Don Paco Lopez Panaderia

No lo recomiendo el servicio es muy malo y los precios son muy cambiables, la actitud de la señora que cobra es muy mala tiene mal caracter como si le molestará trabajar. NO LO RECOMIENDO.

The bread is delicious and the tamales and tortas are to die for! I have not tried the rest of the food but I come from Long Island to come and eat here every two weeks. The best in town!

This is a nice panaderia to buy Mexican sweet bread. There’s also a restaurant to the side. They sell some Mexican products. In my opinion, I would say that the Mexican bread is a little more pricey than other panaderias.

So Marie was over here for a job interview and I went with her. So, while she was at the interview I had to find a place to hang out for an hour. I walked over to 4^th Ave. and found Don Paco Lopez.
I was happy to find it was very clean (not what I was expecting based on other stores in the neighborhood) and that there was a sitting area.
I figured, I have some breakfast and ordered two tamales with coffee. I must say that if Marie gets the job here, I will have to drive her in every now and then to secretly get tamales. They were delicious and the prices are excellent. The coffee was spot on as well. I would certainly recommend the place if you are in the area.
I’ll have to try some the the pastries next time…

I went back for another Vegitariano & to my dismay & horror, once I was at work & needed sustenance I discovered a huge, charbroiled, hard-​as-​rock I-don’t-know-what contained in my sandwich. How could anybody put this in my sandwich without questioning whether it was edible, let alone tasty? In conclusion, the food is hit or miss here, depending on who’s in the kitchen.

The Rosca de Reyes is a great treat for Day of the Kings; this bakery is one of the unique Mexican bakeries in the City to go andbuy breads celebrating the Magi (day of the kings). The establishment has a warm, business sense, that caters personally to the customer. Go in and try their various breads and if you want a special order, try their Puebla tamales! You can buy them by the dozen and very competitive prices. This is a «Si» for me and I hope you can «see» what I am talking about — so drop in and have a treat!

Went here to get my Rosa de Reyes, it was perfect. They were super nice and helped me gt just the right size.

Run, don’t walk here to get one of their tamales. They come in three flavors– Green sauce stuffed with cheese, red sauce stuffed with shredded chicken and jalapenos and mole stuffed with pork. They are all incredble. They are also insanely cheap– just $ 1.50 each. Don’t be turned away by the sort of dingy interior. Pretty much every customer here is Mexcian and they know their stuff. A+ on the tamales. That being said, don’t bother with the Mexican pastries. They may look good, but they really don’t taste good. The donuts or «donas» as they say in Mexico are pretty decent, but the rest of the pastries are NOT good. I am a HUGE fan of Mexican breads and sweets and consider myself a «concha» connoisseur. These arent sweet and just taste like dry bread. Save the calories for the tamales.
Nice plus– the owner works the cash register at the tamale and lunch counter and he is EXTREMELY nice and really gracious. The first time I came here I came to try the conchas and he went out of his way to give me one of each tamale for free so I could taste them.

I wanted to like you. Your beautiful orange signs enticed me. But seriously, seriously? Someone needs to do some thinking here. You have lotsa morning traffic and walkers to the train, and you have nothing decent for breakfast? REALLY? Heating up sandwiches in the microwave? Really? No you didn’t!?! You did?! Gross. Gross. Gross. People come on! Come on! I wanted to like you, I did, I really did. Or whats up with ordering? Ever heard of a menu? Arg.

If all you want is some real mexican bread .this is the best spot in nyc i been to alot of bakery’s here in nyc and i must say this some real fresh warm bread .and trust me im mexican i ate the real bread from home. they been making bread for so long its no wonder they are even in the brooklyn kids museum
laterz and enjoy! try the concha mmm

Great little spot in Sunset Park. The outside is eye catching and the inside is real nice as well. Definitely bright, festive, etc. The only thing it lacks is a piñata.
Los tamales son baratos. They cost 1.50 a piece and are pretty good too. I had two spicy chickens and a pork one and was satisfied for a quick lunch.
The sandwiches on the other hand. Que bueno!
I had a breakfast sandwich here once and was expecting typical fare when I asked for my egg and cheese. Instead I got rice, beans, jalapeños, and some guacamole as well. Serious breakfast crack.

This place smells so good! It’s bright (inside and out), and it has a pretty big selection of goodies. There are croissants and cookies and cakes and various other treats. They also sell some candy (that children like to swipe when their parents aren’t looking), corn meal, and other necessities.
The cookies weren’t the best I’ve had; they were the typical dry, good for dunking fare, but they didn’t seem like there was anything special. I’ll have to try a piece of cake next time.
There are trays at the front with tongs (I forgot tongs and was kindly but firmly shown that tongs are necessary) that you take to the shelves in the back. They are priced reasonably. from 40 to 50 cents to a dollar, for the most part.
I didn’t try the eat-​in side, but it looks like they are pretty popular with a variety of patrons.

Growing up in California and frequenting many taquerias, I stumbled upon the law of size/​quality. Briefly, the law states that the quality of food in a taqueria is inversely proportional to the size of said establishment. This being my second trip for Mexican food in Sunset Park, I found the law to be in full effect. The other place I went to was small, cramped, and dimly lit compared to this place, and as such, this brighter, cleaner, more spacious establishment offered up an inferior food product.
Don Paco’s is actually a two for one deal, with the panaderia occupying a sliver of a store and the food serving portion occupying the slot next door, with the two connected by a generous hallway in the back.
The beverage cooler was well stocked with a wide variety of Jarritos, which was nice.
It turned out that when I visited, they were out of tacos and certain kinds of meat. Not sure how they were «out» of tacos but could still serve up other stuff like tortas, unless, I guess, they ran out of tortillas. But this didn’t bother me, as I was looking forward to a torta anyway.
They have several kinds of tortas from which to order, each stuffed with different combinations of fillings. Alternatively, you could sort of build your own. I opted for the latter option and ordered a chorizo con huevo torta with quesillo and avocado. The basic torta cost five bucks and the quesillo and avocado were about 1.50 extra.
Although, on the whole, the torta was pretty good, my standards are pretty demanding of Mexican food (not that I wont eat/​appreciate most Mexican food I come across, but if I’m going to praise it, it better be really damn good), and in this case, Don Paco’s was not good enough to be held up for praise.
They prepared the chorizo y huevo so that it came as this patty-​like thing. It seems they scrambled the eggs along with tiny pieces of chorizo so that in the end it seemed more like a veggie burger patty than any huevos con chorizo I’ve ever encountered. For me, the allure of the scrambled egg and sausage is the combination of fluffy, moist egg punctuated with flavorful chunks of chorizo goodness. So, the «chorizo’n’egg patty» was definitely not up to snuff.
Otherwise, it was a pretty standard torta. Not bad, but not particularly mind-​blowing. So, on the food alone, I’d give this place a three.
But, right next door is a panaderia. So, I’m bumping this up to four stars because I was able to enjoy the wonderful Mexican bakery smell as I ate my food and was able to pick up some conchas and bolillo to take home.
All in all, four stars for satiating my hunger for a taste of home.