Chapala Bakery #2

This bakery had delicious pan dulce for a great price! My only regret is that I didn’t buy more.

BEST PAN DULCE EVER!!! They are always so sweet and helpful. Even their plain bread is amazing! The pricing is perfect too. This is the only place I ever buy pan dulce

This bakery started off great when it first opened. However, it slowly got worse over time until it just plain sucked. It began with small things like price discrepancies of $.50 or so until both my husband and I noticed we were always being overcharged. I mean, I’m Mexican so I know what my pan dulce should cost but we never seemed to pay less than $ 11 for the standard size paper bag they use (not the big grocery sized ones). Twice I asked them to please recount my purchase and twice they overcharged me. The quality of the bread also started going down and their assortment as well.
We bought two cakes from them (¼ sheet size each) at the last minute for my kid’s birthday. I told my husband to go to Porto’s instead but a combination of last minute decisions and a couple of guests arriving two hours early didn’t allow him enough time. Although he paid an extra «fee» for tres leches cakes, when we cut them, one was marbled and the other was vanilla with that fake strawberry flavored goo inside. They were the driest, most disgusting cakes I’ve ever eaten. They were definitely days old. It really was offensive.
I was going to let it slide but when I happened to see the receipt the next day, I saw that he paid $ 50 for both cakes. So I took what was left of the cakes to the bakery and an employee took them back and said that the owner’s daughter would get back to me. She called me a few days later and apologized and seemed sincere about it. Apparently, they don’t make the cakes there and outsource them to other bakeries. She mentioned that I wasn’t the first person to complain and offered me a full refund. When I went in two days later, she wasn’t there and nobody knew anything about my refund, including her brother (who also runs the bakery). He was SO ill mannered and unhelpful. That really was the last straw for me. If you like average tasting bread and want to overpay AND deal with rude service, visit them. I know I won’t ever again.

I honestly wake up crrrraving tamales Saturday mornings… with a freshly baked, fluffy mini concha on the side and a hot cup o’ joe, *cue mmm’moment of silence*
Alright, enough of the breakfast dreamin’
Their jalapeños tamales are a must, spicy & cheesy; yum. Grab a champurrado if you happen to be feelin’ saucy; you won’t complain.

This is the worse bakery ever. so i stoped by today to get a cake for my moms birthday. I decided to try this bakery since it had excellent reviews on Unilocal but to my surprise this was the worse cake I ever had in my life. It was dry, nasty and to top it of BURN!!! YES BURN! I wouldn’t ever recommend this bakery to anyone. Please save your money and just go somewhere else. It sucks that I have to give them a 1 star! Soooo disappointed!

The service 3−5* it varies by employee
The food 5*
The parking 0*
Baby friendly 3*
The conchitas are the bomb and the yellow muffins are too!!! Also the bolillo is really soft. The prices are kind of high but the bread is yummy and it’s always really fresh!

very nice and best pan dulce!

Place is amazing, conchas still warm at 11am! And the girls that work there are beautiful!

Great pan dulce and other great Mexican bread and pastries here! Felt like i was back home in Mexico with some of my relatives! They have lots of conchas, empanadas, croissants, cakes, muffins, cookies, and fruit style pastries. The lady at the register said on the weekend you can get menudo and tamales too!!!

Oh. my. GOD! This is the BEST Mexican bakery EVER!
Like another reviewer here I have tried many, MANY bakeries. Trust me when I say this one is truly the BEST.
I asked a younger guy what was the secret. why is their bread so much better than all of the other Mexican bakeries I have gone to? He responded that they do not use ready-​made ingredients like other bakeries do. They use their OWN recipe that was apparently passed down from his great grandfather.
Believe me when I say that once you have tried this bakery you will never go back to any other. Their breads are fresh too. Every time I have come in there they have conchitas (smaller version of a sweet bread with a sugary shell on top). Conchitas are the mini version. It seem that they bake all day long because of all the business they get.
The conchitas melt in your mouth and have a crispy but soft texture. Don’t even know how to describe it. I have tried their other breads and they are definitely right up there with the best.
The parking situation there is pretty bad, but that is not the fault of the bakery.
Many times you see people parking in the red right in front or in the red on the side streets. WHY? Because none of us care if we get an outrageously priced parking ticket… It’s THAT good!
I have since discovered their tamales just tonight. OMG. SO GOOD. The best tasting tamales I have ever had.
The employees are very sweet. The prices are cheap.
Guaranteed if you love Mexican bakeries, you will never go elsewhere once you try this one! And yes, after you try it you’ll be parking in the red too because it is so worth getting a parking ticket for their delicious bakery and food items.
5 stars all the way! The best bakery EVER!

Have you ever had an out-​of-​body pastry experience? The kind that warms your heart upon first bite, even on the coldest of nights, and with an incomparable authenticity that makes you want to screeeeeam? I don’t think you have… not like this anyway…
Okay, maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but I’ve tried A LOT of Pan Dulce (Sweet Bread). When I say A LOT, I mean A LOT. This bakery is by far one of the best, if not THE best I’ve had so far.
I must shed light on a specific type of bread they make, which is commonly referred to as «Conchitas» in the Mexican community. Mini «Conchas» to be exact. They are small, circular pieces of bread with a sugar shell. They are just divine and particularly DIVINE from this location. Freshly baked, soft, and perfectly sweet.
You can see them in my picture below (there are three of them on top — two brown ones and one white)
All of their bread is good, not just the Conchas. I tried a variety of them and I have no complaints.
They also sell Tamales, Champurrado, and Cakes! I gave this place an A+.

This part of Orange Grove Blvd. feels like being in Mexico (I assume) and Chapala is the main bakery. Grab a tray and tongs and help yourself to the various pan dulce (sweet pastries like conchas, some looked like muffins, croissants, cake, empanada style fruit pies, etc.) baked on the premises. The cookies are by the register in a case and you have to ask for them. They make custom cakes, fancy looking layered jello shaped like a cake, tamales and tortas. On weekends you can get menudo.
* Cake with elote: A simple, good, moist yellow cake made with vanilla, eggs, sugar, etc. I liked the addition of the corn kernels towards the bottom of the cake.
* Long horn: Not sure what it’s called but it was firm and dense, dusted with cinnamon sugar, moister inside very nice. I’ve had these before and they’re usually drier. Chapala’s seemed better/​fresher.
* Chocolate chip cookie: Not like the type of chocolate chip cookie I’m used to, crisp and dry with chips on top, more like a shortbread type cookie
There are a few tables inside. Prices are very reasonable. We picked up 6 items for $ 2.50

This is a wonderful Mexican Bakery, in a spot in which two different indifferent Latin American oriented bakeries once existed.
Their conchas are quite small and delectable, and the bolillos usually fresh and wonderful.
The quality of this bakery is testified to by the long lines that appear when the afternoon conchitas are ready. The two previous bakeries in this spot were rarely full. Apparently the word of this new bakery’s quality worked its way through the latino area of Pasadena quickly.