Mexicantown Bakery

Specifically went to this bakery for bread for Cuban sandwiches. Loved the bread that was suggested. This bakery had so many items & some carry out sandwiches etc. will def return.

A little overpriced, but they have some of the better tres leches and carrot cakes I’ve had. The bollios are super pretty, but they’re not my favorite. They also offer some hot food items and sandwiches.

I was like a kid in a candy shop. Authentic Mexican desserts, pastries, and breads. Mexican coke to avoid high fructose corn syrup. And a lot of Americanized desserts.
Lemon empanadas are amazing. I also got this custard roll thing. The dough used may be better than the custard, which is saying a lot.
The brownie balls are one of the best things ever ever eaten.

On Tuesday, I stopped by to purchase a Rosca de Reyes and for the first time I bought a dozen of tamales. The Rosca was nice and tasty and fresh, everyone at work enjoyed it. As for the tamales, they were good. I usually buy them at Evie’s but the tamales at Mexican Bakery were as good.

I think that I may have to try another item than what I got today because it was sub par compared to the pasteleria down the steert by xocho. I got orejas y churros both were hard and barely any azucar o canela pero creo que ellos especialidad el tortas y frío pasteles. I’ll plan to try both next time.

Holy pan dulce Batman! Not bad at all. The breads are fresh and there’s plenty of variety for everyone. I can’t tab it the very best for me because there’s this little place on the Texas border that I love but not bad. Try the rebanadas or the payasos and you will see what I am talking about.

Mexicantown Bakery is situated in a can’t-miss area of Southwest Detroit and offers can’t-miss Mexican pastries along with made to order cakes.
Along the right side of the bakery are cases containing delicious and varied baked goods which are sure to meet any sweet tooth’s need. This is where your need for flaky, sugary sweets will be satiated. Don’t leave without an empanada or pan dulce. There are also chilled baked goods to your left including chocolate dipped strawberries and fruit tarts. Those of us with a chocolate fancy will be pleasantly appeased on this side :)
Mexicantown’s tres leches has got to be my favorite and they will even make it as a made-​to-​order cake if a small slice won’t fill that void

Usually hit up La Gloria but wanted to try something new. Glad we did. Nice vibe from the moment you walk in. Dotted with couples, High School kids and moms. Roomy, bright and clean.
First the smell, heaven… My Polish fiancée eyes lit up and a huge grin happened instantly. You know the Polish and their bakery olfactory. The churros were decent, not bad, not great maybe I’m spoiled having fresh out the fryer ones. The strawberry empanada was off the chain. Sometimes empanadas can be like bricks, this was a great exercise in balance of light pastry and filling ratio. So good.
But the end all be all was the Oreja (ear) dipped in chocolate. How have I never tried this, its huge and beautiful. Sweet, delicate and addicting. Really good. I want one now.

I’ve only been been here twice. The same friend brought me both times. The first time we just wandered around. It’s a nice, big place, clean on the inside and very well lit with a lot of different items in the grocery section. The bakery is outstanding. The desserts we had were delicious. We had a few chocolate cake like items which were very sweet but not excessively. The second time was more for the grocery area and it was fun to walk around again. My friend picked up the chiles that he wanted at what he said was a great price. it’ll be nice to make another visit and to check out what other Unilocal reviewers recommend.

Amazing. This place was a life changing experience. The sweets here are perfect. Can’t go wrong with Churros. Make time out of your day in Detroit to go here, please. My dream is that I could live nearby and have an extremely high metabolism and no risk of diabetes so that I can have dessert from here everyday.

Really nice bakery. The smells were awesome walking through the door. Grab a tray, fill it up, take it to the counter and pay a small price. Excellent pastries and cookies. Also the cheesecake is scratch-​made and really good as well!!!

This little bakery bakes pure magic. You’re greeted by the dreamy, sweetness hanging in the air and a wall of delicious pastries. Everything is very reasonable in price, interesting in appearance, and scrumptious in taste. I don’t think I’ve had a bad pick since I’ve discovered the place.
The rear portion of the shop is full of Mexican grocery items, and my lifeblood: Jumex.
If you’re into Mexican candies and sweets, this is the place to get them!
The service isn’t as fantastic as the goods, but I always walk out of here beaming with joy and a full bag of goodies.

Nice little put-​stuff-​on-​yo-​tray bakery. Pretty good selection. Right next to Armando’s, so a nice place to stop before/​after dinner, as the Bakery closes sooner.
They also have most if not all flavors of Jumex, and they do custom cakes. The bakery carries a lot of traditional Mexican ingredients and foods as well, which is nice. Regarding the more American offerings, the turnovers are excellent, and the cheesecake is reported to be as well when we’ve gone with friends.
The one thing I would like to add to their stock is a large variety of Mexican candy. That is not terribly easy to find around Detroit, and twould be nice to have a hub for all things sweet and Mexi.

I’ll be totally honest. I cannot choose between Mexicantown Bakery and La Gloria. Every time I’m in Mexicantown, I go to both.
The reason I go to Mexicantown Bakery is for some things they make that La Gloria doesn’t. For example, they have these amazing corn bread muffins with chocolate chips on top. I know they sound mediocre at best, but seriously. They’re awesome.
As with La Gloria, unbeatable prices. Mexican bakeries are the best.

This was my first Detroit experience ever, and I’m happy to say it was a good one! I was desperately looking for a place for coffee & breakfast before entering Canada. I’m so happy I turned into Mexicantown!
This was also my first Mexican bakery experience. It was good to very good. The prices are dirt cheap & it looks like a great place to not only get pastries, but also loaves of bread, cakes, & tarts. They also have a small Mexican grocery section. Staff were friendly to me despite my gringo status! ;) Definitely worth trying & if I lived in Detroit, then I would definitely explore Mexicantown as it seems like a rich culinary and cultural area that fits a small budget.

