Wagner’s Bakery

love this bakery!!! All the bread is always warm & fresh. I would definitely recommend coming here for break and personalized cakes!

So I might have wandered into the Wagner’s in a parallel universe, but this place is a panaderia with a misleading name. There were no Polish pastries, no kolaches — just pan dulce and other related Mexican pastries. I asked about the cheesecake another reviewer mentioned, but they had no such offerings.

The best cookies I have ever had! The chocolate is tasty. The texture is light. The cookies are excellent! My favorite is filled with berry and dipped in chocolate. I’m going every week! Ok every other, but I can’t make promises! I need to try the Rosca and Polish pastries.

I haven’t been disappointed yet with the baked goods here. I’m a big fan of anything filled with cheese. :)

Since going to Wagner’s for my rosca over 2 years ago, I have become a big fan. They have a great variety of mexican sweet breads. The bread is always soft and fresh no matter what time of day I go. We have tried almost every variety they offer and love them all. I haven’t had their cookies or cakes, but they look good. They are always polite and attentive to their customers. It’s also super cheap! Where most bakeries might charge 60 – 70 cents per bread, they sell it for like 45 – 50 cents per bread. It’s not a «full service» bakery like El Nopal, but I’d rather pick my own bread anyway. I’ve been to a lot of bakeries in the Pilsen, Back of the Yards, even Bridgeport areas, and this is by far my favorite. I always go back to it despite it being well out of my way.

The best kolachkies
Nice coffee cake. Staf is very freindly and helpful. I think the old bakers left behind the secret recipes to some of most delcious pastries. thanks.

I thought this would be more of an american bakery, but they still do have pan dulce, bolillo, and telera. in addition, they do have some bakery staples, such as butter cookies, danish, muffins, and cakes to order. all in all, it’s a nice bakery with a smaller selection than some of the other bakeries in the area, but i still think they do everything pretty well.

I grew up in Pilsen and this was pretty much the only bakery in the neighborhood that wasn’t mexican. No, I’m not knocking mexican bakeries… love ‘em…I’m half mexican but it was just nice to be able to have a bakery that we could go to when we weren’t craving pan dulce or churros. Dern, now I’m craving churros!
Okay…back to Wagner’s. Wagner’s has the BEST cheesecake on the face of this earth. I’m not a big cheesecake lover and my brother and probably some other people will tell you that the cheesecake there sucks but I love it. Could take a bath in their cheesecake and yep probably wouldn’t mind having a few cheesecakes from Wagner’s buried with me when I die. It’s a different consistency/​texture from the run of the mill cheesecake and I believe it is made with ricotta cheese instead of cream cheese. It’s fluffy, spongey and has chocolate cake crumbles all over the top of it. My waistline is very grateful that I moved out of the neighborhood because I could pretty much polish off one of their cheesecakes in one sitting if given the chance.
Wagner’s also sells different types of cakes, pies, cookies, muffins, tarts, eclairs and of course takes specialty orders.