Ponce’s Bakery

Everytime I come here I get excellent customer service, and have never been disappointed with the food. Tamales are never dry or greasy… Just right. The pan dulce is always a favorite treat from here… Me and my kids enjoy every piece.

Short of crossing the border, this is about the best Mexican bakery for sweet bread you can find in the area. The service is always friendly and helpful. Other bakeries have their bread delivered (out sourced). This place makes it fresh daily. I’m here once a week to get a variety of bread for the family, specifically the «flowers» for my husband who loves them with his morning coffee. The cheese and guava pastries give Porto’s a run for their money! And my son loves the mini conchas.

Nice and friendly people and great service love it and I hope you enjoy it as much as my family and I do and let’s not forget the bread also outstanding

Bought bread that had gone bad from this place. I can’t believe they will sell old bread. It was on a Wednesday night around 7pm. They were closed by the time I tried it at home so I couldn’t call them to let them know. Disgusting!!! Will never ever be back.

Good pan dulce. Haven’t had much else but they have tamales (sorry, no one can top my Abuelita’s! Ever!) and some beverages. Fair pricing but parking not so great.

This place has the most delicious empanadas de guayava… a bread with guava filling… yummy but my favorite bread its the banana bread pudding… yummy I highly recommend…

Good Mexican sweet pastries, tamales, and other delicious foods.

I’ve lived in Downey half my life and I never new of this bakery. It wasn’t until the fabulous Unilocaler Miguel R. told me about it. Its located in a small strip mall. I was shocked because I could see my grandparents old house from the bakery! It’s so close and yet I had no clue.
So they sell pan dulces, tres leches pasteles, tamales, and a whole bunch of other goodies, yum! But what I decided on was an empanada de manzana, chocolate chip cookie type of pan, and a coca mexicana to wash it all down all for $ 3.
The empanada was large and filled with lots of yummy apple. The chocolate chip thingy I got completely crumbled when I went to break off a piece, and when I say crumbled I mean I made a huge mess everywhere (on my clothes, on the floor, and across the table onto Miguel!) I was totally embarrassed. I tried to take a couple more bites but due to the mess and the dryness I just couldn’t eat it and ended up throwing it away.
There was quite a number of people came in and out while Miguel and I munched on our goodies and drank our cocas! I will come back and pick up some pan dulces and empanadas for my dad and grandma in the future. I will keep you all updated but until then 3.5 stars!

Miguel R and Lili H are right on the money, baby! Following these two glorious Unilocalers’ recommendations, Sister and I stopped in to check things out. The bakery is located in a tiny plaza on the southwest corner of Stewart & Grey and Old River School Road, for those of you searching frantically for that baked goodness.
When we rolled up, we saw a sign that warmed the cockles of our hearts — I love the word cockles lol — and it glowed in my mind, like a shining beacon: TAMALES. I was game to see if they were all that and a bag of Funyuns.
They were! Sister and I tried the cheese & jalapeño and the chicken tamales, and they were luscious. The right amount of masa, freshly made, tasty with a nice little spicy kick. I took a half dozen home for Boyfriend and my dinner. Even better, they were a thrifty $ 1.49 each, and decently sized. I know where my holiday tamales are coming from, and let me tell you, it ain’t downtown!
The proprietor, Mario, was sampling a banana topped bread pudding that blew my mind, it was so damned good. I took a piece to go. And before I go any further, I need to say that Mario’s customer service was superb — I felt like visiting royalty!
I also picked up, and devoured, their flan chocolate, essentially flan atop a very moist layer of chocolate cake — absolutely scrumptious. I also need to thoroughly recommend their tres leches cake, and the pumpkin empanada. I’m so stuff I’m about to keel over, but man, it was worth it.
I should mention that this unpretentious little bakery only currently seats a handful of patrons, but there’s room for more once they get them. They also carry a variety of Mexican breads/​baked goods, but I haven’t tried them — just yet :)
I’ll be back for more once my bellyache goes away.

One hot Summer day, I was venting to my friend Miguel R. about various «topics», and then he, wisely, decided to take me for a pastry expedition in Downey (aka Carbs Galore Tour)
Ponce’s was our 1^st stop.
This is a small bakery situated in a strip mall, without any pretentious they make one of the best guava pastries (pan de guayaba, or as we call them in Colombia pasteles gloria) I have ever tried. Real fruit flavor, low sugar and delicious dough.
They have other breads and are pretty tasty as well, but their Pan de Guayaba is simply spectacular. The price is awesome and the service is quite honest and attentive.
Thank you Miguel for listening to my complains and for taking me to get some comfort food to drown my sorrows.
Highly recommended!

Downey now has a superior Mexican Bakery!!!
I knew you had it in you Downey!!!
Now I do not have to travel all the way to Commerce, Bell Gardens or East Los Angeles to get fine Mexican bread!
There is a great selection of bread unlike many many Mexican bakeries! They pay attention to detail. They have for example a Mexican polvoron «crumble» bread that is baked to look like a slice of watermelon. The bread is simply beautiful to look at and really, really ridiculously good too!!!
I also ate an empanada de guayaba «guava turnover» and it was heavenly!!! The filling is superior to that of Porto’s and Tropicana’s guava pastries and that is saying a lot — I kid you not!!! The filling tastes fresh and natural. It’s nice and tangy too! Just like homemade. Plus they do not skimp on the filling. The empanada bread is soft and tasty too! The conchitas de chocolate «chocolate shells» are also very soft and tasty. They have cinnamon cookies which are excellent too!
The bread display cases are not falling apart as at many other bakeries. The place is clean. I got here on a Saturday morning at around 10:30 am and there was tons of fresh out of the oven bread waiting for them to put into the bread display cases!
They have one table where you can sit and enjoy your bread if you like.
Parking can be an issue for some reason even though they are located in a small strip mall with plenty of free parking. I was lucky to find parking today.
Ponce’s Bakery also serves menudo on weekends! I will come back to try it!