.
- Headquarters: 16 de Septiembre 18, Centro, CDMX.
Pastelería La Suiza
In Food Police we already talked about La Suiza Bakery: it was founded by a Catalan migrant, in 1942. He named his pastry shop/bakery that way because "in Switzerland everything is well done". In addition to its extensive assortment of sweet breads, cookies, panqués, savory breads, baguettes, conchas and donuts, La Suiza has a couple of special delights for certain dates: the rosca de reyes and the pan de muerto, both filled with cream: many and delicious calories! Both breads are among the most requested in CDMX.
- Parque España 7, Roma Norte, CDMX.
La Loretana
This bakery is closer to the definition of "artisanal". It is a small place with some furniture that is antique. The entrance is always adorned with flowers; for that and for its bread, it is worth crossing the flowery threshold. In La Loretana, they offer chilindrinas, chocolatines, croissants (the correct word in Spanish, according to the DRAE, is cruasán), orejas, corn bread, cinnamon rolls, Pacman, house panqué, creams and wafers. There is also hot chocolate, for dipping. Its motto: "here everything is done with soul and dedication".
- Calle Nilo 99, Clavería, CDMX.
Costra
Here the decoration is more modern in red and orange tones. It was created by Erick Magaña 6 years ago and today they bake 450 pieces of bread a day with sourdough (a ferment composed of flour and water that does not contain added yeast). In Costra enjoy the loaf bread, box bread or sweet bread. Of all the temptations, the Nutella croissant stands out (I want to die!), the guava-filled bread, lemon pie, passion fruit, strawberry, carrot tarts and savory breads, such as rye and cereal bread. Snacks such as the 4 cheese sandwich are also sold and, as if that were not enough, it is pet-friendly.
- Avenida Universidad 482, Narvarte Norte, CDMX
