Panaderia Las Palomas

Nothing fancy. Just good food with great service and a big fat belly as you walk out. Yep!
We were looking for Panaderia Las Palomas. And ended up at Las Palomas, that has the Panaderia in it. :D Its in the same parking lot as 7 – 11.
This is a small shop with a dozen or so tables. Fresh baked good and hand made tortillas! I bought 5 baked goods at $ 0.85ea. How can you go wrong there?! And they were so soft and yummy. For lunch, the hubby had ordered the 3 Soft Tacos with Rice and Beans, and I ordered a Chicharron and Rice and Beans Pupusas. The Pupusas on Mondays are $ 1ea. The hubby’s lunch was $ 5.95? I ordered a large horchata and he got a bottled Dr Pepper. The food total was under $ 14 for two people!
The pupusas were served hot and fresh with the usual cabbage slaw and red salsa. The taco plate came with a nice chipotle salsa.
All was delicious! All was great! And in the great debate, I’d come back!
P. S. Don’t forget to check their daily specials.

I googled torta today an it led me to Unilocal… the review looked good so I went and got a milenesa torta and chicken burrito. Then couldn’t help myself an got a tres Leche cake… and a sweet bread… was really good an friendly service. Definitely will be there at least once a week…

Spanish language lesson #2 — As we learned in lesson #1, Panaderia is a bakery, and Panaderia Las Palomas is indeed one of those, but they are so much more!
Add these to the Spanish vocabulario:
Tortilla = well, a tortilla! Mano = hand, like the ones attached to wrists. hechar = to make (v) So… «tortilla hecha a mano» means handmade tortillas and Panaderia Las Palomas is the only restaurant I know of that’s doing this. The difference is immediately noticeable because they are not perfectly round, the are a bit denser and chewier than you’d expect, and you can absolutely taste the difference!
In an attempt to escape the Mother’s Day mayhem, Ashley and I went off the beaten path to try something new. Steve T and other Unilocalers did not lead us astray on this one. The signage for the handmade tortillas is the first thing you notice when you walk up. They are clearly proud of this, and I would be if I were them too. When you enter you immediately see the big glass case filled with all kinds of sweets and pastries including pasteles de guava, a sweet pastry filled with guava, and pasteles de queso, the same type of pastry filled with sweetened cheese. These are two of my favorite Cuban desserts and I hadn’t seen anything similar to them Reno until stopping in here.
To eat I ordered up two gorditas, one with lengua and the other al pastor, and Ashley ordered tres tacos aka three tacos, one with carne asada, one al pastor, and one chorizo. The meal arrived with a stone bowl filled with a dark and rich salsa that was spicy and complex. It was the perfect topper to all of these. As mentioned in Joe H’s review, these guys really do a good job crisping the meats on the flat top, which deepens the flavors of the meats like al pastor, and adds a great texture. The lengua was also perfectly tender and tasty. The only miss for us was the chorizo. It was WAY too salty.
This one is making my list of Abuela Eats in Reno and I’ll be back to get some pastries soon. I highly suggest you give them a shot. Don’t worry if you don’t know enough Spanish yet, the nice people at Panaderia Las Palomas speak excellent English and will help you find exactly what you’ve been looking for.