I dropped in here one day looking for warm churros… They didn’t have any! Granted, it was the end of the day. Did they not carry churros, or were they out for the day? I don’t know… but I was very disappointed.
I was at a loss in what to get instead. I’ll have to give them another chance some day and if necessary, update my review, but for now, they’re just «A-​OK».

I love this place.
I’ve never had Mexican Sweet Bread until I went down to Florida to visit my boyfriends parents.
His Dad bought some one morning along with some butter cookies to enjoy with our coffee and ever since then it’s been a nice breakfast treat.
I haven’t been able to find a good panaderia that offered fresh goodies like these until now.
This place is a goldmine of those fond memories and brings me back to my childhood of ordering cheese quesadillas off the children’s menu at Mexican Village solely so I could get a huge pink cookie.
Plus… it’s cheap. as. hell.
I got 2 Mexican sweetbreads and 4 cookies for $ 4. SERIOUSLY!?!
Every time I’m in the area I make it a point to stop in here, definitely a must!

«Mice! Who needs them? Not you, and certainly not me. Two bedroom mouse-​free apartment available July 1…» So wrote my English-​major roommate, who I entrusted to write the ad for subletting our upstate New York apartment over one summer back in my college days.
That ad didn’t work. But maybe that’s because people like mice more than we thought… I’m older now, and I think I get it. Mice can be a good thing, when chocolate flavoring and the Mexicantown Bakery treatment are involved in the «situation.»
To a skeptical eye, the mice here look like chocolate-​covered mice, but in reality they’re all chocolate through-​and-​through, and a dense chocolate at that (c’mon, where’s my gastrovocabulary when I need it?!! I think Samantha C. is right on with the «ganache/​fudge/​brownie» description, though before now I thought ganache was just the surname of some French kid on my high school soccer team). Anyway, there were three of us rascals, and we bought three mice. But we couldn’t finish but one mere mouse, even in the tranquil surroundings of Clark Park, the entirety of the afternoon before us, and the troubles of the working world some three hundred miles away.
So who do you think you are, taking an entire mouse unto thyself? Learn to share!

A couple of us Gringo Canadians walk in and immediately noticed the sidewall of Pastries. That well-​lit display brings to the second realization that this place is very poorly/​dimly lit overall and to me usually it’s either to create an atmosphere or to hide a few unknown Gringo visitors of the nonhuman kind.
I’ve personally haven’t been to too many Mexican/​Latin Bakeries so looking at all those Cakes/​Breads/​Pastries/​Sweets really made this an exciting destination only to be defeated by my under-​educated Mexican vocabulary and bakery knowledge. I might have recognized at most 25% of the unlisted undescribed items on the Bakery side and had much better luck at the Hispanic Grocery end.
Arroz con Leche ($ 1.00) was good as an after-​meal treat while my friend had an individual sized Mille Feuille-​like item that printed as «Señorita”($ 1.50) both of which are excellently priced that it felt like paying in Mexican Pesos. That’s why properly labeling products would be an extra expense out of their budget because customers are seriously riping the Bakery off.
We were fortunate enough to get a taste of their Pineapple Cake as well from a previous meal but it wasn’t too amazing in my eyes. The 2 cake layers were a bit dense while the Pineapple Jam in the middle didn’t offer much exotic flavour except for sugary sweetness.
Mexicantown Bakery deserves an A-​OK simply on their selection variety and affordability even though some of their products can get a better redo but then maybe I’m asking for a bit much from a simple local Bakery satisfying the neighbourhood of Mexicantown.

After a long morning and afternoon of browsing the Toledo Museum of Art we next made our way north towards Detroit. With dinner plans before the NCAA Men’s Hockey Championship still 4 hours away we opted to stop into Mexicantown for a bite at the much celebrated Mexicantown Panaderia. Having had fantastic Mexican pastries in San Francisco and awful versions in Chicago I wasn’t sure what to expect.
Entering the large shop the first thing I noticed was that unlike the previous bakeries this was a fully functional grocery store and that they also served some composed savories. With an ample selection of sweets, groceries, and breads — none written in English — we wandered about for a bit before reconvening to discuss. Clearly meant to cater to the locals and not us tourists the servers were not very helpful — whether they didn’t speak the English or simply chose not to I cannot be sure, but regardless the decisions were all ours to make.
Watching a number of patrons pick up a large round of bread still warm from the oven I opted for one of those, a «Bolillo» according to the sign. Difficult to describe, my best assessment of this bread is that it is something akin to a hamburger bun on the exterior with an airy and fluffy interior somewhat akin to pain au lait — it was delicious and I understand why everyone was buying one. Other options from the bakery case included a Neapolitan polvorones — a chocolate/​strawberry/​vanilla cornmeal cookie with a great crumb that would have gone perfectly with milk, and an Apple Empanada that I originally figured was pumpkin but pleasantly found out was a compote of apple, cinnamon, nutmeg, and butter.
Selected from the chilled case by my mother and aunt were a boozy Chocolate and raspberry Roll and a pseudo-​Napoleon comprised of alternating layers of cream and a crispy shell akin to phyllo dough. While the Napoleon was quite good and the cream balanced well with the crispy layers, the Chocolate roll was saturated with alcohol at the base and quite dry at the apex — the cocoa accented cream was good, the cake was dull. Not as good as the pastries at the Panaderia in San Francisco’s Barrio but vastly superior to those in Chicago I only wish the servers could have been more helpful — perhaps that is why my selections in San Francisco fared so well.