Panaderia la Mexicana

(This business has moved to 2890 N. Milwaukee across the street and a few doors south of the address listed on Unilocal.)
This is an authentic, family-​owned, family-​operated little Mexican bakery and café. My studio is nearby and I’ve been going here five years for their burritos — fresh, giant, homemade burritos with homemade salsa. They told me it would take a half an hour for my burrito because they ran out of chicken and the son was out getting more. 25 minutes later I hear a knock on my studio door, and there’s the son delivering my piping hot burrito in the pouring rain so that I wouldn’t have to go out again. This is one of the many reasons I support local businesses.

Really good & cheap tacos that were juicy & flavorful, (not dried out) delicious verde sauce & fresh cornbread. I will totally be back to try some of their other baked items!

Picked up a couple cups of coffee and some mexican bakery here. A family-​run restaurant, we recieved very lovely service from a young, teenage boy.
Small space, strange décor. Powder creamer for the coffee (yuck). Fine selection of mexican bakery (yum). Would return, if in the neighborhood, to give them another shot.

I was in a taco mood and decided to dip in here. Service was friendly, although they didn’t understand English very well and my Spanish is sorely inadequate. They were out of tripa and lengua (boo!) so I went for a chorizo and a steak. Two tacos came out to around $ 3, awesome. They were delicious! Nothing beats handmade and the ingredients were very fresh. Also came with some sauces on the side, a rojas and a mustard. Next time they hopefully will have tripa and lengua, because I’ll be going back.

This is an excellent family owned bakery and café. The prices are quite reasonable and of the countless similar places I’ve eaten at, I’ve gotta say that their homemade salsa (verde or roja) are among the best. ditto for their tamales. On Saturdays there’s the carnitas special — for all you pork lovers.
It’s also a bakery so the tortas (sandwiches) use freshly made bread (pan).
On the sweet side there’s a fine selection of tres leches, flan specialty cakes and other treats. The service is friendly and I usually call ahead and have never had a problem.
For all you foody aficionados, can you identify what former Mexican restaurant that used to be here? A hint, it was one of (if not the first) spin off of Frontera type cooking to venture into the neighborhoods.
Lastly, check out the futuristic juice machine– twin shoots roll oranges between rotating wheels that squeeze out fresh juice into your waiting glass.

3 points:
1) It’s a pretty standard Mexican bakery.
2) The items I got were fine. Decent to good. Nothing to OH-​MY-​GEEZUS write home about.
3) I’d buy pastires from this panaderia again if I was in the ‘hood but I wouldn’t drop everything I was doing to make a special trip.

I continued my search for a good local Mexican restaurant at Panderia la Mexicana. I ordered some steak tacos and went home to watch the Cubs game. I was very impressed. The service was the best of all places. There was definite care put into these tacos. The lettuce and tomatoes were very fresh. Time and care was taken to cut them. This was a hand-​made taco, not some crappy fast food that was thrown together in 2 seconds. Service was excellent, also unlike a fast food place. I looked around while I was waiting for my order. My nose caught some very interesting bakery smells. Most of Panderia is devoted to bakery space. There were some very delicious looking cakes and cookies around the store. Sometime I will be stopping back for some baked goods. Panderia is definitely a place worth checking out for a good, fast meal or for baked goods.

This is probably is one of the best places to get some pan. It’s always fresh, never stale and it always taste great. I love coming here when I have a hankering for something sweet and especially when I’m not into having donuts. The prices are pretty good and I always come out with more then enough for around 5 bucks. They sell tacos and tortas and other food but I have yet to try any that. I guess one of these days I’ll give it a whirl. Also according to the sign they do personal cakes but again, I’ve never had one.
So if you want some good sweet bread come check this place out.